The search for a new "PR"...

[hugoguzman]

I am planning on coming up with a new standard for ranking the quote unquote "pagerank" of a particular url. Google's visual "PR" bar does not cut it.

For the purposes of buying, selling, or exchanging links the Google PR bar is no good because it is not updated often and is not a true indicator of a site's ability to rank well in SERPs. A site that reads PR 7 right now may in fact have lost backlinks and/or dropped in the SERPs, while a PR 0 may have gained 100's of new backlinks and jumped up in the SERPs, but since the PR bar hasn't been updated in almost 2 months, it is easy for the "false" PR 7 site to sell or exchange links while the "false" PR 0 site has a hard time exchange links or finding advertisers.

This is ridiculous. There has to be a better way.

Stay tuned...

[eadpro]

That sounds like a GREAATTT idea!!!

Good luck. Let me know if you need any help testing it out.

[Cibok]

I don't really think that PR matters that much anymore. If you want high rankings, then get lots of links from as many different domains as possible.

Which one would you take if you could choose between these:
1) 1 High PR link (lets say a PR7 Link)
2) 250 Low PR links (something around like PR0-PR3)

I would definetly go with deal number 2 :)

[hugoguzman]

PR only matters to those who buy or sell text link advertising. As it stands, PR is the #1 determining factor of how much a particular text link ad costs.

[joker]

PR only matters to those who buy or sell text link advertising.
I may agree with you Hugo, if you mean visual PR. But combined valuation of BL pointing to the page where link will be located as far as PR of this page can say a lot about strength of the link from this page.