What is Google Page Rank

Some of you may be wondering what google Page Ranking is!

Actually, it's not that difficult a concept when you try and get your head round it.

You automatically have PageRank for each page on your website.... the bigger the site you have, the more Page Ranking is contained in it and your linking structure (navigation) determines how that PR is distributed around your website.

PR flows around the whole of any website and will be higher in some areas than in other areas of your site. Generally a homepage has the highest page rank, because of the inbound links pointing there (generally there is at least one link to the homepage on EVERY page).

PR passes from your homepage to the other pages that are linked from it.... the more links you have, the more that PR has to be spread around so, the deeper into a website you go, the less PR filters through (You can battle this in part by clever linking strategies).

You can take on additional PR into your website by getting other sites to link to you. They essentially cast a vote for your site. They pay for this vote by donating a little of their own PR to you.

You as you can take on additional PR, you can also lose it.
If a webpage has EXTERNAL links, then the page is casting a vote for each site it links to.... it is making votes by passing a little of the site's PR along to whichever pages are linked. If those sites are not linking back to you, then you have just 'leaked' a little PR.

There are lots of ways to manipulate PR within your website.... you can set up funnels to channel PR to the most important sections on your website. With cunning, you can also stop PR from reaching pages that do not benefit.... like a contact us form for instance and as such, keep the maximum PR in reserve to areas which stand to benefit most.

These manipulations are totally ethical and serve to make the most of the PR flowing within a website because PR is a factor in google's ranking algorythms... the stuff used to determine where pages are ranked in results.

Hope that you found this of interest!

Rob Collyer
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Rob is an SEO specialist and the CEO and Founder of Webforumz.com (Web Design Forums)

Originally Posted by rob

With cunning, you can also stop PR from reaching pages that do not benefit.... like a contact us form for instance and as such, keep the maximum PR in reserve to areas which stand to benefit most.

Can you please explaine how it can be done? I heard about "no follow" tag. But as far as I understand it applyes for all links on a page. Or it's something that can be insert in a specific <a href...> tag?
Thanks in advance.

a sample is like this

Code:

<a href="http://www.domain.com" alt="Domain.com" rel="nofollow">Domain.Com</a>

Can I just confirm. If you use the vbseo section

Add rel="nofollow" to ALL External URLs
Enable this option to prevent search engines from following links to external pages (URLs that point to other domains).


Will this add no follow to absolutely everything external? ie signatures, navbar, url in posts etc?

That's right.

Lizard King,
Thanks for an example. So a spider just "don't see" such links? Or it still can "see" such links but doesn't pass anything from my PR to these linked pages? Or Google keep it in secret and we can only guess?

There are many theories out there about PR and you stated one, that PR is "leaked" with every outbound link. It's not good to hoard your links, in fact I heard it's good to actually link to other sites similar to yours. But many are stating that there is no such thing as a "leaked" PR. If thinking about "votes", you can think of it as the higher the PR the more "votes" you get or the stronger that vote actually counts.

But again, these are all theories and the only people that know how this truly works is google themselves.

Is there anyway to find out one's Google page ranking?


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Originally Posted by W.E.B. Du Bois

Is there anyway to find out one's Google page ranking?

Easiest way is to download the Google Toolbar... Google Toolbar

Thanks for the link, man. My forum's current rank is zero. How long did it take you to get your forum from 0 -> 1? How many members did you have at 1?


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Originally Posted by W.E.B. Du Bois

Thanks for the link, man. My forum's current rank is zero. How long did it take you to get your forum from 0 -> 1? How many members did you have at 1?

Google updates the public PageRank (the one you see with the toolbar) once every three months. Since PageRank is primarily based on how many quality backlinks your site has, if you get started now you can get a 2, 3, or even 4 PR by the next update (early January is expected). Just get as many good-PR sites in your related niche to link to your site, and you should be fine. Try TextLinkAds.com if you're willing to buy some text links (the lazy man's way ).

You can use this site to check your live page rank:

Live PR | Live Pagerank | Check Your PageRank | PageRank Checker

Originally Posted by afx1

Google updates the public PageRank (the one you see with the toolbar) once every three months. Since PageRank is primarily based on how many quality backlinks your site has, if you get started now you can get a 2, 3, or even 4 PR by the next update (early January is expected). Just get as many good-PR sites in your related niche to link to your site, and you should be fine. Try TextLinkAds.com if you're willing to buy some text links (the lazy man's way ).

Thanks for the advice. You know, one thing I've found to boost my Google score up (I think) is to get on a bunch of webrings.

Like what this guy is doing: http://ka.webring.com/navbar?f=l;y=jpicforum;u=10169661


By the way, if you are in the market for a politics forum to chat on, feel free to stop by.


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Originally Posted by Anatoliy

Can you please explaine how it can be done? I heard about "no follow" tag. But as far as I understand it applyes for all links on a page. Or it's something that can be insert in a specific <a href...> tag?
Thanks in advance.

It can be done for an entire page or for one link. But adding nofollow is not enough if you want to keep the crawlers out that page, it just 'blocks' the url on that page.

If you have a file called private.php you will want to add it to robots.txt too. IMO, it's only usefull for dynamic urls because they add extra links to a page and do not receive mutch pr so they can't pass it on. Those are death traps on your sitethat need to be avoid. But for instance a /contactus/ page can perfectly receive PR and while it has no content, it CAN pass the PR on to all links on it. So it's not a good idea to block crawlers from those pages IMO.