Each of the search engines has different criteria when it comes to listing your website on their first page. It is possible that you could have PR of zero and get the first listing. However, this would most likely be only on a keyword with no competition. Example: “money for homeless” Obviously this is not a word that anyone is typing into the search engines.
If the keyword you are trying to get high rankings on is competitive, usually the top spots go to relevant sites that have the highest PR.
As the PageRank formula is an algorithm, how many links would it take from a PR 4 site webpage to equal one link from a PR5 site?
The answer to this is kept top secret by Google and Yahoo, but some industry experts predict that you would need between 8-10. So if that is true than it would take from 60-100 PR3 links to equal just 1 PR5 link based on PR alone.
Personally I think this is just a vague guideline that doesn’t hold true in many cases. A PR5 link will be more or less valuable depending on: how many pages it is already linking to, it’s relevance to your website theme, and other hidden factors.
How do I get onto the first page of Google?
Getting onto the first page of Google and the other search engines for a particular keyword or keyword phrase depends on 3 factors:
- Content: what your webpage contents say that it is about in relation to a particular keyword.
- Link Reputation: what other web-pages say your webpage is about and the determined quality and authority of those web-pages.
- Authority: how important your website is in the “eyes” of the search engines based on the amount of links and quality of links pointing to your site (PageRank)
The position that your site will get depends on the ‘score’ that it receives based on these factors. Remember that this ‘score’ is always in relation to a particular keyword.
If your website is about “Make Money Online”, your website can achieve rankings related to this keyword. You won’t be able to rank for “online money” or “make online” unless you have that content in your website.
If you would like to get higher search engine rankings I suggest you start to learn about how to optimize your content and how to get quality links to your site. Reading SEO category of this blog would be good start!
