Google page rank does not play role in rankings. It does mean important pages coming from citations in the internet to the page.We attempt to measure how to convert the page rank to an equivalent back link weight. This is not a hack of Google page rank algorithm but to show our analysis in how to find ways converting Google page rank to back links, and to extract as much useful information from Google page rank.

We have discovered it uses logarithm system of base 8. This is not accurate but we can say it is a useful logarithmic base. Some mathematical equivalence:

Equivalent Page rank = log (number of backlinks pointing to the URL) to the base 8

The base 8 is computed by data analysis of back links and correlating it to the existing page rank. This is for reference only, we are not recommending you will rely on information such as this.

Illustrative example:

Lets have some link exercise. Yahoo site explorer is the only tool in the net that can give near accurate numbers of back links pointing to the URL without undergoing site verification (Google webmaster tools data is more accurate but requires site verification).

Say we have 3465 back links pointing to the URL from other domains. Computing the equivalent back links to page rank:

log (3465) to the base 8 = 3.9 or PR 4.

If your actual page rank is only 2, Google devalues some of the links for a reason beyond the scope of this article. It now means you have lower quality links (below what “quality” means to Google).

Recommendation: Do not be back link obsessed, instead use the information you have to gauge the quality of your links but again not to manipulate links but to have information of the quality of the pages linking to yours.

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