PageRank 101 - Everything You Need To Know About Pagerank

[CPA]

I've seen there's some misconceptions about pagerank so I decided to start this thread. If you want to know what pagerank is read on...

Pagerank is basically a 0-10 scale, rating by google for a certain page based on the amount of backlinks the page has towards it. EDIT: I missed something. A lot of people seem to believe that pagerank has to do with your rankings for a search term on google.com. WRONG! It is as I said a scale based on the amount of backlinks.

You can check pagerank using the google toolbar which is free to install from toolbar.google.com

First of all you have to be listed in google. If you are not go to google.com/addurl and list your page.

Once listed you can start building backlinks. The higher the pagerank of sites linking to your site is, the higher pagerank you will get.

Banned pages don't get pagerank and the toolbar displays gray then. After you got backlinks you have to wait about 3 months until the google datacenters update and it usually happens as I said every 3 months. If your site is totally new don't worry it will get pagerank.

If you bought a domain and see no pagerank it may have been that the domain WAS BANNED BEFORE! So check a domains history before purchasing next time

Personally I don't care about pagerank too much, and you also shouldn't, better worry about the content you provide your visitors and your traffic.

Cheers,
***"CPA"***

[reynald2790]

I truly believe on what CPA has said about it. Being first in rankings doesn't mean getting higher clicks. You must first consider the content page of your website that you can offer to your reader.

[ashleybaker]

IMO Pagerank is fairly important still.

I've made thousands of dollars on one CPA program, because an email was blasted and people decided to check the search engines before they bought the product. Being PR1, with a decent review site, people bought through my link.

[CPA]

Hey lewi,

You are right. I edited it. Just forgot that people mix up their google rankings for a search term with pagerank. It's totally different IMO.

Cheers,
***"CPA"***

[Eric Lorence]

What I don't understand is why a site could have a gray bar, but still get 3 or 4 hundred search hits per month from Google?

Yet this site will not even show it's own name on a search.

I've seen this a few times on some sites, and always see "banned" sites coming up first page on certain searches.

PR and Alexa have to be about the most over valued and useless metrics in IM.

Just a thought...

[activetrader]

Originally Posted by Eric Lorence

What I don't understand is why a site could have a gray bar, but still get 3 or 4 hundred search hits per month from Google?

Yet this site will not even show it's own name on a search.

I've seen this a few times on some sites, and always see "banned" sites coming up first page on certain searches.

PR and Alexa have to be about the most over valued and useless metrics in IM.

Just a thought...

Even worse, sometimes a naked affiliate link will be listed on the first page of Google for a product name being searched. How do they do it?

[urbanned]

Yeah we shouldn't care too much about PageRank but the sad reality is, people do care about it when making business, they think its a way to determine your site authority

[CPA]

They simply build more backlinks than the main site with the anchor :-)

And use dirty BlueFart tricks to get backlinks from gov and edu blogs.

[123andyt]

I have a further question then about building anchor text backlinks.

I have always been under the impression that a backlink from say a PR4 site carries more weight than say a PR2 site with the same anchor text. Is this correct or not? (Probably 'depends'!)

And what is the difference between Page Rank of a site as opposed to page rank of an individual page? Lets say you want to comment on a new blog post which is PR0 (as it is new) on a PR4 site. You use the appropriate anchor text, but is this seen as a PR0 link or a PR4 link? Or doesn't it really matter?

Sorry if I have gone off thread slightly and at least two questions in that lot but would like to know opinions on the PR effect on backlink building and whether you should consider it or not.

[CPA]

Originally Posted by 123andyt

I have a further question then about building anchor text backlinks.

I have always been under the impression that a backlink from say a PR4 site carries more weight than say a PR2 site with the same anchor text. Is this correct or not? (Probably 'depends'!)

And what is the difference between Page Rank of a site as opposed to page rank of an individual page? Lets say you want to comment on a new blog post which is PR0 (as it is new) on a PR4 site. You use the appropriate anchor text, but is this seen as a PR0 link or a PR4 link? Or doesn't it really matter?

Sorry if I have gone off thread slightly and at least two questions in that lot but would like to know opinions on the PR effect on backlink building and whether you should consider it or not.

Your comment will appear on that PR0 pge and if you get featured in the top commentator plugin list you'll get a link on both.

a backlink from say a PR4 site carries more weight than say a PR2

Yeah but for google.com only. I don't believe that to a search engine like Yahoo pagerank links matter. On the other side 1 PR6 link can get you indexed in G in like 24 hours or less.