✨ How PageRank Affects Indexing✨

🔍 1. What is PageRank?

Before understanding PageRank, we first need to understand the concept of Indexing. Indexing is the process in which search engines recognize and store a website in their database. Essentially, a webpage must be indexed to appear in search results.

[Relationship Between Indexing and PageRank]

	📄 Website Page
Indexing	->	PageRank

Once indexing is complete, PageRank is determined, which ranks web pages based on their importance. PageRank plays a key role in deciding the order of search results.

Although we cannot directly check a webpage’s PageRank, Google’s official documentation confirms that it is determined through various factors, including:

✅ Key Factors for PageRank Evaluation

• Backlinks: Whether the website’s links or brand are mentioned elsewhere.

• Quality of Links: Whether the links come from authoritative and trustworthy sources.

• Internal Linking Structure: Whether internal page connections are well-structured.

• Content Quality: Whether the page provides useful and reliable information.

• User Experience (UX): Factors like page speed and mobile-friendliness.

• etc

(Source: Link Analysis System & PageRank)

To get better search rankings, PageRank is crucial. But does PageRank only affect search rankings, or does it also impact other areas like indexing speed? To answer this, we conducted a test.

✨ 2. How Does PageRank Affect Indexing?

Before the test, we hypothesized that PageRank affects Indexing Speed for the following reasons

💡 1) Higher PageRank = Higher Trust & Expertise

Search engines prioritize indexing authoritative websites. If a website has already gained credibility, its content is likely to be indexed faster.

💡 2) Well-Structured Internal Links Help Indexing

With millions of pages online, search engines face challenges in indexing them efficiently. A well-structured internal link system (a key PageRank factor) helps search engines crawl pages more smoothly, speeding up indexing.

💡 3) More Backlinks = Faster Indexing

Pages with higher PageRank tend to have more backlinks, making them appear more trustworthy and widely referenced. As a result, search engines prioritize their indexing.

🔬 3. Testing PageRank’s Impact on Indexing

We conducted an experiment to directly verify the effect of PageRank on indexing speed.

✅ Test Setup:

Content	Indexed on AMA?	Indexed on Flexwork?
오픽 공부 방법: 대학 졸업을 앞둔 취준생을 위한 실전 가이드	❌ (Not Indexed)	✅ (Indexed)
️ 비행기표 저렴하게 사는 법 – 항공권 싸게 예매하는 7가지 꿀팁!	❌ (Not Indexed)	✅ (Indexed)

Websites Used for Testing:

🔹 Flexwork (High PageRank)

Description: A remote hiring platform connecting companies with global talent.

Traffic: 20,000+ visitors

Established: Since 2020

🔹 AMA (Low PageRank)

Description: A marketing agency platform providing AI-driven ad analysis and consulting.

Traffic: ~30 visitors

Established: Since 2025

✅ Test Method:

• The same content was posted simultaneously on both websites.

• Google Search Console was used to track indexing.

✅ Test Results:

• Pages on Flexwork (high PageRank) were indexed significantly faster.

  • AMA Pages submitted indexing manually.

  • AMA’s pages were not indexed quickly, taking at least 3 weeks longer.

✅ Key Observation:

Google Search Console page indexing screen. Shows multiple webpage URLs and indexing dates. Includes shared status message at the bottom.

• The "7 Tips to Book Cheap Flights" article was indexed on Flexwork but not on AMA, despite AMA generating 111+ visits via ads compared to only 20 visits on Flexwork.

• This suggests that traffic volume alone does not guarantee faster indexing—PageRank is a more significant factor.

🏁 Conclusion

📌 Higher PageRank leads to faster indexing.

• Websites with higher PageRank get crawled more frequently and are prioritized in indexing.

• This confirms that search engines use PageRank as a measure of trust and importance.

📌 To speed up indexing, improving PageRank is essential.

• Strategies include building high-quality backlinks and linking to authoritative websites.

📌 Traffic alone does not directly impact indexing speed.

• While higher traffic might help over time, PageRank plays a more crucial role.

📌 Depending on your purpose, such as sharing your knowledge and experience and creating content for your career or building and operating a service, you need to think carefully about where to write.

💬 What are your thoughts?Do you think advertising-driven traffic can influence indexing speed?Share your opinions in the comments! ✍️