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Google Page Rank Checker Tools – PR, Link Popularity & Site Worth

07/02/2010  |  Category: Blog  |  185 views  |   Print This  |   Email This  | 

Google Page Rank is a key driver for webmasters. The higher the Page Rank a web page gets, the higher the “worth” of the page. A domain with lots of pages with high Google Page Ranks has a higher “value” in the eyes of search engines, especially Google. Such websites sell high in auctions too!

An interesting background on Google Page Rank.

The phrase Page Rank was coined by Larry Page, one of the co-founders of Google, as a way to evaluate the billions of web pages in the Google Index. The Page Rank algorithm computes more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms while assigning a Page Rank.

Free Online Page Rank Checking Tools

The most popular is PR Checker Info. You simply enter the website URL & it returns the highest Page Rank out of a number of datacenters. Over a period of time we found the results from this website to be fairly accurate.

The other is Smart Page Rank. Along with the Page Rank, this website provides additional information like Alexa rank, number of pages indexed in various popular search engines, number of backlinks & an approximate website worth (which is really of no importance for any business).

Both these free online Google Page Rank Checking Tools provide you with custom buttons to show off your page rank on your website.

If you are too keen on knowing Page Ranks all the time, you can use the Page Rank Addon for Mozilla Firefox. Its a small code that displays the PR for any website on the active browser window.

Note that Page Ranks change over time & although unlikely, you could get different page ranks for the same domain, from different datacenters that you poll. It is best to go with the highest PR number returned from any of the datacenters.