The Google Pagerank Algorithm and How It Works

19 08 2008

Copyright Ian Rogers, 2002 onwards
(NB. this page was originally hosted on www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/ until I shut that company and website down.)

Introduction

Page Rank is a topic much discussed by Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) experts. At the heart of PageRank is a mathematical formula that seems scary to look at but is actually fairly simple to understand.

Despite this many people seem to get it wrong! In particular “Chris Ridings of www.searchenginesystems.net” has written a paper entitled “PageRank Explained: Everything you’ve always wanted to know about PageRank”, pointed to by many people, that contains a fundamental mistake early on in the explanation! Unfortunately this means some of the recommendations in the paper are not quite accurate. Read the rest of this entry »








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