PageRank = Quality?

As you may have seen in my two previous post I aimed a spoof directly at the PageRank crowd. The amount of traffic I had visit those two post was insane, more than triple my daily uniques to my entire website.

It just goes to show how much emphasis webmasters put on PageRank. I can't lie and say I don't look forward to seeing if my PageRank will increase as each update approaches. It's just one tool that let's you know that your website promotion and hard work are realizing results.

But...

I would also like to mention that PageRank is not the holly grail for webmasters. I really think to many people get caught up worrying about their websites current or future PageRank. I do think that PageRank may be more important of a factor to some websites than others because of their niche. That being said it still does not determine the quality of your website.

Search engine rankings and traffic should be the number one priority on your list. If you had the choice of a PR6 website with 50 uniques a day or a PR0 website with 1000 uniques a day which would you choose?

I know that I am choosing the website with good traffic hands down. I can make a website with a PageRank of 0 and traffic much more profitable than one that is PR6 with no traffic.

Isn't money the reason why most of you create websites?

I think a lot of webmasters including myself should focus on driving more traffic and raising our serps. My personal goal for the next 4 months it to target the phrase "Business Directory" and move from the second page to the 1st for "web directory".