What is PageRank?
PageRank is the ranking algorithm which is awarded to the websites based on the popularity of the websites and several other factors like backlinks, SEO and quality of web pages influence a websites PageRank.
According to Wikipedia PageRank is “PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page and used by the Google Internet search engine, that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is referred to as the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E)”
Where as Google defines PageRank as “PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.
PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page’s importance.”
Definitions sourced From Wikipedia
Why Do You Need To Care About PageRank? [A Blogger's Prospective]
As discussed PageRank is a ranking system which ranks the websites and determines their importance in Google search engines prospective and for a blogger to be successful you need to have a decent PageRank for getting more exposure (it is to be remembered that if higher PR doesn’t mean that higher traffic it just helps you in getting enough exposure in terms of search engine).
SEE ALSO: Top 10+ Tips To Increase Alexa Rank
How To Get Higher/Increase Google PageRank?
- Be regular, Update your website at a regular interval. say for example if you update your blog twice a week, just make it as your rule as far as possible to skip the updates.
- It is recommended to interlink your webpages, as that will not only increase your page views but also helps you in indexing better.
- Create an XML based sitemap for your blog and submit them to the search engines. Make sure you are indexing your images they help you in getting some quick traffic.
- Comment in your niche blogs and participate in forums it is the best way to build back links for free.
- Design your website in such way that it takes very less time to load, in general 5-8 seconds could be counted as a decent page loading time for a website.
Recommended: How To Build Backlinks & Drive Traffic To Your Website
If you follow the above rules it is quite easy for you get a high PR, all you need is some dedication and some hard work to achieve and taste the success.
Final Words
After the careful analysis it is to be believed that PageRank alone is not valid to get ranked in Google, it just lets us know the importance of our webpages in Google’s prospective. I don’t say that PageRank doesn’t have any value, it definitely do have some importance as a part of Google’s algorithm but things beyond a PR influence the traffic of the website and the major factors which does the magic include quality of content, Proper SEO, Page load time and most importantly doing the right things at the right moments i.e, following up the current trends.
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