Why? – Page Rank

January 28, 2010
By Jay

What’s Page Rank ?

In short Page Rank could be a “vote”, by all the opposite pages on the Internet, about how necessary a page is. A link to a page counts as a vote of support. If there’s no link there’s no support (but it’s an abstention from voting instead of a vote against the page).

How is Page Rank Used?

Page Rank is one amongst the ways Google uses to work out a page’s relevance or importance. It is only one part of the story when it comes to the Google listing, but the other aspects are discussed elsewhere (and are ever changing) and Page Rank is interesting enough to deserve a paper of its own.

Page Rank is also displayed on the toolbar of your browser if you’ve installed the Google toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com/). But the Toolbar Page Rank solely goes from 0 – 10 and appears to be one thing like a logarithmic scale:

Toolbar Page Rank:

(log base 10)   Real Page Rank
0                                            0 – ten   
1                                          100 – 1,000
2                                        1,000 – 10,000
3                                       ten,000 – a hundred,000
four                                          and therefore on…

We have a tendency to can’t know the precise details of the size as a result of, as we’ll see later, the utmost PR of all pages on the web changes each month when Google will its re-indexing! If we have a tendency to presume the scale is logarithmic (though there’s only anecdotal proof for this at the time of writing) then Google could merely provide the highest actual PR page a toolbar PR of 10 and scale the remainder appropriately.

Conjointly the toolbar typically guesses! The toolbar typically proved a Toolbar PR for pages I’ve only simply uploaded and can’t presumably be within the index yet!

What seems to be happening is {that the} toolbar looks at the URL of the page the browser is displaying and strips off everything down the last “/” (i.e. it goes to the “parent” page in URL terms). If Google includes a Toolbar PR for that parent then it subtracts one and shows that because the Toolbar PR for this page. If there is no PR for the parent it goes to the parent’s page, but subtracting a pair of, and so on all the method up to the basis of your site.  If it can’t notice a Toolbar PR to show during this way, that is if it does not realize a page with a real calculated PR, then the bar is greyed out.

Note that if the Toolbar is guessing in this way, the Actual PR of the page is zero – though its PR will be calculated shortly when the Google spider initial sees it.

PageRank says nothing concerning the content or size of a page, the language it’s written in, or the text used in the anchor of a link!

Definitions

I’ve started to use some technical terms and shorthand during this paper. Currently’s as good a time as any to outline all the terms I am going to use:

PR:     Shorthand for PageRank: the actual, real, page rank  for each page as calculated by Google. As we tend to’ll see later this could vary from 0.fifteen to billions.

Toolbar PR:     The PageRank displayed in the Google toolbar in your browser. This ranges from zero to 10.

Backlink:     If page A links out to page B, then page B is claimed to have a “backlink” from page A.

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