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Originally Posted by Oak
Capoeira Canal is currently 4th on page 1 of Google when using the search term Capoeira in Google, UK.
Is this not the same as Page Ranking? Page I understand is the name of the guy behind Google Inc. which created the system.
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No, they are different concepts entirely.
PageRank is an
absolute number assigned to your website; this ranks it among
all websites. The numbers 0 - 10 represent broad divisions among this scale; these divisions are almost certainly logarithmic in ranking rather than linear (so 10 is many, many times better than 5).
When you do a Google search, however, the results are controlled by a
relative ranking system: relative to the search terms.
Your site has a pageRank of 3, and Google.com has a pageRank of 10. But in a search for Capoeira, you beat Google.com in the rankings.
All other things being equal, pageRank 4 will beat pageRank 3. But the
relevance of your content to a specific search term is the most important thing.