Archive for the 'Ranking' Category

PageRank Update

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

In Progress Jan 11 by Micah Sparacio on blogherald.com A search on Google’s Blog Search reveals that many people are seeing material evidence of a Google ToolBar PR update. Since this has become such a big event for webmasters around the world, we thought we’d help spread some of the joy. So far, the news is that many 4-6 month old sites are showing PR in the toolbar for the first time, but also that many older sites have dropped down to PR 0. 

The consensus seems to be that the drop to PR0 is not a penalty, but actually part of an ongoing data push for the current update. Let’s hope so! 

The best way to get a picture of your forthcoming pagerank is to use this tool called LivePR which allows you to see Toolbar PageRank across a sampling of many Google datacenters. 

RSS feeds will increase ranking

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

RSS feeds will increase ranking of the supplier (publisher) and user of RSS feeds. As for the user, the use of RSS feeds will result in frequently updated content and so to a more dynamic website. This will attract linking from other sites.

Secondly, more targetted feeds are more specific to a topic. This contributes to the ranking on this topic.

In the Third place: More links to a more dynamic website will increase the frequency of updates in the ranking of search engines.
In general with a proper selection of feeds, using RSS feeds is beneficial to both parties, the publisher and the user.

Finally: as user be aware that RSS feeds will lead traffic from your site to the publisher. The adverse effect could be that the publishers’ site is more interesting..

Article: RSS and Pagerank

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

A RSS feed generates links to the providing party. Consequently these links will contribute to the Pagerank and to the ranking in general of the website of the providing party. It is evident that the provider of RSS feeds will benefit in ranking and pagerank.

In addition the provider of RSS feeds will benefit from visitors clicking on the link to read the whole article. 

Article: Pagerank, ranking and linkpopularity

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Link popularity is measured as the the total number of web pages which link to a website (or individual web page). Link popularity influences the pagerank of your website. Link popularity is one factor that is used by Search engines to determine a webpage’s position in the search results. A site with more inbound links will be positioned higher than a similar site with fewer links. Google uses the pagerank value, in which links are one the factors which determing the pagerank value.

Not only the number inbound links are important but also the content of the site that refers to your website.
 

Article: Pagerank and Blogs

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

A powerful tool to improve your Pagerank is using (Google) Blogs to increase internally or external links.

The majority of Bloggers happily link to other blogs and or sites they enjoy and forward and increase pagerank.

Article: Have all links equal value for Pagerank?

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

No, not all links have equal value for Pagerank. Not all inbound links contribute to your Pagerank. Some links contribute less than others. For instance text links are more important (or can be valued better) than non text links. A text is ‘readable’; a banner pic not. Further, links from ‘known’ link farms are eliminated in the Pagerank calculation that is calculated by Google. However ‘wrong’ inbound links will not decrease your pagerank value.

Article: Pagerank, ranking and text links

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Not all types links contribute equally to Pagerank. Text links have more value as the link text will also have value relating to the topic of a website. As a text link ad is a link with text is it is adviced to free or paid text links to your site.

Article: CMS - refreshing/renewing content and ranking in search engines

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Refreshing and renewing content in your website is appreciated by visitors and by search engines. Search engines index your website more frequently if content is refreshed on a continuously basis. This contributes to your positions and ranking in search engines. With A CMS refreshing and renewal of contant is quite easy. More sophisticated CMS allow you to hide and display pages and or content on a timebased basis and can reorganise given content in different ways on different pages.