PageRank – what is it?

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Carol

PageRank is Google’s way of measuring the relative importance of a page and ranges from 0 to 10.  If you have several websites with high PageRanks linking to you, you too will earn a high PageRank.   This website shows a table of how incoming links with varying PageRanks can affect your own PageRank.

So, how do you find out a website’s PageRank?  There are a couple of popular methods:

  1. Download Google Toolbar and enable PageRank after installation.
    After installation, you’ll see an indication of PageRank on each website you visit:
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  2. If you use Firefox, download the SEOQuake extension.
    After installation, you can click on the icon at the bottom of Firefox, then right-click to get the SEO tool’s options:
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