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Inspecting Google PageRank

SEO Tutorial - Inspecting Google PageRank

Let's start by having a look at the Page Rank of your own site. Start Internet Explorer and navigate to the Index page of your site. Once there position the mouse arrow over the Page Rank indicator. A small window will open showing you the PageRank of the current page. PageRank is measured on a scale of 0 to 10.

N.B. If you have no links to your site and none of your pages have been indexed all your pages will have a PageRank of 0.

Now navigate through your site and look at the Page Rank of some of your other pages. Don't be overly concerned if the Page Rank of these internal pages is lower than the index page, this is quite normal. PageRank is awarded to individual pages not the site as a whole.

Now navigate to your competitor's Web Site and inspect the Page Rank on those pages as well.

Page Rank is Google's measure of Link Popularity but most of the major search engines now factor some form Link Popularity into their relevancy algorithms. As a result, increasing the number of quality, relevant sites which link to your site will, if done properly, improve your Rankings in a wide range of search engines.

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