PageRank is the ranking metric Google originally created to show the value of a webpage. It has been around since 1996 when Larry Page created the term as part of his research project on search engines at Stanford University. PageRank was based on scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest and 0 being lowest. Webmasters have looked to this ranking metric for almost 2 decades as an indication of how well their website is performing in Google. The PageRank algorithm is pretty complicated, you can read more about it here. But basically, it comes down to the quality of content on the website and quality of links pointing at the website, from other websites (that is as simple as the explanation gets folks).
PageRank Toolbar No Longer Updated
PageRank has been on the outs for a long time. But now, Google has gone on record saying they will no longer be updating the …