Google PageRank Defined

Author: Josephsan4 | Posted: 21.04.2012

PageRank is Google’s primary method of ranking web pages in their index. PageRank refers to a hidden value (presumably between 1 and 10) that ranks a page based on importance.

Web pages with higher PageRank (PR for short) are thought (by Google) to be more important, and thus get ranked higher than pages with lower PR.

When one web page links to another web page, they give that page some of their PageRank. This concept is what gives PageRank its power. The theory behind it is this: Let’s say a large, popular website (let’s say CNN.com) links to your web page. The page on their site would likely have a high PR. Google looks at this link to you and gives you a higher PR because they trust CNN.com.

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The name "PageRank" is a trademark of Google, and the PageRank process has been patented . However, the patent is assigned to Stanford University and not to Google. Google hasexclusive license rights on the patent from Stanford University. The university received 1.8 million shares of Google in exchange for use of the patent;

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Pag and used by the Google Internet search engine, that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set.

When Google indexes your website, they search for links to your pages, which are called backlinks. The number and quality of backlinks to your website’s pages have a major impact on your PageRank.

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Simply put, the more quality links you can get to your website, the higher your website will rank in Google Search.


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When Google indexesyour website, they search for links to your pages, which are called backlinks. The number and quality of backlinks to your website’s pages have a major impact on your PageRank.


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