Google's PageRank and changing websites

[koenn]

Google offers a unique code snippet that a webmaster must add to pages he/she would like indexed. This code snippet should be maintained.

This code is to verify that you're the site owner, when you submit a sitemap.
Google indexes pages by urls found in the sitemap, or by links from other pages.

[Ebuntor]

This code is to verify that you're the site owner, when you submit a sitemap.
Google indexes pages by urls found in the sitemap, or by links from other pages.

I see, I've never heard about that, nor can I find on the Google website. Would it theoretically speaking just be a matter of copy-pasting such a piece of code?

I doubt those friends of mine used this for their site. As I understand it it isn't even really necessary.

[boban]

And another thing - PageRank is 10 years old. After publishing some initial (e.g. this one) papers Google went commercial. I think that nobody outside the company know what algorithm they are using now...

[koenn]

I see, I've never heard about that, nor can I find on the Google website. Would it theoretically speaking just be a matter of copy-pasting such a piece of code?

I doubt those friends of mine used this for their site. As I understand it it isn't even really necessary.

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=40318

when you want to use Google Webmaster Tools (such as submitting a sitemap), google gives you a unique code that you paste in the home page of the site.

[Ebuntor]

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=40318

when you want to use Google Webmaster Tools (such as submitting a sitemap), google gives you a unique code that you paste in the home page of the site.

Great, thank you.

I've got a much clearer picture of all the ranking and indexing stuff. Thanks everyone.