Google PageRank Explained
Posted on November 1, 2006
Filed Under Web Programming
I’m a Firefox browser user and as such, I have added some key and quite useful add-ons to my browser that help me in a variety of tasks from web development to content collection and organization. One item I downloaded and have been using more and more is the Google Toolbar for Firefox which has a variety of great tools including one that I’ve been monitoring more and more - “PageRank“.
Well, this morning, I was curious to see if I could figure out how the ranking system works and in my searching I came across this great and detailed explanation of what goes into this Google schema. This is important stuff if you have a site that you want to get found in search engines. Not only are there the obvious benefits - but it also behooves everyone to understand that there is a formula in place to not only reward but also to PENALIZE websites for what Google recognizes as erroneous attempts to “fudge” the numbers (those boys & girls at Google are some smart folk if you haven’t already noticed).
Here’s a brief excerpt of the article…
“PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page’s importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page’s PageRank is calculated.
PageRank is Google’s way of deciding a page’s importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page’s ranking in the search results. It isn’t the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but …” [ Read More ]
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