PageRank is a standard and much discussed topic in SEO and while it is relevant, the methods and techniques discussed are often not. There is a lot of discussion around the original PageRank formula which is relevant, but there have been many changes and improvements since 1998. If you are an SEO who works with PageRank, you should read the following list of papers because they show that substantial change has ocurred since the early beginnings of the algorithm.
IMO there MozRank is far more valuable to SEOs than PageRank for the purpose of link analysis and seeing how the whole site structure holds, but that’s a discussion for another day.
Recent:
A cautious surfer for PageRank
Traps and pitfalls of topic-biased PageRank
An Arnoldi-type Algorithm for Computing PageRank
N-Step PageRank for Web Search
Maximizing PageRank via outlinks
Older:
Google’s pagerank and beyond: The science of search engine rankings
A Survey on PageRank computing
PageRank without Hyperlinks: Structural ReRanking using Links Induced by Language Models
An Analytical Comparison of Approaches to Personalizing PageRank
PageRank on semantic networks, with application to word sense disambiguation
The condition number of the PageRank problem
Beyond PageRank: machine learning for static ranking
Personalizing pagerank based on domain profiles
A reordering for the PageRank problem
The distribution of PageRank follows a power-law only for particular values of the damping factor
Alternatives to PageRank:
BackRank: an Alternative for PageRank?
PageRank Modifications & Alternatives (PPT)
Specifially aimed at SEO:
The Cost of Attack of PageRank
How PageRank Works & Why the Original PR Formula May be Flawed
Check out how to play to PageRank yourself:
Loved this post.. found it on Sphinn.. Appriciate your efforts… Looking forward to more collections of such papers … Thanks
Thank you Sandeep
nice reference. michael nielsen’s discussion of pagerank a la mapreduce might also be of interest.
Cheers Jake, that’s a good one.
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Wow first it was Michael Martinez now it’s you! Excellent resources and posts. I came through to read one article… I have been here now for about 1 hour. Great work
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