Google position and PR

how do they relate?

[Sobriquet]

I have a site with PR6 and it presents in the lower fold of 11-20 page ( page 2 ) of google for teh keyword featured. Todays position is 16th.

I tried to check the PR of all sites above me and found that the TOP5 sites had a PR<=4 for homepage and 0 PR for other pages.

Most sites were less than pr6.

Does PR actually directly effect page position?

Can someone explain the relationships?

What are the other factors that may influence position, apart from PR and content rich pages.

[ogletree]

There are over 100 things that go into why a page ranks. PR used to mean a lot but now it is a very tiny part. As long as you got the term in your title and repeated on the page a few times the most you can do is get more links. Anchor text is still the king.

[jtbell]

Does PR actually directly effect page position?

Can someone explain the relationships?

Apple Computer's home page has a PageRank value of 10 out of 10, but you wouldn't expect it to do well on a search for "fresh oranges", would you? :-)

PageRank is only one of the factors that goes into your position in the search results.

PageRank depends only on linkage structure, that is, on how many pages link to a page, and on the PageRank values of the pages the links come from. PageRank has nothing to do with the keywords being searched for. That's why the Google toolbar and other PageRank tools can show you the PageRank of a page simply by visiting it.

In any particular search, the content of a page is also important, in how it relates to the keywords being searched for. Also important is the "anchor text" of the links to a page.