Google’s “Pagerank” system is not actually owned by Google, it is licensed to them by Stanford University, to whom Google paid about 1.2 million Google shares. Stanford since them sold the shares for a cool $336 million.

Pagerank in a nutshell:

… a PageRank results from a “ballot” among all the other pages on the World Wide Web about how important a page is..

How it is derived is shown here at Wikipedia if you are interested, but really this article concerns itself more with finding out what your Pagerank is, and even more importantly, what it is going to be the next time the system at Google runs an update.

To see what your Pagerank is right now, simply go to Google.com and install the Google toolbar, which any Internet marketer worth thier salt is using every day to simplify tasks anyway. Be sure to select the box to “Enable Pagerank”, then restart the browser, and go to any webage and you will see the result in a little graph on the Google toolbar. Mouse over the graph, and it gives you a text explanation of the rank.

Click the image below for larger version:

Google toolbar pagerank feature

Google toolbar pagerank feature

Now that you know what your pagerank is currently, how can you find out what it will be after the Walmart full of Google Datacenter computers does the nexr update?

Go to a website we built specially for this purpose, www.PageRankPredition.com. There you will simply type in your site domain (this means no http://, just the www.mydomain.comsot of thing) . I also recommend you enter your email address to receive an email with your current Pagerank, as well as automatic updates should your pagerank change.

Then, click the button and the system calculates future Pagerank in a way that is completely unique to this site where:

“Our Prediction algorithm is completely different from any other system you might find. Most systems online will just use results from multiple data centers and give you an average. Our script actually gets all current results, as well as experimental results from Google labs, back-link counts from the AJAX API, MSN and Yahoo, as well as Google. We run checks based on historical data, showing which sites with similar data to current query received in an update. “

More details available on how it works and how future pagerank prediction is done.

Pagerank prediction form

Pagerank prediction form

Once you submit the form, you will see the resulting Pagerank prediction for the next system wide update at Google.
Cheers,
Ron Davies

Ron Davies