Hi. Has anyone got any idea on how to accurately rank a webpage? I mean give a page a numerical ranking depending on its importance. It must be possible to do the ranking in PHP for any page requested (yes PAGE! not domain.) I've been thinking about it, and so far, I’ve thought about: Google page rank It could work, but the scale is too small (1 - 10) and it’s not too good with individual pages. Also, it seems most pages I visit either have a really high Google page rank (8 - 10) or really low (0 - 2) Google back links I created a script that parsed the number of results from a search in Google prefixed with link: (so it shows back links) but only to realise Google backline checker is about as much use as a chocolate teapot. Number of hits For this project, there is a program that monitors users browsing, thus allowing me to count how many hits any page on the internet has had from users. Downside is at the point of which the ranking is required (when users visit the page) only a few users may have visited the page. Yahoo/msn back links After browsing these forums, they seem a lot more reliable. However, same problem as with all back link checks, there's a hell of a lot of pages that return no results (although it is a lot more reliable than Google back links, some quick tests show that yahoo back links returns over 20,000% more results, yes, twenty thousand percent!) Any other suggestions? The problem isn't so much the programming to get the resources, or the programming to get the ranking, but the actual available resources. The final ranking system will probably be a function of a few things. Thanks in advanced. Dom.