{"id":997,"date":"2007-06-11T05:06:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T05:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/google-pagerank-rank-how-its-determined\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:20:18","slug":"google-pagerank-rank-how-its-determined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/online-marketing\/google-pagerank-rank-how-its-determined\/","title":{"rendered":"Google PageRank rank: How it&#8217;s determined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.yoast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/googlepr.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Whether you&#8217;re searching for the most influential bloggers, or the best online\u00a0article directories, or simply trying to make your own website more attractive to the search engines, a valuable tool you must use to put everything in perspective is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/toolbar\/ie\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Toolbar<\/a>\u00a0which you can download for free.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s available for both Internet Explorer and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Firefox <\/a>browsers. Key features include a search box, spell checker, pop-up blocker and auto form filler.<\/p>\n<p>I use it mostly to determine how Google has ranked a particular website or blog on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the greatest importance.\u00a0If I&#8217;m researching bloggers who I want to get in front of, for example, I spend more time at blogs with a page rank of 4 or higher.\u00a0\u00a0The PageRank tool appears just underneath my Internet Explorer browser window. The\u00a0 longer the green bar, the more important the site. (Hold your cursor over the PageRank tool\u00a0and you&#8217;ll see the score.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s criteria for determining PageRank is a closely guarded secret.\u00a0Gayle Carson, a co-founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/topinternetconsulting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet Association\u00a0of\u00a0Information Marketers,<\/a>\u00a0one of my trade associations, passed along an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2007\/06\/05\/google-pagerank-what-do-we-really-know-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.SmashingMagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smashing Magazine<\/a> in which the writers, after extensive research and studying academic papers, do their best to unravel the PageRank mystery.<\/p>\n<p>The number of inbound links to a website from other high-ranked\u00a0websites is key. But there&#8217;s a lot more involved than just that. Read the article, then do everything you can to increase your page rank on your blog and website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you&#8217;re searching for the most influential bloggers, or the best online\u00a0article directories, or simply trying to make your own website more attractive to the search engines, a valuable tool you must use to put everything in perspective is the Google Toolbar\u00a0which you can download for free. It&#8217;s available for both Internet Explorer and Firefox\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/online-marketing\/google-pagerank-rank-how-its-determined\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":612,"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[622,229],"class_list":{"0":"post-997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online-marketing","7":"tag-building-traffic","8":"tag-seo","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40708,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/40708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}