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I am just getting started in SEO, and I want to check the Page Rank of one of my sites. All google docs say to use their toolbar to check Page Rank. However I'm using Chromium. I could check with Firefox, but I'm curious if there's a way to check the page rank without using it. I see many sites for checking it, but they all seem a little spammy.

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I find it delightfully ironic that Chrome (by default) offers no means to do this. – Tim Post♦ Jul 21 '10 at 17:45
You say Chrome can't do it by default, is there some way to turn it on? (And yes I'm suprised google haven't released a toolbar for this for their browser) – Rory Jul 21 '10 at 18:23
The google toolbar isn't the only toolbar that shows the PageRank. – nute Jul 22 '10 at 20:45

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PageRank is a useless metric to chase and I wouldn't bother with it. With that caveat, if you know PHP and have a host that supports it, check out this tutorial: http://bohuco.net/blog/2010/07/google-ranking-checker-class-in-php/

Also, just for clarification, websites don't have PageRank, individual pages do.

Edit: Here is a PageRank checker for Chrome.

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It's indeed useless, the website I am building at the moment doesn't have a page rank and still score a page 2 and a page 5 on some keyword for Google. – HoLyVieR Jul 21 '10 at 20:25
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Yep, that's what their own Webmaster help site says about it too: sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/… : "In fact, don't bother thinking about it. We only update the PageRank displayed in Google Toolbar a few times a year; this is our respectful hint for you to worry less about PageRank" – Zhaph - Ben Duguid Jul 23 '10 at 2:24
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There are several web apps that can do this for you, I personally use CubeStat

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As far as I know, there is currently no way of doing this via an API, though there are some hacks (and many sites that will report on this for you). Use your favourite search engine to search for "my pagerank" for a long list of sites.

Be aware that raw PageRank doesn't really mean a lot in terms of position in the SERPs; it's more bragging rights than anything. It is only one of may factors that Google uses to determine relevance, authority, trust, etc.

Have a look at this analysis of Google's Reasonable Surfer patent for some of the factors that Google considers for relevance. There are many other tidbits / clues out there for other factors, but going down the garden path of trying to understand Google is a recipe for LOTS of hard work and, ultimately, insanity :)

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I use the PageRank Extension, but there's heaps more under "PageRank" in the extensions library.

As others have said though, it's not a very valid way of judging a site, though I do still have it there out of curiosity.

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By Chromium do you mean the Google Chrome Browser?

There are plenty of extensions to Chrome that can show the PageRank, just search for "SEO" in the extension library.

But then again, I agree with everyone that says that PageRank is not that interesting. However most of those add-ons show you more than that, so they could be interesting.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/oangcciaeihlfmhppegpdceadpfaoclj?hl=en

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Chromium is a version of Google Chrome that has been recompiled for the Linux desktop. – Rory Jul 26 '10 at 13:30

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