OK - this is a dumb question

Pebble Communications · Jan 12, 2006

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 · Jan 12, 2006

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 · Jan 12, 2006

PageRank 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 to query multiple pages.

crus · Jan 12, 2006

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 · Jan 12, 2006

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 · Jan 12, 2006

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 · Jan 12, 2006

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 · Jan 12, 2006

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 · Jan 12, 2006

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!

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