Learn/What-PageRank-Means-for-Your-Website
Revision as of 22:34, 14 September 2010 by KristinaWeis (talk | contribs)
We have this old definition page: PageRank
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-science-of-ranking-correlations
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-is-pagerank-good-for-anyway-statistics-galore
Ed from Facebook suggested "How to get a better Page Rank"
Google's internal PageRank is a part of the original algorithm and it's still important. It's being updated all the time and it's hidden in the black box that is Google. Toolbar PageRank numbers that we can see are updated about four times per year and they may or may not be directionally accurate.
PageRank is a link analysis algorithm. For more on the math, see the Wikipedia article about PageRank.
Until October 2009, toolbar PageRank was a component of Google Webmaster Tools for a website. A Google employee said of this change that the PageRank metric really isn't important and that Google has been trying to get people to focus on it less. [1]
A 2007 post from SEOBook.com suggests that a website's last cache date (when Google last crawled the page) is a better indicator of Google's algorithmic opinion of that website. To find out when your website's homepage was last cached by Google, search for your website (like example.com) in Google and click on the "cached" link below its result.