PageRank Explained
Yaro Starak’s article PageRank Explained - Keeping SEO Simple explains the basics of Google’s PageRank system and discusses how much you need to worry about the PageRank of your site(s).
I dont worry a lot about PageRank, but I have been keeping an eye on the PageRank of this site’s homepage for some time. It hasn’t changed in ages, but I suppose that is to be expected with a PR 7 page – the higher your PageRank gets, the harder it is to improve.
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How about the lower your page rank gets, the harder it is to recover. Ever since Avalonstar went down a year ago, my page rank plummeted to 0, and now is at a high number 1. :)
I don’t know what I did to deserve a page rank of 5. I suspect posting to webdesign blogs with back-links frequently.
Does anyone know if blogging has such a high impact?
Strive for Web standards and good content, and your PageRank will increase automatically […]. No one links to useless sites (or: it is more often linked to useful sites).
Thanks for the mention Roger. I think you should be quite happy with a PageRank 7, most sites never get that far and considering you built this site yourself I think you deserve a slap on the back.
PageRank 8 sites, the next level up for you, generally are massive content companies built by many people on a payroll, not an individual blogger.
There is a mathematical equation for Page Rank. To break it down to it’s simplist form, it’s made up of the PR of the pages that are linked to you. However, the power a page will parse to you depends on the number of links that are on that page that provides you with a link. For example if a site is a PR 6 and has 100 links on that page (both internal site links and outbound links), that PR of 6 is divided among all the links. If a site has a PR 6 and only has 10 links on it, that provides a much larger PR boost to your own site.
You have done very well to get such a high page rank after 2 yrs im still on pr 3.
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