In Blogosphere, PR is not called Public Relations but Page Rank.
Wikipedia describes PR as:
PageRank is a link analysis algorithm used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E).
Some Tips about PR and Linking:
1. One-way inbound links from websites with topics that are related to your website’s topic will help you gain a higher Page rank.
2. Other one-way inbound links from pages with high Page rank but unrelated topics do help a little, but not nearly as much.
3. The number of links outbound from the website that links to you also determines the value of the link. A related website with 10 outbound links that links to you is much better than a related website with 100 outbound links that link to you.
The website I referred to above loves to state a lot of things as fact, such as,
“Fact: A website has a maximum amount of PageRank that is distributed between its pages by internal links.
The maximum PageRank in a site equals the number of pages in the site * 1. The maximum is increased by inbound links from other sites and decreased by outbound links to other sites. We are talking about the overall PageRank in the site and not the PageRank of any individual page. You don’t have to take my word for it. You can reach the same conclusion by using a pencil and paper and the equation.
Some say the higher the Page Rank the deeper the Google crawls, Maybe. Google denies this though.
I feel I’m missing something, Complete this post by commenting your Points below.
April 12th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Hey, like the SEO guide. It’s a little basic, but learning the basics is key to SEO. There is a lot of confusion about PR. Thanks for clearing it up.
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April 12th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Glad you liked. Yup, one should know the basics before starting.
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