New Low - PR 3 for very popular site with 20,000 pages

[surfgatinho]

I don't pay too much attention to PageRank and realise that it isn't what it used to be, but it is quite alarming to see your site with a homepage PR of 3.
That's the kind of PR I'd expect with a 6 month old local cafe site or something.

I don't care that much as I still get masses of traffic but I find it a little odd

Anyone else think their PR is a little off the mark?

[decaff]

"I don't care that much as I still get masses of traffic"..

pretty much tells the story there...
and PR is really not an issue for ranking/traffic...but deep content/long tail can really drive targeted/strong conversion traffic ...

I haven't even thought about PR in my work for the last 3-4 years...it was/is never a "real value" anyways...(as in...Google doesn't reveal the real PR values of sites..)

but the G toobar has certainly been a boon for Google to collect data from... ;-)

[tedster]

If you are working with a site and want a better metric for which pages Google sees as strongest, I recommend using an analytics package and putting your URLs in order from the most traffic from Google Search to the least.

You can often learn a lot about your site that way - what does G think are important pages, which ones are they ignoring, etc. And if that opinion doesn't line up with your intentions, it's time to get to work on the internal link structure.

If you created a list that put your pages in PR order, you would understand very, very little.

[surfgatinho]

I'm not too concerned about the drop in PR. I do regard it as a useful measure to see how the juice is being distributed around the site, but besides that ..

It was just completely an ego thing! My site is more important than the local sewing shop!

I think, having just been reading the mega menu thread that I might have dissipated the PR with 190 links on the home page.