ranking+of+sites

 PageRank is Google’s system for ranking web pages. A page with a higher PageRank is deemed more important and is more likely to be listed above a page with a lower PageRank.  Google considers over a hundred factors in computing a PageRank and determining which documents are most relevant to a query, including the popularity of the page, the position and size of the search terms within the page, and the proximity of the search terms to one another on the page.  Google gives more priority to pages that have search terms near each other and in the same order as the query. Google can also match multi-word phrases and sentences.