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Question: Google Still Uses PageRank. Here’s What It Is & How They Use It.

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Question: Google Still Uses PageRank. Here’s What It Is & How They Use It.

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PageRank formula: PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + … + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))

Contents
- Google still uses PageRank
- Fun math, why the PageRank formula wrong
- History of PageRank
- How PageRank has changed
- Can you still check your PageRank?
- How to improve your PageRank

Image Credits: Ahrefs
Source: https://lnkd.in/gmNuBhti

Reference: Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page - The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine - https://lnkd.in/e_tPS7S

Great article from Ahrefs and Team Patrick Stox, Reviewed by Tim Soulo, Joshua Hardwick, Michal Pecánek

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"History of PageRank" timeline infographic on blue background

First published on LinkedIn on Dec 21, 2023, 4:09 PM UTC (original). Kept here in full so it stays available; the media are this site's copies of the ones on LinkedIn, also in Venkata Pagadala - Universe.

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