Google Page Rank -- Help me to understand

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Ok, I have to admit I do not know everything. I know Google recently took their Page Rank tool off of their toolbar, but I use another tool to check PR. As I only just last week started to pay attention to this at all, I thought it would be logical and if you have a PR of 1 (the tool lists it as "1/10") that that would be the highest.

However, I think I may be wrong as I checked a high traffic website like ESPN and it checked out at 8. So, in Google PR is PR 10 (or 10/10) the highest a website could possibly get? So if you were someone who paid attention to PR you would want to get as close to 10 as possible for your website? I also know that Google says we should not put too much importance on it, and while that may be true, I have not found anywhere that explains the scale, and checked several descriptions of how PR works and none of them have just given a simple scale that says 10 is highest or 1 is highest. Annoying, to say the least, so that's why I am asking here. Thank you.
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  • Hi redicelander,

    It's a score based on a logarithmic scale that represents the relative number of direct and indirect links to a page. There are certain types of links that are not counted including paid links, non-indexed links, spamdexing links and links using the nofollow attribute.
  • Again, another generic answer about how it works. This is what I find all over the internet. My question was not about how it works. My question is about the scale. No problem, my question was too wordy and you did not understand.

    I will ask again. What is the scale used for Google Page Rank? Is 1 the highest and 10 the lowest? Or is 10 the highest and 1 the lowest? So the page with the HIGHEST page rank would have a Page Rank of 1? or 10?
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    • Hi redicelander,

      Sorry, based on your post I thought you figured that part out already.

      10/10 is the highest possible score, new pages start out with a 0/10 and it takes a lot of direct or indirect links to reach a 1/10. Each higher score requires a magnitude increase to achieve. It's a logarithmic scale similar to the Richter scale for earthquakes.
  • dburk hit it, 10 is the absolute highest and not ranked is obviously the lowest... after a few times getting indexed with a few links you should bring it up to a 0/10. Think of it as a quality score... the more Google thinks of your site as a resource, the higher score you will receive. It takes a lot of time to even bring it from a 2 to a 3. Quality content, links and time are the name of the game in my opinion
  • Thanks everyone. Amazing how on all the pages I found that explained how the system works not one of them was clear on how the scale worked, rather they just explained all the mumbo jumbo about how the algorithm for page rank worked.
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    • Funny stuff, I just read that page for the first time. 1 PR7 link gets you a PR5? Guess my site is going from PR0 to PR5 at the next update
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  • I will not worry about all that, too much. I just want a high position in google search, and that is where I will focus my efforts. They may go hand in hand but if I need high PR page links to get a high POSITION in google, I will go about doing that.
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    • Hi redicelander,

      Your page's PR has nothing to do with where your "POSITION" will be in Google's SERP. Google, like most search engines, rank their search results primarily by relevance. Your page's PR is an indicator of how much potential weight your outbound links from that page will yield.
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    Google Page Rank -- Help me to understand

    Ok, I have to admit I do not know everything. I know Google recently took their Page Rank tool off of their toolbar, but I use another tool to check PR. As I only just last week started to pay attention to this at all, I thought it would be logical and if you have a PR of 1 (the tool lists it as "1/10") that that would be the highest. However, I think I may be wrong as I checked a high traffic website like ESPN and it checked out at 8. So, in Google PR is PR 10 (or 10/10) the highest a website could possibly get? So if you were someone who paid attention to PR you would want to get as close to 10 as possible for your website? I also know that Google says we should not put too much importance on it, and while that may be true, I have not found anywhere that explains the scale, and checked several descriptions of how PR works and none of them have just given a simple scale that says 10 is highest or 1 is highest. Annoying, to say the least, so that's why I am asking here. Thank you.