What Is Google PageRank? A Guide For Searchers & Webmasters

... I have a very simple question for you. Say for an example, If my Credit Card website gets a link from New York Times, say they gave me a link from a page which is not relevant to my website, do you think that link will have much more importance as far as anchor text is concerned in comparison to 20 ...
Related Searches: Pagerank | Alexa

Apr. 26, 2007 at 1:18am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Don't Blame Google For Your Own Linking Failures

... in particular, because to some extent we have all helped perpetuate the link building myths that Google innocently fueled when they first gave us PageRank. At the same time, I find it hard to believe anyone who earns their living by building links is really surprised by what has happened and is happening ...
Related Searches: Directory Submission

Jan. 7, 2008 at 4:05pm Eastern by Eric Ward

Sculpting Your PageRank For Maximum SEO Impact

If you are a large online retailer, you're looking at thousands upon thousands of pages that have the opportunity to get crawled and indexed in the SERPs (search engine results pages). You're also looking at near infinite choices for how you interlink all those pages. Out of all those permutations ...
Related Searches: Nofollow | Online Retailers | Internal Linking | Meta Title

Dec. 20, 2007 at 8:47am Eastern by Stephan Spencer

Google's PageRank Update Goes After Paid Links?

Seems like there is a PageRank update taking place now that seems to be impacting sites that sell links. Can't say that we were not warned about this. Danny Sullivan wrote Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google over two weeks ago, and now it appears many sites are ...
Related Searches: Danny Sullivan | Text-link-ads | Google Algorithm

Oct. 24, 2007 at 9:39am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Survey Says: No Sites Gained & Many Lost PageRank

SEOmoz reports that after reviewing the PageRank scores of over 30,000 web sites, none of them showed any PR gains and about 4 percent registered a drop after Google's first big wave of PR changes. In a second wave, there were finally some gains. SEOmoz had 32,856 domains that are monitored through ...

Nov. 6, 2007 at 9:07am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 24, 2007

... its traffic, the site shifted its business model to emphasize coupons and local deals. The firm had raised over $10 million in two. Google's PageRank Update Goes After Paid Links? Seems like there is a PageRank update taking place now that seems to be impacting sites that sell links. Can't say that ...

Oct. 24, 2007 at 2:49pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Link Analysis Beyond Search Rank

... to several sites my client's site competes with. But for this week's column let's imagine my link analysis has absolutely nothing to do with search rank. What good is all my link analysis if I don't use it to try and improve search rank? How do you study thirty or forty thousand links if search rank ...
Related Searches: Competition Analysis | Links | Link Building

Jul. 9, 2007 at 12:59pm Eastern by Eric Ward

Google Adds "Selling Links" For PageRank To Link Schemes Page

Google Blogoscoped reports Google has updated one of their help pages to include the words "selling links" when discussing link schemes. On the Why should I report paid links to Google? page, Google changed the document to add the words "selling links" through the page. One line ...

Nov. 23, 2007 at 8:33am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

The Day After: Looking At How Well Knol Pages Rank On Google

We've been assured that just because content sits on Google's Knol site, it won't gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how's that holding up? I found 1/3 of the pages listed on the Knol home page that I tested ranked in the top results ...
Related Searches: Knol

Jul. 24, 2008 at 2:02pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

How To Get New Web Sites To Rank Quickly

What is the difference between an unremarkable, no value added, thin ecommerce site, and a top ranked site? In some industries the difference is simply site age. Sites that were around a few years ago had fewer competitors, so it was easier for them to rank. As they aged they got trusted more, and ...

Jul. 31, 2008 at 8:18am Eastern by Aaron Wall