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Article by: Amit Bhawani
What is PageRank?
PageRank is Google’s measure of importance assigned to a
web page on a scale of 1 to 10. You can check the PageRank value
of any page by downloading the Google Toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com/).
This article is intended at understanding PageRank and providing
an insight into its different aspects.
Pagerank is as the name suggests a ranking system of pages. It
works on the basis that if a website ABC.COM has been linked from
a website XYZ.COM, abc.com must have some good content and therefore
Google will count the link from XYZ.COM as a vote for ABC.COM.
You can check your Pagerank on Google by downloading the Google
toolbar from http://toolbar.google.com
The Pagerank™ scale goes from 1 to 10 on the Google toolbar
and from 1 to 7 beside listings in the Google directory. A less
important site is of course a site with a PR of 1 and a very very
important site is a site with a PR of 7 or 10, in the directory
or toolbar respectively.
The more links or votes a site has the more important it must
be and therefore the higher it will rank for search words which
it is relevant to, right?, WRONG!.
Google does not simply count the number of incoming links a page
has, if that was the case every webmaster from Iceland to Vietnam
would try and exchange links to every Tom, Dick and Harry website
that would let them. In Googles own words:
"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."
Hopefully your beginning to get the idea. The idea is to have
your page linked to by as many high quality and high pageranked
sites as possible. Right? RIGHT and WRONG.
WRONG BECAUSE, you see the Google Pagerank system also takes
into account the number of links the page that has linked to you
has. The reasoning for this is that a page X has a certain amount
of voting PR, if your site Y is the only link from that page X,
then Google feels confident that page X thinks your page Y is
the best link it has and will give you more PR. If however page
X has 50 links, page X could think your only the 50th best link.
Hence the more links a page has the less of a PR boost your site
will get.
RIGHT BECAUSE, linking to a site with a 6+ PR will provide a
significant boost to your PR in most cases, but in cases where
the site also links with 100 other sites the boost will be almost
zero. Likewise if a site has a PR of just 2 but you and only one
other site are linked from it, then the PR boost would be more
than the site with 100 links and a PR of 6.
Source: HiiFii Web Services - www.hiifii.com
Amit Bhawani HiiFii Webservices - http://www.hiifii.com
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