My first noob question. PR?

SwillMaker · 2011-01-06, 01:26 PM

I was just over at Linkspun and signed up. I see every site has a "PR", PR0, PR2, etc., and lot of talk in the forums about PR but no real explination. What is PR and how is it important?

Fonz · 2011-01-06, 01:40 PM

PR = Page Rank (for Google)

Google asigns a page rank to websites. If you get links back from sites with high page ranks your page rank will probably go up.

What's it good for? Not that much anymore, but who can really tell. I guess it's a good indicator to see if a site is "important" according to google's weird algorythms.

Some of my sites with PR0 get way more google traffic than some of my sites with PR3.

satguy · 2011-01-07, 09:29 PM

Don't worry about Page Rank,, Even Google have stopped doing anything major with.

It's been 7 months or more since we saw any real big updates, There been a very few small tweeks done by Google, and that was mostly to drop some sites in rank.. People that bought backlinks on PR5 and PR6 sites got their hands Slapped...

LD · 2011-01-09, 07:09 AM

The thing about page rank, many webmasters use it to decide who they want to trade with. You often have to have a minimum PR to get a link trade. It seems to me webmasters put a lot more significance in PR than Google.

RaunchyRepublic · 2011-01-27, 08:49 PM

PageRank is still important, just not the PageRank we see in things like the Google toolbar. PageRank is still part of the overall algorithm they use apparently. As the guys mentioned above, having a high (or low) PR is no indication of potential traffic to your site.

Interestingly the word 'Page' in PageRank actually refers to the name of it's creator - Larry Page. It's just conincidence that it looks like it refers to website 'pages'.

MPR411 · 2011-01-29, 04:12 AM

page rank is to me worthless for the most part,my pr2 and pr3 sites get much less traffic than my pr0!

Freaky · 2011-01-29, 11:26 AM

They should probably have called it "LinkRank" in the first place, from my understanding of it. I wonder had the creaters name not been "Page" what they would have named it?

RaunchyRepublic · 2011-01-31, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Freaky

They should probably have called it "LinkRank" in the first place, from my understanding of it. I wonder had the creaters name not been "Page" what they would have named it?

Good question. I've been trying to think of something funny to replace it but I'm coming up short

NALEM · 2011-02-21, 11:01 PM

Here you go.
PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page[1] and 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.

- Yan

2011-01-06, 01:26 PM	#1
SwillMaker If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 30	My first noob question. PR? I was just over at Linkspun and signed up. I see every site has a "PR", PR0, PR2, etc., and lot of talk in the forums about PR but no real explination. What is PR and how is it important?

2011-01-06, 01:40 PM	#2
Fonz Former pr0n slinger. Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium Posts: 7,929	PR = Page Rank (for Google) Google asigns a page rank to websites. If you get links back from sites with high page ranks your page rank will probably go up. What's it good for? Not that much anymore, but who can really tell. I guess it's a good indicator to see if a site is "important" according to google's weird algorythms. Some of my sites with PR0 get way more google traffic than some of my sites with PR3. __________________ See how I abuse little trees on my Shumi no Bonsai Blog

2011-01-07, 09:29 PM	#3
satguy Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know? Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 18	Don't worry about Page Rank,, Even Google have stopped doing anything major with. It's been 7 months or more since we saw any real big updates, There been a very few small tweeks done by Google, and that was mostly to drop some sites in rank.. People that bought backlinks on PR5 and PR6 sites got their hands Slapped... __________________ Satguy's Forum

2011-01-09, 07:09 AM	#4
LD wtfwjd? Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 2,103	The thing about page rank, many webmasters use it to decide who they want to trade with. You often have to have a minimum PR to get a link trade. It seems to me webmasters put a lot more significance in PR than Google. __________________ Artisteer Wordpress Theme Generator Create Custom Themes! My Little Network

2011-01-27, 08:49 PM	#5
RaunchyRepublic Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know? Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Sydney Posts: 15	PageRank is still important, just not the PageRank we see in things like the Google toolbar. PageRank is still part of the overall algorithm they use apparently. As the guys mentioned above, having a high (or low) PR is no indication of potential traffic to your site. Interestingly the word 'Page' in PageRank actually refers to the name of it's creator - Larry Page. It's just conincidence that it looks like it refers to website 'pages'. __________________ Raunchy Republic Sex Shop Sex Blog

2011-01-29, 04:12 AM	#6
MPR411 Banned Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 24	page rank is to me worthless for the most part,my pr2 and pr3 sites get much less traffic than my pr0!

2011-01-29, 11:26 AM	#7
Freaky If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 33	They should probably have called it "LinkRank" in the first place, from my understanding of it. I wonder had the creaters name not been "Page" what they would have named it? __________________ Herbal Smoke Head Shop Freaky's XXX Links

2011-02-21, 11:01 PM	#9
NALEM Banned Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Where ever Delta flies Posts: 96	Here you go. PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page[1] and 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. - Yan