I was looking over the Trade Links section and noticed a lot of people saying their site was "PRx" x=1-5. I'm assuming PR stands for PageRank. I did a search, but for the life of me, could not find how to determine the PageRank of my site blog.camhabib.com Any help / info is appreciated.
For internet explorer, install the Google toolbar. You will have to manually turn pagerank on after installing it. For Firefox, you can download the Live PageRank add on.
You can download the google toolbar and add the pr rank option and this will give you the pr of every site you visit including your own sites. I also go to linkvendor.com and check mine sometimes.
Google Toolbar did the trick. Thanks a lot. One of my sites indicates a PR of 0/10, other other says no information is available. What exactly is that number dependent on, how hard is it to build up, and why would there not be any information available?
A brand new website would show 'no information available' until the next pagerank update. Websites banned from Google also show 'no information available' as well. PageRank is based on the pagerank of your backlinks. So to increase your PageRank it is all about acquiring new backlinks, especially from pages that have PR. If you know how to build links, it is quite easy to increase your PageRank. As your PageRank goes up, it gets progressively tougher to increase. The toolbar PageRank only updates every few months though. So don't expect the PageRank to go up shortly after adding new backlinks.
vansterdam, thanks for all the info. Once you do get up there in the PageRanks, is it something that you need to actively maintain, or once there are backlinks, they're there for good, and you require just basic maintenance to stay up?
Do not confuse PageRank with SERP (Search Engine Ranking Position). Just because a website gets a high PR, it does not mean they automatically have high rankings. It still depends on things like keyword usage in link anchor text and link relevancy. Once you get PR, it does generally stay, but certain links naturally deteriorate over time. Blog posts and forum threads eventually get archived which can lower the PR of those pages. When the PR of your links goes down, your PR can be affected in turn. This also applies to links that are removed over time. Those links are no longer counted towards your PR. Ideally you would keep building backlinks on a regular basis. This will help your search engine rankings keep improving over time. If you stop building links, your rankings likely won't keep improving and other websites could pass you in the rankings.
Vansterdam, thanks again. When you say backlinks, from what I've read so far here on the forum and other places, it basically means posting a clickable link on a page that is indexed by a search engine, is that correct? I've started posting on various forums and blogs, having my website in my signature, and entering my website in the field provided on blog posts. I've also started paying more attention to my selection in keywords when creating a post title or section heading (although when posting on a blog, the link of my site takes the form of my name that I type in). Is there anything else I can do to help improve both my PageRank and my Search Position?
You can install google toolbar and it would display your pr. You could also check it on prchecker.info and dnscoop.com