Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
[Searchlight Digital] The Ultimate Guide to Internal Linking (Part 2): These are R, which is the semantic relevance of a link’s target page’s content to the content of the current page, multiplied by 0.15, Q, which is the likelihood that the page they’re on contains the information they were expecting after clicking a previous link (and thus they are more likely to click a link rather than hit the back button) and u, which is the ratio of incoming links from similar pages to the total number from the entire site.
[Nashville SEO Zombie] PageRank & Link Basics: Longer simple answer: Pagerank is a linear algebra matrix / sum calculation that looks at links coming into and out of your site and various other factors associated with those links. Then, they try to determine the probability that someone might find you site through random clicking.
[Malditang Pinay] Here’s something I didn’t know”¦: Yes, I very much agree Page Rank leaked from a strong homepage should be effectively distributed to more important inner pages, especially when there is a high probability an increase in traffic will be gained when deep linking these pages. Inner pages such as sitemaps or link directories, or even sign-up forms shouldn’t suck too much of that precious PR juice from more worthy pages.
[gomylocal blog] Google PageRank Update May 21, 2008?: Here we’re going to simply use a probability distribution hence the initial value of 0.25. If pages B, C, and D each only link to A, they would each confer 0.25 PageRank to A.
[The Ad Master - Advertise Everywhere] 5 Free MUST HAVE SEO Tools!: I never knew about the SEO Book Keyword Research Tool, it’s really good. I’ll be bookmarking it for sure, thanks for the good info.
[Local Advertising Journal] SEO Strategy: Don’t Count Wiki Out: Answers.com is one of the many legitimate sites that scrapes content from Wikipedia, and it’s an authority one at that. They were nice enough to keep the content they scrape from Wikipedia dofollow.
[Big Oak SEO Blog] Wikipedia is Still Useful for SEO: Oh and although Wikipedia may have a reputation for cracking down on spam, if you offer content only via a discussion page, and say “Yes, that’s my site, I have a conflict of interest, but do you think that this would add to the article?”, people will be much more likely to treat you nicely.
[Google] Google Page Rank - What Is It Worth: If we call L(X) the number of outbound relates on a place X than PR(A) = PR(B)/L(B) + PR(C)/L(C) + PR(D)/L(D). The algorithm also embraces a damping part, which should shield the probability of a surfer stooping clicking on relates.
[Genuine Paid Directory Webmaster Blog] Top 10 Reasons Why Google PageRank Matters: Likewise, if you are shopping for an item online and decided to go ahead with your purchase, would you be more likely to make the purchase from a site with high or low PR, again assuming that all other factors were equal? You most likely would do so without even realizing it because if all other factors are equal, you will have had a greater probability of ending up on the site with the higher PR.
[Web Site Monetization] Google Ranking Tips: “Avoid hidden text or hidden links and don’t employ cloaking or sneaky redirects” - like I already stated above, Google hates to be tricked or mislead. The use of java cloaking or invisible text columns (with irrelevant information, used just to obtain a higher rank or to get more visitors to the site) is strictly forbidden by Google, using this techniques at a large scale, might even get your site banned from Google’s search engine (meaning your site will never show up on Google, no matter what your PageRank score would be).
[Untitled] Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?: “Google calculates pages PRs once every few months (PR update). After a PR update is done, all pages are assigned a new PR by Google and you will have this PR until a new PR update is done.
[CRWE NEWS] www.zibb.com/CRWE.OB: As an alternative to Microsoft IE and Firefox, Chrome can have multiple Web applications open in different browser tabs without cross-application security risks, Google says.
[اÙزایش پیج رنک Ú¯ÙˆÚ¯Ù„ Ùˆ آمار وبلاگ] PageRank: As an example, people could create many message-board posts with links to their website to artificially inflate their PageRank. With the nofollow value message-board administrator can modify their code to automatically insert "rel='nofollow'" to all hyperlinks in posts, thus preventing PageRank from being affected by those particular posts.
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