Comments on: Is PageRank Based Only on The Number of Backlinks?

By: Matt Hughes

Matt Hughes — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:29:17 +0000

The scale of PR is indeed logarithmic. If it takes 10 PR1 links to get from PR0 to PR1, it takes many more to get from PR1 to PR2.

By: Eryaman hali yikama

Eryaman hali yikama — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:04:13 +0000

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By: fernando

fernando — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:26:26 +0000

I would like to up in page rank, how to do that?

By: Faylar

Faylar — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:54:38 +0000

I am very interested in your point that “… many people think that PageRank uses a logarithic scale…” I just wonder where I can find out a long list of websites with page ranks and no. of backlinks. I can easily run some regression analysis and share the insight with everybody.

By: Shakiyah

Shakiyah — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:16:43 +0000

Very informative post.

I would just like to add that Google still favors organic listing.
Make sure that you link to quality, credible sites that are relevant to the theme of your website.

By: ravi

ravi — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:16:06 +0000

Hello Daniel,
You have proved it again. You know what, I have been searching for such a post, exactly like this one for the last few months. This is the ideal post about PageRank I had been searching for.
Frankly speaking, I had always known 100% of the information above but I was searching for such a post to confirm that other people too think the same.
Great post again Daniel.

By: KAINSMONEY

KAINSMONEY — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:18:44 +0000

@ nits , My blog is page rank 1 and i have 400 backlinks , i have a blog about making money online and im post in forums about making money online , Thanks Daniel for this info , good stuffs .

By: Nits

Nits — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:03:37 +0000

Now i can understand after having the more then 2000 backinks my site IS PR 0. Thanks to writer now i can make it to PR 3 in next 3 months

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:33:20 +0000

Can anybody help explain if backlinks that point to Deep Links on your site hold anymore PR weight than standard homepage links ?

I thought I once read that for some reason, having Backlinks to Deep Links on your site does carry more PR weight but at the time it wasn;’t explained clearly enough to make any factual sense, any opinions on this ?

By: free

free — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:02:09 +0000

@Rob Buti – google usually gives your root highest pr and then for every level going further from the root the pr decreases by 1. if u had bigger pr on portofolio is probably because u had more links to it

By: medyum

medyum — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:33:18 +0000

Thanks for the break down. It certainly makes sense an incoming links from a reputable website would hold more weight in the rankings. I’d like to think that it’s not just based on the popularity of that blog though. There are blogs that are important to a specific niche that may not receive heavy traffic.

Thanks….

By: Cheap iPhone 3g

Cheap iPhone 3g — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:52:15 +0000

2 page ranks? oh no ive only just got my head around 1.

By: Classic muscle cars

Classic muscle cars — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:51:12 +0000

Wow…
This article is solved my all problems about pr updating, but pr is also depends on domain age?

By: Venkatesh Pai

Venkatesh Pai — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:23:56 +0000

Thanks for sharing such a nice information. I got answers of many answers.

By: Rob Buti

Rob Buti — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:49:29 +0000

Can anyone in here please tell me what the hell happened? 2 weeks ago I had a PR of 2 on my homepage and a 3 on both my portfolio page and my about us page, now they are showing up as “NO PAGERANK INFORMATION AVAILABLE.” What is the problem????? Thank You in advance!

By: Karen Cioffi-Ventrice

Karen Cioffi-Ventrice — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:51:40 +0000

Interesting article. How do you find out what your PR is?

And, I tried to subscribe to the newsletter, but the link wouldn’t work and I wasn’t able to copy the url.

Karen

By: Kha Ton

Kha Ton — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:26:11 +0000

I’ve just started blogging for few months and still confuse about PageRank and don’t really know how it works. Thanks for the tips.

Kha

By: Paul - Leeds daily photo

Paul - Leeds daily photo — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:59:20 +0000

Thanks for the confirmation of what I always thought. I agree with Ben, quality content +decent readership will lead to higher ranking. Google I think really prefers good links rather than just any old link. Not easy getting links from higher PR sites though.
Alexa is much more used by tech savvy people, or at least that is impression.

By: Irfan

Irfan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:49:10 +0000

Thanks for the clear information.
I understand now.
and how about Alexa Rank? What is the difference between Alexa rank anda Google Pagerank?

Thank You,

Irfan

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:22:19 +0000

You can find more detail on this topic at this blog:

By: Dean Holland

Dean Holland — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:19:54 +0000

Aloha !!

Thanks for this great information. It has answered a lot of questions for me with page rank,. I have started my first ever blog about 10 weeks ago and am still stuck with a page rank 1 !

My traffic has built nicely and I feel I am doing well, do you think I should have focus on the page rank or will it just happen naturally ??

Would appreciate your advie

Thankyou

Dean

By: Imran

Imran — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:25:17 +0000

Daniel,
“many people think that PageRank uses a logarithic scale, meaning that increasing your PR gets tougher as you go (i.e. moving from PR5 to PR6 is more difficult than moving from PR2 to PR3)”

i would appreciate if you could expand more on this aspect of pr.
specially elements required to go from pr5 to pr6 and from pr6 to pr7.
you definitely have hand-on experience with going to pr5 to pr6. you can potentially describe your current journey going to pr7.

By: Whibbly

Whibbly — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:40:47 +0000

Thanks Daniel for answering my question ! This is very helpful.

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:34:02 +0000

@Bill, yes the PR is one of the factors that get analyzed where determining the search results.

By: Bill Masson (WWAH)

Bill Masson (WWAH) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:58:19 +0000

@Daniel Scocco, I stand corrected, thanks for explaining, so there are two main measures that Google use, this PR measure only takes into account the trust but is the more important of the two.

So the two must be interlinked, the PR feeding into the Search Rank giving the search rank indicator which we all see at the top of our browsers.

Yes , No ?

By: Goldie

Goldie — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:54:05 +0000

That’s a great explanation and I’m sure you have provided enourmous help for many people, including me. Thanks!

By: Melvin

Melvin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:53:19 +0000

Now it makes more sense to me.. Thanks

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:46:24 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. Up until last week I had no idea there were two page ranks and when the updated page rank came out I was pretty confused. Appreciate the information.

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:42:46 +0000

@Bill Masson, you are confusing search rank with PageRank. The search rankings, that are used to determine the search results, will for sure take into consideration the update frequency, quality and uniqueness of the content. The PageRank algorithm, however, does not use it, as its objective is merely to evaluate the “trust” of a single page.

@Mike, bad links won’t affect your PR negatively. Else it would be too easy to damage a competitor.

By: Donny Gamble

Donny Gamble — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:16:38 +0000

Thanks for giving clarity on how pagerank is decided. A lot of people need to know the criteria so they can eventually receive a higher pr.

By: gendut

gendut — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:47:30 +0000

back link very important to give great effect on our web……but good quality back link, the problems is very difficult getting quality back link natural….. the same topic, with anchor tex, natural and from high page rank……

By: Bill Masson (WWAH)

Bill Masson (WWAH) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:44:34 +0000

“Content and update frequency have no impact on PageRank”
Come again? surely this has a determining factor along with unique content to mesure your PR.

Destination Infinity:inptu you search phrase or word to check the compition or grab the FF extension SEOBook.com Rank Checker
FF has loads of SEO tools

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:19:18 +0000

If the quality of the sites linking to you is bad, does that effect you negatively or does it just not add any value to your site?

Great article!

By: Elite Blogger

Elite Blogger — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:50:53 +0000

Nice explanation, thanks.

By: Ana

Ana — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:29:19 +0000

The quality of the back links is what gives you a good rank. Good content and how many visitors and returned ones visit your site a day will also have a lot to do with page rank. A person with a thousand backlinks can rank way less than a person with maybe 300 backlinks to there site. Why because of the trash links that the other blog has as backlink to his or her site. Good and quality keywords on your site will also be a good example of ranking well. If you get your site notice by google then you can consider your self in the game. A site that does not get notice by the search engines is a dust collecting link. Nobody will even know you are there. My site does not have hundreds of links back and I went from a pr0 to a pr4 in 44 days on my new Blog. Page rank 4 may not be the greatest rank, but It’s a great accomplish for a bran new blog in just a short a mouth of time. I visited others Blogs that are well establish and there rank went down or they did not got more then a 2 or 3 rank. Some others did not even ranked at all.
This may be to many an opinion, but the ways I use and to implement things to my new site is a proven fact of how getting ranked works and how to play it safe with google.

By: Ben Moreno

Ben Moreno — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:15:40 +0000

Thanks for clarifying that Daniel.

I have pretty much stopepd caring about SEO at this point and am putting my 100% attention on readership. It is much more rewarding interacting with people and learning from them.

Quality content + high readership = lots of links in my opinion. I think the SEO will come naturally.

By: Destination Infinity

Destination Infinity — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:12:29 +0000

That’s an informative post. What about other search engines, do they have their own PR’s too like Google, or is there any other mechanism they would use?

When there is a search term that people use to reach my website and the same is available on the blog stats page for me to see, then do they essentially come from Google or some other search engines too. Is there a way to know this?

Destination Infinity

By: Blog Expert

Blog Expert — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:27:47 +0000

I have come to the conclusion that pagerank has many different factors. I think everyone realizes that by now. Exactly what goes into their formula is not known but doing just basic Blog activities every day should help you with your pagerank.

By: Enduring Wanderlust

Enduring Wanderlust — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:58:00 +0000

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:47:29 +0000

@Julie and Firas, only Google has access to the real PageRank.

By: Make Money Online with a 17 year old kid

Make Money Online with a 17 year old kid — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:29:09 +0000

Regards
Laksh

By: Rajasekharan

Rajasekharan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:18:20 +0000

Since we discuss about PageRank here, I have a question for you about supplemental index:

You used to say to show excerpts everywhere (especially home page) except the single post. Interestingly, I notice the blog front pages of ProBlogger and John Chow are showing full posts, may be John is daring but with ProBlogger he hasn’t inserted even any robots commands, and even his meta description seems to be the same almost everywhere. Are they not prone to supplemental index or is supplemental index not a factor of concern for SEO nowadays? What are your views?

By: Firas Steitiyeh

Firas Steitiyeh — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:21:54 +0000

That is 100% true since my blog was less than 1 month old when it got its first promotion of PR1 within the last Google PR update.

But i have a question, is there anyway to measure or to get indications about the ACTUAL Google PageRank?

Thanks,
Firas

By: Hendry Lee

Hendry Lee — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:19:44 +0000

I begin to like Q&A format better than list… 🙂

The scale of PR is indeed logarithmic. If it takes 10 PR1 links to get from PR0 to PR1, it takes many more to get from PR1 to PR2.

PR is overrated, but still it is nice to have a measurement for what Google think about the authority of a page and crawability. If a page has less than a certain PR threshold, it may be dropped by Google or not indexed at all.

By: Julie Strietelmeier

Julie Strietelmeier — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:55:05 +0000

Are there tools available to see both pagerank numbers?

By: Ikki at Blogging Blog

Ikki at Blogging Blog — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:47:00 +0000

@Derrick Siu: Google’s PageRank isn’t related to Alexa’s Rank. They work as two separate ranking systems.

As Daniel said, Google ranks a site according to the amount and quality of backlinks that a site has. Alexa, on the other hand, ranks sites according to their traffic stats.

By: Scott Williams

Scott Williams — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:35:31 +0000

Didn’t really know exactly how it all worked… this makes sense.

I wish I was as smart as Google! 😉

By: Derrick Siu

Derrick Siu — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:32:08 +0000

Thanks for explaining this pagerank thing. . just wondering what correlation there is to Alexa’s page ranking?

For me the main takeaway is if you are actually creating quality content, and making relevant and meaningful connections with other websites, you’ll do well, as opposed to using the latest tactic or strategy to get heaps of backlinks 🙂

Thanks!

Derrick
Blogging Newbie