Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I realise that the inbound links make a difference to your page rank, but someone has told me that good outbound links can increase your PR. Is this true?
Thanks
RB
There is a probability that outbound links to authority sites can help. There is a current thread about this running here: [webmasterworld.com...]
Please remember that much of what you will learn in here is speculative and you will have to make up your own mind about the significance os some of what you hear.
Edit: Sorry, what I meant above was that they can help your SERPs as opposed to your PR. Apparently PR is not as important as it once was but it is still one of the factors Google uses in its Algo. Here is what they (still) say about this ...
PageRank Technology: PageRank performs an objective measurement of the importance of web pages by solving an equation of more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Instead of counting direct links, PageRank interprets a link from Page A to Page B as a vote for Page B by Page A. PageRank then assesses a page's importance by the number of votes it receives.PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. Important pages receive a higher PageRank and appear at the top of the search results. Google's technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page's importance. There is no human involvement or manipulation of results, which is why users have come to trust Google as a source of objective information untainted by paid placement.
[edited by: BeeDeeDubbleU at 9:43 am (utc) on July 12, 2005]
I didn't think PR had anything to do with G SERP's?
PR has much to do with Google SERPS. However, it is not the PR you see in your toolbar.
Not quite correct. Toolbar PR is somehow a mirror of current internal Google PR. The main difference is toolbar PR is only occasionally updated. Internal Google PR is update more frequently. Thus toolbar PR may be showing what the page PR used to be a couple months or so back, rather than what it is today. This will tend to be relevant if a page quickly gets a lot more links. And probably near irrelevant when the page is such that rarely does it lose or gain a significant amount of links.
We rely on the occasional morsels thrown at us by a mysterious individual known as 'GoogleGuy'.
Of course, we do not know for certain if 'GoogleGuy' actually works for Google.
