Google Secrets (3) - What Is a Ranking?
Sunday, May 11th, 2008As stated previously, a ranking on a search engine is a web page’s listing and
relative placement on a results page (also known as a SERP) for a certain search
query. As an example, if you type “house plans” into the search box at Google, you
will get those listings displayed (10 listings per page by default) that Google deems
most relevant to the search phrase house plans, sorted in order of relative
importance.