computer/internet,  technology

Google PageRank

June 26, 2009 /

emila pr3The past years have saw Emila’s Illustrated Blog having rated 5, 4, 3, 0 and 2 by Google PR. From the trend, you can see it was a downward trend. Recent updates saw EIB being blessed with PR3 again. Frankly, I don’t really care. I used to be so upset when my PR was down because I was doing paid reviews with Pay Per Post (PPP) and to be able to get more opportunities (opps), I need to have a good PR. With PR2 previously, opps were really hard to get. But over time, I managed to get over it and even stopped doing paid reviews for PPP.

So What is Google PageRank (PR)?

Google PR  is a system for ranking web pages developed by Google  founders; Larry Page and Sergey Brin. PR is assigned by Google which represents to relative importance of a web page. The PR for a web page can vary between 0 and 10. A higher PR number will help you to score better in your SERPS, which will bring more visitors to your web page.

PageRank reflects the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that they believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.

PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. Google have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and their technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page’s importance.

Here’s a tool to check your Google PR as well as Alexa ranking:

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