SEO - (Search Engine Optimizer) - The PageRank Equation
Here is the official PageRank equation. It is calculated by solving an equation that includes each of the billions of web pages in the Google index:
PR = 0.15 + 0.85 [(PR / total links ) + (PR / t otal links ) + ] (y ou r pag e) ( pag e A) ( pag e A) ( p age B) ( pag e B)
A couple of observations to note about the PR equation:
PR is based on individual web pages not on a website as a whole.
The PR of each page that links to your site in turn is dependent on the PR of the pages that link to it, and so on iteratively.
A links va lue (amount of PageRank or voting power forwarded to the linked-to page) is at most only 85% of the linking pages PageRank value, and this value is diluted (decreased) by the number of other links on that page.
PR has nothing to do with keywords or text in links - it is purely dependent on link quantity and link strength, as discussed previously. Some may incorrectly conclude that a link from a page with a PR = 4 and with only a
few outgoing links is worth a more than a link from a page with a PR = 6 with 100 outgoing links because for the latter, the voting power or value is divided up among 99 other links.
However, you must remember the logarithmic nature of actual PageRank. A link from a PR = 6 pa ge with lots of outbound links may indeed be worth more than a link from a PR = 4 page that has only a few outbound links.