PageRank

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Originally Posted by nate

PR matters mostly here because unless you have X amount of PR, a lot of link lists wont bother even looking at anything you submit to them.

That is probably what Jester was reacting to because it's absolute nonsense.

Originally Posted by nate

I wonder why you are bothering to surf my sites, and why you care that my links are cloaked. Pretty weird. Maybe you dont know the difference between a banner for my site and a cloaked banner that goes off to an affiliate. Is that what it is? Cloaked banners have a lot of advantages. You should look up the concept.

Jester wasn't talking to you or about your site in the post you are referring to.

Originally Posted by nate

Links from PR1 and even PR0 linkdumps are better than no inbound links at all when you are already sitting at PR0 It isnt like you are going to be linking back, and google doesnt hold any link to your site against you.

Wrong again. There's such a thing as a "bad neighborhood." Some would argue that all of adult is considered a bad neighborhood, but some sites are far worse than others due potentially to their use of black hate SEO techniques, and it could be argued that not only is it be bad to link to them, but it could also harm your site to be linked to from them.

Originally Posted by nate

Also, lots of the futabas...

What the hell is a futaba?

I wish Halfdeck was still active here. He has a very strong understanding of Google's page rank and how it affects one's listings, supplemental results, etc.

Basically, page rank still has a purpose, an importance, but an excellent page rank doesn't imply that your page will have the best rankings for a particular search term.