joycegazelle
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I don't have the Google toolbar (mac) so I don't see the PR of sites that often but I noticed that http://www.coke.com is PR 7 and http://www.nba.com is a PR 8. Is it feasible for one designer and small company to get that high? How big is the jump from 6 to 7 or 7 to 8 in PR?My site http://www.cvls.com currently has a PR 6.At what point should you quit worrying about PR and start focusing on optimization more? Should I continue to aggresively seek IBLs?Ozzu's PR8 You shouldn't worry about PR at all. PR is an afterthought.Optimization & Content should ALWAYS be your TOP priority when developing a site. PR can be gotten any time. Having to completely redo your site from scratch to optimize it for search engines can take months (and kill your PR in the process anyway).Forget about PR until your site is optimized as much as it can be.PR helps, but it is only one factor. I am sure you probably heard of the phrase "Content is King". That phrase in my belief is the best piece of advice anybody could know. Your priority should be focussing making lots of useful content/pages for your visitors. This is what search engines want, to send their visitors to sites full of information and content for the types of queries they type in. If you focus on content your site will likely be around for years to come even if major search engines are no longer major (like altavista). Search engines are on a constant battle to tweak their algorithms to send their visitors to the most relevant sites with alot of useful content. In other words if you focus on that all of the other parts will probably fall in place for you (like PR and traffic because people will start linking to you because you provide such a great resource/site).I support what Axe and Bigwebmaster have said.The process is always to put up a good content rich site. Do a little tweaking for keyword targetting and site SE Optimization and then seek IBL systematically.Visit linkingmatters.com for a good worksheet on seeking IBLs.Regards,Vijay BhatterI'm also convinced that content is the main thing, but want to throw this into discussionhttp://www.internet-marketing-research. ... ontent.phpThanks gemini for the link.I will just check it out.yes, coke, a huge company, only has a 7.but think about it. PR = links. what does coke have on their site that anyone would ever link to? not much.I barely know what I'm doing and I went from a PR2 ro a PR6 in 4 months. I think that a PR7 is certainly possible if you're dedicated enough.A company like Coca Cola doesn't NEED website PR. Just like many companies such as Dell, Ford, Sony, Nikon... Everybody already knows who they are.What coke has linking to their site are all the advertisements they pay for, radio stations they sponsor, sporting events they sponsor. The websites for all the things they pump money into are linking back to them (not to mention sites of other products they produce) - a company like that doesn't need content. And no matter how good their PR, if you go to google and search for "soft drinks", or "soda", Coke doesn't come up in the first several pages (although many of their lesser-known competitors do).Having a high PR can get you high in search listings, but having good quality appropriate content is going to get you high in searches that actually mean something PR is useless without content.Btw, http://www.coke.com is coming up PR6 for me, but http://www.cocacola.com is PR7.Axe is right. Even though PR is once of the influential factor in Google SERPs but much is decided with site page content and IBLs and internal link scheme.And even though if you manage to get hits to your site through higher ranking it won't convert to sales if the content is not well laid out and attractive.Don'f forget SERPs - Search Engine Results Placement is all relative.If you competitors sites have low PR's and low content, it will be easier to get a higher ranking. If they have higher PR's and good content it will be harder.Try the Phrase "good website names". You will see page from my site at #1 with a PR of only 4.Hope that helps,ClareAnd check ours for"hosting in usa" without quotes on google.its ranked #1 CheersHosting in the USA via India?Yes, content is the greatest thing. You need to figure out what keywords you are going to focus in on. Are they competitve, are they related to your site, and are they searched for? This will show how important the actual PR will be.One example I use, one of my sites is #1 for "application engineering", out of almost 7 million sites. Now it looks pretty impressive, especially for a site only have a PR of 5. But then you can use overture's tool or wordtracker and you will see that it is searched less than 300 times per month. Now i see that part of the reason its doing so well is just that not many people are competing for that actual phrase because it isnt searched that often. Therefore I do not need a very high PR to get it.