How to Improve the PageRank?

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The occurence of a search phrase can thereby be weighted by the length of a document or by its accentuation within a document by HTML tags. PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E). Google assigns a numeric weighting from 0-10 for each webpage o­n the Internet; this PageRank denotes your site's importance in the eyes of Google. The scale for PageRank is logarithmic like the Richter Scale and roughly based upon quantity of inbound links as well as importance of the page providing the link. The PageRank Concept Since the early stages of the world wide web, search engines have developed different methods to rank web pages. Until today, the occurence of a search phrase within a document is o­ne major factor within ranking techniques of virtually any search engine. The occurence of a search phrase can thereby be weighted by the length of a document (ranking by keyword density) or by its accentuation within a document by HTML tags. Improving Your Page Rank There are numerous tips floating around in webmaster circles about how to improve your ranking in search engine results o­n Google. *     Get Those Inbound Links: Since Google ranks your pages according to the number of links pointing at your page, it stands to reason that you should try to get as many links pointing at your pages as possible. This is so obvious that I'm o­nly mentioning it for completeness sake. *     Submit to directories and sit relax. Start o­ne by o­ne and submit your link in all web directories. If you can, try to give a link back (reciprocal link o­n your page) to free directories, some directories does not need it, but if you provide them, their owners will look for your approval first. *     Your Title Tag: Google seems to give weight to the title of your page. By title, I mean the text that is sandwiched between the HTML