If you’re looking to evaluate sites for backlink building purposes or looking to buy the domain, here’s some tools that may help you:
http://checkbulkpagerank.com/ enables you to check more than 1 site at a time for PR. Great for processing long lists of sites for linkbuilding or dropped domain buying purposes
http://www.smartpagerank.com/ allows for more in-depth analysis regarding pagerank. Great www and non-www checking feautre.
This tool does the following:
- Email sent automatically if PageRank™ is updated.
- Estimates the value of your website.
- Checks if the PageRank™ is fake or valid.
- PageRank™ from multiple datacenters.
- Checks PageRank™ with and without “www”.
- Displays number of backlinks, alexa ranking, and DMOZ links.
Remember, PageRank is figured out for the PAGE not for the SITE. I am assuming that you are discussing the PageRank of the index page. PageRank is still very valuable, although it has lost some power over the years. It mainly has to do with authoritativeness and now important Google looks at the page. While it is possible to rank well and have a low PageRank, high PageRank pages get spidered more often, thus more likely to have new pages indexed and ranked.
Lots of tools for webmasters, I’m no way concerned with them but I just like it and its very famous and the tools are very accurate.
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I’ve actually never heard of these sites before. I typically rely on SEO toolbars but it’s always good to get a second opinion; especially if it’s a lot more detailed.
While it is possible to rank well and have a low PageRank, high PageRank pages get spidered more often, thus more likely to have new pages indexed and ranked.