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Introducing PageRank - shattering the myth
 
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1. Introduction
2. What is Google's secret?
3. Page Rank is about pages, not websites
4. The Page Rank Formula
5. Link farms don't work
6. Well-known websites and their PageRank
7. Don't lose your perspective!
 


 
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Page Rank is about pages, not websites



Let's begin by straightening out a few basic points. First of all, PageRank is assigned on a page-by-page basis. A whole website does not have this score, and different pages within a site can have very different PageRank values assigned. Another important point is that the rating (out of ten) assigned is essentially little more than an approximation of a given page's PageRank. The actual values cover a far greater range than zero to ten.

Before going any further, we should take a look at the most important point of all, often overlooked when we get caught up in the PageRank frenzy. PageRank is only one factor that Google takes into account when displaying the results of a search. There are still other factors of equal significance in performing well on Google - so don't make the mistake of thinking that you would live happily ever after if your PageRank was a little bit higher. Other factors include a page's title, and the use of keywords within the page's text - not in the keyword meta tag.

PageRank is still one of Google's more ingenious strategies, and is certainly one of the many reasons that it stands head and shoulders above the rest. Partly, this is due to a combination of two factors. Firstly that the very nature of PageRank is difficult (but not impossible) to manipulate, and secondly that the exact details of how the value is assigned is a closely guarded secret.

However, there is one very useful source of data - an academic paper detailing the formula used to calculate PageRank from Google's early beginnings as a university project. This formula will have certainly been altered and expanded over the years, but it is generally accepted that it still represents the essence of their PageRank system

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