Google PageRank Quickie Info

What Is Google PR.

PR stands for PageRank. It is a measure of the relevance of your website in the eyes of the google bot.

Page rank ranges from o to 10. Zero being the lowest and 10 the highest. Having said this the progression through the numbers is not linear. So the difference between PR 3 and is much more than between 2 and 3. And progression gets more difficult the higher you go

How is webpage PR calculated.

The PR given to a page is multifactorial. Google has never revealed the algorithm it use to calculate PR but based on experience it is thought to be based on
Number and quality of inbound links to a webpage.
Website age.
Frequency of content updates

How do I know my Page rank.

Google Toolbar; Download the Google toolbar at http://toolbar.google.com Once installed launch your internet browser and load the website. In the options setting of the toolbar, select pagerank Icon. This will add the PR bar to your toolbar. The PR bar will show your PR as a bar chart. Just hover your mouse over the bar to see the numerical value

Online tools.
If you don't want to download the toolbar there are several PR checker tools online

http://www.digpagerank.com is one of many options

Relevance of pageRank

PR is really important if you are planning to sell your website or sell links from your website. With regard to selling your website, the higher the PR the more you can reasonably ask for. A high PR tells the prospective buyer that you already have a bunch of quality links set up

For selling links, this practice is frowned on by Google so I'd say forget about it.

Google PR update.

Every once in a while google updates the PR of indexed sites. Now google continually monitors the links of all indexed sites but about 4 times a year websites published pagerank is made available based on the results of the continual monitoring

Page Rank and SERPs

High pagerank does not automatically mean a high position in the search engine results pages for relevant search terms

Conversely, low pagerank does not automatically mean poor search engine results oage positions. There are websites that have low PR that rank number 1 in Google for covetted keywords. The key to free traffic is to get good SERPs positions in the search engines

So in conclusion, monitor your websites PR but use it as a guide to assess your performance and not the focus of your niche marketing campaigns