Quality backlinks could include links from reputable article directories or sites, forums, and blogs related to your site. Reputable directories, such as a directory of chiropractors pointing to a specific chiropractic site, are also of high quality. “Spammy” backlinks from unrelated sites and link farms can actually hurt your page ranking.

Remember, you can’t change the age of your site however you can increase the number of quality backlinks to it. Even the most popular sites promoting products nationally or worldwide in certain industries have a page ranking of only 5 (pr5) so I would recommend comparing your pagerank against your competitors for a more realistic representation.

My experience shows me that local businesses competing against only other local businesses really shouldn’t worry about page rank scores much at all. However, whether you’re a local, regional, national, or worldwide business, the pagerank tool can also be quite valuable in checking the pagerank of sites you are seeking backlinks from.

Page Rank (PR) for the online business directories, blogs, and social bookmarking directories is worth paying attention to because the higher the PR the more power or “link juice” you gain through the backlink created to your site within that directory.

The easiest way to view page ranks is to use “SEO Quake” within the Mozilla Firefox web browser. To install, simply go to “Tools” then “Add-Ons” – then search for SEOquake or SEO Quake. The install takes just a few seconds then you’re off to the races.

The tool below also determines your page ranking. Note note that you will be directed away from my blog, so make sure to bookmark my blog first.