Google PageRank Update | April 03, 2010 | Google & Page Rank (PR)

Google has updated the toolbar PageRank scores over the weekend on April 03, 2010. I remember the last time Google had a Toolbar Page Rank update was December 2009. But an interesting fact is that Google has updated their PageRank values in the toolbar every year in April since 2004.

Most of the time Google update page rank unexpectedly. Seems like this time page rank comes as good news for every one. For me SEOShout.com page rank is still the same, but my new domains and projects which I have started last month got Page rank 3 and Page rank 2.  One of my blog for which I have done only On site SEO got Page rank 2 and another one following the same league got Page rank 1.

Check out your site’s Page Rank now and share if it got bumped up.

For those who are new to this term, PageRank is a scale to check popularity through backlinks and many other factors by Google and it affects your visibility on search engine. Google PageRank term was named after Larry Page who developed this concepts of PageRank (PR) for Google.

What is Google Page Rank and Facts:

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm 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.

PageRank is a numeric value that tells how important a page is on the entire web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is basically 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 page’s importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote 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 determine a page’s ranking in the search results. It isn’t the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one.

According to Google:

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important”.

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