Skipping PR On Export?

[Greenguy]

Lowry - I was in the same place you are about 3 or 4 years ago. Trust me when I (and people like Linkster & DDave) say that PR has very little importance.

I currently have a page that ranks #1 in Google for a mid-level term that has a PR0. And we've all seen pages that rank higher than pages that have a much higher PR.

PR is sorta like seeing your site on the top of a counter's "top sites" list - it make you feel important, but it doesn't really mean anything.

Trade traffic, not PR. Clicked links from similar sites will make you money - PR will just make you think your cock is bigger

(of course, this is also a "theory" but it's easier to sleep at night if you don't worry about little green bars)

[Linkster]

To give you an idea on how ridiculous some things can get out there with the little green bar - there was at one time a paper written that investigated the little green bars beside site listings in the google directory
Ex page : http://www.google.com/Top/Adult/Comp...Sites/Variety/

Note to the left of each listing is a little green "PR" bar - the paper (which doesnt seem to be available anymore for some reason) - looked at the width of the little image and concluded it was a total of about 40 pixels wide - if you then viewed the source of the page you would find this in each link - img src="/images/pos.gif" width=22, height=4
By taking that width (22) and dividing it by 40 or whatever number he came up with you had what your REAL PR was

Note - this was long before the advent of the google toolbar and was the first attempt at people trying to reverse engineer the scaling factors - and amazingly - this became the SEOs favorite tool for figuring out who to link to/with - now Im sure youre sitting there shaking your head that a ton of people were that stupid to follow that advice???