Thanks for the clarification, that makes more sense. I think you overestimate the difficulty in ranking for keywords for which many others already rank, though

Thanks for the clarification, that makes more sense. I think you overestimate the difficulty in ranking for keywords for which many others already rank, though. For instance, my relatively new consulting website ranks on the front page for common words/phrases, like "phusion passenger," and it only has a PR3. Your article states that PR3 is low enough, but I would say that if you have good in-page SEO, etc, you really need a PR1 or PR2 to get the effect you're talking about.