Enough Of PageRank Lets See In What It Really Helps

Explains whether Google PageRank does influences index.

[umesh]

Hello all,

Maybe I am new to this forum but not to search engine optimization – we all know that sites rank high on Google if they have a good PageRank. Some say it does help in Yahoo too. But I am having a very different question? Does PageRank influences you index?
If you have PageRank 9 (I know what I am talking about) your site gets indexed in just more than a week, if PageRank 8 much longer……if PageRank 1 much much longer.

E.g: [msn.com...] PageRank 9
[bbc.co.uk...] PageRank 9

See Google cache for both of these pages and you will see that these pages were index on the same day. (Refer the dates)
Regards,
Umesh Gholap

[ciml]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Umesh.
(Make sure to check out paynt's welcome post [webmasterworld.com])

In "The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web", Brin & Page tell us that: "The optimal order is to crawl pages in exactly the order of their rank according to an evaluation function", they go on to tell us that PageRank is an effective way to order the crawling.

I am fortunate to have access to the logs of a Web server with hundreds of sites, ranging from PR0 to PR7. The crawl order does largely seem to follow PageRank, but the 'Fresh' fetches can make this hard to see.

[chris_f]

IMHO

PageRank does have alot to do with when, how ofter and how in depth the crawl will be. HOWEVER, this is not the only factor. They was a very good article on this on another site about a month ago I can't remember where thou.

Chris.

[agerhart]

I believe you are referring to "refreshing" more so than "indexing". Regardless, you are correct, PageRank does have an effect on the frequency of refreshes and indexing.

It is correct that a PR8 gets crawled more frequently than a PR2. This being said, there are sites with PR5,PR6, and PR7 that also get crawled and refreshed on a heavy basis.

[edit_g]

Our sites range in PR- the highest is 7 and that gets crawled on average 3 times a month with two updates for some of our high pr pages in between the main updates.
High pagerank also means that we can compete effectively with some of our competitors who use doorway pages and other sneaky tricks without resorting to their methods.
The worst thing about page rank is trying to explain to your boss (who was told to install the Google toolbar by a friend) why it changes every month. God forbid he should start doing keyword research....