Byterslair.i.ph Got PR3
May 8, 2008Yesterday as I look upon the lower right corner of my Mozilla Firefox browser when I open my http://byterslair.i.ph blog it shows the indicator which says 3/10. I can’t seem to believe it. I thought my Mozilla Firefox is going crazy again because of my continuous rapid switching of tabs. Usually, I don’t look at that part of the screen because I’m tired of seeing the N/A in there. For the past 6 months of this blogging thing all I’ve got is N/A. Well, I don’t really care about it before because I don’t actually know the significance of PR until recently. I don’t even know what the abbreviation PR stands for. I thought it was for Peace Relations…hehehe. Then one of my blogger friend ask me about that PR thing, and so before I say anything stupid or ask any dumb question I asked Google first and Google told me to look in Wikipedia. This is what Wikipedia says PR or PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E).
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important".
In simpler term PR or PageRank is your blog popularity status. The higher you’ve got the better. And at this moment the http://byterslair.i.ph got its PR 3 and I’m proud of it. My other blog the Tambayan Ni Byter is also PR2. Darn! I wish life is like blogging.
