I still don't understand how PR Works

[Dannoth]

Can someone fully explain to me how the PR of a site works?

 

[peter phillips]

Go through the following links

http://www.rlrouse.com/google-pagerank.html
http://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/

 

[AmD950]

Thanks Peter, Rep added

 

[Dannoth]

Yeah, also rep added.

 

[Castlemelody]

Greetings!

This is how I see it:

When you search in Google for a certain search phrase and that search phrase is found on several webpages, the search result pages (SERPs) will display such that the one with the highest PR are listed on first and the one with the lowest PR are listed last.

Page Rank therefore is Google's way of "ranking" the importance of a website with respect to the search phrase you have searched.

That's how I can simply explain it.

 

[edwinfelix]

In the most basic sense:

1. Google assigns PR to some trustworthy sites.
2. When those sites link to others, PR is passed on.

This is roughly how PR gets passed on:
PR4 = 10PR3 = 100PR2 = 1000PR1
So if a page with PR4 has 10 links, each page linked receives PR3.

Note: in reality it's much more complicated.