Julian Price

Google Scores a Perfect Ten - How Rare Is a Google Page Rank of 10: A Beginners Guide


Posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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How many of us love to score a perfect ten? Assuming of course, that ten out of ten were right, rather than wrong! A score of 10 is often the holy grail for anything being marked or graded, such as a spelling test, a piece of work and many movies and videogames also seek a perfect score out of ten. Pages on Google are no different, with scores ranging from zero to ten, with ten being the ultimate dream or the pages seen as having the most importance.

If your website has a Google page rank of 10 then it is quite likely that your name is Mr Google or Mr Adobe as a perfect page rank is extremely rare and extremely difficult to achieve. At the time of writing the page rank here at SearchWarp is five. In the industry this is deemed to be very strong and commendable. There are many, many websites out there that would give almost anything for a rank that high.

So, which websites or pages do have a Google Page Rank of 10? Perhaps unsurprisingly Google Search itself has the perfect page rank. It would be a little odd if didn't I think, seen as it's probably the most visited page on the internet. Another unsurprising ten out of ten is the main page for acquiring the Adobe Flash Player, a little bit of software that allows us to see all the little animations and movies through our web browsers.

A couple of the more interesting sites to have the top Google page rank include the National Portal of India and The European Library, but after this, scores of 10 are very few and far between. Why not see if you can spot some on your travels around the internet? The Twitter home page currently has a Page Rank of nine.

How does the Google Page Ranking system work then? Well I am afraid I am nowhere near technical enough to be able to impart such wisdom, other than to tell you its very complicated! Perhaps SearchWarp's own Bruce Horst can lead you in the right direction if you ask him really nicely!

As found on Wikipedia, Google itself describes the Page Rank system as follows, " Page Rank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important".

Perhaps that reveals why I didn't attempt to explain it myself! I am a writer not a mathematician!

Where exactly is the Page Rank shown? If you use Internet Explorer and cannot see the little Google Page Rank display on your toolbar then all you should need to do is go into your toolbar options and select "tools". In there, there are usually options to switch certain things on and off such as popup blockers and bookmarks. There should also be an option that says " Page Rank See Google's view of the importance of a page". This should also show you what the icon looks like. Just check this box and when you go back to your browser, the icon should now be in your toolbar for you to check the ranks of each page you visit.
Julian has diplomas in freelance journalism (with distinction), copywriting and proofreading. He is also a creative writer and poet who writes both professionally and for pleasure. Julian has written articles for an internet marketing company and although this medium is often restricted by topic, his writing still maintains a unique and often humourous style, with many of his articles achieving good results on search engines. He has found the discipline involved with this kind of work to be a great writing exercise and believes it enhances and improves other areas of his writing. Julian is becoming an established freelance writer and many of his articles here at searchwarp are a showcase of the variety and quality of his work.

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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)
» left by Jim Johnson
 2 years 61 days ago.
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I am just learning to SEO. I liked your article. I use Firefox not IE. I could not find where to turn on the page rank, any ideas? 
» left by Julian Price 2 years 61 days ago.
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Hi Jim, Thanks a lot for reading and for your comment. I just tried it on firefox and it works the same way. You may need to install the Google Toolbar itself though. Once you have, there should be a little icon of a spanner or wrench in your toolbar. Should be straight forward from there. Hope that helps. Julian
» left by Ben Jones
 2 years 58 days ago.
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Since the term PageRank was coigned by Google and since they created the algorithym to determine a sites pagerank, it's probably not terribly suprising that they're one of the 10/10 sites. :)
» left by Julian Price 2 years 58 days ago.
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Precisely Ben! Thanks for the comment. Much appreciated.
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