Can someone explain to me in simple terms, what exactly is Google's Page Rank? What all one needs to do to improve one's blog's Page Rank? Thanks.
PageRank was designed to help rank the importance of a specific web page. You get a higher PageRank by obtaining incoming links to your page. It's all about getting other sites (it's better if they are from relevant sites) to put a link to your page on their website.
So is it only getting maximum number of links? Also, I see on some sites rankings 6, 7, 8 etc. - what are these?
hehe, that's a funny statement with what's in your signature. hehe Come out and say whatcha mean, and please qualify it.
Yes, you are right, quality static links are good, but then quantity and rotating links: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=15507&highlight=ranking Feel free to let me know if I am imagining this thread
satishtalim, your page acquires PageRank from links to your page from other web pages -- how much PageRank is acquired depends on both the NUMBER of those links as well as the PageRank of the web page that contains the link pointing to you. If I have two sites, one with a PR2 page and the other with a PR6 page, and I place links to one of your pages on both of those pages, the page with the PR6 will contribute more to your PageRank than the one with the PR2. However, do also bear in mind that Google has long stated that PageRank is only "one of more than 100 factors" determining how you will rank in the results of a search query. It's important but it's far from the only important thing to concern yourself with when it comes to promoting your website.
Also, the number of links on that page a PR6 with 100 outbound links should give you less that a PR6 with 2 outbound links.
Page Rank named after Google co-founder Larry Page, is the rank or numeric summary of the importance of a site based on the number of votes (links) a site has received from other sites. It is used as a tie breaker for ranking sites in the SERPs if all other on page factors are the same. The higher the PageRank the higher the in bound links and usually the higher the position in the SERPs. Authority sites like Sun's, Apple's, Amazon's and so on have millions of pages that link back to the domain name. The ususally have a PR of 9 or 10. 1 link from one of those sites can raise your own PR from 0 to 7 or 8.
No, I didn't forget. But I do try to follow the principle that when asked for a simple explanation, don't give an overly complex answer, or at least not immediately. The original poster, satishtalim, specifically asked for a SIMPLE explanation:
And every link they get will be as valuable as the number of outbounds on the linking page ? Quite important in determining the resultant PR
In my experience, Google is more about off page optimisation like inbound links (and optimised anchor text) while Yahoo is about on page optimisation. I am also #1 for hard terms in Yahoo while around #10 to #15 in google. The keywords I've been working on for the last six months for both on page and off page optimisation are started to narrow the gap. A few I am in the top 5 for both. If you have a balance strategy, eventually there will be more parity.