PR ranking & traffic

[edmc]

Im builiding a basic site at the moment. Its fairly new so it stands on a 0 PR. Getting hits from google & yahoo search engines for some keywords but I was wondering if traffic has any bearing on PR - Iv never noticed it mentioned but if PR works on some sort of a voting system would decent traffic aid PR?

[Graham]

From what I can tell from Google's explanation of pagerank, it has absolutely nothing to do with traffic at all. Here is the link: http://www.google.com/technology/ and the explanation below:

PageRank Explained
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.

[edmc]

Thanks Graham. I was just wondering if it was something I missed