Alright, so I guess I know I could just easily look this up...but what exactly does Google Page Rank say??? Like what does it mean? The reason I ask is not necessarily because I am a noob...but because I have several blogs (some of which i very rarely update...basically never anymore) and I just recently downloaded this new plugin for firefox which shows you alexa rank and page rank for every site you go to. Now, its telling me that some of the blogs that I never update are 4/10 on google page rank...this makes no sense to me because the two blogs that I do update are 3/10 and Not Ranked...so could someone explain to me what the page rank actually says about a site/blog/whatever... Thanks a lot you guys...you really have saved me more than once...
Pagerank is, according to google, the "importance of a website." A lot of factors go into determining pagerank, but one of them is not how often a website's content is updated. Backlinks from relevant, authority websites will increase pagerank, BUT don't worry too much about pagerank. It's more important you code and write with SEO in mind so that search engines find you and rank you well - you don't need a PR4 to be in the top 5 results, a PR3 can do it just as well.
It means absolutely nothing. PageRank was a patent made by Page and Brin when they were in college. It's a method to determine a relative value scale based on a website's backlinks. In the past few years, Google has moved away from PR, despite still pretending it's a huge factor. What would you rather have: 1) A PR 6 website that earns $400 per year 2) A PR3 Website that earns $40,000 per year. Once you have achieved number 2, you'll never care about number one.
Alright...but my question is this...how is it determined...i mean, I dont want to spam you guys out with links but how is LawOfMarketing.com a 4/10 when I have never even used it? Where as fetchblog.com is 3/10 and I have used it quite a bit.
Are the links to the 4/10 site of better quality and authority links from trusted sites. Are their links on every page? Are the links on the 4/10 sites from a variety of websites and not just one or a few? IMO these things make a difference.
They are both 3/10 according this this: http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php Interesting point to note that LawOfMarketing.com only has about 14 pages indexed in Google and fetchblog.com has about 167. Goes to show you dont need a lot of pages to get Pagerank.
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Right, I understand that...but how do they rank you? What goes into the process...I think its dumb that lawofmarketing.com, a site that I have NEVER used...is 3/10 or 4/10 whatever...and marketingpenguin.com is not even ranked and fetchblog.com is lower than lawofmarketing.com....Does anyone really know how they do it? Is there a site/blog out there that I could read that could update me on the latest news on this kind of thing??? I need to get some sleep...but I look forward to reading your answers in a few hours...
Have you looked at both sites' external link list in Google Webmaster Tools? Chances are if you look at the links going in to the PR4 site they'll be from sites with high PR themselves, and the links going in to the PR3 site are from low PR sites. Although there may be 1,000 more links, if they're all from PR0 sites, you would still get a low PR.
Ah, to all those that have posted in this thread. Please link to example searches using Google search to prove that PR doesn't matter. Ie. give links to searches for highly competitive keywords where sites with no or little PR outrank high PR sites.
first of all, ignore the number of backlinks.... its just that the google treat the backlinks of your PR4 site more authoritative and quality site have been linked to you which might be very related to your site or within the same niche..
Alright so the consensus is that I should not care about PR Rank...I guess I will just forget about it...I just thought I would let you know that i have a site i never use that apparently has links on google or whatever... Now, I have another question...if this is the case, would it be easier for me to use lawofmarketing.com which is already a pr3 or 4...or should I keep marketingpenguin.com???? which isnt ranked anywhere... I guess the real question is...Does it do me any good to use a PR4 domain name rather than a non ranked...or is it like you say...not important?
PR means nothing. Do a search for "smoking" - quite competitive, at 144 million results. The first site returned is a PR5, the next 4 results are PR6, the 6th result from americanheart.org is a PR0 - and the result right after that 0 is a PR 7!! When PR0 starts outranking PR7, I think we can all agree PR is worthless. (verified manually, but I did the search with the SEO Firefox plugin)
Agreed...PR means nothing, but I am still wondering how it is they come to choose which site has what PR...as useless as it is...it would probably be better when I decide to sell my blogs...that they are PR4-7
LOLOLOL. Sorry, you still don't get it. Tell me what the live PR is. Not what the 6+ month old PR is shown on the toolbar. Actually phone up Google and ask them to verify the live, internal PR of all those pages. PR isn't worthless. Nobody in the world would invest millions of dollars in something worthless.
PR is determined by backlinks. The relevance, # of links, and PR of the site your backlinks come from is the biggest contributing factor to PR.