how google calculates pagerank: calculate! I don't get it at all... a logarithic formula PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))
Well, who cares All you really have to know that incoming (high PR) links are the most important variable in the formula.
Dude that was a good read, thanks. Who cares? I care, and if your a webmaster you should care too. If you read it carefully, you might actually learn something... like how to structure your website for maximum PR to the pages that count.
If you design your navigation for your visitors and best usability, the PR will go to the right pagfes anyhow.
It's a good article however there is one point missing. Internal links flows more PR than external - that is not mentioned. The above quote is not the same for internal and external links. Put two links on an PR 5 page to two brand new pages. One being a subpage and one another new domain with no other links to them. The subpage will probably be PR 4 but not the domain ...
Spot on Jim. I have been castigated so many times for repeating that PR flows more freely within a domain that I had given up saying it. Then Matt Cutts posted it and I was happy again .