Does PR actual mean anything?
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My website is really ranking well, even product pages have a PR of 4.
I ran the keyword analysis tool for the product page in question (which has a PR of 4) with the targeted keyword for the page which is currently ranking 8th (not so good) the keywords analysis tool give me some data back with the page authority being 1 and it also mentions that it has 0 page link root domains, however I know this is not true.
I expected the page authority in seomoz to be higher than 1 due to it having a PR of 4, so how valuable is PR? does it even matter? Another thing I noticed is that the website above my listing have PR of 1 and 2.
Looking forward to some feedback
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Hi Alan,
It's not really about converting money with these articles, it's about having good content on our own company blog, which we can use for SEO purposes, email marketing and so on... Initially I was thinking that i could backlink from this website with all these articles into the commercial website, although how much value would this website give the commercial website having hundreds of different backlinks to different product pages throughout the website?
Kind Regards
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Yes they would, you still need to move the page. but i would be thinking if the page is going to convert to money, its opne thing to get people to your site, it is another to get them to buy.
Are the articles relevant
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Strange! I have nothing. Anyway, I have this article placed here: example.com/123.html which is ranking really well for a particular keyword, however I want to move the article to another domain website.com/123.html Would it be ok just to do a 301 redirect on this? Would Google index the new URL in the SERP?
Not sure if it's a bit spammy or not?
Eddie
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Yes but i cant seem to reply, i sent you a new message
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Thanks Alan, very helpful.
Oh! did you get my PM yesterday?
Thanks
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The pages in question recently just jumped from 2 to 4, some of my competitors for the keyword in question went from 1 to 2, however still the page authority is higher, this maybe due to the ranking analysis not been updated? does anyone know how often this is updated?
Thanks
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Hi Alan,
Yes, this could be a possibility that it is still showing 0 root domains.
Thanks
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I would also add that PR is not updated frequently (it takes sometimes months to be). So maybe you do not have a PR4 anymore or your competitors have actually a higher PR that what is shown.
At the end of the day I would trust mR and mT more than PR to give you a better indication of a page importance.
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If it shows 0 root domains, it could mean many things.
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Those links were not in place, the last time the link check was done
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If they were in place, it doesn't know about them
There is always a lag, no matter how good the links are.
PR has nothing to do with relevance for keywords.
PR just gives you a warm fuzzy feeling (or not)
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PR is not the same as authority, PR is a measure of link popularity, but not relevance or trust. or any other metric.
Here is a simple explaination of pr and how it works
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/a-simple-explanation-of-pagerank
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