Originally posted by President Gringo
sorry for sounding dumb, but whats all this PR stuff?
It is a part of Google's (bogus) ranking algorithim..
basically it tries to separate the quality sites from the junk sites using an algorithm that among other things considers your inbound links.. who all (webmasters) is linking to you... if many sites are linking to you then thats good..MAYBE.. it depends on if googles algorithm deems the sites that are linking to you are quality sites.. by determining if the links to THOSE sites are also quality links etc..
in the end you get a PR rank..page rank..
The problem is Googles algorithim is corrupted by many web masters building many sites and trading links with their buddies in networks..so that all their sites rank higher than their competitions !
Google refuses to do anything about it because their system is so large know and owns the majority of the SE market that the "fix" would doom Googles position as the
#1 engine..
This problem is even worse in DMOZ.. where out of 10,000 editors nearly everyone is a "volunteer" .. a volunteeer to add their websites and keep YOU out ! :laugh: the corruption at dmoz is enormous..
It's a big scam .. I know I was an editor at DMOZ..
and it's disgusting..
There are a few handfuls of decent editors but the majority cheat and simply list their sites.. well above any body elses if they include you at all !