SEO Tycoon

**Anaya** · 08-29-2007, 01:16 AM

How is PR of a website calculated by google

**ADAM Web Design** · 08-29-2007, 02:14 AM

By measuring the distance a webmaster gets when he spits into the wind. Or in the case of a webmistress, when she pees into the wind.

**frost** · 08-29-2007, 03:00 AM

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

That's the basic idea behind it, at least.

**freewebspace** · 08-29-2007, 05:43 AM

It is one of most difficult things to understand by a webmaster!

**gringo** · 08-29-2007, 05:51 AM

Luckily, you can completely ignore it and still have a successful web site.

**chrishirst** · 08-29-2007, 06:04 AM

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How is PR of a website calculated by google

Websites don't have PR, webpages have PR

**MrCat** · 08-29-2007, 07:27 AM

Good Quality link backs = Good PR

**hamesy** · 08-29-2007, 08:02 AM

I wouldn't worry too much about it mate. PR isn't important apart from providing a little green bar and a number.

**bzimage** · 08-29-2007, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

Websites don't have PR, webpages have PR

I couldnt agree more!

**zagu060807** · 08-29-2007, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Anaya

How is PR of a website calculated by google

Only Google knows, because Google is the one who can change algorithms of each website.

**francesca_luise** · 08-29-2007, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

Websites don't have PR, webpages have PR

agree..

As what I know quality backlinks is one of the basis on determining a PR on certain web pages

**Shattered** · 08-29-2007, 03:16 PM

if google likes the way a site looks they give it a 10, if not then a big fat 0 jk
good backlinks :P

**ADAM Web Design** · 08-29-2007, 03:51 PM

Why ll are you people agreeing with Hirst as if somehow he posted an opinion?

This isn't an opinion...it's a fact. PageRank is named because it's assigned to web pages.

Man, no wonder no one ever gets good SEO advice. People just ride everyone else's coattails.

**Learning Newbie** · 08-29-2007, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

This isn't an opinion...it's a fact. PageRank is named because it's assigned to web pages.

Well it's your opinion that people are agreeing with Chris, just because they said "I agree with Chris." It's also your opinion that PageRank is applied to Pages instead of Sites is a fact. In my opinion, it's a sandwich, not a fact.

This whole thread is exactly as pointless as PR itself.

**bzimage** · 08-30-2007, 05:17 PM

Now that I can agree to learn!

**sem1** · 03:00 PM

To calculate the PageRank for a page, all of its inbound links are taken into account. These are links from within the site and links from outside the site.
PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + ... + PR(tn)/C(tn))
That's the equation that calculates a page's PageRank. It's the original one that was published when PageRank was being developed, and it is probable that Google uses a variation of it but they aren't telling us what it is. It doesn't matter though, as this equation is good enough.
In the equation 't1 - tn' are pages linking to page A, 'C' is the number of outbound links that a page has and 'd' is a damping factor, usually set to 0.85.
We can think of it in a simpler way:- a page's PageRank = 0.15 + 0.85 * (a "share" of the PageRank of every page that links to it)

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**topboy** · 09-05-2007, 04:10 PM

well its better to have a good pagerank than no pagerank here check this site out if your interested in pageranks Google pageRank table, compare pagerank values, page rank calculation table value

**corlock** · 09-06-2007, 02:12 PM

Calculation of PR in Google is unknown to SEOs. It is better to focus on your rankings than your PR. You will drive more traffic when your site ranks. PR is just an indicator of the quality of the site.