Page Rank Numbers

[Jihad Joe]

Being in the SEO field, we can all agree that a websites pagerank is not based on incoming links alone, but the quality of incoming links. I've ran across an interesting article illustrating the difference between page ranks.

"The toolbar does not show your actual PageRank, only an approximation of it. It gives you an integer rank on a scale from 1-10. We do not know exactly what the various integers correspond to, but we're sure that their curve is similar to an exponential curve with each new "plateau" being harder to reach than the last. I have personally done some research into this, and so far the results point to an exponential base of 4. So a PR of 6 is 4 times as difficult to attain as a PR of 5.

The exponential base is important because it illustrates how broad a range of pages can be assigned a particular PR value. The difference between a high PR of 6, and a low PR of 6, could be hundreds or thousands of links. So if your PR as reported by the toolbar increases or drops, it's important to remember that it could be the result of a small change, or a large change. Additionally, it's possible to lose or gain links and see no change in your reported PageRank."
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/top-10 ... s-revealed

[DJ]

I believe most of what you have put here to be accurate Khalid.

Keep in mind the original purpose of Page Rank by Google was for their own purposes and it illustrates the rank of sites around the world in terms of LINKS. It has nothing to do with CONTENT or anything else.

Typically if we have even ONE PR8 site in the world linking to us it will likely get us a PR of 7.

However, over the least 2 years people began to exploit this tool and there is theories over how accurate it even is now at this point. It is my own belief that the article you placed here is an excellent theory as to where it is now at. I dont believe it displays accurate information and is likely sandboxed for up to 1 year! (so we are not seeing accurate info!)

In the end however, it is still a tool to see how well "LINKED" a site is. One other important note about it: A site can only receive a PR up to its highest link partner.

For example: If we have 100000 sites that are all a PR of 3 linking to us, then we are likely only going to attain PR OF 2 or 3.

In TechWyse case there is a PR of 6 which means we either of many 6's linking to us or a few 7's.

Ok?