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Title: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: chrishubber on October 28, 2011, 02:42:13 AM
To calculate the PageRank for a page, all of its inbound links are taken into account. These are links from within the site and links from outside the site.

PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + ... + PR(tn)/C(tn))

That's the equation that calculates a page's PageRank. It's the original one that was published when PageRank was being developed, and it is probable that Google uses a variation of it but they aren't telling us what it is. It doesn't matter though, as this equation is good enough.

In the equation 't1 - tn' are pages linking to page A, 'C' is the number of outbound links that a page has and 'd' is a damping factor, usually set to 0.85.

We can think of it in a simpler way:-

a page's PageRank = 0.15 + 0.85 * (a "share" of the PageRank of every page that links to it)

"share" = the linking page's PageRank divided by the number of outbound links on the page.

A page "votes" an amount of PageRank onto each page that it links to. The amount of PageRank that it has to vote with is a little less than its own PageRank value (its own value * 0.85). This value is shared equally between all the pages that it links to.
Title: Re: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: myway on November 02, 2011, 07:00:30 AM
Is it real formula to calculate pagerank?
Happy to get it, thanks
Title: Re: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: macwilson on November 04, 2011, 03:55:25 AM
Personally, I don't believe in Page Rank. Page rank has no value nowadays. The most important thing you should concentrate on is the keyword rankings in SERPs. This is what going to give you benefits through the search engines.
Title: Re: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: kevinberman on November 06, 2011, 11:29:38 PM
According to Sergey Brin and Lawrence (Larry) Page, Co-founders of Google, the PR of a webpage is calculated using this formula:

PR(A) = (1 - d) + d * SUM ((PR(I->A)/C(I))
Title: Re: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: Taba Rama on November 07, 2011, 03:26:29 PM
Its better concentrate on Quality of Backlinks and writing Original Content. Just leave that to the Googler..!!
Title: Re: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: anandiphone on November 09, 2011, 04:00:06 AM
It is very difficult to understand this algorithm.
Title: Re: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: infoanil on November 09, 2011, 05:45:08 AM
Quote from: myway on November 02, 2011, 07:00:30 AM
Is it real formula to calculate pagerank?
Happy to get it, thanks
Hi, thanks but this is too difficult to understand, Please can you tell me in simple way.
Title: Re: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: myname on November 10, 2011, 06:53:20 AM
Quote from: macwilson on November 04, 2011, 03:55:25 AM
Personally, I don't believe in Page Rank. Page rank has no value nowadays. The most important thing you should concentrate on is the keyword rankings in SERPs. This is what going to give you benefits through the search engines.
yes i totally agree with you my website have good page rank i like it but i want visitors in my site but with page rank i am not getting any visitor for my website....
Title: Re: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: shockgarden143 on November 16, 2011, 03:02:07 AM
Nice information.Page Rank is based on lot of factors and it is updated time to time by the Google.
Title: Re: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: Jacobdixon on November 16, 2011, 05:51:34 AM
Thats really a nice information, it will be very useful to many SEO people
Title: Re: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: sumitsparx on November 18, 2011, 01:13:56 AM
I think pageRank depend on Back link Quality.
Title: Re: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: KGM1 on December 21, 2011, 04:49:42 PM
Page Rank of website is calculated by the number of dofollow backlinks from different domains.
Title: Re: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: Alex Thompson on August 12, 2013, 04:50:18 AM
Great..
Title: Re: How is PageRank calculated?
Post by: petersmith5544 on August 13, 2013, 08:49:22 AM
PageRank is calculated is by the number of incoming links (also called backlinks) a site has.