What is Google Pagerank? March 12, 2010
Posted by admin in : SEO , comments closedPageRank was developed at Stanford University by Larry Page (hence the name Page-Rank) and later Sergey Brin as part of a research project about a new kind of search engine. The project started in 1995 and led to a functional prototype, named Google, in 1998. Shortly after, Page and Brin founded Google Inc., the company behind the Google search engine. While just one of many factors which determine the ranking of Google search results, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of Google’s web search tools
PageRank is based on citation analysis that was developed in the 1950s by Eugene Garfield at the University of Pennsylvania, and Google’s founders cite Garfield’s work in their original paper. By following links from one page to another, virtual communities of webpages are found. Web link analysis was first developed by Jon Kleinberg and his team while working on the CLEVER project at IBM’s Almaden Research Center.
PageRank is a link analysis algorithm used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E).
The name “PageRank” is a trademark of Google, and the PageRank process has been patented (U.S. Patent 6,285,999 ). However, the patent is assigned to Stanford University and not to Google. Google has exclusive license rights on the patent from Stanford University. The university received 1.8 million shares in Google in exchange for use of the patent; the shares were sold in 2005 for $336 million.
Google describes PageRank
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, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important”.
In other words, a PageRank results from a “ballot” among all the other pages on the World Wide Web about how important a page is. A hyperlink to a page counts as a vote of support. The PageRank of a page is defined recursively and depends on the number and PageRank metric of all pages that link to it (”incoming links”). A page that is linked to by many pages with high PageRank receives a high rank itself. If there are no links to a web page there is no support for that page.
Google assigns a numeric weighting from 0-10 for each webpage on the Internet; this PageRank denotes a site’s importance in the eyes of Google. The PageRank is derived from a theoretical probability value on a logarithmic scale like the Richter Scale. The PageRank of a particular page is roughly based upon the quantity of inbound links as well as the PageRank of the pages providing the links. It is known that other factors, e.g. relevance of search words on the page and actual visits to the page reported by the Google toolbar also influence the PageRank. In order to prevent manipulation, spoofing and Spamdexing, Google provides no specific details about how other factors influence PageRank.
Numerous academic papers concerning PageRank have been published since Page and Brin’s original paper.In practice, the PageRank concept has proven to be vulnerable to manipulation, and extensive research has been devoted to identifying falsely inflated PageRank and ways to ignore links from documents with falsely inflated PageRank.
Other link-based ranking algorithms for Web pages include the HITS algorithm invented by Jon Kleinberg (used by Teoma and now Ask.com), the IBM CLEVER project, and the TrustRank algorithm.
SEO Tips to Increase Website Traffic and Ranking March 8, 2010
Posted by admin in : SEO , comments closedSome of these tips might be ideas or strategies you have heard before but never really acted on it. But, working on these SEO tips can help you to get more relevant traffic to your website and increase website ranking.
Here are few SEO Tips to increase your website traffic and search engine ranking:
* Build a site with valuable content, products and services. I know this seems obvious but I can’t stress the importance of good content. If you don’t have good content now then keep adding to your site. Make the website design simple and attractive so that it will be easy for your customers to navigate and find what they are looking for. My point is that your pages should not lead to a dead-end. Pages should have links to other pages. Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document. Try and have it read like it would if you were talking with a friend. Research and choose the right keywords or key phrases to attract your target audiences. If you know what’s important to your customers then you would focus on those keywords. Use your keywords in the right fields and references within your web page like Title, META Tags, Headers, etc. Submit your every web page and not just the home page, to the most popular search engines and web directories. If required, hire someone to do the submissions. Ensure that all submissions are done manually. Do not use any automated software or submission service. Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms and processes and accordingly modify your web pages so your search engine ranking remains high. See the tools page for tools to automate this process. Monitor your competitors and the top ranked websites to see what they are doing right in the way of design, navigation, content, keywords, etc. It is easier to copy then to try and figure it out on your own. Use statistic reports from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. Analyze your visitor location and their incoming sources whether search engines or links from other sites and the keywords they used to find you. Demonstrate your industry and product or service expertise by writing and submitting articles for your website or for article banks so you are perceived as an expert in your field. Plus, these will lead to backlinks to your site! Don’t look at your website as a static brochure. Treat it as a dynamic, ever-changing sales tool and location, just like your real store to which your customers with the same seriousness.
Tips for the Successful Link Building March 7, 2010
Posted by admin in : SEO , comments closedAt first I want to tell you something about link building basics. Link building is about getting inbound links to your website /link popularity building/ and it is one of the most important aspects when evaluating the quality of a website. Our intention is always to get more visibility and traffic to our website through these links. It is a part offpage search engine optimization /SEO/ and you have to do it, when onpage optimization is done correctly.
With link building you will improve your link popularity and that is important because every search engine /Google, MSN, Yahoo …/ now consider them as a part of their ranking algorithms. It is inevitable part for achievement TOP 10 position in search engines and for the good Google Page Rank as well.
For those who don’t now what the page rank is, here’s the explanation. Google is measuring the importance of the websites with the scale for ranking called pagerank /it is from 1-10/. When you install the Google bar, there you see the pagerank of your website, the higher is the better.
But now, let’s start with link building process. We know 2 types of link building in term of linking:
1. One-way link building
2. Reciprocal link building
The first one gives more importance but it’s harder to get. Here are some simple but effective tips.
1. Getting one-way link is not so easy, because your website must provide some useful and quality information for your visitors so they will link to your site without asking them. Be sure to always create on your website an important page and name it “Links to us”. It helps your visitors to copy and paste the HTML code to their websites; you can also create a small banner ad. If your information on your well designed website is interesting, useful and up-to-date people will certainly link to you without asking. These sort of inbound links are natural and valuable, but this is not the only method to get one-way links. Here is the next:
A, Submitting to the popular and niche directories /the most important free directory is DMOZ.org and paid Yahoo directory/.
Find for your website suitable directories and pages accepting your site. Put into Google, Yahoo and MSN the following word and keyword combination:
“add url” “your keyword” “no backlink required” ,
“submit url” “your keyword” “no backlink required” ,
“submit link” “your keyword” “no backlink required”
By typing these queries to Google you will directly find thousands of one-way links.
B, Submit your website to the article directories
Write an interesting article about your business or interests, but never trade in your article. Try to provide interesting information. If you don’t have time write or you don’t know how to do it you can hire some freelance writer who will do it for few bucks.
Search for article directories, simply type a query to Google:
“submit your article”,
“submit article”,
“add your article”,
“add article”
With these queries you will find hundreds of free article directory sites!
Don’t forget to promote your articles and website at digg.com, del.icio.us, technorati.com, furl.net, rawsugar.com, simpy.com, shadows.com, blinklist.com, my.yahoo.com, google.com/reader, my.msn.com, bloglines.com/help/share.
C, Submit your website to the forum sites
Another way to generate one way links is by participating in forum debates. There is also the possibility to leave your signature and URL. Many forums allow you to register, add a relevant comment or thread and sign your comment with a website. Some forums are so popular and visited that search engines visit them often and can generate a free traffic for you.
D, Leave a comment on other blog sites.
Search for the blog sites related to yours where you can leave a comment.
Type a query to Google:
“Leave a comment” intitle:”your keyword”
“Leave a response” intitle:”your keyword”
“Leave a comment” “your keyword”
“Leave a response” “your keyword”
Always read the corresponding article /blog/, make only on-topic and useful comment, but be careful not to spam.
If you have a blog site, be sure to submit it to blog directories.
E. Press release distribution
Next possibility to get one-way links and visibility is to submit a press release about your site to PRWeb, PRLeap. These sites distribute press releases to major news outlets and syndicates.
F, Email newsletter directory submission
Find email newsletter directories you can get the value from advertising in the newsletter and then benefit from the link in the website archive.
Some newsletter directories:
Ezine-Universe.com, Zinos.com, BestEzines.com, InfoBot.net, LifestylesPub.com, …
G, Buy one-way links
You can also buy links from high ranking sites. It can bring you some traffic and increase your page rank but have to pay for linking back from $10 – $200 monthly depending of the pagerank and position of your link on the website. Quality text links ads you can get from textlinkbrokers.com
There are lots of link brokers out there waiting to sell you a link from a high ranking site. These may have value but I like to look for well established, relevant newsletters that sell ads AND archive past issues on their website
H. Beware of Link Farms you may often heard about getting thousands links but it is not effective and that’s not the way to go.
2. Reciprocal Link Building
The easier way to getting links is asking website owners or webmasters for link back to your website for their link. Always put their link to your website before you asking for a links exchange. It’s harder to say no when you link them back.
To find your competitors backlinks in Goggle, MSN and Yahoo type the following:
Link:www.yourcompetitorwebsite.com try to get backlinks from these sites
Let’s see how to find another link partners in search engines:
“add url” “your keyword”
“submit url” “your keyword”
“submit link” “your keyword”
“your keyword” “link exchange”
Quality reciprocal links you can find by typing the previously mentioned queries in directory.yahoo.com and dmoz.org.
Link popularity building is not an overnight process; it has to be doing properly, continuously, day by day or week by week. You may use some link building software, but when you build links always vary the link building techniques and after 3 6 months you will see how your link popularity and traffic are increasing. You can check your link popularity at http://searchengineoptimization-submission.com/link_populariry.php