PageRank is the value that Google assigns to a particular web page which represents the importance of that page on the internet according to Google. Whenever one page will link to another web page, according to Google it is in effect voting for the other page. The more votes that a particular page has the higher its PageRank would be.

Not many people know how exactly PageRank is calculated by Google. Anyone who is trying to increase their PageRank should first try to understand how PageRank is calculated. Google calculates PageRank of the all the pages on the Google Index by taking into consideration all of the links that are exchanged between websites.

Whenever a page links to another page it will share a particular value of its PageRank with the other web page. What this actually means is that if a page with PageRank 4 links to your site and five other outbound links then it will be of more value than linking to a page that has a PageRank of 8 and 25 different outbound links. PageRank of the link is not the only factor which is important but the number of links are also important.

If there are more links on a page then your website will get a lesser PageRank value from them. To begin with it is fairly easy to reach PageRank of 3, but from there it gets more difficult. Once you have a PageRank of 4 it will get increasingly difficult to progress from there due to the competition. To get a higher PageRank than 4 the page will require very interesting and important content.

It is absolutely difficult to cross the mark of PageRank 8. PageRank 8 and above are only allotted to those websites which are crucial for the internet. Also, every time that you add a link to your page there is a chance that your PageRank might get lowered. So it is important to choose wisely and have few links.

The PageRank is calculated and updated around four times every year. With every update the PageRank of a particular page tends to be different. What one should also keep in mind is that PageRank is totally different than page rank. PageRank is only one factor based on which the search engine positioning of a page is determined whenever a user searches for a particular keyword or phrase. There are many other factors other than PageRank which determine how the page will be displayed on search results.