Google PageRank results from “votes” among all the other pages on the World Wide Web about how important a page is. In other words PageRank is a numeric value that tells how important a page is on the web.The name “PageRank” is a trademark of Google named after Larry Page. Pages that Google consider as important pages receive a higher PageRank.Pages with higher PageRank are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.
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Google assigns a numeric value from 0-10 for each web page on the Internet. PageRank occasionally referred as “PR”. A page with PageRank 3 will be referred as PR3.
How to improve PageRank?
Since a hyperlink to a page counts as a vote of support, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages.But one important fact to consider is that Google filter out links known link farms.Google will not consider those links.
Google PageRank depends on the number and PageRank metric of all incoming links.You need to find other sites which already have a Page Rank of 4 or higher and request them for a link reference.
To prevent link farming Google has introduced rel=”nofollow” option.Read more about rel=”nofollow” at below link.
How does search engines like Google handle rel=”nofollow” links?
How to calculate PageRank?
1. Google Toolbar
Google Toolbar is an browser toolbar.It is available for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.Google Toolbar displayes the PageRank of any webpage opened in the browser window. Apart from the PageRank display Google Toolbar has lot of other features like Google Gadgets,faster access to your most visited sites,Forms AutoFill,Share any web page with your friends and many more.
You can download Google Toolbar from here.
If the Page Rank meter of Google Toolbar is white, it means that the page’s rank is 0. If the Page Rank meter bar is grayed out, it means that the page
has not yet acquired a Page Rank.
2. PRChecker.info
You can use the service from PRChecker.info to check your page rank.You can ddd this free Page Rank Checking tool to your web site as below.
| Check Page Rank of any web site pages instantly: |
| This free page rank checking tool is powered by Page Rank Checker service |
To know more about Google PageRank algorithm read it here.
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