I have been blogging for six years already but I never knew the Google Pagerank most bloggers rave about was named after a person. Yes, it was named after CEO, Larry Page; Google's co-founder. Oh please don't laugh at me, but all these years I thought it's called pagerank because it is your web page that is ranked. Makes sense too, right?


Anyway, if you too, don't know what a pagerank is, it's a numerical value (0-10) that is used by Google to determine the importance of a web page.

PageRank works by counting the number and quality of links to a page to determine a rough estimate of how important the website is. The underlying assumption is that more important websites are likely to receive more links from other websites. (wikipedia)

When a web page has high ranking, that means it is important and has better authority in leading people who are searching the web to better sources.