Google Pagerank Explained

Explaining Google pagerank isn’t an easy thing to do. However, I think I have a great idea of how it works considering I took this blog all the way to a PR 5 in less than a year. That should give me some credibility when it comes to explaining Google pagerank.

Google Pagerank Explained

Here is how I currently see it in my mind. Right now Google could care less about do-follow and no-follow links. Matt Cutts from Google recently confirmed this on his blog. So any kind of link to your blog is counted in some way. That means every link I have received to my blog by commenting makes it look good to Google. Google does one at how many links are pointing towards your blog. Even if you have 30 of them coming from one blog (because of commenting) it still helps you. Pagerank Tip: Comment on many blogs over and over.

Google pagerank is also decided on how you use your linking power. What I mean by this is that you already currently have a pagerank. Your pagerank is diminished if you link out to a whole bunch of websites. However, if you just link out to a few web sites then your link power is greater. So linking out to 200 web sites is worse than linking out to 50 web sites. Pagerank Tip: Link out to less web sites. Link more to your own articles.

Your pagerank will also be decided by the kinds of web sites you link out to. My pagerank increased because I chose to link to web sites that have a pagerank of four or higher. This makes my blog look less spammy and more trustworthy to Google. They will notice that you’re not linking out to a whole bunch of no-name blogs. Pagerank Tip: Try to only link to web sites that have a higher pagerank. Anything lower than a PR 3 begins to look suspicious.

That is basically all pagerank it is. It really isn’t science like many people make it out to be. Try to link out to less web sites, link out to your own articles more, link out to web sites with a PR 3 or higher, and get more links to your blog by commenting and submitting your articles to do-follow social bookmarking sites.

All pagerank says is that Google likes you and when you link out to people it gives those blogs or web sites more power. It does nothing for your search engine results. Trust me, I would know.