Formula to obtain a high Google Page Rank
Ajith | Jul 2008 | Site Promotion, SEO
Google Page Rank (PR) is one of the foremost indicators about the popularity of a blog, website or a single web page. In fact, many advertisers or ad networks use the PR as the primary criterion along with traffic ranks to accept or reject publisher or blogger accounts while signing up. Due to the same reason, bloggers usually go gaga over the same in an attempt to maintain or increase their blogs’ PR status.
How many backlinks will it take?
It is a known fact that more backlinks from high PR pages will eventually result in an increase of your blog’s PR. But how many backlinks will it take for a blog to receive a particular Page Rank? The following table will give you some idea.
The table below (courtesy: TNX.Net) essentially have the public PR numbered from 1 to 10 along X and Y axes. The Y axis shows the page rank that you desire for and the X axis shows the number of backlinks it will take from pages with a particular PR (column header) in order to obtain the PR that you want. For example, for your blog to get a page rank of 5, you need just three backlinks from pages of PR 6 or have 101 backlinks from pages with PR 4 instead.
The above formula also explains the monetizing power of a high PR blog. Other than the advertisers, you can actually sell links from your high PR blogs to those bloggers who want to obtain similar PRs easily. In fact, I had written about the monetizing potential of the blogroll a few posts ago. Of course, Google can ban blogs that contains sponsored reviews and paid links but that does not prevent most bloggers and webmasters from monetizing the page rank.
Other Page Rank facts
- The public page rank of web pages, as published by Google three to four times a year, is a number ranging from 0 and 10. But internally Google uses a value that is calculated on a real time basis to rank the search results and this real page rank is not an integer between 0 and 10.
- As the public page rank is updated only once in a while, your current page rank is not necessarily an indication of your exact search ranking at a given point of time.
- A lot of people tend to worry about the page rank of their home page (main URL) alone. In order to get the best search ranking for your content, you need to also have good PR for your other pages as well. The internal linking of your pages play an important role here.
- If you have very good content, SEO friendly page structure and some good keywords, even with a PR as low as zero, your pages should be getting figured in the Google search results pages.
- There could be several other aspects that are taken into consideration by Google to derive the final page rank.
How important is Google PR for you and your blog? Please share your thoughts on the same here and please do not forget to bookmark this post, if found useful.
Your website is quite interesting. I come here everyday to take a look and see the good tips you give. Thank you for this one about the pagerank. Mine is till zero but now I have an idea of what to do to make it get better
Thanks for your comments and for being regular, Deborah. I keep visiting your blog once in while as well. As for the PR, even mine is zero as it was launched only 3 months back (started the work in March and launched mid-April). Let us hope that all of us get some good PR recognition from Google
Ajith
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nice post really. helped to know more about page rank clearly.
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My PR is 4, but I don’t even know what it means. Can somebody explain what’s good about PR and how one takes advantage of it?
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NateTheGrate,
Page Rank signifies your page’s relevance in the eyes of Google Search. A PR0 means that you are not much visible in the search results but PR10 has the highest visibility (and hence more search visitors). Page Rank alone will not do much but will definitely increase the chances of increasing your readership, conversions (ad clicks, affiliation etc). It also improves your chances of getting better pay out for your private ad sales or paid reviews etc.
I saw that you have a huge number of backlinks from other blogs/sites. However, the alexa rank has to improve a lot to attrac advertisers.
Good luck!
A small correction “For example, for your blog to receive a page rank of 5, you need just three backlinks from pages of PR 6 or have 101 backlinks from pages with PR 3 instead.”
It should be “For example, for your blog to receive a page rank of 5, you need just three backlinks from pages of PR 6 or have 101 backlinks from pages with PR 4 instead”.
OR
“For example, for your blog to receive a page rank of 5, you need just three backlinks from pages of PR 6 or have 555 backlinks from pages with PR 3 instead”.
Thought it is good but PR depends on many things.. Backlink from a similar niche adds more power.
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thanks a lot bud… Nobody else spotted that mistake so far… You must be very good at numbers and tables. Though I had proof read it twice before posting, I couldn’t see this issue as well…
Thanks again and I am correcting it right now!
Cheers,
Ajith
just found the google table for pagerank at:
http://www.webseomasters.com
@Helena, most of the PR predictions don’t really work as they cannot consider paid links, reviews etc. Thanks for the SEO site though… They have a pretty neat set of tools there.
I have a question, firstly its really great information about PR from back link, i want to know how inbound links help google ranking? is there any positive impact ?
@Makorsha,
Google puts some weightage (nobody knows how much) on internal linking as well. Basically it shows how connected and logically related your entire website content is… You will see that some pages with good internal linking (even internal trackbacks) tend to get a high PR even without many external links.
An example is below:
http://www.dollarshower.com/article-spinning-to-promote-your-blog/
This article has four to five internal links and only one or two external links – that too not from high PR pages. It happens to get a PR but many other articles written long back, with more backlinks don’t have one.
How important do you think PR really is? One of my sites went from pr5 to pr4 to pr3 to pr2 over the last few updates but traffic is up 150%. Go figure!
@Lee, for the ‘search’ traffic it is really important. May not be for the overall traffic. Your traffic might have increased, but did the search traffic increase or at least maintained at the same level when you dropped from PR5 to PR2? I doubt that
If you have several thousand referral visitors or RSS visitors, you don’t need to worry about PR.
Another thing, sometimes to get quality advertisers, you might need a good PR as well.
My search traffic (nearly all from Google) went from 52% of total visitors up to 58% over that period, that’s why I don’t think pr matters too much.
is the chart for real? hmm.. i know one guy, he obtained page rank 2 for only 3 months. wew!
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Ajith Prasad,
Does the PR theory only apply to blogs or does this apply to regular ecommerce sites?
@Lee, that’s a good news. But have you thought of hitting 75 or 80% traffic from search? That’s when PR and keyword optimization play a greater role.
@qarla, the chart is from TNX and not made by me
But it’s true that PR calculation (internal PR) rely a lot on number of backlinks with varying authorities.
@jgand, the PR is ‘Page Rank’ and it’s applicable for every single page (out of the millions) that is indexed by Google – not just for blogs. In fact, other search engines also have similar mechanisms for their internal use. It’s just that Google made it a big thing due to their highly successful Searc Engine Marketing.
Wow! I’ve actually never seen a chart like this before. It definitely explains why there are so few high-ranked websites.
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@Shirley, thanks… In fact, moving from PR4 to PR5 (and upwards) is considered a daunting task and is well explained by the chart. This may be only indicative as penalty matters are not considered.
Thanks for spending time with my older posts
hiiii
how can i put backlinks in different sites & is links in comment are counteble ?
Comment links are counted only if the links don’t carry the rel=nofollow property or in other words if they are dofollow links.
Well, that’s not exactly true. There is no real bad link, except for a site that’s been banned. ALL links have some value, if even just by association.
is it true that you can get negitive PR due to having too many backlinks from free directories?
Webber: i’m not the owner of this site but i want to give you a answer to your question: yes, Google can decreases your PR or even suspend/ban your site if you have too many bad backlinks (backlinks from sites which are considered as sandbox).
Very good article, Ajith, i didn’t know about the numbers of backlinks to have to reach a certain PR but i think it is not very efficient because our PR can depends of the quality of the site where we create backlink. ^^
This is verty informative article.Google Page Rank (PR) is one of the foremost indicators about the popularity of a blog, website or a single web page. Very good article, Ajith, i didn’t know about the numbers of backlinks to have to reach a certain PR but i think it is not very efficient because our PR can depends of the quality of the site where we create backlink.
Hi,
I have some doubt in the table.
As per table, If I need to get PR4 means, I should get 101 backlinks from PR3 sites.
In such case, those 101 PR3 sites should give links ‘ONLY’ to my site or it can share its link with many other sites?
That is, Whether ONLY my websites link should be in those 101 PR3 sites or the PR3 sites can have more number of sites to give PR?
@sakthi, there’re more to Page rank calculation than the numbers on this table. This was only indicative and Google has started considering various other aspects of a page’s authority in deciding its page rank.
I do agree, but it’s important visitors are able to find websites and pagerank “sometimes” does correlate with this. If a website has a high pagerank then it’s probably been linked to by fairly good websites therefore will get visitors.
However, I do agree that it’s not the end of the world having no pagerank (or low pagerank) if the website still performs well.
hi dear
m going to launch a blog on technology tricks and tips techtt.in i have purchased domain and installed wordpress n will launch in few days can you recommend me some tips to get a page rank
Just keep building good backlinks from relevant sites (i.e. sites related to your type of content)