What is page rank algorith?

[JS_Electric]

What is Google's page rank algorithm? What are the factors of it and how can we understand it?

[SteveGerencser]

Everything you wanted to know is available in a simple Google search.

Or you can read this. Let me know if you actually do.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

[ozsubasi]

I could be wrong but I think the OP isn't just asking about the algorithm for PR but how Google decides on page rankiing i.e. SERPs. But if it is PR I've looked at the PR formula and can't make any sense of it but mental arithmetic was always my thing, I could never work out the clever stuff.
I get the feeling that some people still believe that Google's secrets are also held by some outside of the inner circle and that they will be willing to divulge them. Matt Cutts has said that he doesn't know everything and it stands to reason that it is probably the case that different people will know parts but not the whole; otherwise it wouldn't be too hard to get the information with some thumbscrews or perhaps more pleasant means.
If I did have the answer would I reveal it here or any other forum? Not a chance

[williamc]

I take it you did not read the link Steve posted. It is not to do with PageRank, but with backrub, what Google was before it became 'Google'.

[ozsubasi]

I take it you did not read the link Steve posted. It is not to do with PageRank, but with backrub, what Google was before it became 'Google'.

Was that to me or the OP? If to me then in honesty I did not read all of it but I did refer to it before posting, and frankly for me it is unintelligible and too long winded to use to make a point. Sorry, just an opinion, and I don't know what "backrub" means either. The part of it which explained the pagerank calculation was all I was referring to.
Does anyone actually speak the language of documents like this?

[SteveGerencser]

The link is the definition of Pagerank. It is what Google was built on, written by the guys that created it. Long winded or not, it is what pagerank is.

And yes, quite a few of us are quite fluent in the language of math.

[ozsubasi]

How many is quite a few out of the people who are trying to take part here? I would guess that it isn't very many and I don't think for one moment that it is what the OP was asking.

[ozsubasi]

Did you visit the home page of the person who asked the question? They are a US company providing services related to electricity,
That is their field of expertise and perhaps they are also conversant in the language of math but with respect no-one shoıld assume so.
They are asking a question in a forum and posting refences to articles that many would not understand cannot be assumed to be sufficient to satisfy a query. I don't think I am unitelligent but I haven't a clue what all that stuff meant, it isn't written in plain English and wouldn't it be better to explain what it means rather than just quote it?
Just my view, sorry to be maybe speaking against the grain but it is easy to be clever when you have the knowledge but it is not so easy to impart it to those who are looking to learn.

[SteveGerencser]

The OPs question was very specific:

What is Google's page rank algorithm? What are the factors of it and how can we understand it?

I replied with the exact definition. I was not trying to be clever. I was trying to point out that the question is not an "easy" one to answer without getting technical. We could dumb down the answer though, but I'm tired of people wanting every answer to every question spoon fed to them so that they don't have to think or research on their own. Pagerank is actually a very technical math exercise and it does require some effort to learn and really understand.

The 'easy' answer:
To increase your pagerank, get links from other websites. Pagerank is one of over 200 factors, each with it's own variables, that affects the SERPs. How much weight is it given when compared to the 200+ other fators? Less than it was was 2 years ago.

BTW, the easy answer is what led to all the web spam you see.

As for who here understands the math? I'd hope that any one that claims to be a professional SEO would have at least a basic understanding of how this works. And I'm sure quite a few amateur SEOs here (meaning they don't do SEO professionally) could answer that question as well.

[sonu rey]

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