Is there any direct or indirect relation between Google pagerank and search engine ranking?
This was selected as Best Answer I’m going to disagree with both of the above replies. There is a relationship, but it is not direct. Some history: when Google first started, its rankings were mostly based on the PageRank (TM) algorithm, which basically counts link popularity (technically, it diagonalizes the matrix of all links on the web). Early on, PageRank was the main determinig factor in ranking. As Google became more sophisticated, other factors were added to the algorithm. It is now believed that Google counts hundreds of what they call “signals of quality.” It is quite likely that the original PageRank(TM) is one of those signals. So real PR, that is, your actual link popularity, still matters. However, the number you get from the Google Toolbar (“toolbar PR”) and websites that measure PageRank is not the real, current, up-to-date PageRank as calculated by Google. It is several months behind, and it is further believed that Google deliberately distorts the data to make it hard
