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SEO Tutorial – PageRank (PR)

Written By Isebel on Rabu, Juli 14, 2010 | 12.06

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PageRank or PR for short seems to be misunderstood by so many that this part of our SEO Tutorial we will try to explain the ins and outs of PageRank without getting too technical. Lets hope so anyway!

What is PageRank?

No better place for a description of PR than Google itself, from Google’s PageRank Explained page-
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.
Couldn’t have said it better myself, seriously though it’s clear from the above PageRank is very important to Google, it’s the foundation of their search engines algorithm and so very important to search engine optimization rankings. PR is created or transferred through links and it’s cumulative, a page with a high PR transfers more PR than a page with low PR making different PR valued links not equal in value from an SEO perspective.

Viewing PageRank

If you haven’t already installed the Google toolbar get yourself over to the Google Toolbar Download page and install a copy ASAP. When you view a page using a browser with the toolbar installed you’ll see a little green bar, hover over it to see the pages PageRank.
Google Toolbar 
showing PageRank PR6

What Does a Specific PR Represent?

When you view a pages PR it gives a number between 0 (the lowest) and 10 (the highest), PageRank is based on a log scale, probably around base 6 to 8 (we don’t know for sure, but it doesn’t really matter if we get it wrong since it’s all relative). This means each PR point increase takes 6 to 8 times the effort as the last PR increase, this can be represented as a point system that is very helpful when analysing PR transfer especially for reciprocal link exchanges.
PR Points Table if PR is Base 8
PR1 = 8 points
PR2 = 64 points
PR3 = 512 points
PR4 = 4096 points
PR5 = 32768 points
PR6 = 262144 points
PR7 = 2097152 points
PR8 = 16777216 points
PR9 = 134217728 points
PR10 = 1073741824 points
As you can see the difference between PR1 and PR2 is not the same as the difference between PR2 and PR3. Higher a pages PageRank goes harder it is to go even higher on the Google toolbar display. It might help to imagine each point is the result of a link either directly or indirectly from other pages. Note: this isn’t accurate, but it helps to picture the difference between say a PR4 page and a PR7 page, PR4 pages takes 4096 links, PR7 page 2097152 links, that’s 512 times more links or 512 times the effort if all links were equal!

PageRank Formula

It’s not important that you fully understand the original PageRank formula to use PR to your advantage, but here it is for those who would like the details.
From The Anatomy of a Search Engine authored by the founders of Google Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page we have the the original PageRank formula-
We assume page A has pages T1…Tn which point to it (i.e., are citations). The parameter d is a damping factor which can be set between 0 and 1. We usually set d to 0.85. There are more details about d in the next section. Also C(A) is defined as the number of links going out of page A. The PageRank of a page A is given as follows:
PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + … + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))
Note that the PageRanks form a probability distribution over web pages, so the sum of all web pages’ PageRanks will be one.
PageRank or PR(A) can be calculated using a simple iterative algorithm, and corresponds to the principal eigenvector of the normalized link matrix of the web. Also, a PageRank for 26 million web pages can be computed in a few hours on a medium size workstation. There are many other details which are beyond the scope of this paper.
There’s probably been some changes over the years (most likely to iritate those offering SEO Services :-) ), but the guts of the PageRank formula is unlikely to change in the near future, so we can safely use it as a jump off point for PR analysis.

PageRank Simplified

The formula above is cumbersome to work with in the real world since it involves countless iterations of the calculation to reach a PR value and since we don’t know all the variables for a specific page we can’t accurately predict PR for any page using the original PageRank formula!
What we can do though is estimate PR transferred through a link, it’s rough and ready, but useful when setting up reciprocal link exchanges, you can determine roughly if a link exchange results in more benefit to your site or your reciprocal link partners site.
First we simplify the PageRank Formula to only determine PR transferred through a single link by replacing the PR value (PR(A)) with the corresponding value (which we will call PR(pts)) from the PR points table we listed earlier (repeated below). C(A) is from the original formula and represents the number of links from the page in question. For those interested we use 0.85 because it’s generally believed the dampening factor in the original formula (1-d) is 0.85.
PR(pts) * 0.85 / C(A) = PR points transferred through one link
PR Points Table using Base 8
PR1 = 8 points
PR2 = 64 points
PR3 = 512 points
PR4 = 4096 points
PR5 = 32768 points
PR6 = 262144 points
PR7 = 2097152 points
PR8 = 16777216 points
PR9 = 134217728 points
PR10 = 1073741824 points

Example PR Calculations

We have a PR5 page with 49 links from it, you want to setup a link exchange with this page which will take the number of links to 50. We look at the PR points table above and see PR5 equates to 32768 PR points, plugging these values into our simplified PR formula-
32768 * 0.85 / 50 = 557 PR points
We compare this figure on the table for the closest match. 557 is closest to 512 PR points or a PR3 (PR3 = 512 points). So a single link from the PR5 page above would likely result in a PR3 page if no other links are involved.
We repeat the PR calculation for your links page. You have a PR5 page with 15 links from it, if you setup this link exchange that’s 16 links, what would your link partner receive?
32768 * 0.85 / 16 = 1740 PR points (approx 3 times the PR points you’ll gain)
We compare this figure on the table for the closest match. 1754 is between 512 PR points (PR3) and 4096 PR points (PR4). So a single link from your PR5 page above would likely result in a stronger PR3 page (possibly a low value PR4 page) than your link partners if no other links are involved.
Easiest way to use this information is to compare the end results directly-
Partner Links Page: 32768 * 0.85 / 50 = 557 PR points
Your Links Page: 32768 * 0.85 / 16 = 1740 PR points
Your partner gains 1197 PR points (17540-557) than you do, this is enough to make two more PR3 pages (2*512=1024 is very close to the the extra points).
You then have to ask yourself is this link exchange in your best interest from a PR point of view. On the face of it no, but you should look at the page/site you are exchanging links with. Is it a popular site, are you likely to receive click thru visitors etc…? Enough PR points to create a couple of PR3 pages isn’t that much of a big deal, the calculation below is where you should think twice about a link exchange.
85% of the PR of a web page is transferred to the web pages it links to, shared equally between all unique links.
Potential link partners PR7 page with 199 links from it (200 after the exchange).
You have a PR6 links page with 9 links from it (10 after the exchange).
Partner PR7 Links Page: 2097152 * 0.85 / 200 = 8913 PR points (two PR4 pages).
Your PR6 Links Page: 262144 * 0.85 / 10 = 22282 PR points (five PR4 pages).
Even though the link partner has a PR7 page the large number of links from it makes it worth far less

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