OK - this is a dumb question

[Pebble Communications]

How do I find out my page rank (I've also seen posts referring to PR 1 etc, is that the same thing?). Is it better to have a high number or a low number? Does it apply to a whole site or individual pages? Please explain....I'm interesting in setting up a couple of links but they want to know Page rank and I don't know what they are talking about!

Is it just literally which page you appear on when you google a keyword or is there some scientific techie thing going on here?

Cheers

Fiona Bailey
Pebble Communications

[autolycus]

To find out your page rank (or anyone else's), you need to install the free Google toolbar available from http://toolbar.google.com.

Yes - when people talk about PR1 etc they are meaning page rank.

PR runs from 0 to 10. The higher the better.

Each page within a site gets its own separate PR.

Yes, PR is used by Google to help decide how far up its search results you appear.

HTH,
Dave.

[mattk]

PageRank (http://www.google.com/technology/) is the Google tool that it uses to decide it's search engine results. The PR that is shown on the Google bar, or via other tools, is a VERY rough guide to how Google actually ranks your site.

Internally, PageRank is alot more complex than a 0 to ten value, but for ease of use Google display a value of 0 to ten on the Web.

I use this tool (http://www.pagerank.net/pagerank-checker/) to query multiple pages.

[crus]

Hi,

install the toolbar and then ignore it, google still does a 'jig' when it arranges its data, as opposed to a full blow 'ballet', so take a look at the link below to see your future page rank.

http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/future-pagerank/

PR isnt everything , but its a must to get right.

D

[Pebble Communications]

Thanks.
I'm a bit confused though. Is this only affected by how many links go to that page?

My intro and home page have a 4 ranking but everywhere else is 0. Yet my adwords link to one of the 0 rated pages - don't they count?

What would my overall rating be then...0 or 4?

[Cornish Steve]

As far I'm concerned, the only dumb question is the one never asked. Your question was well-founded, and I learned from the answers.

[autolycus]

To really get to grips with PR and how it is calculated, you probably need to get your head round this article:

http://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/

Dave.

[Pebble Communications]

The future rank tool gave me a 4 for every page!

Thanks for the advice. This was all something new to me but very interesting and clearly something I need to get to grips with.

Thanks.

[Pebble Communications]

I started looking at the recommended article to help me understand the system.
Quote

"The first part, or "term" to be techinal, of the PR equation is doing this:

PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))

So, for Page D, no backlinks means the equation looks like this:

PR(A)
= (1-d) + d * (0)
= 0.15"


lol - but I'll keep going as it may not all be like this!