What is Google PageRank ?

PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's PageRank is calculated.

PageRank is Google's way of deciding a page's importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page's ranking in the search results. It isn't the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is a very important one.

You can check your PageRank by downloading the Google Toolbar or visit www.pagerank.net

If you have purchased one of our Off Page SEO Solutions or improved the amount and quality of links coming too your website then you can use the following tool to see how much improvement you have made with this PageRank Prediction Tool

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In a nutshell the Google PageRank is based on recommendations. The recommendations should also be from websites that talk about the same subject.

An example of a strong recommendation would be a butcher to link to another butcher as they are both in the same industry and websites will talk about the same subject.

An example of a weak recommendation would be a used car sales website to a butcher. This is weak as both websites are about completly different subjects.

So what do you do now ? Do you ask your competitors to link to you to improve your Google PageRank, do you register your website with directories for your business catagory or do you contact us about of off page seo solutions to improve your Google PageRank ?