Google Page Rank A – Z

If you own a website and are working to gain organic traffic from the search engines, then you’ve no doubt heard about Google Page Rank. But just what is this ‘page rank’, and how does it affect websites? This article will address those questions and try to cut through the confusion.
Google had developed this page-rank system in order to gauge the importance of websites. The higher a site’s page rank, the more important it is in the eyes of Google. It’s part of their ‘algorithm’ they use.
Page rank is mostly about linking up with other webpages. Each page that Google indexes receives a page rank that’s associated with it. Each time a specific page links up to another specific page, some of that pages page rank value transfers to the page it’s linking to. The higher the ranking, the more page rank value gets passed on.

Whenever one page is linking to another, it’s viewed kind of like being a ‘vote’ from the page doing the linking. So for getting your pages ranked high, what you need to do is link to high ranking pages. Page rank is basically a mathematical calculation used to determine the importance of a webpage and its relevance to the subject matter.
One crucial point that is misunderstood a lot is pagerank being passed on from one page to another, page by page. A lot of webmasters just assume that their page rank will be determined according to their home page. The home page does receive as much weight as other pages, but not more, and it’s not the total of your ranking. Any page on your site can rank higher than your home page.
So just how does your page rank affect your search engine ranking? Well, page rank isn’t as powerful as it used to be. In the past, all you needed to do was rank well by linking up with other websites, and then you could actually dominate your listing. But today, with the more complex algorithms, it’s not the same. Back links play a major role in how your website ranks with search engines.
Google has a free toolbar that it offers that displays the page rank of any webpage you are visiting. You can use this tool to check the page rank of any page of any website.
As for me, I recommend not giving too much weight to page rank. Just build your site the best you can, create good content, and the back links will come naturally. Place some of your best articles on your site, and submit them to some of the top directories, and you’ll get some good backlinks. Avoid reciprocal linking campaigns as they have really lost their influence.
What is your PageRank? Check your Page Rank.

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