Google PR Elusive Yet Sought After
I’m going to write a brief summary on some thoughts I’ve been kicking around in response to a growing number of number of SEO boards I frequent regarding the value and correlation of Google page rank and search engine rankings.
What is Page Rank?
Google uses Page Rank (PR) to ‘rate’ web site relevance, maturity, stature, etc. This value is hidden within the Google algorithm (that ranks web sites) and therefore nobody knows exactly what items are used to create PR. What we do know from Google is that it’s more than just ‘counting links’. They do look at relevance of where your links is coming, etc., in determining PR.
There is an ‘external’ or visible PR display offered by Google in the form of a small toolbar you can install that displays values. Yahoo! has a PR 10, which is incredibly difficult to achieve and only the 5 richest kings in the world can afford it (haha). External page rank is rarely updated, maybe 4 times a year, and the information is usually old by the time it reaches you.
How Should I Treat Google Page Rank
Contrary to popular assertions by some SEOs I believe there is an indirect correlation between PR and SERPs (your rankings). PR is a measure of the web sites health. The healthier and more robust it is (more incoming links), the higher the PR. That’s the basic criteria for rankings (I’ve left out great content here but that’s in the mix too). Many claim that PR has ZERO impact on SERPs. You’re right, it doesn’t, but SERPS and PR are derived from the same place (correct me if I’m wrong here.)
Let’s consult a robust (:lol:) diagram to aid explanation.
Note: Visible toolbar PR and rankings derive information from the same place (this is extremely general but helps.) Visible toolbar PR does NOT factor into your rankings. However, visible PR IS an indicator of your overall web site health and can be used as a general indicator against your competitors. That does not mean you focus on PR though.
Managers or webmasters should not ask how they can improve PR, rather how they can improve overall rankings. For many this is merely a semantics game; they treat both words synonymously. Rest assured, you do not need more PR to rank higher than a web site that has a higher PR value (say 3 to 4) than you. However, if you’re PR goes up, it does provide a general indicator that your web promotion techniques are being noted.
So remember, you want to ask yourself, “how you can I improve my search engine rankings”, not how you can improve your visible toolbar number. After all, it’s only a number at the end of the day. Visible PR will increase if you conduct your web marketing strategy correctly–it’s a visible result of your overall SEO efforts.
EDIT: For a more in-depth analysis (harder for beginners) please visit Smashing Magazine.
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Your post really contains some good content but what still pings my mind is the main funda for achieving PR 10
I believe there is a graphic in the link above to Smashing Magazine (I don’t think it’s their graphic). It shows how difficult PR 10 is to get. Chances are, you’re in an industry where PR 10 is not necessary. If you apply this post you’ll discover that PR is nothing, who cares about the visible number. Theoretically achieving it just takes millions of links — that’s all!
If at all I agree with your point than where these all link builders will goo ha ha…. But ethically speaking this attaining a PR getting lots of link is truly a job of a good SEO & my dear friend You said “who cares about the visible number” , this is a number game only world What you see is what you believe, This small green line shows how healthy is your website , the efforts n many things, but still no PR 10 funda.
This article is trying to tell firms that the numbers to look at ARE NOT in the green toolbar. You have far far far better numbers to work from including your change in rank and targeted traffic as a result of good marketing strategies. If you prefer PR toolbar results via your real traffic results then you’re fundamentally looking at the wrong numbers and should not be in any form of business cause you can’t measure success properly.
We should also note that the aspects within the PageRank bubble above amount to over 200 quality items a web site could incorporate. That’s a lot of things to keep track of especially when Google only reveals a few.
see friend google is always ready to reveals their secrets & strategies & they do that also but they do not reveals it straight forward. They bring them forward by many different indirect ways either by giving you a funda of incorporating videos or baniing paid links, its just the matter of giving an analysis to your understanding.
http://forums.seochat.com/google-page-rank-47/stop-asking-about-google-pr-how-to-really-deal-with-141413.html
I also wrote that over @ SEO Chat with more info.
Hmm so we need to take care of end results only and do not believe on green or Black tools
see i also agree that the green bar is jst got to do nothing but its a number game world, people will believe what they see not the what the ethics is. You cann’t go to individuals browsing your portal n give these mind blowing logics, The green bar has to be green Enough to keep people involved got it.