How to tell the Page Rank of a page

[wmburke]

Can anyone help?

I have tried several techniques..

Is there a sure-fire way to determine the numerical page rank of a particular page?

I see this thread re: a PR jump... How are theses numerical figures being obtained... and from where..(e.g. PR "2" jumped to PR "5") ..?

[mcavill]

i think people here are just talking about the toolbar PR displayed - when you hover over the green bar it should say Googles blah blah (x/10)

[Marcia]

Some probably can tell or estimate the *exact* PR, but not most people. For simple whole number PR, we download the Google Toolbar [toolbar.google.com]. For those with Linux or Macs, for sites in the Google directory there's a little graph next to each listing and they're listed in descending PR order.

But it's rounded, there can be a high or low PR, like with money $5.75 is more than $5.25. but the equivalent with PR would still show PR5 on the toolbar.

You can kind of tell whether a homepage is on the high or low side by interior pages. If homepage and interior are all PR5, chances are the homepage is on the high side of PR5. If interior are PR4, it's lower end PR5 for the homepage. And those could be higher or lower PR4 - you can kind of tell by pages those link to (that aren't linked to from the homepage)- whether that third tier of pages is PR4 or PR3 - or less, if there are loads of links, which will dilute the value of each link because it's divided up further.

If you have the toolbar you can see what the PR of Yahoo categories is, which would give weight to pages listed depending on how many sites are listed in the particular category.

[wmburke]

Thanks, Marcia..

Does this mean there's no app/tool I can get that will actually give me a whole number for a PageRank?

All I can do is rely on the green slider in my Google toolbar..?

[ogletree]

Put your mouse ove the green bar and a message will tell you.

[DaveN]

Put your mouse over the green bar and a message will tell you.

and when was the TBPR actually correct?

DaveN

[dirkz]

All I can do is rely on the green slider in my Google toolbar..?

Don't you like green sliders :)

There are some means to get more exact. Look for the handy dandy PR guide :)

[plumsauce]

green slider

not having a toolbar of my own, what happens
if you slide it all the way to the right?

is it true that the new version in beta has a
user customisable slider?

:)

[wmburke]

Hey dirkz,

Where, pray tell do I get the handy-dandy PR Guide..?

[dirkz]

wmburke, just search for it on Google :) It should be #1 for the phrase I gave you. But beware, it's all about green sliders in the Google directory.

plumsauce, to be honest I don't give much on TPR, it's not very important, and I'm pretty sure I have NOT the latest Toolbar installed. So I don't know whether there is a fancier version :)

DaveN is right, even if TPR had some value most of the time it's just false.