PageRank™ - PR

The Google™ search engine uses a system for ranking Web pages called page rank. It is simply a score awarded to every page based on it's link popularity (or, the number of links on other people's Web sites that direct users to your site). A high page rank has become the holy grail for online marketers who are trying to increase the page rank of their Web sites by any means possible. While there are a certain number of things you can do to assist in getting a higher page rank (most importantly having a lot of sites link back to you), understand that the page rank is based on an algorithm which is very complex.

Google™ and PageRank™ are copyrighted by Google Inc., Mountain View CA, USA. The PageRank™-Algorithm is protected under US Patent 6.285.999.

In short PageRank is a \u201cvote\u201d, by all the other pages on the Web, about how important a page is. A link to a page counts as a vote of support. If there\u2019s no link there\u2019s no support (but it\u2019s an abstention from voting rather than a vote against the page).

The PR of each page depends on the PR of the pages pointing to it.