Google PR Value

[Munna007]

Hi..

This refers to Google Page Rank, a 0-10 score that Google gives to assess the value of a web page. It's primarily determined by the quality and quantity of incoming links, and is a quick and dirty way to see how popular a page is. Since it's a universal metric that all webmasters can quickly check, it's often misused to assume how much traffic a site gets or how high it ranks - neither of which correlate very well with PR.

Please share your ideas with us if have an more information on Google PR Value.

Thanks
Munna

[BasicECommerce]

Much of what I've read recently speaks to PR becoming obsolete. Google claims that it is not used in their algorithm. It is solely used to determine a pages relevancy to a topic/keywords. Honestly, I have never found any practical use for it and dont see any indications that this will change.

Personally, I'd focus on more important SEM/SEO issues than being distracted with the Google PR tool.

[alimaster]

hi
did you have idea how Google calculate page rank and from others site how can we detect the page rank of any web site.

[Dan01]

BasicECommerce, I was unaware the Google quite using PR as a metric. Basically, as Munna said, it has to do with the number of inbound links (quality).

Early on search engines used the number of times a word appeared on a page to determine relevancy and SERP. This could be manipulated easily which led Google to use inbound links as a relevance factor. People have been trying to trick that as well.

[birdie]

Originally Posted by BasicECommerce

It is solely used to determine a pages relevancy to a topic/keywords.

Rubbish. PR has nothing to do with relevancy!

[Marcia]

PR isn't a measure of relevancy, it's a mathematical measure used to compute the "importance" of pages as indicated by votes for the page (links).

They really haven't stopped using it, it's got a lot to do with crawling of a site, including frequency and depth. Lack of enough PR is an easy shortcut into the Supplemental index, which though they may not be "calling" it that any more, still exists in experiential reality.

[jenny999]

well google calculate that very strickly it gives more importance or say points to the new contents and popular keywords....

[birdie]

Originally Posted by jenny999

well google calculate that very strickly it gives more importance or say points to the new contents and popular keywords....

PR has NOTHING to do with "new contents and popular keywords"

[Marcia]

PR has NOTHING to do with "new contents and popular keywords"

Right. And Google has NOT stopped using PageRank, nor have they said they've stopped. It's one of a couple of hundred factors they use, but it's still got value and is still used. It's got to do with links, and that's it.

[birdie]

I can't understand where some of the misunderstandings are coming from in this thread!

PR is still important for things like depth of crawl; supplemental index etc

Everyone agrees that quality and quantity of links are important in rankings. PR is a measure of the quality and quantity of links, so even if its not used in the rankings, what it measures is used in the rankings!!

[Lumhierre]

Oh, no! You made birdie mad... He's right though, PR is also a factor in your rankings...