The following pagerank algorithm equation is the relationship between two pages A and B, with the below example page A receiving an inbound link from page B:

PR-A = (0.15) + (0.85 x PR-B / TOL-B)

PR-A is the PageRank of Page A, PR-B is the PageRank of Page B, and TOL-B is the Total Outbound Links of Page B.

For example if you get a inbound link from a page that has a PR of 6 and on that page there is a total of 6 outbound links (counting the one to your page), a PR of 1 will be added to your page: 0.15 + (0.85 x 6/6) = 1.

If that one inbound link adds a PR of 1 to your page, and you wanted a PR of 5 it would take 5 similar inbound links.


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When you are looking for inbound links just divide the PR of the page by its outbound links and this will give you a general idea of the PR a inbound link from that page would give you.

I have not used the Google sitemaps facility as yet, as I was not sure how it worked. I hope more pages being indexed means that more searches ad thus traffic can be sent to the site.

I am creating a blog at present using Wordpress and notice that there are some plugins available to use sitemaps for blogs.

Thanks for the information.