Everything You Wanted to Know About PageRank But Were Afraid to Ask

Dan Petrovic from http://dejanseo.com.au explains what Google PageRank is and how it works. Please note that we do not work for Google and the observations we make are purely based on our experience and testing. If you have any further input or questions please use comments or email us to contribute.

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• pagerank
• dejan
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• dan
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• tutorial

[TheTriptastic]

@dejanseo Hi! Thanks for your response. It's good to know Google used May data. I started blogging mid-March and got a Page Rank of 3/10 in this June update. Can you help me get a little perspective on how good or bad that is, exactly? Thank you so much!

[DejanSEO]

@TheTriptastic The fact that you got a 3/10 means you have got a link from a page that is as high as PR4 (or from a PR5 with more than 10-20 outgoing links). This is not bad and this new pagerank will help your content get indexed deeper (in case you have many pages). There are of course numerous other factors which will contribute to your blog's popularity which we cannot see or easily measure (some try to find and express these metrics in their own values for example SEOMoz's DA/PA/mR...etc).

[sarahjanes888]

Hi Dan,

Been watching you videos and they are great! Couple of questions that weren't covered here that I have for you.

If you 301 redirect a domain that has a pr5 for example to a new domain, on the next toolbar pr update would the new domain have a pr5? What experience do you have with this??

Secondly, I'm sure you have heard of Angela style profile back links which are crap. But how do some people seem to have such high pr profile pages, some pr6 and some pr7??

Thanks for your time :)

[DejanSEO]

@sarahjanes888 If I recall correctly, target site doesn't get the redirected site's pagerank visible until next update. Second answer is simple - if they gave PR7 then they got a PR8 backlink from somewhere (ideally with not too many OBLs).

[TheTriptastic]

Fantastic video. Thank you so much for making it. It is very helpful and you explained it all really well. Any idea when the next update is?

[DejanSEO]

@TheTriptastic Well the update happened in June but you're probably aware of that by now. Interesting fact is that they took May data (which is much fresher this time).

[RyanSocratous]

I knew all this anyway, but I really wish I found this as a resource when I was learning. Very clear, to the point and visual.

[satish61star]

@DejanSEO Thankyou very much :) i will focus on what you have said and be very particular about links :) you are the real asset to seo tips :) thanks a lot :)

[DejanSEO]

@satish61star "so all my backlinks are not worthy" this is not true. Links don't have to have visible pagerank to be valuable. I suggest you focus on your rankings and relevant traffic for key terms that you have researched and find to be converting well for you.

[satish61star]

@satish61star Yes you are correct. i am trying to get more and more backlinks, but almost all blogs have PR 0..so all my backlinks are not worthy :( sad...its been one year and no PR in my site.Please help me. i went to your site for help and recieved some valuable information. thanks :)