How to Find the PR (Page Rank) for your Page

One way to see the PR (Page Rank) for your web page is to download and install the Google Toobar.Google Toolbar is available for both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

Alternate Toolbars to View Page Rank

The Googlebar project has created a Google Toolbar replacement which functions under Mozilla, Netscape 7, and Phoenix/Firebird.

Tapouillo has created a JavaScript extension for FireFox and Mozilla to display Page Rank much like the Google Toolbar does in Internet Explorer.

PRGooglebar is a toolbar which displays Google Page Rank under Mozilla and Firefox.

Web Sites which Display Page Rank

A great way to see the PR (Page Rank) of multiple pages, and without installing the Google toolbar, is to use the Google Page Rank Report at Top25Web.com.

Another great web-based Page Rank tool is the Visual Page Rank Tool. It displays the PR of every link on a web page.

Other web site tools to check Google Page Rank include PRinformer, searchengine Engine, Google Ranking Report, PageRank Checker, Google PagerankGET, RankWhere, iWebTool and Freshes Check Google Page Rank.

PageRank Tracking Tools

An excellent tool for tracking both Page Rank and SERPS over a long period of time is the DigitalPoint Keyword Tracker.

Microsoft Windows based tools to Display Page Rank

GoogRank is a Microsoft Windows program which displays Page Rank.

A command-line version, GoogRankCmd, is also available.

Macintosh tools to Display Page Rank

Digitalpoint created a PageRank Toolbar Widget For Macintosh with Konfabulator.

Search Engines Which Display Page Rank

The Prog, ThinkBling, PRGoogle, and PR Search search engines display Google results, but also display the PR of each search result.

Add a Page Rank Display Button to your Web Page

If youare willing to give up an outbound link to PageRank.net, you can add this little graphic to your web page to proudly display it's page rank for all the world to see.

Google Pagerank Tools offers similar, if less attractive, buttons.

Create your own Page Rank Checking Tool

Anyone can create their own tool to check Google Page Rank. The most difficult part has been creating the proper query to the Google servers. The Google PageRank query uses a checksum based upon the URL being queried.

The checksum algorithm utilized by the Google toolbar appears to be based upon lookup2.c by Bob Jenkins.

Alex Stapleton, Vijay "Cyberax" Bhatter and Andy Doctorow have created a PHP implementation of the Google checksum algorithm, and also a PHP implementation of a PageRank checking tool.

A person using the pseudonym Raistin Majere created a PHP scipt to check Google Page Rank.

The source code for Google PageRankGET is also available.

Marneus Calgar & Defoer Laurent Developper and Uncopyrightable both ported the Google checksum algorithm to Pascal.

Andy Doctorow created an implementation of the the Google checksum algorithm in Assembly language.