Just How Important Are Top Rankings?
Date: 2006-04-27 Source: Search Engine Guide
While much has been said recently (by myself and others) about the over-emphasis placed on search engine rankings, it is still important to keep track of how placement impacts things like branding, searcher impressions and even overall search usage. That's why a recent study put together by iProspect caught my eye. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Mysterious Changing PR
Date: 2006-03-23 Source: Search Engine Guide
Today when I went to my client's website, Google told me the site's PageRank (PR) is 1. A couple of hours later, while I was on the phone I needed to call up that site again and voila, the PR had increased from 1 to 3! [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Switching to a New Domain Without Losing Your Google Rankings
Date: 2005-08-16 Source: Search Engine Guide
Unfortunately, when launching a new version of your site Google doesn't always seem to recognize that you've simply changed the URL of an existing site, and ends up subjecting the new domain to the aging delay as if it were a brand new out-of-the-box site.
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How Important is PageRank, Really?
Date: 2005-04-13 Source: Search Engine Guide
No one will argue that PageRank has become irrelevant, but there is significant evidence to suggest that PageRank is not quite as important of a factor in website ranking as it once was. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Is Google PageRank for Real?
Date: 2004-12-02 Source: Search Engine Guide
Discussions have been taking place via forums and blogs this week debating the legitimacy of statements made by a variety of unofficial Google spokesmen and their comments on the accuracy of PageRank scores in the Google toolbar. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
More PageRank Mania
Date: 2004-06-14 Source: Search Engine Guide
Sadly, it appears that PageRank is often the driving factor in how and why people link to each other, and that is just plain wrong. When a site owner refuses to link to a great site that might be useful to their visitors simply because it's only a PR3 or 2 or even zero, then we've got a huge problem. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google PageRank Lunacy
Date: 2004-03-04 Source: SearchDay
The quest by some to improve their Google PageRank score seems to have reached the point of sheer madness. Even common decency may be abandoned in futile attempts by desperate (or simply less educated) online marketers and others who will seemingly stop at nothing to try and gain links in hopes of seeing more green in their Google toolbar. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Rich Get Richer - Why Yahoo, DMOZ, Google and PageRank are Importantpop
Date: 2003-11-11 Source: Search Engine Guide
Because Google is currently the largest hub on the Internet, establishing links on DMOZ and Yahoo are vital to establishing PageRank and becoming a hub on the web. PageRank is not just a marketing gimmick, it helps illustrate which web sites are hubs and which are nodes. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Uh huh. So PageRank is dead huh?
Date: 2003-10-15 Source: chriSEO
...one of the interesting things about PageRank is that as the web changes so will the effects of PageRank, that makes it virtually impossible to say whether it has a stronger, weaker or unchanged influence. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Don't throw away your Google PageRankpop
Date: 2003-02-12 Source: CoverYourASP
If only I had realized this problem 2 years ago I could now have a PageRank of 7/10 or higher, have more traffic directed to my site and be making more advertising dollars! [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Funny Things Afoot in Google!
Date: 2003-01-07 Source: Search Engine Optimization Support Forums
If there's one really important skill in SEO, it's "keeping an open mind". It's an industry that forces us to hypothesise and theorise, but we need to be careful not to get caught in one track of thought. Events today brought that concept back to the forefront of my mind. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Indirect Effects of Google PageRank
Date: 2002-11-14 Source: Search Engine Optimization Support Forums
It appears on further thought that there are indirect benefits of PageRank that don't seem to be mentioned anywhere (I even didn't think about it when myself and others were writing PageRank Uncovered). [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
How PR0 isn't always as bad as it looks
Date: 2002-10-17 Source: Search Engine Optimization Support Forums
In PageRank Uncovered Mike Shishigin and I speculated that for a PageRank Zero'd page to not pass pagerank on a second penalty must be applied. By chance, I came across an example. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Zotpop
Date: 2002-10-01 Source: Search Engine Optimization Support Forums
I was totally and utterly wrong, or so it appears. Despite all my research in to Google PageRank, I didn't figure they'd modify PR, regardless of the other kind of PR (public relations). [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
PageRank Uncovered Released
Date: 2002-09-30 Source: Search Engine Optimization Support Forums
A year of additional research has turned PageRank Explained in to PageRank Uncovered. With an additional author, Mike Shishigin, we look further in to the secrets of PageRank than ever before. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The Weight of Google PageRank in Ranking
Date: 2002-09-11 Source: Search Engine Guide
It is not a mystery that PageRank has a fairly large role in Google's ranking, but how much weight? Are there other variables that outweigh PageRank? Andrew Gerhart discusses how much weight is given to PageRank, if PageRank alone is enough to rank, and more. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Sticking up for PageRank
Date: 2002-09-06 Source: Search Engine Optimization Support Forums
With the new version of PageRank Explained due shortly, and with the ever increasing trend to knock Google for PageRank, I figured it was about time somebody stuck up for PageRank. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
PageRank For Sale
Date: 2002-08-24 Source: Pandia
SearchKing has started selling text ads on its network of independent portals, with prices based on Google PageRank. Jono Craig asks Robert Massa of SearchKing if he really believes he can get away with it. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
PageRank Mania - Is it getting out of hand?
Date: 2002-03-28 Source: Search Engine Guide
I'm sad, I'm mad and disillusioned a tad. I thought the search engine optimization community had changed. Silly me. I guess I was fooled by the discussions on the importance of good content cropping up all over the place. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
