How is PageRank Calculated?

No one knows for sure how PageRank is currently calculated by Google (except Google itself Smile). Some speculations about the algorithm are made by webmasters all of them are based on the original PageRank published by Google.

In essence, Google interprets a link for page A to page B as a vote by page A for page B. This means that page A is considered important (at least by page B).

The more votes (more links) page A gets the higher its PR will be.

Going into more details

As stated above, the main factor in PR is links (or backlinks as they are called). But no all links weight the same when it comes to PR. So an 'important' page linking to you gives you more PR than a 'less important' one.

There for you should always try to get backlinks from pages that have a high PR. These will benefit your page the most.

Another factor in PR propagation is the number of out-links the 'voting' page have. So a PR4 page with only one out-link on it might give you more weight than a PR5 page with 100 out-links on it.

An typical example here would be the famous milliondollarhomepage. This page is PR7 page with hunderds of out-links therefore its weight is would contribute very little to your page PR.

How do you remove the Alexa toolbar from your browser?

Alexa offers two help pages to assist you in removing the toolbar:
* http://pages.alexa.com/exec/faqsidos/help/index.html?index=7
* http://pages.alexa.com/exec/faqsidos/help/index.html?index=38

... but many people find it necessary to resort to a spyware removal tool that has Alexa-removal capabilities.

The PageRank Concept

Since the early stages of the world wide web, search engines have developed different methods to rank web pages. Until today, the occurence of a search phrase within a document is one major factor within ranking techniques of virtually any search engine. The occurence of a search phrase can thereby be weighted by the length of a document (ranking by keyword density) or by its accentuation within a document by HTML tags.

For the purpose of better search results and especially to make search engines resistant against automatically generated web pages based upon the analysis of content specific ranking criteria (doorway pages), the concept of link popularity was developed. Following this concept, the number of inbound links for a document measures its general importance. Hence, a web page is generally more important, if many other web pages link to it. The concept of link popularity often avoids good rankings for pages which are only created to deceive search engines and which don't have any significance within the web, but numerous webmasters elude it by creating masses of inbound links for doorway pages from just as insignificant other web pages.

Contrary to the concept of link popularity, PageRank is not simply based upon the total number of inbound links. The basic approach of PageRank is that a document is in fact considered the more important the more other documents link to it, but those inbound links do not count equally. First of all, a document ranks high in terms of PageRank, if other high ranking documents link to it.

So, within the PageRank concept, the rank of a document is given by the rank of those documents which link to it. Their rank again is given by the rank of documents which link to them. Hence, the PageRank of a document is always determined recursively by the PageRank of other documents. Since - even if marginal and via many links - the rank of any document influences the rank of any other, PageRank is, in the end, based on the linking structure of the whole web. Although this approach seems to be very broad and complex, Page and Brin were able to put it into practice by a relatively trivial algorithm

10 Ways To Increase Your Alexa Rank

Hello guys,

I have been getting a lot of emails regarding my Alexa rank a lot of readers ask me how I was able to hit 105k Alexa within 2 months. So here I’m posting 10 Ways To Increase Your Alexa Rank :D

Okay lets start,

1.) Install Alexa Toolbar on your firefox and set your website as Home Page.

2.) Try to get listed on as many Search Engines as you can.

3.) Encourage your readers to install Alexa toolbar.

4.) Install Alexa on your office computer and friend’s computer and set your website as Home Page :P

5.) Write or blog about alexa. People are very much interested in having good alexa rank few of them may even blog about your post in their site.

6.) Use Social Bookmarking sites like Diig, Delicious and Stumbleupon which will fetch you nice traffic.

7.) Put Alexa widget on your website.

8.) Submit your website to Free and Paid Directories.

9.) Writing good content on your blog can also help you fetching traffic which will result in good alexa rank.

10.) Participate in relevant forums and keep a link to your website in signature.

Thats all I have for today on 10 Ways To Increase Your Alexa Rank

Thanks and have a good day

Google PageRank Explained

Google PageRank or PR for short is numeric value assigned by Google to pages that represents how important a page is. The more important and known your pages are, the better PR they will get. PR is a scale from 0 to 10 where 0 is an unknown page for Google and 10 is the highest PR that can be assigned.

PageRank provides the basis for all of web search tools. It is always updated by Google in order to improve it and optimize it.