John Hesch

My Google PageRanks were updated today. My domain johnhesch.com finally got it’s first PageRank of 3, bloggingpro.com was upgraded to 5, kzion.com stayed at 4 but the What’s Playing Now page increased to 5, the KZION weblog increased to 5, Planet LDS got its initial PageRank of 3, and Planet Search hasn’t been assigned a PageRank yet.

Google updates their index about once per month and bases PageRank on many different variables.

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.