Introducing to Google Page Rank

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Ranks are the things which determine the importance of a website. It also tells how important a website is to any particular search engine. Google is the search king and they use Page Rank technology to provide better results in search terms.

Links are the main currency in the web world and Google gives more importance to those sites that have more backlinks pointing to any site. If your website is, your-name.com and I gave you a link which goes to your site that means you are getting one back link. The more backlinks you have, the better chances you will get to achieve page rank. Here is a picture which will help you to understand the basic concept of Page Rank,

On the picture, imagine that, all of the colored balls are websites. The big yellow ball is Google. All of the sites are linking to Google that’s why it has become bigger and have higher page rank. The green smaller balls are new sites and have no links pointing to them, so they have no page rank. The big yellow ball is pointing to the red ball which has no other backlinks but still it has achieved a bigger status just because a far bigger website has linked to him. This is just an basic image of page rank, and the actual image may blow up your mind.

To check the page rank of your site, go to toolbar.google.com and download their toolbar. Now you can see the page ranks of pages you visit. If your site is new and you have ‘no page rank’ then don’t be upset because its natural.
Please remember that, blogs or websites don’t get page ranks, only the web address(www.yoursite.com) gets page rank. Its not that difficult to get a page rank. When I started my first blog, blog-success.blogspot.com, it took only 3 months to get Page Rank 3 from No page rank. When I transformed the address into www.tamalanwar.com, it started all over again with No page rank.

There are 12 status of google page ranks, it starts from No page rank, then page rank 0 to page rank 10. The higher is better. The more ‘quality’ links you have the better rankings you will get. Now lets see what types of links there are,

Backlinks

Its an ordinary link pointing to your blog, the text that includes your link is just your site’s address like, your-blog.com.

Keyword link

A link is pointing to your site but the text is a keyword like if your site is about books then the link text is including the keyword, books.

Relevant link

If your site is about cars, and another site which is also about cars links to your site, that is called relevant link. Relevant links are more useful then other links.

One way link

If a site links to you but you didn’t linked to him, that is called one way link. One way links helps more to get page ranks.

Please remember that, having a big page rank doesn’t means that this site is better. People can pay huge money to get lots of link to get a higher page rank. In blogging, first you should focus on your articles and the quality of your blog and the ranks will come automatically. That’s all for now, and I will write more for you next time.

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1 Bank expert April 25, 2009 at 2:13 am

Thank you to share. Now i am understand about page rank.

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2 Cartoon Bears July 3, 2009 at 4:03 am

My sites get listed in Google, Yahoo, Baidu Yahoo answers and Youtube. But my Pagerank is still zero.

Why!!!!!

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3 Tamal Anwar July 3, 2009 at 12:56 pm: Getting listed and getting ranked is different. Getting listed is the first step and over time you will get a page rank. Write new articles, bookmark them and build incoming links ~this will increase your ranks.

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4 Aminul Islam Sajib July 8, 2009 at 1:01 am

My PR has got increased though still I’m unsure how useful the PR is.

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5 xavierlee July 11, 2009 at 11:22 am: I think PR is helpful when you are in very competitive keywords. For instance, your blog is about cars, definitely you are not the only one who own that keyword. Now, when someone search or type the word cars in google search, the search engine weighs the most important site. In this case the site that has more backlinks, relevant links or in a simpler word the one that has the highest PR then put that site above the rest that uses the same keyword. Because google think the more unconditional links your site has the higher your site’s value. Thus awarded your site the best place. OOPPSSSS! don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t mean that you have a high PR it will put you on the first page of google’s result. PR is just one of so many aspects to break you through on google’s front page. Consider also, the meta tagging, keywords and even your domain name plays a big role on search engine result.

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6 xavierlee July 11, 2009 at 1:15 pm: Page Rank is your site’s value. The higher your PR the better. It is helpful especially if you are in a competitive keyword. Like for instance, your blog is about cars, definitely you are not the only one who use that keyword. Now, when somebody search or type the word “cars” in google search; the search engine weighs the most important site. In this case, the site that has more backlinks, relevant links or in a simpler word the one that has the highest PR. Then put it on top of the search result, above others that uses the same keyword. The more unconditional links your site has the more valuable your blog. That’s how the search engine think. Because many are linking to your site, meaning your site is important. Oopss! Please don’t get wrong. It does not necessarily mean, because your blog has a higher PR it will automatically appear in the first page of search engine. PR is just one of many things that search engine considers. Meta tagging, title, key wording and domain name are also important for your site or blog to make the first page on search result.

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7 Buy PSP Go August 17, 2009 at 9:40 pm

I think PR is useless, there are plenty of very successful sites which earn a lot of money yet have very low pagerank.

8 Shamim October 14, 2009 at 1:56 pm

How can i increase my pagerank? i have just switched on .com domain from blogspot. Should i have to change my webmaster settings?

9 Tamal Anwar October 14, 2009 at 9:49 pm

Yeah you have to add your new domain on webmaster tools and wait for the search engines to organize it. As the old blogspot domain now redirects to the new .com domain, your older search rankings might get back but have to work on the new domain from ZERO.

10 Amit February 28, 2010 at 11:59 am: Hi ,Tamal you are really good!
I want one information ,my blog at blogspot is http://hak50.blospot.com and now ,I want to move it to .com http://www.hak50.com ,do you please tell me after shifting to http://www.hak50.com ,would I get my followers and all traffic back and how much time it will take .

Thanks
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11 Jubair October 19, 2009 at 5:55 pm

Thanks. Very useful post. I have done some research on the Google PR concept. Not sure how much important it is to get more traffics to a site. I will keep working on that.

12 Muhammad Noman Miah October 31, 2009 at 1:22 pm