Studies on PR and SERPs

[abostonboy]

Has there been any studies done as to the correlation between having a higher PR and how it affects if you are on page one of google. I tried searching and couldn't find any.

I guess what I am asking is -

Are the first ten listing for keywords on Google dominated by a certain PR range for the major keywords?

[VODBOB]

Lloyd, I have accepted your challenge. Not a challenge but a good question at least. My experience has been that PR is a factor but not nearly as important as some make it out to be. Here is what I did:

Went to Google, queried "PORN", here are the results:

1). PR - 5
2). PR - 4
3). PR - 4
4). PR - 4
5). PR - 4
6). PR - 3
7). PR - 4
8). PR - 5
9). PR - 4
10). PR - 4

Went to Google, queried "SEX", here are the results:

1). PR - 4
2). PR - *7
3). PR - *5
4). PR - 4
5). PR - 7
6). PR - *6
7). PR - 4
8). PR - *7
9). PR - *6
10). PR - *6

* NON ADULT

Hope that glimpse helps

VODBOB

[abostonboy]

Thanks Bob. Now, those are REAL tough words to get. I don't want you to do the rest, but do you think lesser ones follow the same idea? I just wish there was a study somewhere where is was broken down like this:

Top 100 searches: What PR
Next 1000 searches: what PR
etc

All aimed at porn related searches.

[abostonboy]

DAMN! There is an adult site with a PR 7?

[VODBOB]

PR 7 is the highest I have seen for adult, hooray for www.naughty.com, but as you see a PR 4 was still higher in the SERPs.

VODBOB

[MrJD]

pr is just ONE of the things that GBot takes into consideration when deciding a pages # in the index.

A site with pr3/4 could rank top 3 for an extremely difficult term like "sex" and "porn" it just depends on the inbound links it has. If that site had links from "authority sites" such as CNN, some.gov domains, major news portals,etc it's a very powerful link for that site.