Google Toolbar PR versus Google Actual (Internal) PR

Most of us are unaware of the fact that

Google toolbar Page rank

(PR) varies from

Google actual (internal) Page rank.

Within Google's actual databases, each of yourpages is stored and does have some form of numerical Page Rank calculated value. Thisis quite likely to differ from the toolbar page rank. It seems to be confusing as most of usrefer to the toolbar for the relevancy of the page but in fact the actual Page Rank valuesare some decimal numbers such as 3.831 which might be shown as PR 4/10 or PR 3/10on the toolbar scale. The Toolbar Page Rank value only indicates that a page is in acertain range of the overall scale. One PR=5 page could be just above the PR=5 divisionand another PR=5 page could be just below the PR=6 division, which is a

vast gulf.

Page Rank is one of the factors that Google considers in determining the importance or

relevancy of a page

. Goggle calculates the page’s importance from the votes (linksvotes) cast for it. It says that when one page links to other page, it is casting a vote for theother page. The more link votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page mustbe. Page rank just not only relies on the quantity of link pointing to a page instead itrelies on the quality and relevancy of those links.

Link Popularity and Link reputation

are the two important terms which are generally associated with the link votes.According to Sergey Brin and Lawrence (Larry) Page, Co-founders of Google, the PR of a webpage is calculated using this formula:

PR = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))

Where:

is the Page Rank of page A,

PR (Ti)

is the Page Rank of pages Ti which link to page A,

C (Ti)

is the number of outbound links on page Ti and

is a damping factor which can be set between 0 and 1.That's the equation that calculates a page's Page Rank. Most probably Google uses avariation of it but they aren't telling us what it is.Google Page Rank as shown on the Google Toolbar is not update very frequently. This isa reading of the actual PR and it’s updated roughly every 3 months or so and so is basedon the historical data – not current ranking data. In contrast Internal Page Rank (ActualPage Rank) is the Page Rank scores that Google uses as part of its ranking algorithm.Those scores are constantly being updated. This is due to the fact that page rank has beenmisused by many of the webmasters all over. As anyone can achieve high rankings bysimply buying enough links from any website, or trading links with any unrelatedwebsite, Page rank has lost its value as a factor in ranking websites accurately.The Google Toolbar is divided up into 10 equal

linear

ranges from 0 - 10. These lineardivisions correspond to a

logarithmic

scale that Google uses. The actual scale is