Google PageRank Update May 2007.
As expected, this weekend Google has updated the PageRank displayed in the Google toolbars that users have installed in their browsers. Google only updates this data every four months.
What is PageRank and how important is it in the search engine ranking algorithm?
PageRank is the algorithm that Google uses to give a numerical value to the importance of a web page. This value is used as part of the algorithm that determines the order in which the results of a search are displayed on Google.
PageRank is named after its creator Larry Page. PageRank does not mean "ranking of pages."
The purpose of PageRank is to assign a numerical value to web pages based on the number of times they are recommended by other pages and the PageRank of these pages. In other words, it establishes the importance of that web page.
Since January 24th (the day Google changed its ranking algorithm to neutralize some of the cheating by unscrupulous webmasters), PageRank is also influenced by the reliability of the website… (but we will not explain this now, it will be the subject of another article).
How do updates work?: Difference between real PageRank and Google Toolbar PageRank
The PageRank shown in the Google toolbar is only updated approximately once every 4 months.
The bar shows us a PageRank in base 10 on a logarithmic scale. That is, it is easy to go from 0 to 1 or from 2 to 3, but it is very difficult to go from 5 to 6, and even more difficult to go from 6 to 7. But this is not the real PageRank of our page, but the value that Google assigned to it the last time it updated the PageRank of the bar.
The last update was carried out on January 24th and this time it was carried out on May 1st, a few days before the required 4 months were up.
During 2006 there were 4 PageRank updates: in February, April, July and at the end of September. That is, on 4 occasions during 2006 Google has calculated the PageRank value in base 10 and exported it to the servers that feed the Google bars. During 2007 it is following the same pattern.
The PageRank that Google uses for its calculations is much more precise and uses a much larger scale, although we do not know by how much, and Google is completely secretive about this, although it seems to be based on 100. Its internal servers update it daily.
When will the next update be?
If everything goes as planned, we should expect it towards the beginning of September. So all the actions to increase PageRank that we carry out from now on will not be reflected in the Google toolbar until September.
This does not mean that before September our actions will be useless. Nothing could be further from the truth. Remember that Google works with a real-time PageRank.
How to know the PageRank in real time?
We cannot know the exact PageRank with a numerical value in real time, but we can know an approximation of the real PageRank, although it is in base 4 instead of base 10 and with relative values.
To know our real PageRank in base 4, we just have to register with Google as webmasters (Google ' All about Google ' Information for webmasters ' Webmaster tools), here we can register our site, Google will ask us for a verification of the site (to make sure that we really are the webmaster of the site) and from here, we can see the PageRank of our pages in real time and in base 4. Google tells us if the pages have high, medium, low or zero PageRank.
This doesn't do much, but at least we'll know if we have PageRank assigned to all pages, and we'll be able to see if the number of pages on our website that go from medium to high, or from low to medium, is increasing.
I don't see PageRank in my Google toolbar, what should I do?
By default, the Google toolbar does not include this information, but you can include PageRank from the toolbar options, and in this way, while you browse the web, you will be able to know the PageRank of the pages you visit. This will help you know which web pages you should try to include your links on to increase your PageRank.
Links of interest:
How can I improve the PageRank of my website?:
http://www.geamarketing.com/posicionamiento/mas_pagerank.php
Free Online Course on Search Engine Optimization:
http://www.geamarketing.com/posicionamiento_buscadores.php
2 responses
And how can I know why my pagerank dropped? If before I had 4, now I have 2?
Hi Remi, it is difficult to know why your PageRank has been lowered, there may be several reasons:
1) Websites that linked to you have disappeared.
2) they have lowered the PageRank of websites that linked to you.
3) Some links you received came from blog networks that copied content (this has caused their PageRank to drop and therefore, yours)
4) You have changed the structure of your website and the internal PageRank generated by your links has changed (for the worse).
Do you control who links to you and their PR? By following this you will better understand yours.
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A hug.