does a higher PR mean more actual page hits?

if so how?

[jlyons1234]

Do you get more page hits or a higher ranking with a better PR?

Jay

[Brett_Tabke]

That is the crux of the situation. In the past, there was a 1-to-1 correlation between higher pr and higher numbers of referrals. That is no longer the case.

[Mark_A]

Ouch .. well I knew things were in flux Brett but you feel there is

* no longer a correlation *

all other things being equal .. the page with higher PR will not list higher in the results for a given term?

I guess I may as well throw the toolbar away then :-)

[jlyons1234]

so Is there anything at all to be gaing by trying to get a higher PR?

jay

[Mark_A]

I get a lot of email at the moment for some reason telling me that size matters :-) dont know why they are picking on me ..

I would not show at pubcon without at least pr5 if I were you (joking :-)

[markus007]

I'm positive PR is pretty much the only thing that matters, the only difference now is that PR isn't reported to the tool bar for months at a time. This just leaves everyone in a confused state, as backlinks etc in no way reflect reality.

[Philarmon]

I disagree that you can get good ranking only if you've got a high PR. I have launched a website a month ago (my first try with an affiliate website and first time i have optimized a website for a search engine - i spent a week reading all on this great forums here). My main keyword is a very competitive word (8,5 M results). After the update it got a PR of 3 and now i am on page 3 of the G results! The most competitors websites are PR 4 and 5 and are behind me. The only advantage i see is a very high keyword density on my website (our favourite word-density-checker-tool says it's 19%), but no spam though. I have only about 150 incoming links, mostly from websites with PR 2 and 3 and not all of them contain with my keyword.

So i guess the PR is not the only major factor.
Hope that info helps a bit (puuuh! ;)

Cheers,
Philarmon