Does traffic has correlation with search engine ranking?

[internetgal]

Hi montyauto, I feel traffic and search engine rankings have an indirect relation with each other. bcoz if you dnt have a good ranking website, its hard to pull online traffic

[teeny]

PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's PageRank is calculated.
PageRank is Google's way of deciding a page's importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page's ranking in the search results. It isn't the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one.

So PageRank relates to links and not traffic.

Hope this helps.

[harry_puta]

Traffic is the number of visitor visiting your site while Page rank is the amount of importance of a website.

[Ar3d]

yes! PR show or measure the inportancy of the page, while traffic is number of the visitor came to your site!

[Candy]

Traffic does not effect web site ranking.

But web site ranking does effect your traffic, being that the better your web site is optimized, the better chance that your pages/sites are ranked better, thus leading to more traffic and conversions