Tell me what is your PR, and I will tell you where you are. (ancient maxim, slightly rephrased)
The concept of PageRank (or PR) was developed at Stanford University, implemented by Google and now this way or another is used by majority of search engines. PR varies from 1 to 10 (no fractions) and by definition is a measure of an importance of a web page.
PR essentially is a figure of merit of link popularity of a page. The more inbound links are coming from other pages (external and internal) and the higher PR of these referring pages, the higher will be PR of the page. This is more or less the basis for determination of PR (actual algorithm is more complex). The utility of PR is: if the site is getting a lot of inbound links from high-quality sites, then this is also a good, high-PR site, and the customer directed to this site by search engine will be most certainly satisfied.
For example, index page of Site A has PR 5 and 30 outbound links, of which one goes to your site. Index page of Site B has PR 4 and 2 outbound links, of which one points to your site. Which site will give you more PR? Site B, because its PR is "shared" by only 2 outbound links, hence, more PR will be passed to your site.
PR is assigned to every page of a site, however, home page usually has the highest PR. This is simply because home page is usually the most linked page. Of course, exceptions are possible, when you have inside your site a popular article or some very active sub-domain.
You can determine PR for any pages using Google Toolbar in a browser, or through service sites, of which I would recommend My Google PageRank com (I have no affiliation with them, just a neat site:). Of course, the higher PR of your page, the higher probability that it will be listed on top of search results. Here are some examples of high-PR sites: Wikipedia PR 9, Amazon PR 9, eBay Sitemap PR 7, Google Home got PR 8.
PR 8 or higher will get your site to Olympian heights. Even lower PR can do well. From my own experience, a narrow-focused site of PR 4 can steadily hold first place in search results of Google and Yahoo on all main keywords. PR is important for search algorithms, but obviously this is not the only figure of merit used for building search results hierarchy. So if your pages have PR 0 - 2, this is just a sign that more work is needed. Building more inbound links from related sites, growing your site content and posting in blogs and article directories will be the best ways to improve PR of your pages.
So good luck on your PR! - 16035
The concept of PageRank (or PR) was developed at Stanford University, implemented by Google and now this way or another is used by majority of search engines. PR varies from 1 to 10 (no fractions) and by definition is a measure of an importance of a web page.
PR essentially is a figure of merit of link popularity of a page. The more inbound links are coming from other pages (external and internal) and the higher PR of these referring pages, the higher will be PR of the page. This is more or less the basis for determination of PR (actual algorithm is more complex). The utility of PR is: if the site is getting a lot of inbound links from high-quality sites, then this is also a good, high-PR site, and the customer directed to this site by search engine will be most certainly satisfied.
For example, index page of Site A has PR 5 and 30 outbound links, of which one goes to your site. Index page of Site B has PR 4 and 2 outbound links, of which one points to your site. Which site will give you more PR? Site B, because its PR is "shared" by only 2 outbound links, hence, more PR will be passed to your site.
PR is assigned to every page of a site, however, home page usually has the highest PR. This is simply because home page is usually the most linked page. Of course, exceptions are possible, when you have inside your site a popular article or some very active sub-domain.
You can determine PR for any pages using Google Toolbar in a browser, or through service sites, of which I would recommend My Google PageRank com (I have no affiliation with them, just a neat site:). Of course, the higher PR of your page, the higher probability that it will be listed on top of search results. Here are some examples of high-PR sites: Wikipedia PR 9, Amazon PR 9, eBay Sitemap PR 7, Google Home got PR 8.
PR 8 or higher will get your site to Olympian heights. Even lower PR can do well. From my own experience, a narrow-focused site of PR 4 can steadily hold first place in search results of Google and Yahoo on all main keywords. PR is important for search algorithms, but obviously this is not the only figure of merit used for building search results hierarchy. So if your pages have PR 0 - 2, this is just a sign that more work is needed. Building more inbound links from related sites, growing your site content and posting in blogs and article directories will be the best ways to improve PR of your pages.
So good luck on your PR! - 16035
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