I understand that PR stands for Page Rankings, I assume that the levels that exist are standard across the board? For example, Google's will be the same as Yahoo's etc? I only ask as I've seen this phrase pop up a lot whilst I have been researching about SEO consulting today, it appears to be quite an important aspect.
some sites have higher PR than google. adobe has pr 9 I think. It's just googles gauge of how important the site is
I agree with ryanrigney22 the higher the PR the more important the site is. the lower the PR the less importan the site is
What exactly do you mean by "importance"? I assumed it was just a level of SEO so the higher that your page ranks, the higher the PR will be also? I expect I may be going off in the totally wrong direction but please correct me of course, if I am wildly wrong.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=de...s=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a its all about how important google views your site, getting links from other high pr, and authorative sites will give you more pr than millions of links on totally unrelated and crap sites
PageRank is exclusively a Google metric - it's named after Larry Page, one of the founders of Google. It's inclusion in the Google algoritm was one of the factors that gave Google it's huge leap of success over other search engines, as it devised a way of judging the importance and authority of a web page by factors other than what the author of the page told the bot about it themselves. It is however, only a part of the algorithm - and neither your traffic, nor your position in serps will influence it.
i have a story that my site was PR2 last month, but now change to PR1, in terms of traffic, also change a lot, down like 30%.
How did that happen then Bizcheers? This PR business sounds pretty clever in the way that it works, I think I'll have to read up on it a bit more although it does feel like the feel like the levels will be mostly out of my control?
Google has pr10 and 10 is the highest. So if there are sites that is pr10, this doesn't mean that they are higher than google. They are just the same in pr but not the same in popularity and ranking.
How are the levels ranked exactly? I'm interested as while I am rebuilding my website I thought that I might aswel spend some extra time/money increasing it's PR ranking if it is possible.
Sometime due to black hat SEO techniques your site may get High PR on the basis of backlinks, there is no attribute of relevancy here. I have seen quite a few examples.
It really sounds like a real balance needs to be struck, how best do you think I should go about this? Of course I would like my PR to be high, but I don't want it to simply be based on backlinks, as stated above.
What are you talking about? The only website I know has the same Page Rank as the Google is the Official United States Governments Website. (PR 10 also)
Do you happen to know how exactly the quality is judged? Is this an automatic process from a system that scans your website from top to bottom?
It's based on PageRank - you get higher PageRank by having more high PageRank backlinks. The sites you got the links from got their high PageRank by having backlinks from high PageRank pages, and they got their PageRank...etc etc etc - at the heart of it is a trust in the 'interlinkedness' of the internet. But chasing PageRank is the most pointless activity you could engage in - PareRank is best thought of as a diagnostic measure - something that tells you how you're doing, not something to chase for it's own sake. Oh - and you can't improve your PageRank with links from nofollow sites like wikepedia, twitter or facebook - did anyone mention that?
Thank you Magda. No, I don't think I've read yet about blog sites not helping at all. What do you mean when you refer to "nofollow" sites? I've never heard this term before (but then again, I'm still very new to the topic)