Google PR update in progress

[DangerDave]

Looks like the Goog is making some PR changes

don't get caught up looking to hard now..

DD

[Cleo]

I wish they would just retire the who PR concept.

[misty3k]

Originally posted by DangerDave
Looks like the Goog is making some PR changes

don't get caught up looking to hard now..

DD

Okay, I guess I'm just a big ole clueless goofball, but I'm not entirely sure what happens when google does this. How do they decide rank? It seems like it should be traffic, period.

And how does the pr translate into business for most of us? Do you find you get more sales with a better page rank?

it all just confuses me.


byt-DangerDave--thanks for listing my big breast site so fast! I appreciate it! I've just started getting back into doing freesites, so that was a nice motivator!

~misty3k

[DangerDave]

misty3k,

Google page rank - an abitrary measure assigned by Google to single page - http://www.google.com/webmasters/4.html

It is visible via the google toolbar - http://toolbar.google.com/ - which needs to be installed in your browser.

PageRank Explained

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."

Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.

http://www.google.com/technology/index.html

Do you find you get more sales with a better page rank?

Yes and no - Google has reduced thje "value" of PR, and it is only part of what you need to get geood search engine traffic.

Good content
Good keyword structure
Good incoming and outgoing links
and multiple other aspects dictate the true "value" of your page to Google.

HTH

DD

[Linkster]

DDave...looks like backlinks are getting updated as well

[Syke]

i finally reached PR4.. whatever that means :-)

[xxxjay]

Originally posted by Cleo
I wish they would just retire the who PR concept.

Na - they should just retire that bar and leave people guessing like in the old days.