Google PR. Is it still relevant?

[kleon]

First of all, I would like to remind you all, that there are 2 types of Google PRs.
The first one is the well known Toolbar PR, the only one that you and me, that is we outsiders can see. The values are updated infrequently, around 3 or 4 times a years, but the last major and confirmed update was in April. It is not in real time, so it is not quite accurate either. I consider it to be just a number assigned to a page, a number that has very little to do with the real popularity and authority of that specific page.
The other one is the actual, the real or internal PR that is known only by Google and is numbered differently (not between the range 0 and 10 like the Toolbar PR is). We have no access to it.
In conclusion, I do not really see why people are still concerned about the Toolbar PR. I admit that a high number sound cool, fancy, is something you can brag about, but other than that, is almost irrelevant. There are lots of sites with low PR that rank higher in result pages than some pages with high PR. Anyway, I think is a well known fact that ranking in serps is much more important than having a fancy PR number that only sounds good but has almost no importance or benefit (unless you want to sell links maybe).
So what is your point of view? How do you guys see all the hubbub around the PR?

[anjy834u]

the PR is very much relevant and important.

[mahbub_xp]

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[nellie1208]

Yes! PR gives help on with the purpose of \"measuring\" its relative importance within the set.

It is really important and relevant for the SEO groups, as well.

[zacherl]

Pagerank for better or worse is still the leading indicator for the bulk of tasks and evaluations performed by online marketers.I believe Google page rank is still relevant and will impact millions of websites around the world. The Google page rank is a calculation of various areas of your sites worth.

[elvistaylor]

Ya Google page is calculated from bulk of task by Google algorithms. Backlinks are not more importance for the Google rank.. Its mostly depends on only visitors, quality content and quality images on your site..

[sanjitsihag]

I would say it is very much relevant and it plays a very important role in SERP ranking. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin invented the PageRank algorithm way back in the late 90s, they struck gold and were smart enough to found Google to capitalize on its very real potential to change search. For many years Google even told us the PageRank number for each web page on the Internet via the Google Toolbar and later in Webmaster Tools. We grew to love PageRank and, as a profession, we SEOs started placing too much importance on it as a ranking factor. In recent years, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction with people like my friend Mike Volpe declaring that \"Google PageRank is now irrelevant\". And Mike is in good company. In this post, I take the contrary point of view and argue that, in fact, Google PageRank is still relevant after all these years.
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[mikeyarde]

Google PR is also a very important , the page rank value is updated when the traffic of the web site is increase . the high page rank means the web site traffic is high and also page rank improve the web site visibility.