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Written By Steve Porter

PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that if one webpage links to another webpage, it is voting for that webpage. The more links that point to a webpage, the more important that webpage must be. Also, the importance of the page that is linking determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page’s importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page’s PageRank is calculated.

PageRank is Google’s way of deciding a page’s importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page’s ranking in the search results. It isn’t the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one.

“What Dose Google Have To Say about PageRank”

How can I improve my site’s ranking?

Sites’ positions in our search results are determined based on a number of factors designed to provide end-users with helpful, accurate search results. These factors are explained in more detail at http://www.google.com/technology/index.html.

In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages. For more information about improving your site’s visibility in the Google search results, we recommend reviewing our webmaster guidelines. They outline core concepts for maintaining a Google-friendly website.

2 Responses to “What is PageRank?”

1. Make Money Online Says:
   January 28th, 2008 at 11:03 am

   I think people should stop promoting Page Rank. Google can not track links correctly. That is the reason they went on the manhunt for paid links.

   It’s the number of readers that count. Now that you lose your PR fast if there links that are not nofollow. So in the end it’s true content is king. Good content brings readers back and back.

2. Make Money Online | David Elefant Says:
   January 28th, 2008 at 11:15 am

   we dont need Page Rank. Google can not track links correctly that is why they went wild on paid links.

   It is more important to have traffic. Traffic is visitors is returning to read good content. Content is King.

   Even if you have no PR you can still have a large amount of visitors to your blog.

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