Google PageRank 1-10
By: Asif Khalil

Category: Internet Marketing » Google
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Google PageRank™ 1-10 PageRank™ is Google's proprietary system for ranking web pages according to importance.

PageRank (PR from now on) is a grade (on a scale from one to ten) that Google gives a page after performing a series of elaborate calculations (Google's PageRank algorithm) that take into account the page's content, and the number and quality of pages linking to it.

In a nutshell, the more inbound links a web page has, coming from pages that (1) have a high PR and (2) feature similar or complementary content, the higher its PR will be.

The closer a web page gets to a PR of 10, the higher its importance. A PageRank of 4 or 5 is considered good. Very few pages attain a PR of 10 (among those few are Yahoo! and Google itself). The pages you want to see Linking to your web site are pages with a PR of 4 or 5 or better. PR 3 and below can be pretty much useless.

PageRank is used by Google to determine the position of a page in the search results after a query. For example, if you search for 'Italian Food', Google will first find all the pages relevant to that topic, and then will rank them based on their PR. Given equal relevance, those with a higher PR will be displayed first.

To be able to see the PageRank of a web page, you have to download the Google toolbar, a free plug-in that works with your web browser. The Google toolbar provides you with a PageRank indicator that automatically shows you the PageRank of the page you are viewing.

To download the Google Toolbar go to http://toolbar.google.com/ .

To learn all about the Google Toolbar go to: http://toolbar.google.com/help.html