What does each PageRank say about a site?

[Pegasus]

I know this is very non-technical, but it seems different page ranks seem to apply to specific kinds of sites.

I often get the question from non-SE-literate people -"I have PageRank X? Is that a good PageRank?"

I usually just refer them to a list I was given by someone, which I've found to be generally accurate.

PR0: Penalty/Starting Rank
PR1: A one-page site that no-one cares about
PR2: A very small-time, very new site
PR3: Probably a new site. 3 is a common first ranking.
PR4: A hobby site or small venture site.
PR5: A reasonable site. Not small-time, but not big-time either.
PR6: Established site, with a reasonable amount of content. Usually the result of the hard work of one person.
PR7: A large venture, often a collaboration or decent-sized company. Can also be long-established sole venture. PR8: Major site. Often the web presence of a large company.
PR9: Very large company or well-known media outlet/internet service.
PR10: Large international company / software company or major search engine.

I'm sure this doesn't apply to everyone, but it works for me and most people I've webbed with :)

What do you think about the list? Does it accurately measure your pagerank? :P

[Stefan]

It perfectly describes my PR6 site, Pegasus. Could you also apply a penalty factor to account for dodgy SEO tricks? Minus 1 for keyword stuffing, minus 2 for linkfarming etc.

[SlyGuy]

PR5: A reasonable site. Not small-time, but not big-time either.

Hmmm.

I'm pretty sure that PR is also industry specific, with that in mind, PR5 is not always a "mid-size" company/organization/website. I've noticed in several industries that a PR5 can represent large companies with great websites. It's a shady area of the PageRank scale and you're grouping a lot of website together which isn't necessarily an indication of quality or quantity.

- Chad

[SlyGuy]

Oh, and Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Pegasus!

:)

[Pegasus]

It applies to my PR6 site as well :P

It's not really a technical scale, so working out penalties would have to be done by other methods.

How are you going getting to PR7? It's a long way? :)

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[Mohamed_E]

As SlyGuy says, "good" PRs vary from segment to segment in the web. You are competing within your segment only, so general or global statements are not very useful.

A few months ago someone (I recall it as being ciml, but am not sure) answered the classic question: How much PR do I need? by saying: One more than your competitors!

Probably also worth saying once again that PR is only one of very many factors that Google takes into account when ranking pages.

[albert]

>> As SlyGuy says, "good" PRs vary from segment to segment in the web. You are competing within your segment only, so general or global statements are not very useful. <<

Seems a presumably reason for what i found recently:
i set up a really small site for a customer (only 18 pages) but with good content, keyword positioning and density and such. Got some 10 incoming links (unforced) and about 5 reciprocal links.

And what happened was:
- top listing for main keywords / - phrases (well, this was intended :)
- page rank 7 (! i tried hard before for much bigger sites to reach PR 6 and was proud when they did)

Don't know if it will persist, but hope so anyway.

But i didn't expect these results really ...

So maybe the quotation above helps explaining what happened.

Anybody with similar experience?

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[lgn]

Page rank tells you how sucessfull the SEO's are, not the size of the company.

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce which has
ontold billions of assets and tens of thousands of employees has a page rank of 3 for the home page.

[vitaplease]

It also depends on which language/country you are looking at:

High Pagerank means your site has to have English content.

The natural inventory of possible link partners to your site is just way lower in other languages.

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[bcc1234]

PR6: Established site, with a reasonable amount of content. Usually the result of the hard work of one person.

LOL, you got me there :)

[Namaste]

P, you left out one:
PR11: Google.com ;)

[chiyo]

And what does PR11 mean? ;)

BTW, nice work pegasus. i agree that pr varies a lot via industry, but as a rough guess your guide has a ring of truth to it!