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Google Page Rank 1, 2, 3 What does it mean? Part II

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Since readers have continued to be curious about Google Page Rank (GPR), I decided to take up an assignment for myself and write GPR Part II from my discoveries within the past few months.

Google page rank algorithmFirst things first, before we get technical. One person we should recognize is the GPR founder. Google Page Rank was founded by Larry Page, one of the founders of the Google search engine. Not so shabby to have one of the hottest ranking system on the internet named after you, wouldn't you say? To make this article simple to read and identify, I will break it into three parts. From the first article and comments, I have repeatedly noted that there are three essential items to pay attention to in how Page Rank is determined: 1) links, 2) contents, 3) traffic.

Links:
Natural building of links is when you write a quality article that another blog, or website finds interesting and they place a link on their site to your article. At which time turns the linking act into a “vote count.” It is called Inbound Links, (IBL) for technical. Like many things in life, voting is the way to get others' approval and attention. If you have many links to your site, then it must have meant that many people are looking, watching and interested in what you’re posting, and what you have to say. As a result, the linking act or voting count equates to your content being valued, or valuable. The more valuable your content is the higher it is rated. If you want to see who links to your site use this link in Google search: link: http://www.yourURL.com.

Google Page Rank Linking and ConnectionsContents: What you post on your website matters. Your articles should represent your blog. What does that mean? If your blog is about fashion, don’t blog about prescription drugs. You can if you want, it just won’t be viewed as valuable content for your site. Next, believe it or not, the comments from other people matter, if you’re receiving quality comments relating to your article, it will count as quality word count and therefore enhancing your content. When you received comments like: “great, beautiful, nice job” all this does is adding the commenter a link to their site. It wouldn't do much for your content, or article, however, they are at least contributing to your traffic rank. It's your choice, me, I prefer not to publish a one, two word comment.



Google Page Rank What Do We KnowTraffic: this is probably the least important in GPR, as I have seen many higher page rank websites with lower Alexa traffic rank than the lower page rank sites. Although, if you cite back and analyze traffic, links, and quality contents they are all intertwined. For example, if you write an article of interest to the general public, people will come and read it, which increases your traffic, and if they really are genuinely great people, they will link to your article and not steal your work.
Google Page Rank giftIn sum, focus on your own site, provide quality content, and start building quality links. This is the best way to get a higher PageRank. These are the items to which I have read and accumulated. Take away what you can. This isn't the last article you will read about Google Page Rank, so if you have further information and contribution to this article please provide them below. Our readers will appreciate it.

37 comments:

  1. Super easy to understand article! I think earning a page rank from Google is much harder than moving traffic up on the scale of Alexa ranking..You've nailed it.

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    1. It is incredibly hard for most people to move up on the page rank number, all the stars have to aligned.

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  2. Great information in both articles. PR is one of those things I get curious about ever so often and check but I don't work at changing.

    The part I really find interesting is links, I had no idea they were that important. I sometimes see where someone has linked back to me but I didn't think much about it.

    I really do enjoy reading about the process behind page ranks and look forward to your next article on the subject.

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    1. I believe it's to your advantage to have a higher pagerank number depending on the reason you are blogging. Appreciate the comment

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  3. Thanks for sharing all of this info. I have some inbound back links when I check my Alexa rating but never knew what that meant. I know that traffic matters but quality traffic is what we all look for.

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  4. @Icy BC It is incredibly hard for most people to move up on the page rank number, all the stars have to aligned.

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  5. I believe it's to your advantage to have a higher pagerank number depending on the reason you are blogging. Appreciate the comment Squirrel Queen@SquirrelQueen

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  6. @Poetic Shutterbugthe back links are very important to show how your site is doing Joanne. Thanks for a great comment.

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  7. Interesting to learn about page ranks. I didn't realize that it made a difference what was said in the comments.

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  8. many thanks for this article, i too had very little understanding about how google page rank work, especially that i hardly work on my blog because of my busy schedule, could not find myself blog often, and sometimes, all i do when i update is paid post :( however, somehow, i do not understand why i get decent page rank when i do not have the time to update my blog often and don't even know if i have IBL

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  9. @Diane AZWhen I first learned of it, I thought no wonder, even with me not being technical, I already feel weird just posting a one word comment. Like everything, blogging started out with a different game in mind, until everyone decided to make it their Facebook with more posting options, and that is why we are where we are today.

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  10. @betchaiBetchai, the only thing I could think of is that you have many quality links, for example, most people, Icy, myself, Judy, Diane etc, have decent page ranks and we all linked to you, thereby you have many good sites' support. Plus, don't discount the fact that your content, the quality of your photos are so amazing, it's a given.

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  11. You and Icy are always teaching me something. One thing I did learn when writing at ehow is that comments are more helpful to your traffic if they mention your subject matter. Some how comments that are simply "nice job", for instance, water down our content in the search engine ranking us lower on the ladder. I did not know that applies to blogging. I mostly blog for love of writing, but it is good to learn.

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  12. wow, thanks a lot for sharing sharing your response in my blog, Amanda. I did not even know that pictures count :) sometimes, i am so tired i know it woould be so easy for me to post a few pictures, but could not find the words to go with it, so I end up not posting anything :( so glad to learn much in this post and through your responses. again, many thanks.

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  13. Great article. Sorry I haven't been around much. I've been really ill and am in the middle of moving house too. I'll be in and out when I can, for the next 2 weeks or so.

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  14. Very helpful information! I just don't pay attention to it, lol.

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  15. @Judy Sheldon-WalkerYour watered down comment is an excellent example. As the comment option was designed originally for thoughtful feedback and not for the way many bloggers are using it to leave links.

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  16. @betchaiYour photos are part of your simple natural life blog theme. It expresses the different views of your take on nature and locations.

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  17. @Anne Lyken-GarnerThe love of blogging will keep you coming back.

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  18. @lisaschaosIt is best not to pay attention to the Google PageRank and just do what you love.

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  19. Hi There, Thanks for visiting my blog. I hope you come back often. I have been lucky with Blogger --since I have ALOT of traffic even though I choose not to do memes, tags, etc... in order to get more followers. I have been on Blogger since Jan, 2008, and LOVE it.

    I just enjoy Blogging --and telling my hodge-podge story, mostly through pictures. I've learned alot through Blogging about photography --and with new cameras and alot of learning, my photos have improved.

    I also try to stay positive --which in this crazy world is HARD... ha....

    I am going to read more of your thoughts about Blogger --and appreciate your help with all of this... I have always wondered about Page Rank...

    Thanks so much!
    Betsy

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  20. This has been a very helpful article. My friend, Poetic Shutterbug, tried to explain the whole page ranking thing to me but it is good to see all the info in print. Honestly, I write, mainly as a catharsis for myself and a way to keep myself from going crazy after the loss of my job of 21 years in San Francisco's massive budget cuts. I want my blog to have somemeaning, however!

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  21. Hi Amanda, I am blogging from Zee's old blog that she has not been using for a while. I have not been posting at my old blog (PR3) because I get so many spammers, anonymous comments, and sometimes just simple lurkers.

    I am glad you like this new set up which I finally got it working for two weeks now. It has PR2, hopefully I can increase its rank in the future.

    The B stands for Blogger for those who have blogger format.

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  22. thanks a lot for the information....

    nice blog....

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  23. I stopped blogging for few years and had a pr of 4 or 5 mainly because was listed from DMOZ. Now have started again and PR was 0 now it is 2.

    I find this topic really interesting was wondering what the different pr's meant

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    1. I wanted to join DMOZ, but I believe it costs some $, so it wasn't my cup of tea. Building your site back should be fun, going beyond PR 3 has been a slow process for SelfSagacity. Thanks for the comment and the visit.

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  24. Although, I have written few but quality articles in recent years but my page is still not ranked by google (i.e., N/A).

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    1. I checked and you do have a ranking of 1. Do you have quality links? Do other bloggers link to your site? I would say that might be one of the missing elements for you to increase your page rank.

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  25. my pagerank is 2,3months back.now the pr is 3.isit good or not.iam litte bit confused.

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    1. PR 3 is good. Please read my first article of PageRank where there will be a list of simple comparison of websites to each of the numbers. http://www.selfsagacity.com/2010/02/google-page-rank-1-2-3-what-does-it.html

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  26. Thank you for response. It has been a long period ! I had manged my blog to be linked by facebook (myself and friends) probably that might have helped to rank as 1.

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    1. Hi Bismar, that is a very good point. If there is opportunity for you to link from high page rank sites such as Facebook, it certainly is helpful. A plus is that you don't have to beg anyone to link you back. Smiles.

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  27. Hi again Amanda,

    (again, becoz i just read and commented on your first GPR article before coming over)

    Thanks once again for the wonderful information. Do keep us informed if there is a part 3 coming up. It's been, like 2 years already?

    Looking forward to more tips.
    Thanks!

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    1. I should be working on part 3, thanks for the suggestion. I think part three will be very exciting. smiles.

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  28. This is very informative and inspiring article. Thank you for good work. medical companies in Malaysia

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    1. thanks for the visit. Page Rank is an inspiration. It makes you strive for better numbers on your webiste. smiles.

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