Question.

Does a good PR alone add worth to a site. I mean, if you had a site that had absolute rubbish or no content, liitle or no traffic and no income but, somehow, had a PR of 5 or 6, what would it be worth, if anything?

For me it would be just a cent of 2 and nothing more. Because PR that we see in Google toolbar is not that important for SERPs

Thanks
Shabbir Bhimani

The example you gave will not be worth as much since it will be valued base on the potential since there's no or little traffic.

I still value PR, a site like that would be useful to point at other sites. It would definately have some worth in my eyes.

The PR is important but is not everything!
To build a good site you must begin from the good contents, once that you did it you must optimize you pages for the promotion that you want to do (keywords, etc etc). After all you can get BL to improve your PR that is even important. but if a visitor gets an empty site I think that it's gonna hard that he'll come back!

PR is only important to a site if your planning on selling text links or something.

The only value I believe (which is quite reasonable) is the age of the site.

If it's been around for a while should be able to use it for a new purpose quite effectively, you just need to get new anchor text in and new PR to suit the new theme.

Yes, it worth, as said above, if it points to another site. In my opinion, the contents is more important, and in that case, of having good contents, it may do well in the SERPs, since the results are listed by PR, but remember, there should be some contents, to have the site listed, right?

It will only be worth something to people who still believe PR is important. Worthless to everyone else.

Originally Posted by Excelsoft

since the results are listed by PR

No they aren't.

Doesn't seem to be worth much as others have stated

That all depends what you are trying to do with it, if you are after links from say link exchanges a high PR will do you good as most quality sites will not do a link exchange with a site having under a PR4, also if you are wanting to sell advertising space alot of untrained webmasters only look at the PR and think wow a PR5 site must have good traffic and will by an ad spot without doing any research first.

Now if you are looking for higher search engine rankings a high PR may or may not help you if your field is highly competative you will need alot more than good PR but if it is less competavive a PR of 5 or 6 will generally give you a good ranking for a short time but once the s.e. figure out your site is junk your ranking will fall off the face of the net.

I think you might be confusing a high PR site and a quality site. A site may be both bu a PR8 site isn't necessarily a quality site and consequently a quality site doens't necessarily have to have a high PR.

But you are right that in general high PR sites typically only want to exchange links with other hight PR sites. Sadly that high PR isn't worth as much as they think.

A high PR is a result of the same things that get your site found in a search engine so it's often true that the sites you see in search results have high PR. The PR is an effect though and not a cause. Having a high PR is not what gets you found in a search query.

A high PR site will probably be worth something to anyone who doesn't look beyond the PR to decide if the site is worth something, but for people who are actually more concerned with your traffic and the quality of your traffic as well as the quality and revenue generating potential of the site it's probably not going to be worth a lot.

This may be a little of topic but if PR is worthless, PR may be a historical indication of how well your site was perfoming sometime ago i.e. last PR round by Google, how do you determine the quality and effectiveness of a competative site or a site being offered for sale i.e Alexa?


I would be interested in peoples view's on this...

Dataman

PR is just an indication of what backlinks you had, 4 months ago.

The only thing that should be used to judge the quality of a site is visitors and/or sales.
If you want to judge the quality of your competition you should be looking at thier serps, where do they appear in search results.

Like stOx said PR is a measure of backlinks pointing to your site. What you see in the green bar is whatever your PR was the last time Google finished an update. Since they are always recording your PR in real time behind the scenes it has no relation to your real PR, though chances are it will be similar to what the green bar shows.

Keep in mind too that PR is really just a measurement of the PR that links to your site. It's kind of arbitrary an arbitrary measurement that only gives information about that measurement and nothing else.

The way I would judge a quality site is to actually look at the site and see what's there. If I thought the content on the site was good and would be cheaper for me to buy it than it would to create it on my own I might consider buying the site.

stOx is right too in that what's important is the traffic the site gets and how much revenue it generates. The revenue the site generates is really all it's worth at the moment, but if the site is getting a lot of traffic a new owner might be able to come up with some ways to convert that traffic into revenue. That will depend on the type of traffic the site gets. Now all traffic is equal.

I'll ammend the above and say what's important is targeted traffic and revenue generated. If the traffic isn't targeted to the site than it's not much better than having no traffic.

In the end your site will be worth whatever someone will pay for it. Someone may be willing to spend money for what they see as the site's potential. They may only spend money based on what the site will currently make for them now. They may just like the colors you used and have a lot of disposable income.

There's a lot that goes into determining a site's worth and most of it won't be based on PR. What goes into making the determination will mostly have to do with the potential buyer and what they consider inportant.

I will take the opinion less agreed with and say that ultimately it *DOES* add value to your site.

If nothing else, people are willing to pay more for domains with a higher page ranking, than a domain with none at all.

Food for thought

No. Rubbish is rubbish, regardless of PR.

A good PR alone doesn't add worth to a site. PR is just a measure of the link popularity of a page. Other points like good content, good amount of traffic, sales generated etc also need to be taken into consideration alongwith good PR.

I think it ultimately will depend on the potential buyer. There are obviously people here who have been saying they think a higher PR will add value so if you were selling to any of them then yes the high PR would seem to add value.

For me it wouldn't, because I don't think that PR alone is a meaningful measure of a site's worth.