Google Raison d’etre is the Page Rank Calculation.

This Calculation is detemined based upon the number of sites that link into a given webpage and their page rank as well. It’s important to remember that the calculation is pagerank and not site rank.

What this means is that if you have a given number of sites linking into your site, your PR rank will be increased. I’m the webmaster of a Video Search Engine - www.directvu.com and I’m often asked what is the number of inbound links a site needs to get a particular page rank.

The Google formula is changing daily, so the answer isn’t so cut and dried. In the past, all you needed was links. Now a days, it’s a combination of factors but has always been based upon the following idea.

The importance of where the link is coming from is very high. If you get a link from Yahoo (PR10 or the best), it much more significant if you get a link from www.someunimportantsite.com which might only have a page rank of 0 or 1.

So the question I’m often asked is how many links (in general) does a webmaster need in order to get listed.

I don’t have a specific answer for small sites but if you look at PR4 or higher sites, you can get some ideas.

I’ve seen PR4 Sites with somewhere between 200 and 300 overall inbound links.

I’ve seen PR5 Rankings on a page with about 1,000 links.

It get’s a little more complicated from here on, I’ve seen PR6 Pages with just 1,250 links and another one that needed over 2,000 to be ranked a PR6.

I suspect that at this point, the distribution of Incoming PR quality starts to become a major factor.

For PR7, you seem to need at least 3,000 links. PR8 raises the bar significantly and requires over 10,000 links.

From here, it’s uphill all the way. To jump from PR8 to PR9 means you need at least 750,000 links.

And finally, if you want a PR10, you probably don’t need to read this article but need about 4 Million inbound links.

paulmcp is the webmaster of www.DirectVuTV.Com