: How come my website is first on Google but without PageRank? Well, my question says everything. I don't understand very well how Google chooses which page to pop first in a search. for example

@LarsenBagley505

The reason why the pagerank scanner is showing 0/10 is because Google no longer provides access to a sites PageRank value and so they have no value to display to you. As @John Conde points out in his comment PageRank is only a small factor in the overall ranking algorithm. Currently it is reported that there are over 200 "signals" used by Google in ranking a site. The fact that your site ranks number 1 for relevant searches is a good thing.

As for re-designing your site as long as you maintain high quality content on your site and use appropriate redirects in your server configuration to redirect from those high ranking pages to the new redesigned pages then you should maintain a reasonable rank, though I should point out that changes to a website, especially larger site wide redesigns or re-architecting your sites URL structure can have a temporary impact on your ranking while the new addresses are ranked and taken into consideration.

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