Website Ranking Check: Page Rank (PR)
The Page Rank service from Google is the most widespread method to work out the status of a site but it alone isn’t enough to give us the accurate idea of a site`s quality.
The principle of Page Rank is that sites are divided into eleven groupings with ranks from 0 to 10. The design is that the higher the PR, the better the site`s quality.
Alexa
Contrasting Page Rank, Alex doesn’t divide sites in groupings. Rather, it places them in a catalog. The most popular sites, such as Google, Facebook, or Twitter are at the top. The idea is that the lesser the Alex ranking, the more accepted the site is. Alex allows seeing which region the bulk of a site’s viewers come from.
Compete
Compete.com isn’t as widespread as the first two services because they collect their information from a sample of two million American users only but still, it assists to get an impression if a site is accepted in the US or not.
Quantize
Quantcast is a service aimed largely at the US market. It also collects information from a sample rather than the common internet community but in its case the sample is involved of Web site masters, who enter a code shortened on their sites, thus allowing to track visitors. Quantcast collects its data from internet service providers and ad companies.
Custom Rank
CustomRank.com provides a service that merges several metrics at once to offer a collective ranking. At present, the services it combines are MozTrust, MozRank, PageAuthority, DomainAuthority, and Alexa. The excellent feature of CustomRank is that it makes an effort to balance one service with the other to produce an impartial rating.
MozTrust and MozRank
MozTrust, MozRank, together with DomainAuthority and PageAuthority are all procedures developed by SEOmoz. For that reason, it can be assumed that these two metrics are very useful for SEO functions. MozTrust measures the global link trust score, while MozRank evaluates link status. The more respectable a site’s backlinks are, the higher the MozTrust score.
ComScore
ComScore is another company that uses a sample of 2 million users to give rankings and as a result, isn’t as dependable as PR or Alexa. Likewise to Compete and Quantcast, it is more useful when you plan your promotion budget than when you are searching for sites to get backlinks from.
Google Trends
Google Trends is mainly about search capacity of search phrases but one of its less known uses is to compare how two sites perform over time. So, if you have some sites you want to get previous data for, so that you can forecast their possible future status, you can achieve it with Google Trends.
Ranking
Ranking.com is limited because only the top one million sites are incorporated but if the site you are concerned in is not on the list, this speaks a lot about its reputation. Ranking collects its data from an internet explorer browser toolbar, which means the data is distorted as Firefox and Apple users are excluded from this sample.
