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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?

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Fiona Bailey
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autolycus

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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.
 
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mattk

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