Google Pagerank Calculation
by Frank Jovine on 03/08/2010 in Google, SEO
There are many webmasters that keep a close eye on Pagerank to measure the effectiveness of incoming links or backlinks to their website or blog. The biggest question is how many backlinks you need to move your Pagerank up. It’s not only the amount of backlinks, but the quality of those backlinks.
Each Pagerank level is worth 5.14 times the previous level. In simple terms, a PR3 link is worth 5.14 PR2 links, a PR7 link is worth 5.14 PR6 links, and so on. It seems like a long climb to the top and for good reason, you have to work hard at it to achieve results.
If you are trying to build backlinks, it’s best to target pages that have a high Pagerank. Instead of getting 10 potential PR4 links, versus two PR6 link, it’s smarter and more efficient to spend time in getting backlinks from a PR6 website as it is worth 5 x 5 = 25 PR4 links. It’s not easy getting backlinks from websites that have a PR 6 and higher. You really have to be committed when launching a link campaign in order to improve your overall Pagerank.
Chart and actual calculation provided by Ted Ives – Vice President of Product Management at The Search Agency.
It sure is a huge climb between PR5 and a PR6, but it’s one that can be accomplished with time. There’s one other thing you should know, If a website linking into your website falls in Pagerank, so does the link value.
Here’s a list of dofollow blogs with a PR 5 or higher:
http://www.burningbird.net/ 6
http://www.pcmech.com/ 6
http://www.themallblog.com/ 6
http://www.midasoracle.org/ 6
http://www.knrn.org/ 5
http://www.extrapepperoni.com/ 5
http://www.oilman.ca/ 5
Happy link building!
Kikolani
Mar 8th, 2010
That’s an interesting breakdown of links vs. PageRank. The SearchEngineLand post says that you can Google “yourdomain.com” –site:yourdomain.com to find out your number of Google counted links to your site. Mine has exactly 1,520, and yours has 7,280, so you’re close to PR 5 by that estimation.
Also, just wanted to mention that burningbird, pcmech, and extrapepperoni either are not dofollow anymore or, in the case of burningburn, do not have any comments. The others are great though! :)
Frank Jovine
Mar 8th, 2010
Kristi,
PR 5 would be great, but it’s a process and we are both going through it. I didn’t know about the sites burningbird, pcmech, and extrapepperoni either are not dofollow anymore or, in the case of burningburn, do not have any comments.
Arafat Hossain Piyada
Mar 9th, 2010
I check my backlink with given technique and its show 9,500. May be next PR update will give me back some decent result.
Frank Jovine
Mar 9th, 2010
Arafat,
It’s possible you will be updated to a PR5. It’s also determined by the quality of the incoming links as well. If you have all PR1 sites linking in, it may not make a difference.
Andrew@BloggingGuide
Mar 9th, 2010
It really is sometimes a long, tedious and painstaking climb from one pagerank to the next but it is worth it. The process may be bitter but the fruit is sweet. And like you said it is achievable.
Frank Jovine
Mar 9th, 2010
Andrew,
The climb is touch, but well worth it. When you get to that next level you feel like celebrating and you should.
andrew @ Blogging Guide
Mar 10th, 2010
I shall! I just haven’t had the need for the past few months – been stuck at PR3!
Andrew
Frank Jovine
Mar 10th, 2010
Andrew,
It doesn’t come easy, but with dedication and the right approach you will move up.
readbud
Mar 9th, 2010
WOW. Frank, this is just what I needed… I’ve been doing a lottttt of research on PR and finally I came across a nicely detailed table of values. Thanks for that, definately saving that image for reference. Takes a lot of links to achieve a decent PR though =(
oh and I forgot to mention that its not all about backlinks, Google has started emphasising on page loads as well recently, and not to mention content relevancy!
Frank Jovine
Mar 9th, 2010
I am glad that you found this interesting and I am sure this answers many questions on how many backlinks are needed to move up in rank.
Frank Jovine
Mar 10th, 2010
Readbud,
I just hope the chart is close. I like the fact that we all know how and what is needed to move our PR up.
Ileane @Blogging
Mar 10th, 2010
Hi, the funniest thing for me about finding this chart is that I always thought 10 was the highest rank. I had no idea the scale went up to 11. Do you know of any sites with the rank of 11?
Thanks for the info.
@Ileane
Frank Jovine
Mar 10th, 2010
Ileane,
The highest site rank is Google at a 10. There are no 11’s yet.
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pccure
Mar 12th, 2010
very interesting… thanks for sharing…
Justin
Mar 20th, 2010
My site, sportsalert.com, has 63K backlinks, so I guess with “average” backlinks it’d be PR6! Unfortunately it’s only PR3, I guess that just means that my backlinks realy suck??
Frank Jovine
Mar 24th, 2010
Justin,
Your incoming links should have a good mix of websites that have a higher rank than yours in order to achieve good results and a bump in rank.
Ted Ives
Mar 26th, 2010
Frank, it great to see people are geting some value out of this data
On the PageRank 11 question – yes, no one is a PageRank 11, but someone is probably a PageRank 10.5, 10.75 etc…the toolbar PR that’s reported is rounded down.
In other words, Adobe, Google, Apple, and NASA are probably not all exactly 10.0 but above it somewhere, so I included 11 as a ceiling, probably unattainable but interesting.
Or you could think of it as Nigel Tufnel’s version of PageRank ;-)
Frank Jovine
Mar 26th, 2010
Ted,
That was a great share and thank you for the clarification. I know we don’t see decimal points today, but maybe one day the Google Toolbar will include specific calculations using decimals.
kingston
Mar 31st, 2010
Does anybody know when google will re-re-rank all our sites?
Frank Jovine
Mar 31st, 2010
kington,
Only Google knows that, but I think the toolbar update is overdue. My guess is mid-April, but it’s only a guess.