Page rank question

[jacal1]

I've always wondered: if a business has success in developing a super brand, like amazon.com, how would they manage pagerank under the hypothetical (exaggerated I admit) situation where everyone types in the name directly as opposed to following a link?

Does type-in traffic mean anything to pagerank? If I'm at page "A" and type in page "B" in my browser, is that a link in google's mind even if the sites have nothing to do with each other?

 

[mskdhero]

I'm not sure of the answer, but I'd imagine pagerank is calculated off a number of different things only one of which is the number of links. I can also only assume that if you have a super brand that does millions of dollars in business every year the last thing you care about is what your page rank is.

 

[jacal1]

Other thoughts

I believe pagerank is almost solely based on links...and the other part of your response is like saying that big successful companies should stop marketing.

 

[mskdhero]

I believe pagerank is almost solely based on links...and the other part of your response is like saying that big successful companies should stop marketing.

Of course big successful companies need to market themselves (as do all companies), but I'm not quite sure what pagerank has to do with it? I'm still new so maybe I haven't seen the light. If i wanted to get a new product or my company name out there, then I would send out banners, commercials, youtube movies, newsletters, etc. People see those, come to my site and hopefully buy the product. You don't see motorola ads saying "New Pagerank of 9, Visit Us Now"

Edit - Sorry, I didnt mean to get your question sidetracked.

 

[codemerc]

Type-in traffic can't have anything to do with pagerank, Pagerank is merely a google calculation, by definition, type-in traffic doesn't go through google so google doesn't see it.

Only google knows how they calcualte PR, but it's very strongly suggested that it's almost totally to do with backlinks, although the age of a site also counts.

I would suspect if you have an important enough site, you do all the normal SEO and advertising, but you don't particularly care about pagerank, it's only one factor, it's not necessarily important to an established site. It's more impotant when you're small fry, like most of us, trying to build a business....

 

[drinklord]

PageRank, in a supersimplified description:

0) PageRank is not linear. It is logarithmic. Therefore, going from 1 to 2 is easy, whereas going from 6 to 7 requires far more links.
1) Pagerank is a value calculated using backlinks, outbound links, and the number of pages on your site.
2) Inbound links (backlinks) add pagerank, and outbound links remove some pagerank and donate it to the target.
3) The total maximum pagerank allotted to your site as a whole is related to the number of pages on your site.

Hope that helps. You can pretty much ignore point #3, as the full explanation of that is not essential to getting the gist of pagerank.

 

[shockie]

3) The total maximum pagerank allotted to your site as a whole is related to the number of pages on your site.

interesting, i've never heard about this before. do you have any breakdown as to what the limits are, ie minimum 10 pages for pr1, 20 pages for pr2, etc? or an article where you've read about this would be nice too, thanks!