Google PageRank (PR) is a measure from 0 -10 of how important Google thinks a webpage is. In Google's eyes a webpage with a PageRank of 10/10 is very important and a webpage with a PageRank of 0/10 is not very important. If you have the Google toolbar installed on your browser then it will automatically tell you the PageRank of any webpage you are looking at, if you do not have one then you can check Google PageRank (PR) by visiting the following page.

Check PageRank

Generally websites with higher PageRank will get better rankings in Google's search results. Google takes into consideration many things when it is calculating PageRank, one of the most important factors is the amount of quality incoming links a webpage has. Generally the more quality links a webpage has the higher the Google PageRank (PR) will be, therefore you can increase PageRank by gaining more quality links.

Google PageRank (PR) updates about once every three months. People have come up with ways of trying to predict what your Pagerank is likely to be at the next update. Although no one can tell for sure the guys at Iwebtool have come up with a pretty good prediction tool.

Iwebtool PageRank Predictor

This tool does not always get it right, it does give you a very good idea of what your future PageRank is likely to be though, if you work hard at link building you will see your predicted PageRank increase and when the next update comes you should see your PageRank increase.

For a more indepth analysis of PageRank, please read Phil Cravens article PageRank Explained.

Google PageRank (PR)