What does PR3 mean and how do u know?

**Blondie** · 09-23-2008 01:01 AM

Hi, i know this sounds so stupid, but someone told me i have page3 ranking. i have no idea how they found that out? can anyone tell me? my site is on my signature. Also what is the best page ranking you can have? isnt it page 1? i thought page 1 would be the best as ur on the first page? also i really want to know more about the SEO terms and how to increase traffic. ive tried to read up on it on the net, but there is just so much info on it. can anyone help ??

**flnazrael** · 09-23-2008 01:19 AM

They're talking about Google PageRank, which is one of their measures of a site's link popularity. It has less and less to do with actual ranking anymore - low PR sites beat high PR sites all the time.

You can see a site's PR through Google Toolbar, or several Firefox extensions, or by using one of the online PageRank checkers.

That data is usually pretty old, and it is a really bad representation of true PageRank which is from 0 to somewhere in the billions. So 0-10 is a very, very rough approximation. There can be a huge difference between two sites which are showing the same PR value.

Google does an export every 3-5 months... they did one about a month ago so the data is still somewhat fresh.

**DennisChang** · 09-23-2008 01:20 AM

No, you got a pagerank of 4 instead. You can install google toolbar and it will show the pagerank of the website you visited.

Having a higher PR would be better. You can have values from 0 to 10. Pagerank will affect the position of your site when people do a google search. Pagerank is determined by the quantity and quality of links to your site.