your PageRank or page's rank?

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The difference is clear to most people who have already learned about Search Engine Optimization, but it is very common for newbies to mix the 2 up.

Before you ask a question about pagerank, make sure you get this right :)

PageRank is purely the measure of your inbound links, the google toolbar provides a visualisation of this value. (and yes, outbound links make this value lower). The reason it's called pagerank is because the guy who invented it, is called Larry Page.... wich is probably why it confuses many.

Your page's rank is simply the slot your page sites in, in the search engine results page (or SERP) for a certain term.
 


Thanks for this tidbit of info. What I gleaned was that PR diminishes with outbound links.

I still don't know what to make of your "Larry Page" line. Is it humorously sarcastic? :)
 
peach said:
The reason it's called pagerank is because the guy who invented it, is called Larry Page.... wich is probably why it confuses many.
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I still don't believe this. I mean imagine that: If Larry's surname would be Flush for example it wouldn't be called FlushRank, would it? :eek:
 
rembrandt said:
I wouldn't recommend no outbound links though. What are your thoughts?
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There was a time when it sounded like a good idea, but seeing how smarter the SE's are getting every day, it doesn't look that good anymore. It's a bit unnatural for a site not to have outbound links and people at Google are well aware of that.
 
its quite funny that google was founded in some one's garage. they the youngest billyonairs in the world
 
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