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Old 25-01-2004, 11:12 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Default Re: Google PR

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Originally Posted by becki
what does a high Google PR mean and where do you find it?
To download the Google Toobar, go to:

http://toolbar.google.com

There's a little bar in the middle that measure PR with a green fill - a mouse over will highlight a score from 1-10.

Itss basically a measure of link popularity. As Google is effectively (or was effectively - cf Austin!!) a links-based search engine, it means that the link popularity of a page can be somewhat loosely associated with its rankings and site traffic.

For example, a page that ranks around 1 on the Google Toolbar would not normally be expected to rank highly - or get as much traffic - as an equivalent page with a higher PR, such as PR6, for example.

Therefore lots of webmasters will obsess with building their PR, as a basic guide to how well they must be helping improve their rankings in the search engines, as well as site traffic from those searches.
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