WebProNews - PageRank

BrowseRank The Next PageRank, Says Microsoft

WebProNews Staff — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:57:01 -0400

It shouldn’t be the links that come in, but the time spent browsing a relevant page, that should help determine where a page ranks for a given query.

Cutts: Look For New Toolbar PageRanks Soon

WebProNews Staff — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:57:47 -0400

Users of the Google Toolbar will see updated PageRank values for websites become available over the next few days.

Marketing With Articles

Rich Brooks — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:37:02 -0400

Recently a lot of people have been asking me questions about article marketing: what is it and how does it work?

Article marketing is the act of writing short articles, generally 1,000 words or less, and getting them published on the Web or in ezines. Generally you don't get paid for these articles, but the ROI is that you get links from the article to your Web site. Since incoming links from relevant Web pages helps your search engine visibility, this is a good thing.

Exclusive: Google Leads People To NoFollow Help Center

WebProNews Staff — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:47:24 -0400

Matt Cutts told Mike McDonald of WebProNews about something new from Google: the search advertising company opened a little help center on the topic of nofollows and links.

10 Ways To Increase Pages Indexed

Jason Lee Miller — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:15:47 -0500

For a while now webmasters have fretted over why all of the pages of their website are not indexed. As usual there doesn't seem to be any definite answer. But some things are definite, if not automatic, and some things seem like pretty darn good guesses.

Addressing Assumptions of the Original PageRank

Navneet Kaushal — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:57:36 -0500

When the original PageRank algorithm was conceived, it was built around the a mathematical formalization called random walk or RW.

Webmasters Ponder PageRank Discrepancy

Jason Lee Miller — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:04:44 -0500

An update to the Google Directory has webmasters puzzling over an apparent discrepancy in PageRank scores.

Google Directory Updated from DMOZ Data?

Andy Beard — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:56:17 -0500

I know a segment of my readers are sick to death with anything to do with Google PageRank updates, and I haven't even bothered mentioning the most recent update up until now… there wasn't really anything newsworthy in it.

Google Not Following its Own Paid Link Rules

Michael Gray — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:35:10 -0500

One of the more entertaining aspects of the entire paid links debate is Google is pretty quick to dole out the punishment, even though in many cases they haven’t taken the time to get their own house in order.

Hospitals Could Google For Superbug Movement

WebProNews Staff — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:05:05 -0500

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) poses a deadly threat to people, especially hospital patients. One effort to track infections in a facility would utilize Google's PageRank algorithm to do so.

Did Google Use Poor Timing for Updates?

Kevin Gibbons — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:52:50 -0500

The Guardian newspaper have today written an article titled Is Google a Grinch or a good guy?, which asks many UK SEO's (myself included) for their views on the recent Google paid link debate.

Cutts, Sullivan Weigh In On Paid Links

WebProNews Staff — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:10:01 -0500

The wild debate about Google's increasingly hardline stance against paid links looks like Wimbledon, with Matt Cutts taking on Rich Skrenta, while Danny Sullivan volleys against Michael Gray.

Paid Links Still Evil To Google

WebProNews Staff — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:16:18 -0500

Google continues to beat the drum about passing PageRank through paid links as Matt Cutts weighed in on the topic with another request that webmasters use the 'nofollow' attribute for them.

Debunking Wordpress SEO "Expert" Articles

Andy Beard — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:52:49 -0500

I am going to attempt to debunk almost every Wordpress SEO "Expert" article ever written, and in some respects this article even debunks some of the things I have written in the past.

Monday Morning Link Fest ...

Rich Ord — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:56:02 -0500

From Apple to Microsoft to Google, there is hot news written. Below are some of the more interesting articles involving eBusiness and search today.

Another obvious patent gets paid off by Apple. Apple has agreed to pay Burst a $10 million payment for infringing on its 1990 streaming video technology patent.

PayPerPost Bloggers Unranked By Google

WebProNews Staff — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:51:40 -0500

PageRank zero became the big number for blogs participating in Izea's PayPerPost program; Google's move to drop the rankings of those blogs drew a harsh rebuke from Izea's CEO.

More PageRank Carnage

Andy Beard — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:58:00 -0500

I have been receiving emails and comments about yet another PageRank downturn for multiple sites.

Andrew Ooi has compiled a short list of Malaysian sites, many were as much as a PR5 previously, and currently show a PageRank of zero (a white bar)

Examples include:-

Colleen's Simple Kind of Life and 5xmom

The numbers seem to be stable across multiple data centers

Will Google Offer PayPerPost Bloggers Amnesty?

Andy Beard — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:47:43 -0500

Since the first real information came out about Izea's (PayPerPost) new SocialSpark service, that is in testing but will formerly launch in January my excitement has been a little tempered.

Yes, Google Admits Torching Your PageRank

WebProNews Staff — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:11:10 -0400

Paid links proved the PageRank undoing for search professionals as well as for prominent sites like The Washington Post, but only recently did Google confess to doing this.

Marketers Begin Search For World Without Google

Jason Lee Miller — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:46:37 -0400

After Google's little message to the link-selling public last week, there seems to be a consensus: It was more of a warning shot than actual penalty, as traffic was not affected; and it is a reminder to diversify.

PageRank Update Another Message To Link Sellers?

Jason Lee Miller — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:12:07 -0400

Either the Google PageRank in your toolbar is officially meaningless, or Google just sent another message to link sellers. Once again, Google isn't talking and we're left to speculate.

Major Sites Taking PageRank Hits

Jason Lee Miller — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:46:51 -0400

Google is penalizing some big-name publications and blogs, including the Washington Post, Forbes, and Engadget. Over two dozen have seen their toolbar PageRank drop by a factor of 2 to 4 overnight.

Selling Paid Links Can Hamper Your Google Rankings

Navneet Kaushal — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:12:54 -0400

Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land points out that "Selling paid links can hurt your page rank or rankings on Google". He says, "More and more, I've been seeing people wondering if they've lost traffic on Google because they were detected to be selling paid links."

Google Becoming Wikipedia Without the Talk Page

Aaron Wall — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:35:01 -0400

In a recent post about paid links, Danny Sullivan wrote about how Google's army of engineers are going to start hand editing PageRank scores if they think you are selling links, which is a move that wreaks of desperation.

Link Selling Equals Google Juice Squeeze

WebProNews Staff — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:55:30 -0400

The paid link debate has a new topic to chew on, namely the official word and demonstrated effect of Google penalizing sites that sell links.

Google Supplemental Label Out. What Next, PageRank?

Barry Welford — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:45:19 -0400

Which item published by Google is:

How To Dump The Link Sluts

Jason Lee Miller — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:55:02 -0400

Though the future is still uncertain for the overall importance of links, the quantity and quality of inbound links, for rankings, they are, for the time being, the surest way to improve search engine rankings. Aside, of course, from great content.

Don't Crash The Next Google Dance

WebProNews Staff — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:23:39 -0400

The Single Grain blog suggests that with PageRank updates happening roughly every three months, there are five ways to put one's blog into position for a boost. Three of them could make your dancing feet all thumbs, though.

Google & the WWW Issue

Scott Van Achte — Thu, 10 May 2007 14:20:36 -0400

It would appear as if both www and non-www versions of websites are no longer being treated by Google as separate pages, at least where Page Rank is concerned.

We know that the visible PR in the tool bars is only a loose indication of a site’s actual PR, but it can still be frustrating when you see a low PR for the non-www version, and a higher PR for domains with the www. Recently we have noticed that the PR displayed is now the same for both versions.

Reasons for Deep Linking

Francesco Mapelli — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:02:35 -0400

While writing a post, always try to link to some older posts with absolute paths.