So you know what Page Rank is and how important it is to have a good page rank. But how do you know what your website’s Page Rank is?
Try this online tool: Whats my PageRank?
The tool also gives a lot of other valuable information about your site such as it's Alexa rating, what directories it has been entered into, a list of the backlinkks to your site, and the age of the URL.
Q: What is the highest Page Rank you can get?
A: PageRank is from 0 – 10, with 10 being the highest number awarded
Q: What Is a PageRank?
A: PageRank is a numerical value which represents the popularity of a website. This is status given to websites by www.google.com
Q: How is PageRank Used?
A: PageRank is one of the methods Google uses to determine a page’s relevance or importance. If sites with high Page Rank are linking to you that's a good thing for your own Page Rank.
*Editor's Note: High Page Rank if great, but a website people enjoy visiting is even better.
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Leveraging Your Links - Keep Your Google Juice
Are you leveraging your links on pages of your website?
Don't spill your Google Juice!
The first thing I do when I get contacted by one of these site owners is check the Page Rank of their website. If their page rank is lower than my own page rank then I know that it will most likely not be beneficial to me to exchange links with them. You could be tricky and add a rel="nofollow" tag after the link, these tags are like plugs that stop your hard earned Google Juice from flowing out of your site and into theirs.
Content within your own website should also be correctly linked together so that search engine web crawlers can follow links within your own website. If you don’t provide working links to all your pages, some of your content may not get indexed….and that’s not good.
Why pass your Google Juice on to others? pass it to pages within your own site instead with effective internal linking.
* Editor's Note: Contrary to popular belief, Google Juice is not made from freshly squeezed search engines but is high in vitamin PR.
Image by CR CC BY-SA 3.0
Don't spill your Google Juice!
I get emails on a regular basis from new websites that would like to exchange links with me. They often start by informing me how I can benefit from such a link exchange. Exchanging links with sites can be effective in getting traffic from the site linking to you but it can also suck out all your Google Juice.
Sites that are linked to from lots of other sites are regularly deemed more popular and therefore get a much higher ranking in search engine results. More important than the number of links though is the quality of those incoming links. Contacting the owners of Web sites that score highly for key phrases related to your content and asking them if they will provide a link back to your site isn’t a bad idea.
The first thing I do when I get contacted by one of these site owners is check the Page Rank of their website. If their page rank is lower than my own page rank then I know that it will most likely not be beneficial to me to exchange links with them. You could be tricky and add a rel="nofollow" tag after the link, these tags are like plugs that stop your hard earned Google Juice from flowing out of your site and into theirs.
Content within your own website should also be correctly linked together so that search engine web crawlers can follow links within your own website. If you don’t provide working links to all your pages, some of your content may not get indexed….and that’s not good.
Why pass your Google Juice on to others? pass it to pages within your own site instead with effective internal linking.
* Editor's Note: Contrary to popular belief, Google Juice is not made from freshly squeezed search engines but is high in vitamin PR.
Image by CR CC BY-SA 3.0
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