Page Rank: What It Is, What It Isn’t and How To Get Some

[snakeair]

Originally Posted by dowjoetod

Hi guys! I came accross an interesting picture and would like to share it here. I shows how many links are needed for a certain PR level to be acieved:

Very interesting. Please post the source link.

[dowjoetod]

This pic was on my computer's hard drives, and I don't remember where I found it, unfortunately... I would have posted the link otherwise...

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by dowjoetod

Hi guys! I came accross an interesting picture and would like to share it here. I shows how many links are needed for a certain PR level to be acieved:

Originally Posted by snakeair

Very interesting. Please post the source link.

Originally Posted by dowjoetod

This pic was on my computer's hard drives, and I don't remember where I found it, unfortunately... I would have posted the link otherwise...

Don't waste any time looking for it, as it, along with all other such, are garbage.

• There is no way to determine actual PR.
  
• There is no fixed number of links required to attain any PR value, as a review of the mathematical function that defines PR wil show.

Such charts and lists are the work of those who don't know and understand the underlying mathematics and/or are trying to make others believe that they're experts.

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[dowjoetod]

Yes, PR is a dinamic value and it's relative! But this table gives an idea of how the system works.

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by dowjoetod

Yes, PR is a dinamic value and it's relative! But this table gives an idea of how the system works.

It does no such thing. It's just a collection of useless data presented in a misleading form.

The only thing that explains "how the system works" is this.



where:

• p1,p2,...,pN are the pages under consideration;
• M(pi) is the set of pages that link to pi;
• L(pj) is the number of outbound links on page pj;
• d is the damping factor; and,
• N is the total number of pages.

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[deltasina]

Thanks for sharing this information to all of us here. I am just thinking if page rank really matters a lot nowadays. Although everyone was so excited everytime Google made an update I was also wondering why there are some sites that don't have much pr but the traffic is really great. On the other hand, there are sites wherein PR 4 and up but the traffic is quite poor. Anyone have an idea?

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by deltasina

Thanks for sharing this information to all of us here. I am just thinking if page rank really matters a lot nowadays. Although everyone was so excited everytime Google made an update I was also wondering why there are some sites that don't have much pr but the traffic is really great. On the other hand, there are sites wherein PR 4 and up but the traffic is quite poor. Anyone have an idea?

Quite simple, really.

High SERP rank does not guarantee traffic.

And, with PR being but one of over 200 factors in the SERP algorithm, high PR does not guarantee high SERP rank.

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[claudia_la]

Originally Posted by deepsand

Quite simple, really.

high PR does not guarantee high SERP rank.

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You are right but there mostly high PR websites in top. I think PR matters at keeping position in SERP.

[deepsand]

Originally Posted by claudia_la

You are right but there mostly high PR websites in top.

But, which is cause and which effect?

It is not necessarily the case that a page owes its high SERP rank to its PageRank. In fact, it may be the other way around, that its high PR owes to its enjoying high SERP rank.

Originally Posted by claudia_la

I think PR matters at keeping position in SERP.

While that is no doubt true, it is also the case that PR no longer carries the weight that it did in Google's earlier years, owing to its being too easily manipulated.

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