Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Just in case you haven’t noticed your Google Pagerank lately, it is currently being updated as I type.
I was typing the last post in this blog a few minutes ago and noticed that it now has a Pagerank of 2. That’s twice of what it was at 1. The reason it’s only a 2 is because I have relatively few links to the blog and the domain name is very young. Some of my other sites picked up a few points.
Good luck and let me know if your site gained any PR.
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
This is a fun little tool. If you’re into SEO (that’s search engine optimization) and watch your website’s pagerank every month, then you might get a kick out of this. There are tons of websites out there that offer Google Pagerank Prediction or Predictors. they claim to predict what your site’s pagerank will be in the future…or after Google’s next update.
Just visit the site and type in your URL. You may either be pleasantly surprised or tragically shocked. Please take it with a grain of salt though…it has yet to predict one of my sites correctly, except when it says my pagerank will just stay the same. Also, I think all the sites use the same tool, so there is little use jumping around from site to site trying to predict the highest pagerank.
If you want to see if Google is in the middle of an update and you suspect that your pagerank will change, just check out the Google Multiple Datacenter Pagerank Check.
Enjoy!
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
This post may ruffle some feathers. I will try to keep it short.
I had a conversation with a friend this morning about SEO. I started thinking. Now, you may not know, but one of my favorite pastimes is managing my websites (of which I mentioned in an earlier post). There are many parts to managing these sites…customer service, updates and upgrades, new features and very importantly, SEO.
Basically, SEO is adjusting of website code and content so it consistently appears on the early pages of search results for strong search terms. The key words here are consistently, early and strong search terms. I could go on for hours, but I won’t. Bob has a great post here about the ins and the outs of this topic.
Anyway, much focus has been put on Google PageRank over the years. I read a lot about this on forum after forum and watch as people cheer or sulk every time Google adjusts their algorithm. The minute they see their website’s PageRank bounce around during a Google update, they freak out and start tearing things apart and asking for all sorts of advice. Granted, a lot of people making these posts are brand new to this stuff and haven’t realized yet that Google PageRank is just not that important. That’s right…it’s just not that important. I know this for a fact. My years of experience have taught me a few things. What is important is your rankings in the search results, which are based on…well, read Bob’s post above. If you are into ecommerce, these rankings affect your income.
So, here is a question: With your own website, have you seen a relationship between your website’s rankings and your Google PageRank?
This really has nothing to do with this morning’s conversation. We actually were talking about conversion. That is, getting people to sign up, spend money or do the thing you want them to do after they arrive at your website. We’ll talk about this later.
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