What is Google PageRank? And why should you care when using social bookmarking sites?

isi post What is Google PageRank?  And why should you care when using social bookmarking sites? PageRank (often abbreviated to PR) is Google's patented way of determining a web page's importance. The PageRank scale goes from 1 - 10, with 10 being highest, and it factors in the quality and quantity of links that point to the page. Google describes it this way: "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." If you're using social bookmarking sites simply to recall your favorite pages, PageRank really isn't important. You should simply find a bookmarking site with features you like (Can you organize your bookmarks in folders? Can you highlight text on the site? Is it easy to save pages?). But if you're a website owner, lensmaster or article writer using social bookmarking to help improve your site or article's searchability, PageRank is important. Google will likely find and index your site much more quickly if you add it to sites that already have PageRank rather than those that don't. However, new sites are always springing up. A bookmarking service that has no PageRank or indexed links today may be doing very well three months from now. Also, remember that Yahoo!, MSN and other search engines have their own algorithms, so even though a site has only 10,000 links in Google, it may have 100,000 in Yahoo! or vice versa. For more information about PageRank, check out these resources: -- SEO expert Danny Sullivan has an excellent article on PageRank on Search Engine Land -- WebWorkshop has a very comprehensive (and math-intensive) primer on Google PageRank info : http://www.squidoo.com/100-social-bookmarking-sites-with-google-pagerank
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