trimmer80 - 9:54 pm on May 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

PR is great

A high PR means that you can change your page and see the results update within a day or two. Thus being able to test different things much more efficiently.

A high PR means new content will get indexed much faster

A high PR does count to the algo, in that inbound links still count. Not all it used to but it does count.

THE TOOLBAR PR IS MEANINGLESS
Your site moved from a PR 5 - 7. This did not happen overnight like the toolbar pr update. Toolbar PR gets updated infequently, actual pr gets updated constantly. Thus you likely had a PR of 7 for months but it has only just been reflected in the toolbar. Do not expect to see a rank change after the toolbar PR update, it just doesn't work that way.