Thread: Page Rank

How exactly do you find out your page rank, dumb question, but I've asked this before on other forums, they say google toolbar. Well I don’t use IE anymore and never will. Is there any site that shows the exact PR of your site? I've only seen "it could be..."
I use Firefox / Mozilla right now.

Thanks for your help.

ya, there are tons of them. just did a quick google search, and found http://www.pagerank.net/pagerank-checker/

http://www.onlinesportstrivia.com has PageRank 4/10.

Ok, I have a PR3 just like I thought.

Originally Posted by steve

http://www.onlinesportstrivia.com has PageRank 4/10.

I know what my pagerank is, Zion asked what his pagerank was

Oh, sorry about that.

I'm stuck with a pagerank of 2 on my sites. I need to get some more text links.

ya, text links are key, but i dont think its worth it to buy them, but trading is excellent

When you buy them, they usually just put them in the background, where they are not seen by human eyes.

The spider can detect embedded text links, and will remove your site from the Google list for it.

So, it's not really worth the risk to get it from those people...

best thing to do is to update your site every few days, google will spider your site more, or even better get listed in dmoz

Originally Posted by steve

When you buy them, they usually just put them in the background, where they are not seen by human eyes.

The spider can detect embedded text links, and will remove your site from the Google list for it.

So, it's not really worth the risk to get it from those people...

i dont think this happens, but i just think its better, and free to just trade links, although, i am happy to sell text links on my site, lol

Does google know if a link is colored in to match the exact background color? hex code ? Does google also know if a link is like size 1 and that you are trying to cheat? I thought i read it somewhere, just not sure.

I dont know if it knows, but I report sites that do that, not a good idea...

Well, spiders are very, very intelligent these days. Don't underestimate them.

Perhaps when your site gets a little more popular, I might buy some advertising there.

Originally Posted by bluzman32

Does google know if a link is colored in to match the exact background color? hex code ? Does google also know if a link is like size 1 and that you are trying to cheat? I thought i read it somewhere, just not sure.

i think they do. i know you cant put white text on a white background, but dont know about the size, and other things. just dont try to cheat the system, and you will end up with good results

I'm pretty sure I read that google can track the size of a link as well.

I don't have a reason to cheat google, and I can't really think of any good reason anyone would want to cheat. Hmmm...

NO, lots of sites are still on the net that do this... I'd like to report them all, but I know lots are still around.

If it's in the HTML/JavaScript code, you'd better bet Google can read it. Cheating a search engine to get traffic is more work than simply building a site with good content that naturally brings people in.

its just not worth it to eventually get banned from google, for a little extra traffic

You said you can't use the Google toolbar but that doesn't mean you can't use Google. Like others said, if you search PageRank on Google there are tons of sites that can tell you what yours is. A Page Rank script is majorly easy to create and thousands already have.