Oct17
Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?
Summary: How Does PageRank Work?
1. PageRank is only one of numerous methods Google uses to determine a page’s relevance or importance.
2. Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. Google looks not only at the sheer volume of votes; among 100 other aspects it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. However, these aspects don’t count, when PageRank is calculated.
3. PageRank is based on incoming links, but not just on the number of them - relevance and quality are important (in terms of the PageRank of sites, which link to a given site).
4. PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + … + PR(tn)/C(tn)). That’s the equation that calculates a page’s PageRank.
5. Not all links weight the same when it comes to PR.
6. If you had a web page with a PR8 and had 1 link on it, the site linked to would get a fair amount of PR value. But, if you had 100 links on that page, each individual link would only get a fraction of the value.
7. Bad incoming links don’t have impact on Page Rank.
8. Ranking popularity considers site age, backlink relevancy and backlink duration. PageRank doesn’t.
9. Content is not taken into account when PageRank is calculated.
10. PageRank does not rank web sites as a whole, but is determined for each page individually.
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\\ tags: google, google pagerank, Pagerank, Seo
Jul30
Q: I’ve got a question about internationalization: I have a multinational site with country-coded subdirectories and I’ve registered these as such in Webmasters’ tools, will this be exempt from duplicate content rules for a site spanning uk/us/aus ?
A (John Mueller): That’s generally ok. I would still make sure that the pages are obviously well-targeted for those audiences. It wouldn’t make sense to send users from specific areas to one general page. In that case, I would use a single page without geotargeting.
Q: Hi Maile - thought you might be here - remember playing pool against me at the SEOmoz party and getting your ass whooped?!
A (Maile Ohye): The sun was in my eye.
Q: what’s the time now at your location ?
A (Matt Cutts): I have 2:01 p.m. Pacific time, Moh Design
Q: Just Curious - Why does a yellow background occasionally appear in the bottom search box of the SERP?
A (John Mueller): This sounds like a plugin in your browser .
Q: Does Google look negativly on all caps? <–i can spell i swear
A (John Mueller): nope, we take the letters as they come 
Q: Q: can Google crawl Flash sites/
A (John Mueller): Somewhat — we can extract some information from the Flash files, but it’s generally not the same as with HTML sites/pages.
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\\ tags: , google, Google Reference, Pagerank, Reference, Seo
Jul29
If I own two domains (example.com and example.net) and I only have content on one, how should I redirect traffic from the other site?
#redirect
I have [thousands/several/at least two] links to my site, but when I search on Google it says I have [zero/not that many] links. What gives?
#number-of-links
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If you do a Google search using the link: operator (e.g. [link:www.example.com]), you will see a sampling of pages that link to your site. For a more complete list of pages that link to you, verify your site in Webmaster Tools and then click the Links tab to see the sites that link to you.
I don’t want Google to crawl my site. What should I do?
#stop-crawling
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You can set up a robots.txt file to control access and block Googlebot.
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Note that if other people link to pages on your site, these URLs may still show up in our index, and your site may still appear in search results.
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\\ tags: FAQ, google, Pagerank, ranking, Search Engines
Dec31
Site PR is not so important as site views. But every blogger wants that his site has a decent PR. So he can get money by viewing TLA (Text-link-ads) or selling links from his site, or banners. PR is important in Making money and in SEO. Here are some ways to increase your site PR:
- Submitting your site in Free or Payable Directories
- Buying PR links
- Reviewing your site in high PR sites
- Posting guest posts in other blogs
In this topic i will show you some high PR Free Directories, which are good to “run” your site and increase PR. There are thousand of Free Directories, so I will show you just the most popular and Directories with high PR. Read on.
First look this two sites, thatI think are worth looking. You can see a lot of popular Directories here.
And here is the list of Free Directories that I found on forums and other blogs, so take some time and Submit your site:
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\\ tags: Pagerank