GOOGLE'S PAGERANKS (PR) AND HOW IT WORKS
The Google Pagerank Algorithm and How It Works - Page Rank is a topic much discussed by Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) experts. At the heart of PageRank is a mathematical formula that seems scary to look at but is actually fairly simple to understand.
Google's PageRank Explained and how to make the most of it
Not long ago, there was just one well-known PageRank Explained paper, to which most interested people referred when trying to understand the way that PageRank works. In fact, I used it myself. But when I was writing the PageRank Calculator, I realized that the original paper was misleading in the way that the calculations were done. It uses its own form of PageRank, which the author calls "mini-rank". Mini-rank changes Google's PageRank equation for no apparent reason, making the results of the calculations very misleading.
Google PR Basics - PR questions - This is a thread on Webmasters World Forums that was put together in an attempt to answer questions that would save new members posting basic PR questions. Hope it's useful to them.
The Google Page Rank Algorithm - It's no secret anymore that Google ranks as the number one defacto-standard in the field of major search engines. In 2003, Google accounts for more than 85% of all Internet searches on a daily basis. Google now has many versions running in many different countries, including China, Japan, the U.K., Hong-Kong and many others. Rank for Sales knows many small and not so small businesses and companies whose livelihood almost basically depends on Google bringing them new customers, day after day.
Understanding and Building Google PageRank - Google, the search engine that has evolved into the focus of all search engine optimization professionals, has in the past half of a year introduced the Page Rank feature. This is nothing new to the search engine optimization industry, and probably nothing new to most of our readers as we have mentioned it in previous search engine articles.
Google PageRank, Meet Yahoo! Web Rank - Yahoo! has launched a system to show the "Web Rank" popularity of pages viewed by those using its toolbar. It's similar to Google Toolbar's long-standing PageRank (PR) meter, and it brings with it some of the same potential problems.
Google Takes Another Step Toward Becoming Development Environment - Just got this note from Google PR on the beta introduction of the Google Deskbar API.
An Introduction to PR - The complexities of Google's PR (Page Ranking) System have grown more difficult to understand since the Hilltop Algorithm was introduced. This beginner's guide to the PR system explains the basics of what PR is, what it does, and how it affects your site's rankings. This revolutionary search algorithm has made it to where the most relevant and popular sites with the best content do the best on Google's search page. Keep in mind, this algorithm is kept secret by Google for fear of it being exploited, but the basics have been released for study.
Google PR Hogs Gone Wild
Reprint articles are a great way of promoting your websites as well as garner some good quality inbound links. We all know the three ‘biggie’ search engines value those inbounds.
PR rules, OK? Google ducks promised news policy pledge - The secretive search engine Google is blissfully unaware of the backlash it faces with its continuing debasement of the word "News".
Wikipedia - PageRank - PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
Need information on find your google pr rankings?
Look over the resources/information on this particular page to understand more about find your google pr rankings To improve your search engine ranking, you must find other high quality, relevant websites to link to your website.
The New Google Pr Paradigm, How links affect PR - We did pretty well in the PR game going from zero to 3 after three months, and from 3 to 6 two months later. Call it dumb luck coupled with an article about us that was picked up by about 50 TV station web sites. Fast forward another year and I saw our PR drop from 6 to 5 and from 5 to 4 a few months later. I would like to be at 6 again and here is what I speculate might be to blame for the drop. Comments and critiques are welcomed.
Explanation of PageRank On Google's Site - Google's order of results is automatically determined by more than 100 factors, including our PageRank algorithm. Please check out our Technology Overview page for more details. Due to the nature of our business and our interest in protecting the integrity of our search results, we limit the information we make available to the public about our ranking system.
Google explains new page rankings - Some sanity returned to Google 's page rankings last week, and the only damage incurred appears to be a few bruised egos. So we were surprised when Wired adopted a note of faux outrage (hey! that's our job) in its coverage of the new index.
PR Lag: What the Heck is That?! - PR Basics - Relax! It is important to understand a couple of basic ideas when undertaking the difficult task of optimizing a website for Google: 1. The world does not revolve around you (in other words, Google doesn’t hate you…you’re just doing something wrong or you need to be more patient). ....
Google's PR Hissy Fit - Google got into a snit over this CNET News.com article, which graphically showed how the company's claims to believe in people's privacy are, at best, in a delicate balance with its voracious appetites for collecting and indexing information. The CNET piece showed what searches on Google and other databases turned up about the company's CEO, Eric Schmidt -- information that was hardly surprising or all that personal, but which nonetheless illustrated the point.
Google PageRank Tool
You can use our free Google ranking tool to check the page rank of your own website or anyone else's without the Google Toolbar. PageRank is one of the methods Google uses to determine the importance of your website. PageRank also considers the importance of each page that links to your site (some of which are considered to have greater value), thus giving your linked page greater value.
Yahoo and Google Rankings Improvement - I would like to introduce you to the easiest and most affordable way to boost your PageRank or simply PR or Google PR as it's also known. Check PageRank on your own site and if you would like to see it increase, read on!
Google PageRank (PR) explained - A web page's PageRank is a number from 1 to 10 (as shown in the Google Toolbar) that is calculated by Google for that page. This PR value is basically what Google deems to be the importance of your page when compared to other web pages.
Google PR Troubles and the Lycos Dating Service - This week, the world of search was somewhat shocked to learn that Google has included a feature on its newest toolbar, (Toolbar 3 Beta) that adds links to websites viewed when using the toolbar. Known as Auto-links, the tool will direct users to Google maps when a street address is noted and to Amazon.com when the ISBN number of a book is mentioned. It will also provide links to information on vehicle-history when their vehicle ID number is found on a site or forum (US only) and parcel delivery history when a tracking code is mentioned on a site.
Eric's guess of how Google's Page Rank works: - Each page has a number of page points on a scale of 0 to 4294967295 This is a 4 byte unsigned integer stored with the page data. For display purposes only, the page points are converted to PR0 to PR10+ using the scheme below, by rounding down.
Google PR appearing for PI Forums - PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's PageRank is calculated.
What is going on with Google PR & Backlinks? - With more and more noise on various forums from anxious webmasters I decided to take a look at the data available to me, and there were a few tell-tale observations that might help clear up this question.
Is Google PR still important?
Since 1998 when Sergey Brin and Larry Page developed the Google search engine, it has relied (and continues to rely) on the Page Rank™ Algorithm. Google’s reasoning behind this is, the higher the number of inbould links ‘pointing’ to a website, the more valuable that site is, in which case it would deserve a higher ranking in its search results pages.
Ranking a website for sales and performance
Ranking a website for sales and performance can be easy, if only you follow the right steps. There are no shortcuts, no easy way out, if you truly want to succeed. As with any serious undertaking, the right way to successfully optimize and position a site requires planning ahead and executing the project step by step.
PageRank 2.0
In July I had written an article analyzing PageRank pollution, and how Google should be doing something about it. To its credit, Google did indeed reduce the effect of Googlebombing somewhat, and what had such a profound impact on the ranking wasn't the link topology factor that I had analyzed, but the link text factor, that I completely failed to account for.
Forget Google PR, It's All About "Real-Time" Data! by Ken Webster - I don't really understand the masses (Site Owners) clamoring for positioning in the quarterly Google PR updates. What's the use? That's not "Real-Time" Data! I hope by now we all, anyone listed in the Google Directory @ http://directory.google.com/ knows we can go there and check a more in-depth "PR - GreenBar", that encompasses more algorithm considerations and is updated more frequently than the "public" PR exhibited in the toolbar!
Google's Bad PR Day - Google has had another bad day on the public relations front yesterday. Three stories about Google made search marketing headlines which, for a company as interesting and innovative as Google is fairly typical. Yesterday’s headlines however were a headache for Google and should act as a heads up for Google’s executive team. Columns appearing in both the mainstream and the technical press pointed to three major PR blunders, each of which could be considered a fairly significant scandal in its own right.
Google Moves to Continual Indexing - If you've noticed that Google seems to be updating their index more frequently than once a month, you're not alone. Clint Dixon observed this as well. In this article he discusses how this changes the world for website owners, search engine optimizers, and anyone else trying to get on the front pages of popular search engines.
Google Page Rank Is Dead - My PR page rank is grey, call the development doctor. As the world of Google is turning a mile a minute these days, some really big changes are happening. This weekend, marketers all around the world don't believe what they are seeing ... Google's Page Ranking system is dead.
An Explanation Of Google PageRank™ Technology For Newbie's
If your new to the SEO world and have no idea what all of this talk about the Google PageRank™ Technology is (aka -- PageRank™, Google PR, PR), it's time for you to catch up! This system is used by Google, one of today's most popular search engines, in determining the importance of a web site. Don't confuse PageRank™ to mean the same thing as the specific ranking position for a web site under specified search terms. PageRank™ is an actual system designed to look for certain pieces of criteria that will determine how important a web site is and how closely it is related to specific search terms.
Google PageRank (PR) Explained - PageRank, or Google PR, is Google’s method of measuring a page's "importance". It plays a key role in how highly a page is ranked in Google's search results for a given search term.
Google PageRank Basics Thread
There is nothing like a fresh thread on some up-to-date information on the basics of Google's PageRank to make me smile. A new thread at Webmaster World, which was featured right away, under the title of Google PR Basics, answers many basic questions many people have. Here are a listing of some questions, for the answers, check out the thread.
An Introduction to PR - The complexities of Google's PR (Page Ranking) System have grown more difficult to understand since the Hilltop Algorithm was introduced. This beginner's guide to the PR system explains the basics of what PR is, what it does, and how it affects your site's rankings. This revolutionary earch algorithm has made it to where the most relevant and popular sites with the best content do the best on Google's search page. Keep in mind, this algorithm is kept secret by Google for fear of it being exploited, but the basics have been released for study.
Google Patent Application - User Data As Part of Ranking Process - In this article, we dig into the patent application of Google regarding the method used to rank sites in search results. Interestingly, Google asserts in the application that it “might” consider user data as a factor in organizing search results.
What is Google Pagerank?
PageRank is one of the factors that Google uses to evaluate your web site and determine its position in the Google search engine results. PageRank is a number from 0 to 10.
How to Get the Ranking you Always Wanted! - Is your web site well ranked (In the top ten search results) in the results? If not, you need to read this and get the ranking you always dreamed of getting with your web site! I will show you how to get your web site a top ten ranking in the search engines with these few easy-to-do steps.
Improve your Search Engine Rankings - Link Popularity is simply the total number of pages that link to your website. Most search engines, including Google, consider that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote of confidence for the other page. Therefore, the likelihood of you being the best source of information for their searchers is directly linked to the number of votes you have. It is therefore safe to assume that the higher the number of pages linking to your website, the higher you will be ranked on the search engines. Link popularity has become a critical success factor for search engine optimization within popular search engines.
The Myth of Rankings - Beyond Search Engine Optimization - What follows is a condensed version of a conversation that happens all too frequently when I am approached by a prospect interested in search engine optimization (SEO): ….
The Factors that Play a Role in Your Web Site’s Ranking - Have you ever had a proposal, estimate or quote for search engine optimization work and wondered what goes into the pricing? What makes one site need more work than another? Why do some sites increase rankings faster than others? Why do some sites get more traffic from their top page ranking than yours?
Ranked #1 at Google for "Invisible Entrepreneurs" But No Traffic? - Here's a secret. You can be ranked #1 at Google for the phrase "Waterfall Watches" if you put the phrase on your page 4 times and in metatags twice. How do I know that? I did it in 2001 and still rank number one in Google for the phrase in 2005. On another of my sites I rank #1 for the phrase "Screeching Camels" by simply putting it onthe page once in a comment about silly SEO guarantees.
How to improve your websites search engine rankings - One of your main goals when building a site is to receive a lot of traffic so that you can make some reasonable money out of your website. One of the main and best ways of getting more traffic to your site is for you to do some seo (search engine optimization).
Increase Page Rank with Search Engine Optimization - Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process by which webmasters or online business owners utilize strategic copy to increase their website’s popularity. Given that the internet has grown so rapidly over the past decade, the competition for the best search engine position has created an enormous market focused on how best to position a website for better rankings on Google, Yahoo and other prominent search engines. Therefore, understanding the fundamental elements of SEO is critical to online business’ success.
Google PR Hogs Gone Wild
Reprint articles are a great way of promoting your websites as well as garner some good quality inbound links. We all know the three ‘biggie’ search engines value those inbounds.
Google - PR & Backlinks - Page Rank and incoming links to a web page are the most important factors in search engine optimization. Many webmasters rely upon the Google Toolbar for PR values, but maybe they shouldn't. Here we look at some facts that may make you think twice about the toolbar accuracy.Here are some observations that I have made recently:
Google PR Kool-Aid? I'll take a second glass Jeremy
Jeremy Zawodny was more than a little sceptical about the release of an Apple Mac version of Google's Desktop. He even gave me a light-hearted ribbing for drinking the Google PR Kool-aid.
Google Sitemaps (BETA) - Good or Bad? - GOOGLE as well as other major search engines use software known as "spiders" to crawl the web for new and updated websites. Once the spider locates a website it tries to follow every link and logs what it finds. It will periodicly return to re-index the site.
Google's PR Explained
The complexities of Google's PR (Page Ranking) System have grown more difficult to understand since the Hilltop Algorithm was introduced. This beginner's guide to the PR system explains the basics of what PR is, what it does, and how it affects your site's rankings. This revolutionary search algorithm has made it to where the most relevant and popular sites with the best content do the best on Google's search page. Keep in mind, this algorithm is kept secret by Google for fear of it being exploited, but the basics have been released for study.
The Handy Dandy Google Page Rank Figurin' Guide
There are two types of PageRank numbers that Google currently will give for a specific page. One is the toolbar PageRank shown on the Google toolbar. This number varies from 0 - 10. The other type of PageRank is in the Google directory. There is no number for it, but by using the chart below - you will be able to figure it out. In the Google directory, if a site is ranked high enough, it has a green bar listed to the left of it. The Google directory is a copy of the dmoz. If you are in the dmoz, then you will be added to the Google directory automatically.
What Is Google Page Rank? - Google gives all web pages in its index a Page Rank from 0-10, 10 being the best, 0 the worst. It is determined by the internal site structure, keyword density and in bound link popularity. In a sense, when one page is linked to another it is casting a vote for that page. The more votes, the more important the page. The number of inbound and outbound links, as well as internal links, is how Google PR is determined.
Google is Changing its Pagerank Algorithm - Its something I've noticed for the last month or so, but wasn't quite able to put a finger on it. Google has been making significant changes in the way they calculate or display PR, which is why it's taking much longer for new sites to show a rise in PR.
Google PageRank, Meet Yahoo Web Rank! - What's good for Google is good for Yahoo. The service has launched a system to show the "Web Rank" popularity of pages viewed by those using its toolbar. That's similar to the Google Toolbar's long-standing PageRank meter -- and brings with it some of the same potential problems.
Google July PR Update - The two heavyweight fighters of the online world, Google and Yahoo, remain locked in a titanic battle for supremacy, with each dominant in their key areas, according to a new survey from ChangeWave Research. ChangeWave’s survey of 1,440 professionals showed Google is not only the primary online search engine by a huge margin (78% Google; 14% Yahoo), it is also the most popular toolbar in home browsers/applications (Google 38%; Yahoo 28%).
Google Search Engine Ranking Algorithm Analysis - In the past year, Google has received wide press recognition and praise for the quality relevant results that they serve to web surfers. One of the major reasons for this is success is due to their PageRank Technology. Another major reason is that Google does not over-populate, or flood, their search results pages with two or three third-party databases like various other popular search engines.
Google's PageRank - Calculator
The pages can be used to see the effect of linking to other sites. When we link to another site, what happens to the PR we send doesn't make any difference to our site, so the PR for the outbound link pages is not calculated.
Pandia - Google PageRank - Google's patented PageRank technology and its associated merits are widely debated. Using Google's Toolbar we can display the PageRank (out of 10) of Websites indexed and rated by Google's PageRank (PR) algorithm.
Markhorrell - What is PageRank? - PageRank is the algorithm used by the Google search engine, originally formulated by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in their paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine.
Estimating your Google Page Rank - It seems like one of the all time big SEO questions that is right up there with "does case matter", is "how do I move a website and retain my rankings"? We've done numerous stories on them in the past and are working on another story for the site soon.
PageRank: Google's Original Sin - By 1998, the dot-com gold rush was in full swing. Web search engines had been around since 1995, and had been immediately touted by high-tech pundits (and Forbes magazine) as one more element in the magical mix that would make us all rich. Such innovations meant nothing less than the end of the business cycle.
The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web. - The importance of a Web page is an inherently subjective matter, which depends on the readers interests, knowledge and attitudes. But there is still much that can be said objectively about the relative importance of Web pages. This paper describes PageRank, a mathod for rating Web pages objectively and mechanically, effectively measuring the human interest and attention devoted to them. We compare PageRank to an idealized random Web surfer. We show how to efficiently compute PageRank for large numbers of pages. And, we show how to apply PageRank to search and to user navigation.
Efficient Computation of PageRank - Efficient Computation of PageRank Taher H. Haveliwala (taherh@db.stanford.edu) Abstract: This paper discusses efficient techniques for computing PageRank, a ranking metric for hypertext documents. We show that PageRank can be computed for very large subgraphs of the web (up to hundreds of millions of nodes) on machines with limited main memory. Running-time measurements on various m emory configurations are presented for PageRank computation over the 24-million-page Stanford WebBase archive. We discuss several methods for analyzing the convergence of PageRank based on the induced ordering of the pages. We present convergence results helpful for determining the number of iterations necessary to achieve a useful PageRank assignment, both in the absence and presence of search queries.
Advanced Uses for Google's Algorithm - PR (Google's Page Rank) - In our article on Understanding Google's Algorithm, a brief explanation was given on what the Google algorithm is and a few general tips were given to help the beginner to optimize their website for it. This article will go into much more depth on different tactics to use to further optimize your site for higher rankings in Google's search engine.
Analysis And Implications Of Hilltop Algorithm - While the PR algo did its job well all these years, there is a basic flaw in the PR system and Google knew about this. The PageRank (PR) system allocates an absolute ‘value of importance' to a web page based on the number and quality of sites that link to it.
Google buys search engine – PageRank™ RIP? - Google has bought Kaltix, a three-month-old, three-man Stanford startup that's working on personalized and context-sensitive search. Despite its battalion of PhDs, Google isn't too proud to acquire external search technologies, and earlier this year bought Applied Semantics for its CIRCA ontology, which "understands, organizes, and extracts knowledge from websites and information repositories in a way that mimics human thought".
Google's PR blunder
What's the best PR strategy for ensuring that everybody in your major customer constituency reads a negative story about your company?
Crash Course in Getting a #1 Google Ranking - Ok, now lets talk about what you really want to hear – how to get those coveted 1-10 ranks for your keywords. Remember this - SEO is not dead. In fact, it is very much alive and important. The first thing to do in order to raise your site rank is target specific keywords. I say specific, because you need to target “keyphrases,” meaning more than one word keywords. Some people use the words interchangeably (me included) so just ignore one-word keywords altogether. You will waste your money if you shoot for these, because chances are, there are other, MUCH larger companies who already have you beat, and will continue to have you beat unless you’ve got a bottomless wallet.
Google Page Rank and Linking - an Alternative View - We all know the old clichés of "putting the cart before the horse", or "which comes first, the chicken or the egg". Yada yada. Well, it's descended on the world of linking, too. For years, reciprocal linking was the backwater of web marketing. Everyone talked about it, but few people actually did much of it. Now, because of Google, linking is now the "front and center" subject of the search engine mythologists. Google is now driving linking, not the other way around.
Google: PR is for Entertainment Purposes Only
Before anyone gets too bent out of shape, let me just say this is second-hand info. I don’t know the poster so I can only tell you what I read and give you the url’s so you can read it with your own two eyes.
Google Page Rank Update - Google looks like its had a busy 24 hours with reports emerging that the search leader has undertaken a full range rank update.
Google PR Junkie. - I have to laugh at myself as I say that. Because to me I was a Google PR junkie. I had to know what my PR was everyday! Sometimes more than once a day (ok, ok, I'll admit it) everyday I checked at least four times a day to make sure my PR was still the same or maybe to see if it had moved up a notch. Yep I was definitely addicted to Google. I thought Google was the light at the end of the tunnel. If Google said I was a certain PR then by all means it was right. Why? Cause Google said.
How PR Can Master the Blogosphere: Monitor Blogs and Influence “Citizen Journalists” to Build and Protect Your Brand - Though most bloggers don’t qualify as bonafide journalists — and many are little more than “opinion slingers” — they often demand the same attention you give the mainstream media. That’s because bloggers can wield massive influence over the same outlets and stakeholders you want to reach.
How To Use Directories To Get High Google Ranking - One way is to use the smaller reciprocal link directories, find the category that fits your website and establish a reciprocal link. Listing in these directories is all about helping Google to see your site as an authority site. Google likes authority sites and tends to give them a better position in the SERPs (Search Engine Results) and a better "Page Rank (PR)."
Google PR Improved With Domain Redirection - If you check your backlinks on Google you will often find that there are links to a URL like www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com and different links to searchenginepromotionhelp.com. Even though these may point to the same content these are 2 different domains (NOTE the www in the first URL).
Breaking the Myth about Page Rank (PR) - The most difficult challenge most web designers face is getting traffic to your site. There are plenty of companies who promise to send traffic your way. Sadly, most of this traffic is not qualified. Yes, your hit counter will move higher, however, if its not qualified, you may find you have unhappy visitors to your site. Unhappy visitors will not click on your ads or purchase your products.
Google Page Rank (PageRank) Checker: - The Google PageRank Value Report will return the Google PageRank values for the list of urls you enter into the form below. Put one url per line, and include the 'www.' in the domain for best results.
PageRank in Toolbar 2 - No PageRank in Toolbar 3 (beta) - I've Google's beta toolbar running at a machine at work and on my laptop at home. I've noticed that many more sites have no PageRank. Checking the same sites with the old toolbar (on a different machine, therefore) they do still seem to have a PageRank.
High ranking - Everyone wants to be listed on the first few pages of the search engines. Here is what I tell my customers:- a) Firstly do your research, being at the top may not be all the helpful! I have sites listed at No1 or 2 for less popular phrases and they only get a couple of visits a week.
Better Ranking
Almost everyone wants to improve their rankings in the search engines, also known as Search engine results placement. How to do it? The web is full of services offering to submit your website to 1,000’s of search engines and directories for $19.99.
Google Games by Internet Marketing One.com - As webmasters, internet marketing and ecommerce companies already know and internet shoppers will soon learn Google appears to be only interested in using their top market position to manipulate rankings to create an artificially high demand and price for Google Adwords. They want to artificially entice anyone who wishes to compete for Google high positions to pay up for a sponsored ad or lose out for who knows how long. I call it “Google Games” with the end result being fewer choices for the ecommerce customer and a borderline monopoly creating unfair competition and artificially high demand and prices for their product…Adwords.
Page Rank Status - Displays the Google Pagerank in your browser's status bar.
Computer Toaster - Google Rank Cake - 6 cups thick content mix 1 jar word of mouth, whipped 2 tablespoons meta tags 1 cup creativity - 1) In a bowl, stir content mix with 1 cup creativity. Stir. If hard, let sit overnight - 2) Stir in meta tags.- 3) Heat server to 100 degrees. In a 1024x768 pan or two 800x600 pans, pour mix. Beat in meta tags.
How to boost your Google PR - This article will put a damper on web sites that sell information which will supposedly increase your page rank. I may make some enemies here, but this is already common knowledge. In fact, to make sure it worked, I designed a new site just for this purpose. Before you shell out money for an ebook, software, or CD telling you how to do this; read this article. If you achieve great results after following my advice and feel it was worth some money, feel free to write me a check for any amount you choose. I ‘ll add my own zeros.J
Your Top Search Rankings at Yahoo & MSN Search are Worthless
It seems I now do this rant every single year when traffic statistics are discussed in web industry news. Last week I posted to my Reality SEO blog that referred traffic numbers are the only statistic that webmasters should be concerned about when looking at their search engine rank. I wrote about this last year after ComScore Media Metrics statistics were relased discussing Search Engine Queries generated by each search property.
Google PageRank Update Analysis - For those of you not yet aware, Google is currently updating the PageRank they are displaying in their toolbar. Each update causes a stir among the SEO community and webmasters trying to get their websites to the top of the Google Rankings.
All About Google PageRank
PageRank (PR) is Google’s way of measuring the quality and relative “importance” of your website to searchers. It’s purpose is to give web surfers an idea of the importance of a website.
Google PageRank Explained - PageRank is simply a mechanical algorithm by Google that attempts to evaluate the importance of your website larged based on the amount and quality of backlinks your website have. For the more intellectual crowds out there, check out The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web.
Google PageRank Entertaining Us? - There was a rumor going around that Google's PageRank Toolbar display should only be used for entertainment, meaning that the green bar is not an accurate account of a site's PageRank.
What is PR (Page Rank)? - PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
Links and link building with Google. - By Clare Lawrence 1st June 2003. Clare is the CEO of Discount Domains Ltd a leading UK provider of domain names and web hosting services. Google is the leading search engine, so having the right strategy for optimisation on Google is essential.
Google PR Checksum PHP, Assembler and Pascal available - The day has come finally - people not only deciphere the Google PR checksum algorithm, but also published it for free. That could mean that Google might change it soon - on the other hand - for what? Alexa and Yahoo Ranking numbers are available via an open API... I think it's just the typical Google Buzz Marketing to make the checksum a "secret".
Analysis and Implications of Hilltop Algorithm: How will it affect your site ranking? - n the article Google Florida Algo Update, we discussed how we believe that Google has deployed the Hilltop algo in its ‘Florida’ algo update. As usual, Google has been silent about the algo update so our analysis is based on research and experiments
Top Search Engine Ranks - The Only Secret You Need - Explained - We introduced several methods including RSS feeds, Link Popularity, Article Marketing, Blogs, and physically altering your pages to make them more target-able for select keywords. All of these share the key of great content in order to unlock success. Think of each method as a vehicle that carries the greatest cargo in the world. That cargo is your business, your product, and the word you want to get out.
Page Rank Purgatory
Right in their Guidelines Yahoo States "Metadata (including title and description) that accurately describes the contents of a web page." By Title MetaData they mean the text between the Tags in your HTML Page. By Description Yahoo mean the actual Meta Tag Name="Description". So Meta Data at least as Far as Yahoo is Concerned is Not Dead.
Torpedo And Sink The Ship SS Search Engine Rankings - His initial concern was that visitor sales conversion ratio was low. At almost one percent, it was just below normal, but I'm always happy when a client wants to improve. Conversion and rankings though, are very different beasts and his concern was overly focused on the former to the total exclusion of the latter.
Doorway Pages & Links - Before Google came onto the scene with their link-based PageRank, doorway pages were the most effective of the search engine optimization techniques, because they didn't usually need any pages to link to them, and top rankings were relatively easy to achieve. But with PageRank and link popularity playing such a big role these days, are doorway pages still as effective as they used to be?
Page Rank and Circular Paths Between Pages - I have read elsewhere on this board that the total PR a page transfers to all of it's linked pages is roughly 85% of the original page's PR.
Page Ranking: Vital Need for SEO
Page Rank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page will be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's Page Rank is calculated.
How to Improve Page Rank!
PageRank is one of more than 100 factors Google uses in the ranking of you website and your resulting position on their search engine. You get PageRank (PR) by having backward links from other website pages that have a higher PR rating than your site page the link is to. The PR of your site is updated about once of month when Google updates their database of web pages.
Google ranking tips
Google is by far the most popular search engine available today for both ordinary surfers and webmasters alike. Surfers like it because of the highly relevant results it gives and the speed at which it delivers them. This is due to its complex text matching algorithm and of course the Pagerank™ system that this engine uses. More on the Pagerank™ system later.
How to really get your site to the top of the search engines!
By now it's common knowledge: It is very important to rank well in the major search engines. High search engine rankings can bring qualified, interested visitors to the web site you create. And, those visitors come to you believing that you know what you are talking about, since you showed up in the search engine results.
Discover why high Google rankings don't always guarantee high traffic. - If you frequent webmaster forums on a regular basis you have probably seen this question asked numerous times. It is quite perplexing to see your web pages come up in the top-10 for your keywords/phrases yet you receive little or no traffic from those great Google rankings.
keyword density in Page Ranking - When planning a page, think about which search terms a user is likely to use when searching for the information your site provides. For example, a visitor who is looking for information on "Search Engine Ranking" may search for things like "search engine positioning", "search engine ranking", "search engine placement", "keyword density", "top ranking", and the like.
Increase PR - What is Page Rank?
PageRank for high search engine ranking. PageRank can improve your search engine ranking by 60%. It increases the impotance and popularity of your website.
Your Top Search Rankings at Yahoo & MSN Search are Worthless - It seems I now do this rant every single year when traffic statistics are discussed in web industry news. Last week I posted to my Reality SEO blog that referred traffic numbers are the only statistic that webmasters should be concerned about when looking at their search engine rank. I wrote about this last year after ComScore Media Metrics statistics were relased discussing Search Engine Queries generated by each search property.
5 Simple Steps to Great Search Engine Rankings - Having your website rank well in the major search engines is crucial to a successful Internet business. However, the information on doing so, which abounds on the Internet, can be perceived as complex and contradictive. Many website owners end up overwhelmed by all the data and simply quit and move on to other areas of promotion. By following the handful of steps presented in this article you will be well on your way to solid rankings.
Glossary
Here is a glossary of terms commonly used in the world of search engine ranking.
Goofy Mistakes that Hurt Your Search Engine Rankings - One thing is for sure, you don't want to spend hours, perhaps days, months, or years on a website to have some stupid little mistake get your site dropped or never even listed in the search engines. There are a lot of rules that search engines have created to block out what they call spammers, so don't kid yourself by telling yourself you are not an evil spammer. As the courts might say, ignorance of the law is no excuse. So what kind of horrific mistake could sneak upon you and possibly ruin all your hard work?
Much ado about PageRank
There are those in our industry who will tell you that PageRank is dead. I've been reading a lot lately about how we are supposed to ignore the green bar in our browser but you know what? I disagree and I'm going to tell you why.
The Google Patent Reveals The Secret To Great Ranking - Because the majority of Spam websites only register a domain name for one year. A domain name registered for a longer period implies that the owner is more likely to be legitimate and serious about their web site.
One Way Link Building Secures Long Term Ranking Results. - One-way link building is a great way to improve your link popularity and ranking in the search engines. One-way links are more difficult to obtain than traditional reciprocal links, but pay off in securing solid long-term search engine ranking results.
Should You Be Linking for Traffic or Rankings? - Just for a change, rather than a technical article, I would like to tell you a story. To begin, imagine your website is a little country bar, now let's go back to when the internet began, and reciprocal linking was being done properly. Now just sit back and picture the following.....
Tons of Top 10 Rankings Guaranteed - Okay I admit it. I was kidding. I can’t guarantee top 10 search engine rankings any more than the next guy. But hold on. Before you click away in disgust I believe I’ve got the next best thing. That all but guarantees you'll get top 10 rankings. Lots of them. For next to nothing. So you might want to stick around and find out what this is all about.
There Should Be More to your SEO Consultant Than Rankings. - Perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions in SEO is that ranking at Google and Yahoo is all that counts in search engine optimization. Potential clients come to me with a single goal: "Get me a top-ten ranking at Google." Some will also mention MSN, and a few will rhyme off a list of search engines and want to rank well at the top 200 of them.
A Back Road Loophole For Getting a Top Google Ranking
While everybody wants their site to receive a top 10 ranking in Google, it's just not possible for everyone.
Link Popularity – Google Page Rank - A Review by Nakul Goyal - Link popularity is a term much talked about but little understood in terms of its relevance and importance. It’s not easy locating quality sites related to but not competing with yours who are willing to give up valuable real estate for your link. It takes solid research; smooth negotiating skills and a large investment of time to develop a base of reputable, relevant link partners that will make the search bots take notice of your website.
How to Improve Your Search Engine Ranking on Google
It's been some time since the last article on Google appeared in thesitewizard.com's newsletter, giving tips on how you can improve your search engine rank on Google. This article updates the Google search engine promotion tips given in that issue and extends it with new Google search engine positioning tips.
Google PageRank Secrets & Tips - Google also states: "Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query."
How to Get Listed in Google and Improve Your Ranking - Google can bring you tons of web traffic if you have good rankings. Not sure how to do this? Here is how.
How writing and posting free articles impacts your search engine rankings - In recent times a very worrying trend has emerged of search engines making regular and constant changes in their rules and policies which determine their ranking of websites in search results. This has caused quite a bit of panic and anxiety amongst many webmasters who have been heavily dependent on traffic generated from their search engine optimization efforts.
Search Engine Secrets # 2 - Using Link Popularity to achieve higher ranking
Did you know that many of the major search engines look at the number of outside links to your site and use this to determine how "popular" your site is with visitors? It’s true, Altavista, Excite, Infoseek and Inktomi all explore links to your site during indexing. The underlying belief is that if other webmasters are linking to your site it must have interesting content. Whether this is actually the case is debatable, but it does present an opportunity for you to boost your placements fairly easily.
How to Receive a Top 20 Position On The Search Engines - You worked hard on your new web site...You have the best designs, did killer ad copy, included free content to keep your visitors coming back, and then submitted your web page to 300 search engines in ten minutes using an automated program.
There's More to SEO than Rankings - Perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions in SEO is that ranking at Google and Yahoo is all that counts in search engine optimization. Potential clients come to me with a single goal: "Get me a top-ten ranking at Google." Some will also mention MSN, and a few will rhyme off a list of search engines and want to rank well at the top 200 of them.
The Fatal Attraction of Online Marketers - Suppose you were offered 263 links coming into your website from 263 other websites all in one fell swoop. Everybody knows that the more inbound links you have, the higher you will rise in the search engine rankings.
Do Frames Affect Ranking? - Almost all SEO's agree that using frames will have devasting results on your search engine rankings. Is it true? We decided to answer this extremely simple question for the two leading search engines using a simple statistical analysis.
Does The Number Of Links On A Page Affect Ranking? - Lots of research has focused on inbound links to a site, but little has focused on the number of links actually on a page (outbound or to other parts of a site). Many SEO gurus have recently been talking about something they call "PR Leak" which seems to be a theory that the more outbound links you have, the more your page rank on Google "leaks" away. That concept isn't found in the academic papers published by the founders of Google, but does seem to be accepted by a majority of SEOs. I decided it was time to take a look at the number of links present on a page and how that number correlates with ranking.
What Size Of Body Section Ranks Highest? - This is another one of the controversial questions in many of the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) forums, yet it is very easy to answer for any particular search engine.
Improve Search Engine Ranking with Correct Keyword Density - If you are serious about improving search engine rankings, you need to check the keyword density of your web site. In order to do this you must integrate proper keyword phrases within your meta tags and web copy.
Google Ranking Tips - Google is by far the most popular search engine available today for both ordinary surfers and webmasters. Surfers like it because of the highly relevant results it gives, and the speed at which it delivers them. This is due to its complex text matching algorithm and of course the Pagerank™ system that this engine uses. More on the Pagerank™ system later.
Free Search Engine Ranking Software - Free Search Engine Ranking Software is a tool that lets you check your search engine rankings in google up to the limits imposed by the google API. It checks your search engine rankings up to 990 (the max google stores) results deep for each keywork. Search Engine Rankings runs on Windows.
Google PageRank, and How to Get It - Google's PageRank (PR) is one of the most sought after, and yet misunderstood, web page attributes. PageRank, named after one of the founders of the Google search engine, Larry Page, was the innovative foundation that the Google search engine was built on.
More PageRank Mania
I have a small business and I am trying to increase my Google PageRank on one of my pages in particular. I currently have 4/10 or sometimes 3/10 and I recently submitted a piece of software to 350 or more software archives. Most if not all of these download sites link to the page. Is this a significant amount of links? What should I expect my PageRank to become after this?
Top Rankings for Competitive Keywords - The keywords ideal for my real estate site seems to be highly competitive and difficult to rank with. What options do I have?
Search Engine Ranking Reports - Many times in conversations I have been asked why does Metamend not offer a "ranking" report. There are a variety of reasons, and I shall tackle them here. The most obvious reason we avoid them is the synonym to rank is "stink" and that's what these reports do. The other major reasons we avoid use of such a tool are:
How Can You Learn How to Achieve Top Search Engine Rankings?
If you're serious about having a successful online business, you need to spend some time studying the search engines and how they operate.
Can You Guarantee My Search Engine Rankings? - So it seems no one can guarantee any ranking in any search engine – even us, as good as we are. As a search engine optimization firm, we can guarantee our effort for the search engine optimization services we offer and we can guarantee to be ethical in what we do and honest in our work. Our results are our guarantee that we have had great success with search engine optimization.
SEO Pricing: The Factors that Play a Role in Your Website's Search Engine Ranking - There are so many aspects of a web site that can decrease or boost your search engine rankings. Each web site is as unique as DNA and as such, will react differently to different marketing treatments.
Analyzing Real-Life Examples of Top Ranking Sites - Have you ever wondered how top ranking sites are spending their advertising dollars? Do they advertise offline? Do they outsource their SE positioning work, or do they optimize their own sites in-house? What are they doing to increase the visibility and popularity of their sites?
The Purpose of Google PageRank? - Who says Google gets to play the role of big brother? Google may be the leader that people praise and follow, yet why do webmasters allow themselves to be caught up in this publicity stunt? Sure it is a BASIC measurement of how much publicity a website is getting, but what is its real purpose?
Top 2 Google Ranking Factors - Michael Wong - In this article I reveal what I believe are the two most important ranking factors used by Google. My findings are as a result of my ongoing optimization experiments of my network of web sites on Google. The top two Google ranking factors are …
Google PageRank Algorithm Explained - Harjot Kaleka - PageRank is Google’s measure of importance assigned to a web page on a scale of 1 to 10. You can check the PageRank value of any page by downloading the Google Toolbar. This article is intended at understanding PageRank and providing an insight into its different aspects.
Get a top 10 ranking without paying a cent - If there's one thing that Google loves, it's content. Done right, a content rich website is almost guaranteed to rank highly.But how to get that content? You can write it yourself, but that takes a lot of time. You can pay an SEO copywriter to write it for you, but that takes a lot of money. If only there was another option...
Analyzing the Top Ranked Website on Google
Yesterday you should have read the forth course out of 6 courses that will help you get a TOP rank in the search engines and get EXPLOSIVE LASER TARGETED TRAFFIC for Free. Today we move on to course #5 and study analyzing the Top Ranked Website on Google. Please read today's course very carefully and take some time to test what I'm about to tell you on your own webpage. Alright let’s start!
Google Sandbox Effect - What Is It?
In 2004, Google instituted a ranking delay system that has come to be known as the “Google Sandbox Effect.” Although your site will appear fairly quickly in search engines such as Yahoo and MSN, it doesn’t show up in Google results. Welcome to the sandbox.
Increase Your Google Page Rank!
This article will put a damper on web sites that sell information which will supposedly increase your page rank. I may make some enemies here, but this is already common knowledge. In fact, to make sure it worked, I designed a new site just for this purpose. Before you shell out money for an ebook, software, or CD telling you how to do this; read this article. If you achieve great results after following my advice and feel it was worth some money, feel free to write me a check for any amount you choose. I'll add my own zeros...
