One theory as to how PageRank works
I know I said I wouldn’t post any more SEO posts on newmediaMike, but I’ll expalin why in a post I’m working on. Put it down to the old adage, if it’s broke don’t fix it.
One of my SEO clients was concerned about their Google Page Rank ( PR). They wanted to know how they could become the top ranked blog/website in their industry. I tried explaining about traffic and ranking high for keywords, but they are stuck on the Google PR. So I did some digging to explain how Google Page Rank works.
The simplest way to explain PR is that every link to or from your site is a vote. The more votes you have the more “trusted” you appear and the higher your Page Rank. Simple enough right? But how do you increase your Page Rank? Get more links of course. But how do you get enough links to increase your PR? This is what my research uncovered.
This is just a quick and graphical explanation of how Google Page Rank MIGHT work. Again it’s only a theory!
I believe PageRank is based on a factor of 8. I figured this out from some additional research and the fact newmediaMike is a PR 3 and I have 524 inbound links. I double checked this with some other sits and it seems to prove my point, ( a PR 5 site for example had 38.765 inbound links), I could be wrong, but it seems to work for the purposes of my demonstration. This means for each PR point increase 8 times the amount of links are required as the last PR increase.
PR Points Table if PR is Base 8
PR1 = 8 links
PR2 = 64 links
PR3 = 512 links
PR4 = 4096 links
PR5 = 32768 links
PR6 = 262144 links
PR7 = 2097152 links
PR8 = 16777216 links
PR9 = 134217728 links
PR10 = 1073741824 links
As you can see the difference between PR1 and PR2 is not the same as the difference between PR2 and PR3. Note: this is FAR from 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!
As I said this is just a theory, if you have your own opinion, I’d love to hear from you.
