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Re: How can I increase my pagerank in Google

maximuskang — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:54:27 GMT

Oh absolutely! The algorithm is always changing to make life harder for folks like you and me.

I would agree with your statement about "traffic relating to your rankings" which is a completely different statement from "traffic relating to your PageRank". Let me add that an increase in traffic will also depend on your bounce rate (the rate at which people leave your site immediately). If you have high volumes of traffic coming in, but you have a high bounce rate, I've seen it time after time that a high bounce rate kills rankings.

If people are coming to your site and leaving immediately, isn't that a clear indicator that your page is not relevant at all? If that's the case, Google's job is to provide the most relevant sites per search query so it makes sense that Google would push your listing down in the organic search rankings right?

Although I agree that you need to always change up your game plan, I've found that applying and re-applying the fundamentals that are outlined in Google's guidelines is the only game plan you really need. In fact, the only thing I've changed in my strategy is that I don't do PageRank sculpting anymore due to Google recently stating that the no-follow tag will no longer be heavily weighted.

Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts friend! I'm sure this will be able to help the other members on this forum.

Re: How can I increase my pagerank in Google

vnavguys — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:43:52 GMT

Well I think a better assessment would be to say that you dont agree, or your results vary from your testing. The Google Formula is basically changing and no one really knows the exact functionality of it. They keep it mysterious for a reason. In my own opinion I believe that traffic is a function of their ranking procedure. Just when you think you have it figured out, they change it up a bit. That is why every 18 months or so you should change up your game plan.

Re: How can I increase my pagerank in Google

maximuskang — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:25:27 GMT

I agree with you to an extent, visitor traffic does NOT play into the PageRank equation. I've conducted isolated tests of my testing sites to see if PageRank and visitor traffic are interrelated. It's been roughly 4 months now and from what I can tell, there is absolutely no relation. From what I've come across with all of my previous clients and at Expedia, Page Rank is primarily based on your link profile. Besides, the theory of Page Rank as spoken by the creator is a "Link Analysis" algorithm. The equation doesn't even have traffic in it so your statement "Increased traffic also has page rank implications" is incorrect.

The part I do agree on is that if you build your blog up with great content and attract editorial links from others in your industry, your Page Rank absolutely will go up. However, this is poor execution because all of the content that you publish on these free-hosted blogging platforms will provide no benefit for you in the long run...especially if you have future link building plans.

If you change the name of your company...your blog is basically a wasted effort as you cannot perform a 301 (permanent) redirect to your new blog
The actual Page Rank or aka "link equity" that you build for your 3rd party hosted blog will not benefit your website, unless you are linking to your site with anchor text frequently. Remember, that the web is full of users who are very turned off this day and age by over-commercialized content

If you absolutely do not have the time to set up a blog on your domain (which is actually very simple) or you just want to blog and don't necessarily care about the SEO benefits, I think getting a 3rd party hosted blog is not a bad idea at all.

I would also agree that Wordpress has much more functionality than Blogger due to all of the plugins, which are simply pieces of software you can load onto your blog for more functionality.

Re: How can I increase my pagerank in Google

vnavguys — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:03:51 GMT

I happen to disagree, if your strategy is sound it WILL help your page rank, it will do it indirectly. When you blog you talk about your industry, not your products. You build an audience, become an expert and an authority. Over time you will also build an email list. You link to your site from your blog using anchor text links for things you want to rank for on your money site. (that builds page rank) You will also gain traffic to your money site if you blog correctly and make good recommendations. Increased traffic also has page rank implications. Now why do I say this? Because I do this very thing, I have several blogs not just one, all of them are on relevant to the money site. I take my time and build good content and I do it for the reader, not Google. Google eventually comes along.

Now lets say you get this and you start feeling a groove and pick up some traffic. Take it the next level, build more blogs and web 2.0 pages that support via linking and increase traffic. Do not build crap. I have 85 blogs supporting my money site. My money site ranks #1 for my main keyword and a majority of other keywords I want to rank for. I hire writers and use a very organized plan. Think of it as a matrix. Thats how you build page rank. I prefer wordpress blogs by the way because bloggers blogspot lacks a ton of features.
Ken

Re: How can I increase my pagerank in Google

maximuskang — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:27:55 GMT

I definitely agree that having a blog can help increase your PageRank because people are more likely to link to a blog than a commercialized website. However, if you are doing a blog just because everybody else is doing it, I've seen many small business owners lose business because they went about it incorrectly. Creating a blog requires a specific strategic approach in order to be successful.

Also, getting a blog hosted on a site like Blogger.com or Wordpress.com will provide absolutely no SEO benefit to your website simply because www.yoursite.blogspot.com or www.yoursite.wordpress.com is not going to pass any SEO value to your website because it will be hosted on Blogspot or Wordpress. The most ideal method here is to add on a blog template as a subfolder on your domain. So instead of having it hosted on another domain (www.yoursite.blogspot.com), you want your blog to look like (www.yoursite.com/blog).

Cheers,

Re: How can I increase my pagerank in Google

BusinessToday — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:46:29 GMT

Have you tried adding a blog to your website? Use Blogger.com to write articles about your business and have links to your website.
Unique Businesses

Re: How can I increase my pagerank in Google

wownikeshop — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:11:55 GMT

maybe your can register through the forum or write some of blog ,i think it is very useful . and send some message through the B to B

Re: How can I increase my pagerank in Google

maximuskang — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:43:58 GMT

"-" are indeed the most appropriate way to display an array of words not only in your images, but also in your URL's. Many people use underscores "_". With underscores, Google's programmer roots are showing. In many programming languages, something like _INT is different than INT.

So the bottom line is that if you have a URL or image file named "website.com/word1_word2", this result will only appear in the search engine results page when "word1 word2" is searched exactly. This occurs MUCH less frequently than if word1 or word2 are searched seperately. "website.com/word1-word2" will show up when either word1 or word2 is searched in ANY string.

Hope this makes sense...a little more technical than I was hoping it would sound. Oh well, I can't help but go in detail when it comes to SEO.

Have a great weekend everybody!

Re: How can I increase my pagerank in Google

maximuskang — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:32:47 GMT

Man, this forum has really got some terrible software. So far, it's deleted 4 super long replies that I've spent hours on writing for folks on here, it's told me that my message didn't go through so after re-writing the message, the other one mysteriously just shows up after I post the second one so there are duplicates, and now there are weird encodings in my posts.

I hope BoA fixes this soon.

Re: How can I increase my pagerank in Google

maximuskang — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:11:42 GMT

Rather than posting links that point to sites that claim to have great SEO info (that actually have very very poor site statistics), why don't you summarize what it is you want folks to look at. This is obviously spam, but I wanted others to know what it is that you are clicking into before you potentially get scammed.

You use this EXACT same message in another thread, so please prove me wrong. I think the folks on here are simply looking for good advice and what you posted is very counter-productive.