The Importance of Google Pagerank

The Importance of Google Pagerank and How it Relates to SEO

PageRank is Google’s system for ranking web pages. A page with a higher PageRank is deemed more important and is more likely to be listed above a page with a lower PageRank.

Google describes PageRank:

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.”

In other words, Google conducts “elections” in which each web page casts votes for web pages with hyperlinks to those pages. But unlike a democracy a page can have more than one vote and links from pages with high PageRank are given more weight (according to their ranking) and thus help to improve the targets’ PageRank.

See the PageRank of a page with the PageRank meter in the Google Toolbar (an advanced feature). The more green the higher the PageRank.

What you need to know about Pagerank:

1. Content of a site is very important. A site with good content will help you gain a higher page rank. Google ranks webpages higher in listings that have quality content.

2. One-way inbound links from websites with topics that are related to your website's topic will help you gain a higher page rank.

3. Other one-way inbound links from pages with high page rank but unrelated topics do help a little, but not nearly as much.

4. The number of links outbound from the website that links to you also determines the value of the link. A related website with 10 outbound links that links to you is much better than a related website with 100 outbound links that link to you.

5. Your website can be penalized by Google in various ways and therefore you need to know some of the factors that will cause your site to be penalized.

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