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I thought you needed a good page rank to get listed on the first page of the search engines?
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I mentioned in an earlier post in this thread that you're probably only looking at only one of at least three PageRank calculation results.
There is Toolbar PR, which is pretty easy to see but only shows a kind of historical PR which may be three or more months out of date and isn't what Google actually uses to rank your page.
Then there's Directory PR, which you can see if you have a site listed in the
Google Directory (though you need to know how to translate the visual green bar graphics into numbers*).
And then there's Real PageRank, which you can't see and mostly can't calculate for yourself. This is the one only known to Google itself and this contains the real-time values that make up part of the ranking systems that determine where your site may appear on certain search results today.
Take a look at the math examples on the
Wikipedia PageRank page and if every bit of it makes perfect sense to you, then it might be worth spending a little time trying to understand how Google may be calculating things at the moment, though you'd have to run many thousands of well-defined tests on your own pages and sites to build your own data sets. And just when you have it all figured out, Google is likely to change their algorithms in ways that will invalidate your results.
On the other hand, you can just concentrate on the things you can really do that will help, like my suggestions in that earlier post here.
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* The Google Toolbar Pagerank is a 11 unit scale of 0-10. The Google Directory Pagerank scale is a 8 unit scale. The 8 units can only been see by looking at the code that makes up the Pagerank green bar. The 8 positions are cleardot.gif, 5/35, 11/29, 16/24, 22/18, 27/13, 32/8, and 38/2 (pos.gif/neg.gif).