Search Illustrated: Google PageRank Explained

One of the most commonly discussed concepts among search marketers is Google's PageRank algorithm. Google explains PageRank in the following way: "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 ...
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May. 8, 2007 at 3:29pm Eastern by Elliance

Milk Those Links For Rankings & Clickthrough!

Old school media people are increasingly vilified by those of us who wear skinny jeans and throw out references to social media as casually as we breathe, but I'm quickly discovering that they really have their heads on straight with one major point about links: they're also good for traffic (ahem ...

Sep. 9, 2008 at 2:49pm Eastern by Julie Joyce

A Tool To Help Manage Internal PageRank Distribution

... how to make adjustments to your link development to best allocate your most important pages in the search results. I understand that toolbar PageRank is not the answer to all SEO problems. But it is somewhat of a sign and like the blog post said, if you are a control freak, this tool may be for you ...
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Aug. 9, 2007 at 8:31am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

10 Useless SEO Worries (Part 1)

... and work on delivering targeted traffic to a high-converting web site. Focus on that and someday the #1 ranking may follow. 9) Obsessing over PageRank You gotta love an industry that tells people they should ignore page rank but suddenly obsesses over it when Google does a number with their little green ...
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Nov. 1, 2007 at 8:50am Eastern by Stoney deGeyter

What Is Google PageRank? A Guide For Searchers & Webmasters

... 's website citing Matt Cutts named How does Google collect and rank results? it is unique because it is Google stating clearly (a long time ago) that Pagerank isn't the biggest factor in ranking. to quote it. "As a rule, Google tries to find pages that are both reputable and relevant. If two pages ...
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Apr. 26, 2007 at 1:18am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 28, 2008

... Seven Building Blocks of a Destination Website: #4 Unique Value Proposition, Search Engine Guide What Kinds of Changes Were Made to Google PageRank?, Search Engine Roundtable Social Media Facebook's iPhone App Has 1 Million Users, TechCrunch FriendFeed Friday Tips #8: How To Post To FriendFeed Via E ...
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Jul. 28, 2008 at 5:06pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Search Month: April 2008 Search News, In Review

Search Month is a monthly newsletter that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It's also available by feed here. Below, news about Search Engine Land itself, then our 10 most popular stories from April 2008, then a major story for various search topics along with other ...

May. 6, 2008 at 1:16pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google

... never penalized sites for link selling. If spotted, in most cases all Google would do is prevent links from a site or pages in a site from passing PageRank. Now that's changing. If you sell links, Google might indeed penalize your site plus drop the PageRank score that shows for it. The Stanford Daily ...
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Oct. 7, 2007 at 5:38pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Google Updates PageRank Again? Adjusts Paid Link Penalty?

Andy Beard reports that Google seems to have made their third PageRank update this month. This one appears to have reversed some of the downgrades in PageRank seen by some sites. We know that some of the PageRank changes were due to paid link selling, as we reported was happening back in early October ...
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Oct. 29, 2007 at 8:44am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google Directory Update Showing "Real" PR Scores?

Google PageRank Directory Clanger by Andy Beard informs us that Google recently pushed out an update to the Google Directory on the 8th of January. What that means is that Google pulled the most recent ODP RDF dump file and updated the Google Directory with that file. But more importantly, Andy also ...

Jan. 15, 2008 at 8:58am Eastern by Barry Schwartz