If you’ve spent time (or are simply curious) about online marketing, then the topic of search engine optimization (SEO) usually comes up. And, no discussion of search engine anythingis complete these days without some mention of Google. This article provides a brief overview of how Google ranks search results with a look at their PageRank™ algorithm (a key component). I’m not a search engine expert (that’s the bad news). The good news is that I know enough to describe Google PageRank in relatively simple terms (such that you can impress your friends and family with your new-found knowledge).
Quick Intro To SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Put quite simply, SEO is the process of optimizing your website for the search engines (like Google). By “optimizing”, I mean attempting to make it such that searches for specific phrases rank your website higher in the search results than other websites. There are lots of good reasons to want to rank higher, but for businesses, the primary reason is to generate good leads for your offering. Millions of people use Google every day looking for a product, service, or information. Some of these people might be potential clients looking for your particular offering.
There are two ways for you to show up on the results page when users are doing a search. The first is with paid search (I’ll talk about this in a future article) and the second is what is known as “organic” (or “natural”) search. The natural search results are listed free and are dependent on Google’s estimation of how relevant and credible your website is. Natural search results are my favorite kind, because you don’t have to pay money for them, and they often works better than paid advertising. I liken this to the difference between getting mentioned in a magazine article and purchasing an ad in that same magazine.
If you can rank high on the free (organic) search resultsfor Google, it’s like getting tens of thousands of dollars worth of free advertising in the most relevant trade magazines for your industry, every time a new issue comes out. I’m not sure about you, but that’s pretty interesting to me. It’s a great way to grow your business and find new clients. So, how do you get all this free, effective advertising in the search engines? Well, to do that you need to understand the Google algorithm and how it determines who gets listed.
If you can rank high on the free (organic) search resultsfor Google, it’s like getting tens of thousands of dollars worth of free advertising in the most relevant trade magazines for your industry, every time a new issue comes out. I’m not sure about you, but that’s pretty interesting to me. It’s a great way to grow your business and find new clients. So, how do you get all this free, effective advertising in the search engines? Well, to do that you need to understand the Google algorithm and how it determines who gets listed.
Google’s Search Algorithm
First, let’s establish a simple example which we can use to frame our discussion. Let’s assume you are the partner in a boutique strategy consulting firm. Lets further say that your specialization is advising technical founders of high-growth, venture-backed companies on how to be better at selling. Now, you could probably identify a number of search phrases that your potential clients might use when interested in this particular topic. Users may search for something like “technical sales consultant to founder”. Or, they may just start by looking for content (instead of consulting) and search on “successful technical selling”. In either case, Google has an algorithm that figures out which websites of the hundreds of millions out there should be displayed in rank order on the results page. These are the organic (i.e. non-paid) results. You want to rank high on these results. [Author’s note: If you do actually search Google on “successful technical selling”, you’ll find that my OnStartups.com blog ranks #1].Though Google’s algorithm is extremely sophisticated, it boils down to something like this:
Search Ranking = Relevance * PageRank
Relevance is basically the measure of how your website (or more accurately one of your web pages) matches the search phrase the user has entered. Measuring relevance is a relatively sophisticated process, but it boils down to some fundamentals like the title of the page, words on the page and how frequently they occur, etc. So, if your home page contains keywords like “technical selling”, it drives up the relevance for this particular search. The reason my blog article is ranked #1 on Google for “successful technical selling” is in no small part because of the title OF ONE OF MY ARTICLES (“Successful Selling Tips For The Technically Gifted”). Basically, Google figures out what your page is “about” by looking at it’s content (and by looking at other sites with similar content that are linking to yours), and then uses this to figure out how relevant your site is for a particular search phrase.
PageRank is an independent measure of Google’s perception of the quality/authority/credibility of an individual web page. It does not depend on any particular search phrase. For the public (you and me), Google conveniently reports this as a number from 0-10 (10 being the best). So, assuming for a second that your web page and your competitor's web page have the same relevance – whoever has the higher PageRank gets the better ranking and shows up at the top of the results page. This is why PageRank is so important. Your relevance is based on your content (if you’re a consulting company specializing in technical selling, your relevance for stainless steel monkey wrench searches is going to be understandably low). Your PageRank is what counts.
How PageRank Is Calculated
There has been a lot written and a lot debated about Google’s PageRank, but on one point there is near unanimous agreement. PageRank is primarily determined by how many other web pages are linking into you. Google considers this kind of inbound a link a vote of confidence. But, here’s the trick: Not all inbound links are created equal. Web pages with more credibility that link to you have more “value” to your PageRank than those with less credibility. How is this credibility determined? Why, by their PageRank, of course! So, let’s take an example. Let's say you have your Uncle Charlie link to you from his blog to your small business website. Let’s also say that Uncle Charlie’s blog has a Page Rank of 3 (this is being a little generous because all Uncle Charlie writes about is his dog Sparky and he has limited inbound links). This link from Uncle Charlie will certainly help you – a little bit. It will help you more if you can find 100 such Uncle Charlie websites with a PageRank of 3 and get them to link to you.However, if you get a single link from HubSpot.com (the sponsor of this blog), it’ll help you more than a 100 Uncle Charlie websites. Why? Because HubSpot.com has a PageRank of 6 and a link from it is much more valuable. I divide up PageRank into these broad categories:
0-3: New sites or sites with very minimal links
4-5: Popular sites with a fair amount of inbound links
6: Very popular sites that have hundreds of links, many of them quality links
7-10: Usually media brands (NYTimes.com), big companies or A-list bloggers.
Now, it’s important to note that PageRank is believed to be calculated on a logarithmic scale. What this roughly means is that the difference between PR4 and PR5 is likely 5-10 times than the difference between PR3 and PR4. So, there are likely over a 100 times as many web pages with a PageRank of 2 than there are with a PageRank of 4. This means that if you get to a PageRank of 6 or so, you’re likely well into the top 0.1% of all websites out there. If most of your peer group is straggling around with a PR2 or PR3, you’re way ahead of the game.
What’s Your PageRank?
There are two ways to figure out what your approximate PageRank is. One, you can download the Google Toolbar (the PageRank feature is not turned on by default, so you’d have to enable it after installation).The other way is to use our immensely popular (and free) Website Grader tool. It will not only tell you your Google PageRank, but a bunch of interesting other stuff too.
Quick recap:
Organic search is like free advertising. It’s worth the investment to try and get a high ranking by the major search engines. To rank high you should do two things: First, make sure your site has the right relevant content for the types of searches your potential clients are conducting. Second, try to get the highest PageRank possible. To do this, you need to get as many inbound links from as many high PageRank web pages as possible.
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Phil 1:03 PM on October 20, 2006
I'm a 6! Woo hoo!
Zach Coelius 6:08 PM on October 20, 2006
Well done, a useful entry if I have ever seen one. I wish a lot more people understood how this stuff worked.
Mike 6:24 PM on October 20, 2006
"So, there are likely over a 100 times as many web pages with a PageRank of 4 than there are with a PageRank of 2."
Isn't that backwards? Wouldn't there be many fewer PR4 sites than PR2 based on what you said before that?
Anonymous 6:27 PM on October 20, 2006
Mike: You're right, I got this backwards (will fix it now).
Thanks for catching this.
Dr. Tarique sani 12:54 AM on October 22, 2006
Thanks for a very lucid article - just checked we have a page rank of 7!
Aditya 12:08 AM on October 23, 2006
USeful Info. Thanks!!! SO does that mean that one way of increasing my websites page rank would be to leave a comment on a popular blog(for instance) and leave my website name. That would be considered a incoming link to my website. Agreed?
Anonymous 12:20 AM on October 23, 2006
Aditya: Actually, in most cases, simply leaving a comment on another website will *not* increase your PageRank. The reason is because of what is known as a "nofollow" attribute on these links. Most blogging systems use this attribute to prevent comment spam (i.e. links left within comments do not benefit the target site).
I'll plan to write a short follow-up article on this topic in the upcoming week. I think it's a good point and there's good cause for confusion.
markap 2:43 PM on October 23, 2006
Question, and I am sure a lot of this kind of thing is being done, but couldn't a high rank site sell its own linking service and just make them hidden, assuming this can remain relatively undetected? How is this playing out, is the quality of the listings just deteriorating or is google on top of this?
Anonymous 7:04 PM on October 23, 2006
Markap:
I believe Google is already on top of this.
The core Google PageRank algorithm "distributes" it's established PR across all of the outbound links. Put differently, 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.
This protects against the "reciprocal link exchanges". Also, it is suspected that Google has even further mechanisms to detect and penalize link exchanges, hidden text within pages and other activities.
sean 4:33 AM on October 24, 2006
Great article Dharmesh. Clear and concise - as usual.
Got a 7 on our site.
Brent Leary 9:46 AM on October 26, 2006
Very good information here Brian. Thanks for breaking it down for us.
k 11:49 AM on October 26, 2006
Wow! Tried it and was completely surprised by the result. Good to know as I crank up a new e-commerce site. Thanks.
Brandon 8:59 AM on January 09, 2007
Helpful article, may help me with my new website
Monique 4:33 PM on September 13, 2007
Great info. How do I add a Post Comments section like this one to my website?
Megan 4:30 AM on September 29, 2007
Great Article. Seo can be so hard to explain. You put it in simplicite terms ...great job
Joy 2:51 PM on October 23, 2007
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Andy 12:24 PM on November 05, 2007
This is a great article that teaches the lay person about page rank and link popularity
vincent 2:17 AM on December 25, 2007
i scored 88% on website grader.
But my page rank is only 1, which is lower than other website which scored lower points than me...
is there anything goes wrong with my website? :(
vincent 2:20 AM on December 25, 2007
i forgot to write down my website url. here is it.
http://www.heartbeat.com.my
thanks.
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it's quite self explanatory!
thanks for the article
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Olugbenga Owolabi 8:33 PM on January 02, 2008
Very informative post. Thanks.
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Mk 12:20 AM on January 08, 2008
Simple and easy to understand. Thanks!
Paul 4:25 AM on January 13, 2008
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Thanks for the article!
edwin 12:22 AM on January 18, 2008
how can i get Google Page Rank.
Jayaraman 12:37 PM on January 18, 2008
Dharmesh, after reading your article i tried as per your suggestion to get inbound links, now my website ranked good.
Thank you
Betterbizbuilders 12:25 AM on January 19, 2008
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Frau Lami 8:52 PM on January 23, 2008
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Sinergica Bilance 2:32 PM on January 31, 2008
Thanks for a very important article - just checked we have a page rank of 4!
Mark 5:23 AM on February 05, 2008
I got rank 3, which I think is ok considering my site's only been up for 2 weeks, am I right?
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Check us out:
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My host wants an arm and a leg to modify things you referenced. Is this typical? I paid a ton to have this site (www.lordliftedme.com) built only to run out of cash before I ran out of questions.
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Thank you,
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Shankar Saikia 7:41 AM on March 18, 2008
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mysoftware 12:53 AM on March 19, 2008
Just need software to search high ranked pages to publish website by hand. I do not know how to search pr 6+ pages.
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Ron 8:07 PM on March 20, 2008
I have been using a different listing service for over 7 months and I still come up with a zero for Google's page rank. Now, I may switch because of what I have learned here. This is good stuff to know and may help my site http://www.survivalsuppliesusa.com get noticed. Thanks!
Annie Laya 5:04 PM on March 21, 2008
way to improve of my page rank?
what type of data is very usefull for my site.what type of meta data we can use?
Aaron 10:51 PM on March 21, 2008
This is very useful information! Very clear and to the point. I am a graphic designer and am expanding my services into websites. I know how to design them but am still learning about SEO. Thanks for the great information!!!
Cherli 12:12 PM on March 22, 2008
My first grade with websitegrader was a pathetic 7 out of 100. I was depressed for days as Ihad put in hours and hours of daily slog into it. After reading the info on this blog about SEO the bells finally started ringing. After resubmitting my site got a score of 28 out of 100 , big improvement a long way to go still, but have my pages indexed by google. Perseverance does bring rewards. Thanks for your valuable information.
Doug 12:09 AM on March 23, 2008
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Steven Ray, DMD 2:56 PM on March 26, 2008
Thanks. This info has been very helpful!
Manu 8:36 PM on March 28, 2008
Gracias por la información, es muy util y valiosa
wikiecho 8:05 PM on March 29, 2008
Dear Dharmesh,
Reading your article was an eye opener for me, a rookie website developer from a medical background. It helped me a great deal in optimising www.wikiecho.com a wiki based website I developed as a knowledge base for echocardiography.
Craig Key 11:39 AM on March 30, 2008
Darmesh,
This seems like a silly question, but is it possible that using websitegrader can in anyway hurt my site's page rank?
I have a personal blog, and a business website, and I have been checking the "grade" of each site on an almost weekly basis for a couple months. After a couple weeks, I noticed that the page ranks dropped from a "3" to a "0." My inbound links haven't gone down, and I haven't done anything else that I could think of that would angry the almighty google.
Does your product "ping" google in some way, that would cause them to think something is fishy if it is done multiple times?
I think your product, blog, webinars are all fantastic, so please don't take this as an insult. But I don't understand why my page rank has dropped.
Anonymous 12:27 PM on March 30, 2008
Craig:
WebsiteGrader is an information-only tool (it doesn't change your website). It does query the Google servers to retrieve the PageRank for a given page, but that's very common practice (lots of toolbars, widgets, websites and other things do this querying)
As for the PageRank drop, there's lots of information on the web of recent adjustments in PageRank. Many seem to be random and arbitrary. I'm not sure what caused your drop, but I'm pretty confident it's got nothing to do with WebsiteGrader.
Nattawut 10:11 AM on April 04, 2008
Thank a lot. very much
Noman Haider 11:16 AM on April 04, 2008
Greate Article I am doing SEO for my site and this article will help me to do that ...
Jack Napoli 3:29 PM on April 04, 2008
Hi Dharmesh,
Excellent article.
Clear, Concise and to the Point.
These type of articles are very helpful to us Newbies to the SEO world.
Thanks for having the Links right in the Website Grader Reports.
It's like a Quarterback having the Plays on his Wrist Band.
A quick Glance in the heat of Battle can make all the difference between winning and losing.
Keep up the great work.
istioselida 7:40 AM on April 06, 2008
very useful information,
thanks!
Anne 2:51 AM on April 07, 2008
My page rank has dropped to a 2 from a 3 and hence my site is dropping from page one placement.
How do I build a good linking campaign. Can someone just tell me what to do?
I do not find specific info on how to do this anywhere...most info just assumes that you know how to do this. I am trying to do this myself as I have had a few SEO people come and go without much success.
Anne
Weldon Williford 6:17 PM on April 09, 2008
I have already made some changes to my website! Thanks!
Allegheny Creative 1:09 AM on April 10, 2008
Wow, great article. I have been using website grade a couple times over the past week and it has started to help me figure out how to tweak my site. In a short period of time (weeks) I have seen my score start to go up and more traffic through my analytics. Thanks!
Raymond 10:16 AM on April 12, 2008
Great article - I've been a fan of Hubspot for about 2 months now...
Would anyone know why websitegrader saw my blog - then stopped seeing the blog? Also, websitegrader does not seem to like Cold Fusion forms - I have one and its not seeing it... thanks
freearticlepublishing.com 9:48 PM on April 14, 2008
Thank you for this inportant info it is appreciated very much feel free to post your articles on my site if you wish.
Matt 6:19 AM on April 18, 2008
Hub spot is fantastic website. Thank you for grading my website for free.
Mark M 11:41 PM on April 21, 2008
Thanks for this easy-to-understand explanation of page rank and its importance. I hope I can move my site http://greatcollegeadvice up in the rankings soon!
Dr. Nicole Sundene 2:39 AM on April 22, 2008
Thanks that was very helpful for answering more questions than I knew I even had!
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Jason Shehane 4:40 PM on April 22, 2008
Great article! It appears moving up in rank is also logorithmically as hard. ie moving from a 2 to a 3 is 50 times easier than moving from 3 to 4...
Dennis 11:08 PM on April 22, 2008
Thank You for the information. I hope this will help my website (http://www.mywiseguys.com) get some sort of page rank in google. I am now on DMOZ.org, or at least submitted.
Rob @ Real Estate Chocolate - Ridgefield, CT Real Estate 7:24 AM on April 23, 2008
Hi Dharmesh:
Website Grader is great! Maybe you can help answer this:
How longs does it take to get your first Page Rank? I score a 90, my website/blog is continually updated and I have 1,021 inbound links. I'm trying to do all the right things. Thanks!
Mike 9:42 AM on April 24, 2008
how do you setup a 301 redirect between sunnybeachrentals.com and sunnybeachrentals.com?
Serenity Prayer Gifts 12:28 PM on April 28, 2008
Thank you kindly for this helpful information! :-)
Serenity Prayer Gifts
J&K Lowline 1:48 AM on April 30, 2008
Good info! I just got my 1st page rank, but am working to make it higher. Thanks!
Greentac 3:35 AM on April 30, 2008
My site is still in PR 0... I will work on it!!!!
energyray.com 6:20 PM on May 01, 2008
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http://energyray.com 11:56 PM on May 02, 2008
majical - http://energyray.com
George Klima 5:48 PM on May 03, 2008
Nice summary. There's also lots of good tips in the O'Reilly book, "Google Hacks".
lady 10:29 PM on May 03, 2008
that was good read.. i used to be a PR 4 but google penalized my blog.. Am working on getting more good backlinks to get my PR back.
scott 9:24 AM on May 04, 2008
I find the site grader tools to be a vital part of my web sites and blogs... I have only just go a Google rank and it is pretty low but hopefully in a few months it will get better.
cheers.
olivierlalin 12:27 PM on May 04, 2008
Redesigned my website a few months ago using wordpress and making is SEO friendly. The previous one was all flash, looked great but never came up in search engines!
I complement the site with the use of a Blog and this new site comes up for all the important keywords on the top 5 with a PR of 3- I simply do not worry about the PR anymore and feed my site with interesting and relevant content and it works perfectly. The only draw back it the time I am spending every day working on my blog!
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Heather 7:31 PM on May 05, 2008
Very helpful article! Thank you!
sukhdeep 9:27 AM on May 06, 2008
is the page rank useful
teadog 12:06 PM on May 06, 2008
As a small business owner, I appreciate the explanation. This is the simple, straightforward summary of how PageRank works, which I have been looking for. Thanks again.
Shawn 3:03 PM on May 06, 2008
Thank a lot. Very good information.
halfdan 7:40 PM on May 06, 2008
Nice information :P The tool bar tells me I've got 2 Rank 4 pages.. Which is, kinda nice
Sophie 7:43 AM on May 07, 2008
Great article! thanks for sharing :-)
Soroosh 11:46 AM on May 08, 2008
thanks
it's very helpful article.
fletel 1:04 PM on May 19, 2008
I heard, that Google PR is getting less important to get a good ranking. Is that right?
Julian E. Ortiz 2:40 PM on May 19, 2008
Thanks a lot for this eye-opener. I have switched from brick-mortar retail to internet (www.thenamehut.com), and have followed just about every SEO instruction on my pages, only reaching a PR of 1. I am going for the links! Thanks again.
Adam 11:20 AM on May 20, 2008
MinuteDesigns.com moved from PR2 to PR3, no organic rank change....
A few clients have grown from PR0 to PR3, and no organic rank change...
Has perhaps google stopped using PR?
I pretty much now couldn't give a monkeys what PR I have now!
Google - Captain of the Failboat!
Jo 3:51 PM on May 20, 2008
Appreciate the web-site Grader. Gone from a 23 with error to a 32 and hope to move up further. Check our site at www.usabearingsandbelts.com
OAL 10:02 PM on May 22, 2008
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zencat 11:35 PM on May 23, 2008
Excellent advice. The WebSite Grader and Google page rank tips are superb.
zencat 11:36 PM on May 23, 2008
The Website Grade and Google page rank tips have really help my site receive new traffic: www.obama-magnets.com
Lynette 6:30 PM on May 24, 2008
This information was very helpful in trying understand the ranking system. I am a newbie and didnt realize what it took to make a site successful. Just because I have a site doesnt mean it will make it! Im definatly taking your advise, wish me luck!
Christine Hart Howlett 3:12 AM on May 26, 2008
I'm trying to learn about and understand SEO. I love your articles as they help clear some of the fog.
www.ChristineHowlett.com
David 8:29 AM on May 26, 2008
Very helpful information, I mean it is necessary to explain why pagerank fluctuates too much and what factors contribute to oscillation.
Regards
JDT Sign Shop 9:32 PM on May 26, 2008
I really appreciate this information. I had my site graded and it was horrible. I need to get the page rank up. I have also made many other changes to my site that has helped. Making the small changes have increased my PR from 0 to 2 in about 3 weeks. Do as instructed in this blog and you will slowly rise to the top. Thanks Again
JDT Sign Shop 9:36 PM on May 26, 2008
I mis-spelled "signage" in my previous post.
Mark 12:01 AM on May 29, 2008
Perfect for AV Cooling Systems!
Mark 12:02 AM on May 29, 2008
Forgot the AV Cooling System url.
A Designer 4:12 AM on May 29, 2008
Great info - I didn't know that PageRank existed before reading this - thanks!
Website Design Derby 10:52 AM on May 29, 2008
You didnt know Page Rank exsisted? Are you serious? Pagerank and SEO have been like joined at the hip since forever :S
MysteryE 8:55 AM on June 03, 2008
Very helpful information!
I'm trying to get my rank higher from now on! :)
http://mysteryeworld.com
Princess Auto 3:23 PM on June 04, 2008
Thanks for the PR Tips - hope to see you with a PR 6 in the next year.
Susan 12:38 AM on June 07, 2008
Do backlinks count if they are paid for banner ads on well trafficked e-newsletters?
And the thing that I don't understand about links coming IN is if one doesn't want to have a page of links reciprocating with other related businesses-- then who would link to your commercial website except when you are getting free press (ie PR)?
Leigh 4:57 PM on June 11, 2008
Thank you for the awesome tools and articles!
Mark 6:27 PM on June 13, 2008
Thanks for your website grader product. I appreciate the help in getting my wife's new tropical tastes of south florida bread company noticed! Can you imagine what Kiwi Bread tastes like?
Eric Gray 8:51 PM on June 14, 2008
Great Article! Google is one of the strongest search engines out there and is critical to SEO.
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Eric
Jay Jeong 12:08 AM on June 15, 2008
Thank you for the very helpful article.
Jasha Nardiello 1:09 PM on June 15, 2008
Good Article, i'm trying to find out some more info about that. Unfortunately my website has still pagerank 0 :(
I will work on it
Extender 1:02 AM on June 19, 2008
this is exactly what i was looking for in order to make a very profitable website and finally become a rich person
rr 10:17 AM on June 19, 2008
this is very good information. i think if you follow these steps, you should move up.
The Success 1:33 PM on June 19, 2008
Very nice article
But, can you help me more detail what should I do to increase my google page rank?
Thanks
Rob 11:07 AM on June 20, 2008
And there was i falsely thinking that a Page rank of #1 would be the best to aim for.
I now have a much better idea of our forward struggle.
Thanks for the info
Buddy 11:50 PM on June 21, 2008
Concerts, Sports, Theater Tickets
There you have it my link with anchor text. Sure could use the "votes" from any site realted to http://www.StubBuddy.com
Thanks,
Buddy
Buddy 12:00 AM on June 22, 2008
It always hepls to get the "proper" anchor text.
Concerts tickets, Sports tickets, Theater Tickets
thanks
http://www.stubbuddy.com
Tax Advice 5:44 PM on June 23, 2008
Page rank is very important.
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Cardenio 2:04 PM on June 24, 2008
Gracias me han ayudado mucho paara solucionar problemas que tenia en mi página.
Cardenio 2:06 PM on June 24, 2008
Gracias me han ayudado mucho con este artículo para optimizar mas mi página
Tekee 2:36 PM on June 25, 2008
How long usually does it take to get a PR on your site.
http://www.tekeenews.com
Matthew 11:15 PM on June 27, 2008
I guess I am doing good, My sites 5 days old, google indexed it this morning and i have a PR1
Kicked the bucket 12:56 PM on June 28, 2008
An excellent article on an excellent site, I'll be signing up to your RSS in a minute!
Des 11:53 PM on June 29, 2008
Excellent article I find it extremely useful.
Kevin 11:40 PM on June 30, 2008
It's interesting to compare websites evaluating pagerank vs hubspot website grading. With our new site, over the last 3 months our website grading has improved from under 40 to 72 today, although our google pagerank is still low at 2. Traffic coming via a google search is under 20%, much less than expected, meaning most is coming direct or via other website links.
However the good news is that traffic has gone from an average 500 unique visitors per month to over 4,000. Being a print magazine our offline marketing helps generate traffic as well as our online competitions.
Overall the website grader figure is really a better indication of what's happening than Googles pagerank.
Running a wordpress blog based site with new content added every month is likely helping things too. Maybe a PR3 next month.
Matthew 11:50 PM on June 30, 2008
Kevin you know whats I find interesting, take their own tools and run it against their own sites, iwebtools dnscoop, websitegrader and what they nail you on for points such as to many keywords/to many characters for discription, no alt tags... almost every site has this issue. this site has like 3 broken alt tags and like 50 more characters then they recommend... why is that? ... they also dont have a 100/100
Bernie 4:19 PM on July 01, 2008
Thanks for the cool info. I hope to see an improvement soon.
Brendan Murphy 9:17 PM on July 02, 2008
I like to play around with it and see what changes both the hubspot score as well as google ranking. It seems easy to move around on google (at least down lol) but page rank is much more fixed.
mehdi sedghi 2:30 PM on July 04, 2008
thanks for your usefull information..
linda 1:14 AM on July 05, 2008
The link Google PageRank Calculator does not work and I can't see why I have not been ranked?
Thanks.
Kristoffer 12:30 AM on July 07, 2008
Very useful article/post!
Heather 2:38 AM on July 10, 2008
Website grader rocks my world. I had absolutely no experience with website design. I believe my first grade was a 7 a month and a half ago. My site got a 68 today. Now, that may not seem impressive to you but... I will have to go through some kind of detox when this is over, three years from now. I tweak something and try to hold myself back from running to the grader again but simply can't. I actually have guilt about using it so much. I'm not sure how I will feel when I really get up there. I'm looking forward to 70. I'll need an oxygen tank. Does the relationship with the grader ever really end? What is that moment like when 99 shows up on the page! Has anyone gotten a 100? What happens at 100? God peeks through the clouds and says good job? That is all I want to know. Thank you so much for offering this for free. Sincerely, Heather
Matthew 4:11 AM on July 10, 2008
Heather, Check out websitegrader.com against itself and watch what that does... thats what 'rocks my world' When I first did mine, I got 36 im at 89 now
What gets me is half the stuff they tell you to do, they dont even do themselves...
I'm a 89 and they are a 91 and my sites only 17 days old... They say you need 10 keywords or less, I have 10 they are dinging me for that. I think once google gives me a ranking my score will sky rocket past 91JoomlaMafia.com
Sid 12:53 AM on July 14, 2008
Great post guys! I am a new realtor/webmaster and this is my first read on page rank and I got it thanks to those simple definitions. I have a question how long does it take to get page rank? I have a very high alexa score (985,012) but zero page rank is it a matter of time"
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Pasadena Real Estate 12:59 AM on July 14, 2008
Sorry about the mess above I am learning still and I am glad I found this great source of information.
Willow 1:56 PM on July 14, 2008
Thanks for the great article! Very useful, especially since I have very little experience with web design. Is there any way you could re activate that link to the Google PageRank Calculator page? Also, did you ever write the article you mentioned in this post? Aditya: Actually, in most cases, simply leaving a comment on another website will *not* increase your PageRank. The reason is because of what is known as a "nofollow" attribute on these links. Most blogging systems use this attribute to prevent comment spam (i.e. links left within comments do not benefit the target site). If so, can you send me a link to it?
Thanks, Willow
Colin 9:53 PM on July 18, 2008
I'm quite happy with a steady PR5 and a website grade that varies between 93 and 97. For a blog that is 16 months old I'm pleased with the way it is going.
Keeping it simple, easy to read and understand but also including important keywords play a large part.
Great article and well worth reading Dharmesh, thank you.
CriTik 12:36 PM on July 19, 2008
Author is such a bla bla bla kind master. Very poor article, there is nothing new.
Rexibit Web Services 1:00 AM on July 21, 2008
Thank you for this article. While I know a good bit about this, I always enjoy reading other perspectives to help my website succeed. Just a note, your Google Page Rank checker link does not point correctly.
Brad 1:54 PM on July 21, 2008
Thanks for the article. BTW, the " Google PageRank Calculator" link is broken.
Rexibit Web Services 10:31 AM on July 22, 2008
I just did some searching and here is a pretty good Google Page Rank Calculator - http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-lookup/
Willie Woods 9:26 PM on July 22, 2008
The link to the Google PageRank Calculator does not work. When are you going to fix it
Mickey 11:02 PM on July 25, 2008
Good info but the the Google Page Rank calculator isn't working.
Mark 12:36 PM on July 27, 2008
Thanks so much for this. I love your website grader tool!
Emma 9:49 PM on July 27, 2008
I don't have a page rank as yet and my site is quite new but I have a calculated rank of 2 which isn't bad seeing we've only been online for 2 months.
Luigi 12:33 AM on July 29, 2008
Thank You for the Great Service you provide. While The Callaway Owners Group does not sell any product, we are owners and enthusiasts of fast and collectible Callaway Corvettes, Hubspot's recommendations have helped us improve our grade from a 22 to a 67 and rising, with nearly 10K inbound links, helping us inform the public about these great cars.
FreeStudentEdu 1:21 AM on July 30, 2008
Hi Dharmesh,
Great article. I created: Free Student Education website and that has a good score as you can see it here:
http://www.websitegrader.com/wsgid/1324669/default.aspx
Can you please suggest how can I improve it further?
Martin Coult 3:33 AM on July 30, 2008
Thanks for a great article. Really grateful for the websitegrader tool to improve the SEO on my website ITZALA Blinds for VELUX
Alex 9:09 PM on July 31, 2008
Great information! My website is new and I use all the help I can get.
brobertson 12:33 PM on August 01, 2008
We have a newish blog that is getting only a little traffic. Thanks for your insight.
Jef 9:12 PM on August 02, 2008
PR is a 4, 95 inbound links and counting. I wish the report would show me my links. I know I can get them other places, but everyone has a different list and number.
Matthew James Taylor 10:09 AM on August 03, 2008
As far as I'm aware, Google PageRank is on a logarithmic scale. That's why it's exponentially more difficult to go up consecutive ranking points.
Adrian Clark 5:40 PM on August 05, 2008
Very interesing article. We are Trafficka and we send targeted traffic to websites and this article was very helpful.
trafficka.com
peabody webmaster 6:03 PM on August 07, 2008
great post, very understandable. Thanks for sharing and for the other good Hubspot info.
Glory Rose 2:57 PM on August 08, 2008
The whole thing is giving me a headache. Do you think having Google advs on your web site improves google rank?
Dharmesh Shah 2:59 PM on August 08, 2008
Glory: Advertising on Google does not improve your rankings. Google does a good job of separating paid advertising and organic results.
Fillup 3:28 PM on August 08, 2008
I've heard exchanging links is also less credible. This article clears up a lot of the frustration I been going through. Thanks.
website:
The mecca of my topic yet not highly ranked. Grrr.
Jessie 5:07 PM on August 09, 2008
hmmm...starting with a O this first month. we have lots to do!
what about "do-follow" blogs - does participating in these help gain inbound links?
Matthew 12:42 AM on August 10, 2008
95.3 and growing... 17K inbound links and my sites a month and a half old, half way to google PR
Susan 2:19 PM on August 11, 2008
I have been wondering why everyone is simply commenting on their own website instead of actually asking questions.
Seems that being posted here might increase the ranking?
Well, here goes then!
www.zazendi.com
www.zazendiretail.com
Andrew 8:36 PM on August 12, 2008
Links here in the comments do not help you, they are all "no follow". Only thing you get out of links here are click throughs and probably you will not get any of those. Simply examine the Source for links in the comments and you will see “rel=nofollow” within the link code.
The author, I am sure, was not referring to links within the comments.
The article was very good though and much appreciated.
Des 12:24 AM on August 13, 2008
Although I find the article useful, All the subsequent emails come with no unsubscribe link which is a pain in the arse.
DC Web Designer 10:52 PM on August 13, 2008
Excellent information and congratulations on your PR6.
Webmaster @ Imagine Wellness Chiropractic 3:13 AM on August 14, 2008
This information is as good as gold. I am amazed that so many organizations are in the business of selling this information which is free if you look for it.
Erik Robbins 3:51 AM on August 14, 2008
Great information. Our site is a PR3. Thanks Dharmesh.
www.debbeethibault.com
Andy Mooers 12:01 PM on August 14, 2008
This stuff is incredible educational...keep up the good work!
jami 12:10 PM on August 14, 2008
it is EXTREMELY ANNOYING that i keep getting an email every time someone posts to this blog and there's no OPT OUT. don't accidentally click the check box when posting a comment.
Rohmat 5:30 AM on August 17, 2008
i'm new about this page rank thank alot for the review, u give me alot of knowledge
adie 12:00 PM on August 18, 2008
Thanks, this is what i need.
I'll fixed my blog :)
Leo 7:11 PM on August 18, 2008
I've been looking for this info for some time. Finally it's clear.
Thank You
Melissa 12:13 AM on August 20, 2008
Thanks for having this site. It helps a great deal!!
Haimd 8:10 AM on August 20, 2008
Very helpful site, cause im working on a better ranking for my blog, maybe i should write in english or set up a second blog with english content to get better ranked.
Dan Byers 3:16 PM on August 21, 2008
Our company is:
We offer a full line of fun and healthy baked goods mixes, as well as a full line of fun apparel.
We're looking to improve our Google Page Rank.
Can you please give us your feedback?
Thank You.
Brenda Urich 8:40 PM on August 21, 2008
BLUuJ jewelry and more
has hand made one of a kind products. Jewelry, polymer clay beads, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, sets, afghans, throws, purses,hand bags, christmas items, and more.
Dan Byers 9:28 PM on August 21, 2008
One more question:
I had a telemarketer guy call me awhile back and he was saying that our site was "technically flawwed for SEO". He said because our page is http://www.daddycakesbakery.com/Default.asp?Redirected=Y that the "Default.asp?" would make the search engines bounce out from the page because they get "confused" inside these pages. Is this true?
We would like to improve our SEO for www.DaddyCakesBakery.com but we don't want to completely redo our website. If what he says is true, then what do you do without "Pay for Click"?
Dan Byers 9:32 PM on August 21, 2008
Okay, like I was going to say "I'm not a Website Designer" - so it doesn't look like I did the tags for my links correctly in the last post. Let me try this again.....my apologies.
One more question:
I had a telemarketer guy call me awhile back and he was saying that our site was "technically flawwed for SEO". He said because our page is http://www.daddycakesbakery.com/Default.asp?Redirected=Y that the "Default.asp?" would make the search engines bounce out from the page because they get "confused" inside these pages. Is this true?
We would like to improve our SEO for www.DaddyCakesBakery.com but we don't want to completely redo our website. If what he says is true, then what do you do without "Pay for Click"?
Dan Byers 9:34 PM on August 21, 2008
Okay, like I was going to say "I'm not a Website Designer" - so it doesn't look like I did the tags for my links correctly in the last post. Let me try this again.....my apologies.
One more question:
I had a telemarketer guy call me awhile back and he was saying that our site was "technically flawwed for SEO". He said because our page is http://www.daddycakesbakery.com/Default.asp?Redirected=Y that the "Default.asp?" would make the search engines bounce out from the page because they get "confused" inside these pages. Is this true?
We would like to improve our SEO for www.DaddyCakesBakery.com but we don't want to completely redo our website. If what he says is true, then what do you do without "Pay for Click"?
Dan Byers 9:42 PM on August 21, 2008
I feel about as smart as Chris Farley in the movie "Tommy Boy" about now. I should probably stick to baked goods:)
I'm going to try this again to make the links active for everyone.
http://www.daddycakesbakery.com/Default.asp?Redirected=Y
or just go to www.DaddyCakesBakery.com
Russell Logan 4:17 PM on August 22, 2008
As a business broker, getting found on Google is critical. I've been working with Hubspot for a couple of months - my website grades at 50 but no Google PR. What gives?
joe 2:41 AM on August 23, 2008
This has been a very informative report and the website grader tool is just phenomenal. I used it one time and by just reading through the grading went from no rank on alexa to a 4 million rank. This in a span of just two weeks work.
Tremendously excited about the possibilities. Thanks very much for your generosity and excellent information.
joe
joe 2:52 AM on August 23, 2008
Dan,
Your site is nice enough and it will probably take some time to get noticed by Google. So, you may just need to be patient.
The telemarketer was probably trying to make a sale by concentrating on what his product does and not necessarily concentrating on what the strong points of your site were.
There are quite a few. However, it will probably take a good webmaster/designer/marketer to bring those out to the most advantageous possible light.
With the kind of site you have, I would consider local off-line advertising first to build up the traffic.
Also, I would create some form of follow-up to capture the visitors.
There are a number of other things you could do but it will probably take some one like Dharmesh to give you a lot better diagnosis than I could.
Good luck though.
joe
Andrew 3:33 AM on August 23, 2008
Russell Logan, Google PR, as I understand it, does not update real time for the public. PR updates publicly around every 120 days or so and not exactly on time, some one correct me if I am wrong. So your grade may improve your PR will remain the same until the next PR update. The two are not dependant upon one another.
I have also read that these PR updates are not current either and are delayed by some something like 30-45 days; although this was not explicitly proven as far as I could see.
So while the PR is updated it may be intentionally lagged supposedly to keep SEO types guessing. If that is true then you may not see anything significant until the update after the coming one.
Ankit 5:50 PM on August 23, 2008
I am a newbie blogger and this posts really does explain things properly.I had no idea that writing a blog is one thing and publiscing another.
great information.
sadly my pr is 0:-(
i guess now i will try better
Stephen Borgman 7:27 PM on August 23, 2008
Very helpful article in terms of understanding Google page rank. I learned that I have a ways to go. However, over time this hopefully will change. How do you add relevant content? I mean, how do you determine what is relevant versus irrelevant?
joe 7:45 PM on August 23, 2008
Steve, relevance has to do with the information on the page and the website goal.
For instance, a website that talks about food would have a hard time making visitors connect to a page talking about sewing machines. There is a disconnect between what they see and what they were searching for.
I just did a search for cooking sites and amongst the links I got this:
"BioEnergy Lists: Biomass Cooking Stoves |
This site contains information to help people develop better stoves for cooking with biomass fuels in developing regions. JOIN THE DISCUSSION ON THE Biomass"
Without having to go into too much detail, it is pretty clear that there is a disconnect between what was expected and what showed up.
Any time there is a disconnect between what the overarching goal of a site is and what shows on that site the visitor is going to be confused and will leave.
The same thing will happen with the search engine little robots.
To find relevant content you look for articles and books and read all about the content then either create your own pages or ask a ghost writer to create some content for you.
Check out my website for some examples of the content I created from one of my passions: www.start-business-loans.com.
Hope this answers your questions.
Good luck with your venture.
joe
Pete 9:02 AM on August 25, 2008
I do quite a few new build sites and have found much of the information here useful. My latest project
Andrew 10:12 PM on August 25, 2008
Pete, if you viewed the source you could find the rel="nofollow" with the link code.
As for DMOZ I am with you all the way on that one.
Ralf 3:08 PM on August 28, 2008
Thanks for your advice - just recently stumbled over your very interesting informations!
gouri 3:47 PM on August 28, 2008
Thanks, This was very much useful to me.
4all2all 5:42 AM on August 29, 2008
A great article. Thank a lot.
Chris Tesch 6:12 AM on August 29, 2008
Website Grader rocks my world too. I've been working it though and only have a PR of 3. My grade is higher than many of the other websites that are above me in organic results, but their PR is higher. Can you recommend anyone to help me raise my PR? I've really made an effort to get inbound links from high PR sites, but obviously still need some work done. My website is www.ChrisTesch.com. Thanks!
Joe 1:23 PM on August 29, 2008
Chris Tesch, unless you are willing to pay quite a bit, up to $5K, you will not be able to get much more than the run of the mill information. There aren't that many so-called "gurus" on the internet that are willing to share their info.
That being said, you may want to join Search Engine Optimization forums to glimpse some ideas on what you can do to improve your page ranking with website grader.
Keep in mind that the report provided is also a good starting point on your quest for improvements.
My website was setup less than a month ago and my PR was 7 to start with - it's now around 35 - and all I did so far was to look at each of the areas that were highlighted and then worked on each - still work, I should say - so I was able to go from no ALEXA ranking to just about 3.6 Million as of today.
I also spend a good 2-3 hrs researching forums and any thing else I can to get this improved. (I'm a cheapskate and haven't broken down yet :)
Without money to invest on your website, it will take you time to get to the top but it can be done, if you don't mind the wait.
Good luck with your efforts.
joe
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Rupiz Xpress - Email Marketing 4:51 AM on September 01, 2008
Great Article thanks for sharing the useful information...
Satish Kumar 9:56 AM on September 01, 2008
my web site www.friendsnfun.info is googel page ranking is not found
Donovan Bock 9:06 PM on September 01, 2008
I never actually understood how this all worked. Thanks for a great write up.
Beijen Webhosting 10:45 AM on September 02, 2008
Excellent writeup!
Imagine Wellness Chiropractic Phoenix Arizona 9:57 PM on September 02, 2008
Besides building quality backlinks into your site, adding more pages of quality content and regulary updating your site -- how else can you increase your rank?
joe 11:15 PM on September 02, 2008
Hi There Chiropractic Phoenix!
That is a good question and one that I have been working on for some time. My site is currently showing a PR of 51 and climbing.
The process I have been working on has been to increase the visibility. I added a blog and tied it to the site and that gave it a major boost. Looking for sites that will offer backlinks in exchange for backlinks has helped some.
Although all of this is great, I'm still not sure that having a great page rank is going to accomplish my goal of getting real visitors consistently. I think that is a lot more important as far as I am concerned so that is what I am working towards. What it means is that I find my competitor sites on google or yahoo and dissect what they have and try to implement as much similar stuff as I can without outright copying their work.
I believe that, more than anything, that is what has given me the greatest boost in the ALEXA ranking, which I think is what will matter in the long run.
By the way, I've not paid for any of this work but it has cost me time wise as I spend, on average 2 hrs a day and most of my weekends working on my sites.
I hope this will help you some what in starting to answer your questions.
Here's another freebie, your website is great and has the right feel to it, but I would change from the about page to the testimonials page as your opening page. I think, if I was searching for a chiropractor, I would want to know how well he/she has treated others and then I would try and find out about services and who they are. (But this is how I look at life :)
Good luck with your business.
Bud 12:35 AM on September 04, 2008
Great post! Thanks for the helpful information. I've been using Hubspot's SEO techniques for ~ 2 months now with great results!
pmedia - wallpaper 12:36 AM on September 04, 2008
thanks it was good - i`ll do !
Abel 9:13 PM on September 07, 2008
Im currently running aweb page called www.khueva.com and i was wondering maybe you guys can help me out to rank better?
thank you.
Wayne K 2:34 AM on September 09, 2008
As I have been told and found true. Whatever spare time you have that you are not posting and adding to your site, you need to spend that time promoting. Flicker, bloglog, blogcatalog, myspace, e-mail other sites and ask to trade links (make sure it is a good site) You can't do to much promoting. Use the seo tool from this site to scan your site and compare it to a site similar to yours. You can see what you are missing, add those things, and then retest and watch your score increase.
waynek12@gmail.com
www.floridasportszone.com
muntoha 5:42 AM on September 11, 2008
it's usefull
Someone 3:18 PM on September 11, 2008
wayne 12:58 PM on September 12, 2008
I must say I have found the tool very useful indeed. Started a new site a month and a half ago and your software has given me a ranking of 66 already, lets hope its keeps improving.
Now jutst got to wait to see what my pr ranking is when i get one from google. Any idea how long that takes as I guess once obtained will increase my ratings further ?
Any cheap banner, logo designers out there get in touch. :)
Ankit 3:56 PM on September 12, 2008
I have become a sticker for websitegrader.com and infact,i come and check my blog stats everyday.I have been following the Seo Tips you have so lucidly explained and i have to say,my websitegrader points are always increasing.
But, i still don't seem to have a Google Page Rank going for me.Don't really understand why,since i have been trying to do all the right SEO tricks you and other SEO gurus seem to talk about
Kraig 2:48 PM on September 13, 2008
Great advice - we went from score of 28 to 74 when redesigning using some of these techniques. Need more help on Google Page Rank though.
Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes
Weight Loss Hypnosis Author 6:06 PM on September 14, 2008
That was SO helpful. Thank you for clarifying an issue that has been overcomplicated elsewhere.
SEO Angels 9:03 PM on September 14, 2008
Nice article Dharmesh... very simply explained and very informative... good work : )
Jay Valento - Long Beach Real Estate 10:27 PM on September 14, 2008
I am focusing more of my efforts on optimizing our websites for our consumers who want to buy a home in Long Beach Ca. And, for search engines too. Thanks for sharing. I love the website grader tool.
Tonya 1:40 AM on September 16, 2008
This is great information I am sure implementing your tips will move me up the page rank.
Adam E. Anderson 9:30 PM on September 17, 2008
I have a website grade of 72, over 300 inbound links, and my Google Page rank is 0! How is this so?
A.Afolabi 10:49 PM on September 20, 2008
Thanks for the information. You really simplified page rank and otfered great advice. The tools and links (and comments) are quite useful as well.
small business website builders
London Website Designer
Brian 12:07 AM on September 23, 2008
Thanks for the great tool!
PC Music Supply 3:31 PM on September 23, 2008
Very useful info!
Patrick De Schutter 12:37 PM on September 24, 2008
Thanks for this great article. I checked, we have PR 6.
trying to be a guru-but unsucessfull--BIG time,lol 11:54 AM on September 26, 2008
hi,i had a grade of 2 ten days back,on working hard the past week i scrapped it to 37,but can some of you guys gimmi some tips how to get it to about 60 odd atleast??? :(
joe 12:01 PM on September 26, 2008
To trying to be a guru ...
Your best bet to increase your page rank is to clear up those items that were highlighted on the report.
The one that has helped me the most was getting back links to my website.
To increase this, I created a blog and have posted some content-rich material in it. Then, linking those pages back to my website, as well as ping the posts has increased my pr to 61, that also happened in less than 2 weeks.
Page rank is great but I believe that your Alexa ranking and Google PR is just as important. So, look for ways to increase your traffic to the site and you will be on the way there.
good luck
Laurie Manny 3:27 AM on September 27, 2008
Any idea when the next page rank update will be rolling through? The engines are dancing like crazy the last few days.
Techron 2:21 PM on September 28, 2008
I'm learning a lot from this site. Thanks for the information. For other techtips and discussion pls visit.
www.techronnati.com
Be Enligtened. Be Inspired.
Laurie Manny 5:48 PM on September 28, 2008
Woke up the morning after leaving my prior comment to discover the page rank was passing over as I was asking the question. I just thought that was kinda funny. Glad my sites stayed the same, quite a few of my friends were downgraded.
Laurie Manny 5:51 PM on September 28, 2008
Woke up the morning after leaving my prior comment to discover the page rank was passing over as I was asking the question. I just thought that was kinda funny. Glad my sites stayed the same, quite a few of my friends were downgraded.
Jay Valento - Orange County Homes 12:39 AM on September 29, 2008
I wish Google would just turn off the page rank toolbar. Who really knows what the real rank is? I think the toolbar is not very accurate on the value of a website.
Stuart Ingham 5:23 PM on September 29, 2008
Thanks Dharmesh, I have found your comments and articles absolutley invaluable you are a genius. Thanks again,
Stuart Ingham
Managing Director
www.serious-metal.com
EuropeWord Most Popular Websites, Europe Information 7:51 PM on September 29, 2008
This is a great article, but i am very confused with websitegrader tool. My page was PR2 and its shows PR0. Why is that ? (Other pages show PR2)
Gaurav 8:33 AM on September 30, 2008
Just saw my new PR update!
I gotta 5 :)
Samer Ahmad 1:44 PM on October 01, 2008
i tried to get the websitegrader measurements for my website but it gives me that i don't have google rank yet , but in fact i have a google rank which is 3
AnandSaini 2:43 AM on October 02, 2008
Iam not able to understand high grade is good or bad.Any way iam thankful to you.
WishAHome 8:59 AM on October 02, 2008
websitegrader tool gives a rank of 0 to our site where as it is 3 on google
Steven 10:54 AM on October 02, 2008
My website is now PR 3 but your tool says that I'm still pr 4
Karen 6:28 PM on October 02, 2008
Thank you Dharmesh for this valuable information. I have begun to implement acquiring inbound links by responding to blog posts on highly ranked blog sites. www.unlimitedwealthandfreedom.com
Diversity Tours Ethiopia 3:19 PM on October 03, 2008
very vital
Baby Slings & Carriers 6:44 AM on October 05, 2008
I started with PR2 and recently got reduced to PR1 and didn't know why. I have recently found your site and using the SEO advices given to enhanced my site. Will wait and see if I can get upgraded in time. Thanks!
SAR 2:49 PM on October 06, 2008
Thanks for this great information! This will definatly help me get my site (www.realtysupplycenter.com)ranked higher-currently it is a 3, but it is only a month old.
Stop Smoking San Francisco 9:46 PM on October 06, 2008
My site just moved from 2 to 3 but how do I find these sites that are willing to backlink to me?
J Clark 9:31 AM on October 07, 2008
Great site! Very well explained. Hope, I can make Hielscher - Ultrasonic Devices rank higher.
trying to be a guru-but unsucessfull--BIG time,lol 8:14 AM on October 08, 2008
hey guys can you gimmi some tips on how to enhance pr and my sites website grade, my current grade is 60. Thanks !
Ross 2:48 PM on October 08, 2008
A good article but the one thing it didn't mention is that the PR in the Google toolbar only gets updated once every 3-4 months so don't expect to see your page rank instantly jumping.
D. Scott 4:37 PM on October 08, 2008
W00t!! My site at www.elitehomecare.ie shows a PageRank of 5. However... AFAIK I only have one high ranking inbound link (7). Which comes from a site who posted my link after I donated for a free mod of theirs that I use. Is it possible to get a pagerank of 5 from jsut one high link?
thearch 5:16 PM on October 08, 2008
Great set of tips.Still at 0 :-(. I wonder how long it takes google to rank my collaborative site?
pippopoppo 5:22 PM on October 08, 2008
I had PR4, now PR3
You (HubSpot.com) had PR6, now PR4
What's going on?
Darrin & Josy 10:17 AM on October 10, 2008
Thank you so so so very much. Using your site has taken us from a score of 38 to a score of 95 in less then two months. We also just broke into the Alexa top 100k ranking in just under the 70k mark for our daily ranking. We are still new(2 1/2 months) so it will take a few more weeks/months for us to have a 3 month avg in the 100k. If it wasn't for your site we would never made it here. Thank you again and God Bless you all.
Darrin & Josy
Susan Hill 6:59 PM on October 10, 2008
I am not ranked so this is helpful to know!
VanFroid 8:05 AM on October 11, 2008
Indeed, This site is very useful and I will come back often to get an optimization for my websites
Mariel 1:40 AM on October 12, 2008
Why does my website doesn't have pagerank but many website links it?
Andy 12:49 PM on October 12, 2008
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fonbyn 2:50 PM on October 12, 2008
my website fonbyn has gone up a couple of points. Thanks for the tips.
Peter 9:58 PM on October 12, 2008
I get a "Not Ranked" rating. I only have 6 inbound links. What do I do now? Does putting my link in this comment count as an inbound link?
Plant Health Clinic 7:02 AM on October 14, 2008
I am working on a new website and this article is very helpful. Please keep on posting such informative articles. Thanks
renstanford 4:14 AM on October 15, 2008
Maybe not a bad idea... i must try the trick
Patricia Bailey 6:27 PM on October 16, 2008
We recently redesigned our webiste. It was on www.skippingstonellc.com and we did the websitegrader and it was at 34. We wanted to be higher, so we are not redirecting it and have it on GoDaddy as skippingstone.com. Now it is 39. What do we need to do now. We have meta tags and meta description on some of the pages. We would like a higher ranking, what can we do?
Thank you,
feroz mohammad 10:11 AM on October 17, 2008
very informative article. Thank you.
Adam 11:18 AM on October 17, 2008
PAGE RANK HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ORGANIC GOOGLE LISTING, INFACT MINE WENT UP AND DROPPED 7PLACES ON GOOGLE, ITS A WELL KNOWN FACE PAGE RANK DOES NOT EFFECT ORGANIC POSITION, TRIED TESTED AND TRUE, Ignore the amatures!
venkat 9:41 AM on October 19, 2008
Nice article very helpful to bloggers
Tony Chan 7:05 AM on October 21, 2008
Thank for the tips. Will use them.
life is beautiful 10:13 AM on October 23, 2008
this is very informative article, actually i fond of all the articles which are posted here and i am regular reader of this blog.
thanks for sharing
MomsMiserlyGuide.com 12:19 PM on October 23, 2008
Great article, will implement your suggestions and try to improve our Google ranking. Thank you
Walljet 5:35 PM on October 23, 2008
Yeah. From 5 to 0. New Website, new CMS, new Pagerank = 0.
Ann Summers 8:44 PM on October 24, 2008
Great article. 10/10
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bernard colgan, Jr. 1:35 PM on October 26, 2008
A great resource for Improving your website, i just used a few of theses tips and doubled my website grade all in a few minutes.
Thanks
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bernard colgan, Jr. 1:36 PM on October 26, 2008
A great resource for Improving your website, i just used a few of theses tips and doubled my website grade all in a few minutes.
Thanks
Regards www.DiscountTillRolls.ie
bernard colgan, Jr. 3:01 PM on October 26, 2008
A great resource for Improving your website, i just used a few of theses tips and doubled my website grade all in a few minutes.
Thanks
Regards www.DiscountTillRolls.ie
Lennot 6:39 AM on October 27, 2008
Websitegrader is a nice tool, still I have learned more from these articles.
Rob 2:44 AM on October 28, 2008
Wow your blog about SEO is very thorough and I enjoyed reading it. Am studying to be a web designer with a view to a degree qualification and all this information is very helpful :).
I am trying to work on my current site to try and boost its rankings. It is only a few weeks old and doesnt have a high P.R but I know that if I put in the time and effort into it and listen to the right advice I know I will get there.
Would Love to do a link exchange with you so feel free to email me back some details of your site and we'll go on from there :).
Erik 8:55 PM on October 28, 2008
man o man i never knew it was this ... complex. sheesh. think i'll go surfing and try to let it all sink in. thanks for the info!
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Bud 12:24 AM on October 29, 2008
Great article! I'm still working on our PR, but this gives me somethings to focus on. Thanks.
Raspal Chima 8:42 AM on October 29, 2008
Thanks for this easy-to-understand explanation of page rank and its importance.
Raspal Chima 8:52 AM on October 29, 2008
Websitegrader is a great resource for Improving my website - thanks.
Sam 2:31 PM on October 29, 2008
Great article. Thanks. I frequently point clients here for useful information and as a way of validating the progress they are making in their SEO efforts.
Consumer Data Lists 2:44 PM on October 30, 2008
Great article and great website - I love the website grader.
Patricia Bailey 3:35 PM on October 30, 2008
After viewing a report generated by website grader and adding meta tags and meta descsriptions, we went from a 30 to a 40. Our page rank is at a 4 currently and waiting for google's next webcrawl and hoping for better results. We also uploaded the google html as well. Thanks for all of the good tips, it seems to be working.
mubbashir 12:35 PM on October 31, 2008
Excellent text and have good information, which is to the point and correct in most if its content.
Adam Leaf 3:25 PM on October 31, 2008
I seriously need help in promoting my websites, any advice would be great, thank you.
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thats the site.
Annie 2:35 AM on November 03, 2008
Thank you for the explanation and for the WebsiteGrader.com report service. I've been able to watch our site grow from 12 through the 20s to 39 as it is now. It's been very hepful in our approach to SEO.
Lisa Gibbs 11:12 AM on November 03, 2008
The 1st time i've every had SEO explained in terms I can understand. My grade increased 4 pts. Thanks!!!
Dallas 4:19 PM on November 03, 2008
Excellent post. Now the trick is how to turn it into action!
Michael Davis 9:52 PM on November 04, 2008
Wonderful article, excellent and detailed information that's dumbed down for the layman (like myself) when it comes to SEO and marketing.
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Brighde Reed 10:20 AM on November 06, 2008
Sadly my site www.itravel-online, is still very low however, there are lots of good tips here/
Trader 6:58 PM on November 07, 2008
good but hard to apply advices.
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Emily Medvec 7:30 PM on November 11, 2008
Your site and service continues to be my SEO mentor. My website grade of 51/100 shows me I am over halfway there. I use your step-by-step analysis as my action items. Thank you for making a difference.
Angela Hill 7:42 PM on November 11, 2008
So, is there an online list somewhere of which blogs or sites are ranked 6 or higher? Or is this really more of a trial and error experiment?
Tammy Lessick 8:50 AM on November 12, 2008
Great information. Thank you.
Andy 12:45 PM on November 15, 2008
SEO and Google is a dark knowledge and once understood even just a little makes or breaks companies who rely on internet traffic.
دروس فلاش 5:24 PM on November 15, 2008
Thanks for your PageRank
ShriNagesh 3:16 AM on November 18, 2008
I love website grader. It is the simplest tool available around that gets you meticulous statistics about a website.
Here are my site's results
Website Grade 95
Google Page Rank 2
Google Indexed Pages 315
Traffic Rank 126,580
Blog Rank 652,254
Inbound Links 506
del.icio.us Bookmarks 4
Longway to go :)
iKnowtion 1:45 PM on November 19, 2008
Thank you Dharmesh.
Recently, at iKnowtion, we launched an updated version of our website to provides more information about the marketing and analytic services we provide to fortune 500 companies.
Your insights to Google Page Rank and the Hubspot's Website Grader have been extremely helpful as we work toward optimizing our site.
iKnowtion is a marketing and analytics consulting firm that helps companies optimize the impact of their marketing expenditures.
kafkas 9:36 AM on November 21, 2008
Thanks for your PageRank
Imad-ud-din Saqib 12:21 AM on November 23, 2008
Mine says that it is ranked even though google has indexed pages. Please help me correct the problem.
James 9:14 AM on November 23, 2008
Thanks for the ranking, will try to improve!!
Lisa Gibbs 1:18 PM on November 25, 2008
my website grade dropped 11 points. For some reason my conversation form is not being recognized anymore. Has anyone experienced this problem?
Alex 3:27 AM on November 28, 2008
Amazing information on pagerank! I should have read this before.
Now i know which websites should I linked from to my site.
Thanks.
aaron 6:24 AM on November 28, 2008
I have only learned from this article the interpretation and meaning of Page Rank values. Thanks
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Google Online 9:16 AM on November 29, 2008
Hi,
thanks for your insight knowlegde of Google Page Rank
Thanks
Google Online 9:19 AM on November 29, 2008
Hi,
thanks for your insight knowlegde of Google Page Rank
Ryan 8:14 PM on November 29, 2008
I am actually new at being a web master I bought into the affiliate marketing business back in July, and have been struggling to get quality traffic an a conversion rate going. Are there resources out there for newbies to help them to boost popularity, etc.?
DeShea Witcher 1:20 AM on November 30, 2008
Great article, this really helped me understand pageranking
James Maz 8:53 PM on November 30, 2008
Thanks a million, this info enlightens me towards the whole scenario in a much better fashion
jini 7:28 PM on December 01, 2008
Thanks heaps for your easy to understand information!!!So much clear now after reading your article. Big credit for you. :)
jini 8:08 PM on December 02, 2008
I'll monitor our website too. :)
AERPRO : Car Audio Accessories www.aerpro.com.au
Thanks!!
Dagu 4:38 AM on December 03, 2008
Thanks for the tips. It's different with alexa which calculate the popularity by the traffic.
Kevin Lam 10:39 PM on December 03, 2008
I submitted my site to see how I scored, but was surprised to see that it says I don't have a blog... um, the URL I submitted IS my blog. So what then? There's argument that PR is worth something and others say it's full of crap. Well, I'm a PR1 but I still receive plenty of traffic. I'll have to agree with the latter.
social networking web design 9:46 PM on December 04, 2008
we use to be a pr7..now a 5..we have thousands of back links many pr4 or higher...but we are still ranking very well for any keyword we want to target...
still scratching my head
Joe White 2:04 PM on December 05, 2008
This is Great Stuff... My site actually shows business owners how to market their local small buainess online...
wafercoklat 5:41 AM on December 06, 2008
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aaron 1:14 AM on December 10, 2008
yes, it is very nice
Ryan Meray 3:12 PM on December 11, 2008
I'll have to say as much as I thought I knew about site optimization, your blog posts contain enough info that I still managed to pick a few new things up.
Thanks!
William 4:52 PM on December 11, 2008
This site is so awesome!!
Thanks for all the info...it really helps
Eric 11:35 AM on December 12, 2008
Thank you for this information; great job! I have been confused by this for awhile.
Eric
Marius 12:14 AM on December 13, 2008
Valuable info. This website is like a goldmine. Thanks
Paul 3:32 PM on December 15, 2008
Pagerank? Kinda like driving a boat in the fog - without radar. This is certainly golden info in a sea of confusion. (Not all that lost - just seems like it sometimes)
Shane 9:17 PM on December 15, 2008
I was introduced to this site by a yellowbook manager and I find it very useful and have gained tons of knowledge from reading numerous articles.
Mike 9:58 AM on December 16, 2008
We had a rank 4 on google for our home page and rank 3 for other pages, however a few months back our homepage www.lfca.co.uk changed to rank 3 and other pages changed to 2 - anyone got any ideas why this would happen ?
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Derek Anders 10:49 AM on December 20, 2008
Great Article, very informative!!
Kay 9:58 AM on December 21, 2008
Interesting article. Still not sure I understand all of it. And evidently I'm not doing it right, because I got a page rank of 0 with your web grader although my webpage grade was 56. Will have to keep checking, reading, and trying. Thanks
ahmad 2:45 AM on December 23, 2008
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Luckylinks 11:49 PM on December 25, 2008
Thanks for the tip. Makes sense. I shall work on it right away...
DrDigital 3:56 AM on December 26, 2008
Christie in order to get a better page ranking you need hire page ranked sites to be linking to you. getting google to index more pages you just have to wait and make sure the 33 pages indexed are unique pages and not the same links... I have over 1000 pages indexed on google and my sites less then 6 months old and my PR is 5
Ashok ZoomInfo isnt an easy site to get onto, Yaghoo directory cost likeUSD $600 and dmoz depends on the category your site belongs in and the editor of it, I have spent 6 months trying to get my site onto it, yet i did a clients site and it was on the following day.
BTW, my sites ranked 98 on here.
joomlamafia.com
DrDigital 5:31 AM on December 26, 2008
Christie, Part of my sites success is the fact that I built a site in demand in the first 6 days (I started it 6 days before july if i recall correctly) That first month (6 days) I had 132 countries access my site. The day I built it i had blog software pinging it, digg articles, social book marks, (http://del.icio.us/) and already told google and several other sites with it, plus the open source software it supports i submitted 2 small programs i made for free. With in 60 days i was ranked as a top 110K site according to alexa I have since fallen to around a 210K or so ranking but i havent been putting as much work into it as i have when i first started because i have no more new content really. I still have over 200 people a day come to my site google up my handle here or joomlamafia, I have over 40K website linking to me... all because of my RSS links
biofir 10:31 AM on December 27, 2008
Thanks, this is very helpfull for me...
brett maxwell 6:16 PM on December 27, 2008
this is a great article, thank you!
Dirk 11:48 AM on December 30, 2008
learned a lot!! thank you!
Ken Kaufman 5:44 PM on December 30, 2008
How long does it take Google to rank a website after it has been submitted to them? Once it has been ranked once, how often is it looked at for a new rank?
Suzette Bailey 10:03 PM on December 30, 2008
Great information! I just launched my website and am trying to find out as much as I can about SEO.
www.suzettebaileyrealtor.com
Suzette Bailey 10:08 PM on December 30, 2008
Also, does 301 redirect hurt page rank? What about masking and Domain name pointing?
http://www.suzettebaileyrealtor.com
DrDigital 1:23 AM on December 31, 2008
Depends on how often they crawl you, how many inbound links you got and what there page rank is... usually takes about 90 days to see some sort of a result my first 90 days i went from a PR0 to a PR5, but i had hundreds of PR5-8 sites linking to me... to get from PR5 to PR6 its like twice as hard as going from PR4 to PR5, and it continues to do that from PR0, PR1 all the way to PR9... PR10 isnt because its the last.
Daniel 2:30 PM on December 31, 2008
Good info overall.
Why does the PR6 sit by itself? What about those PR7's that are not mainstream brands?
Social Media Monitoring 8:25 PM on December 31, 2008
Hubspot always provides easy to understand artiles on everything related to online marketing. This is another great example of their wonderful work.
BSB Center 11:39 AM on January 01, 2009
My first grade with websitegrader was a pathetic 5 out of 100. I was depressed for days as Ihad put in hours and hours of daily slog into it. After reading the info on this blog about SEO the bells finally started ringing. After resubmitting my site got a score of 28 out of 100 , big improvement a long way to go still, but have my pages indexed by google. Perseverance does bring rewards.and know I am ranking 60.
www.BSBCenter.com
Thanks for your valuable information.
Rohit 12:04 PM on January 02, 2009
The information given here about SEO and related stuff is really helpful. The website grader tool helped me improve my website a lot.
www.m-teknopologist.com
Chris 8:42 AM on January 05, 2009
Hi,
Great article. We currently have a page ranking of 4 and I'm desperately trying to increase this, so the information you have provided is very useful.
I also used the website grader and will be monitoring this from now on but at the moment it reports that we have no external links to our site, which I know to be untrue. So, what would cause this and how can I overcome?
Also, realistically, how frequently should you be updating your site to maintain and improve google page ranking?
Marcos 11:11 AM on January 05, 2009
Muchas gracias por la explicación.
Saludos
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Truxedo 1:56 PM on January 05, 2009
Thanks for your straight forward advice on page rank. In 2008 Google was not consistent with its updates so trying to monitor progress can be slow until updates are published.
Kathleen 10:21 PM on January 05, 2009
Awesome article. I did not know anything about how this works. You guys are the best. Really! So informative.
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Tammy Lessick 11:53 AM on January 06, 2009
I understand the Page Ranking. Great article. What I don't understand is the keyword ranking. Is 100+ good or bad?
fathhi 3:10 AM on January 08, 2009
thank you very much... very useful post. learned some basics..
thanks again
dom 5:12 PM on January 10, 2009
very usefull added this to my feeds
only just started all this so its all helpfull
Monica 4:43 AM on January 13, 2009
Still benefitting from what seems like an old post! Seems like you are no longer ranked high for 'successful technical selling' ;)
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Strategic Internet Marketing 6:23 AM on January 13, 2009
Just wanted to thank you very much for posting so much useful and interesting information in this one post.
Gourmet gift baskets - Gift With A Basket 8:27 AM on January 13, 2009
how can you tell how many pages link to your page?
skepto 9:13 AM on January 16, 2009
What seemed to be wrong? My blog has a grade of 85 but I still don't have a PR until now (my blog is 1 month old). Does it have something to do with my blog being a sub-domain of blogger? My Alexa rank is fair compared to most commercial sites. I just don't get it.
Ginny M. Christensen 12:16 AM on January 18, 2009
This information is very useful. I am an author and created my own web pages (www.ginnymchristensen.com) I learned how to get my book published and then I had to learn about everything else, starting with a domain name, and a web hoster and how to make we pages. I'm still learning and a lot of this is greek to me, but I have a score of 11 - and I'm not quite sure what this means. Is this good? My site has only been up since October. Thanks, Ginny
A Malaysia office equipment seller 5:50 AM on January 19, 2009
An well written article.
As for my website, I just can't figure out why the page rank fluctuate so often?
Hope you can write an article on this issue.
Many thanks!
Techronnati 11:58 AM on January 19, 2009
Thanks for posting this article...
am just enlightened.
www.techronnati.com/blog/
Dick Ackermann 7:16 AM on January 20, 2009
I would like to learn how to upgrade my site
Ginny Christensen 1:15 PM on January 20, 2009
Hello everyone, I was trying to put the grader badge on my home page but my site builder (host monster) doesn't allow me to accept java script. Anyone know how I can change it or what I need to do to get it accepted?
Thanks, Ginny
Denise Milani 8:45 PM on January 22, 2009
Very nice article, thx
BSB Center 9:37 AM on January 26, 2009
I am stiil 0 rank ..I was befor rank 2 but after puting google add in my site it become 0 rank ..
any bady know why?
Gavin 3:31 PM on January 26, 2009
Love it! Great insight!
Chris Hill 4:31 PM on January 28, 2009
As a new blogger, these are great tips, thanks
yuda 7:18 PM on January 29, 2009
there is a lot of homework to do, to increase my page rank...
this is useful article, thank you
Andrew 2:03 PM on January 30, 2009
All those saying that their Website grade does not correlate with their Pagerank need to understand that the two are not co-dependant.
Google does not use, nor care about your website grade. They use their own methods to rank it.
The grader is just a tool to help you as it helped me.
Re-read the article here, it explains how they think Pagerank is derived and it does not mention your website grade.
designer 2:45 PM on January 30, 2009
I'm having trouble with this inbound links thing, does that mean a link from your site is on there's or is it like they have to put you in there link them selves. i went to website grader.com and it said i have no inbound links. How do i get some. I read your other article, but most big company wont link to you.
Andrew 10:07 PM on January 30, 2009
Inbound links are links on other pages pointing to your page. Outbound links are links on your page that go to other peoples. Internal links are links on your pages pointing to other pages on your site.
There are several ways to get Inbound Links. Link building is work. I started link building by making a simple but useful program and offering it for free on my site. I then submitted this program to free software sites.
Most software sites will link to the Authors site either to download the program or to alow users to see the authors site.. You can do something similar writing articles and submitting those articles to sites that host articles. The articles should be interesting or useful and well written to get people to click your link which you embed in your article. For example your site is about widgets, write an article about widgets and post your link in said article as way for readers to see more info about widgets.
You can also link exchange with other sites. Sites with similar content are preferable. If your site is not a Blog you can create one and offer content on the Blog pointing to your site. Then you can submit your Blog to places like Technorati. All these options mean work.
MD 2:06 PM on January 31, 2009
Good article, thanks for the info. I'm going to read your SEO Kit.
james smith 7:09 AM on February 03, 2009
Great article. I hope to use the content of this article to reposition my site.
More grease to your elbow.
Fred Campbell 12:19 PM on February 04, 2009
Great post. I come here regularly to read and learn. Keep them coming!
FrugalGuitarist.com 3:25 PM on February 04, 2009
Excellent article. And your Website Grader tool was very imformative. I bookmarked it. Thanks
Big Geek Daddy 2:02 PM on February 08, 2009
Good article. Explained Page Rank very well. Love the Website Grader.
Trueant 7:20 PM on February 12, 2009
I like others that have posted to this article have started my own online auction site & have been using Website Grader to help me increase my scores.
My site has been running for 1 month so far & with 100% in all 3 main areas (title, description &keywords). My score in Website Grader has gone from 46 to 54 because I followed what Website Grader suggested.
I am a new to this & have no idea about most of what i have read or been told but am learning.This site has educated me heaps & I reconmend to all to try what their report suggest.
Anyway what I need to do now is get more inbound links as well as outbound ones. So if anyone out there is prepared to addvertise a link to my Auction Site on there web page I will gladly addvertise theirs on my site. Ofcourse this is a barter system you show mine I show yours. Contact me
My purpose for all that I am doing is not for the cash but to make it cheaper for all to sell online & to BEAT EBAY
Justice O. Omorodion 4:23 AM on February 18, 2009
Good ideas about positioning my site in order to get high pagerank. You extremely went ahead to explain everything one needs to know about pageranking. Great tips right there..
winkelf 7:04 PM on February 18, 2009
I just found HubSpot and it has been very informative and helpful.
I am curious, does a link to a specific page or sub-domain equally as a link? Our handmade venue has hundreds of store owners linking to their stores, in sub-domain format, but these inbound links don't seem to get counted or found.
Thank you for the helpful articles!
Lana 1:32 AM on February 19, 2009
Thank you! I never understood how that worked but now I do.
Simon Stapleton 7:10 AM on February 19, 2009
This is a very complex subject. It's hard to know what to do, other than the obvious of encouraging inbound links. This is where unique and high-value content is important.
Great article!
YYilmaz 6:46 PM on February 19, 2009
"...However, if you get a single link from HubSpot.com (the sponsor of this blog), it’ll help you more than a 100 Uncle Charlie websites..."
Aahh, yes... so if I link to physiotherapy websites from this comment, the link will appear on your page and should lift my rankings higher! :-)
Antonio Ferrandina 1:44 PM on February 26, 2009
Good article, thanks for the info
Dave 5:23 AM on February 27, 2009
Thanks, it has helped my site and I'm continuing to work at it:
www.agaricus.co.za
Kings Bathroom 7:29 AM on February 27, 2009
I used the websitegrader quite alot and found it quite useful for checking website's performance.
Nicholas Chase 4:51 PM on February 27, 2009
My pagerank is 2 out of ten. Some challenge!
Respectfully,
Nicholas Chase
http://donotreadthisblogunless.blogspot.com/
www.twitter.com/nachase
john 6:57 PM on February 27, 2009
Starting to make sense.globalgse.comranking 2 at the moment, will need to work on it !!
john 7:02 PM on February 27, 2009
Starting to make sense.www.globalgse.com ranking 2 at the moment, will need to work on it !!
Chris Geiger 5:32 PM on March 02, 2009
Thanks, this information is useful in building my site. I wish that Google and others would give more specific information on how sites and links are ranked.
New Car Prices India 1:58 AM on March 03, 2009
Thanks for such a nice article. Will try to implement it to increase my website's page rank.
Scott 4:37 PM on March 03, 2009
Grrrrrrrrrrr...............I have done all the things that you have mentioned and still have a page rating of 0 :(
Weathertech 4:44 PM on March 03, 2009
re: scott The first element you need to know about SEO/SEM is that is a long term investment and that your efforts will take on average, a minimum of three - six months to show any results. hang in there:)
Scott 5:05 PM on March 03, 2009
Thank you for your advice Weathertech...I will continue to improve my website and learn to be more patient. :)
Choicehow 12:00 PM on March 05, 2009
Great details. Thanks for sharing!
olvado 7:08 AM on March 08, 2009
A very useful insight into the 'black magic' behind Google
Zimphvi 6:21 PM on March 09, 2009
Excellant article. Are all page ranks integers or do they go finer like 2.3456 etc? Also do they stop at 10 or go higher?
Sharolyn Norris 11:19 PM on March 09, 2009
Great article on SEO.What is the best way to get links to your website?
Jon Perry 8:17 AM on March 10, 2009
A wonderfully informative article that explains the PR process in a simple and down to earth way.
I'm bookmarking this page!
Greg 1:26 PM on March 11, 2009
Very helpful. My challenge now...increase my Ranking! www.atlantic-estates.com
Jay 12:29 PM on March 12, 2009
Great information as i am trying to build my page rank.
Scott 8:58 PM on March 12, 2009
Can someone tell me why when I checked my wesite ranking on grader yesterday it informed me I had 80 google index pages on my site and when I check today I have none?
Waffa 10:10 PM on March 14, 2009
well.. strange thing is that my page pagerank is lover then some other similar sites what has les back linking from other sites then i have.. strange.
Lombards 6:02 AM on March 16, 2009
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jason 10:36 AM on March 16, 2009
Great article! It's been a few months for us and we're still hanging on to that 0 rank. Patience, patience, patience I know.
Jason
VacaConnect.com "Connecting the Vacation Rental Community
Danish 5:32 PM on March 17, 2009
i found this article the easiest to understand
Lee 9:53 PM on March 18, 2009
My page ranks #1.
Matthew 10:44 PM on March 18, 2009
Jason - VacaConnect.com
Your missing keywords and other meta tags doesnt help any , nor does the missing robots.txt and you should delete all the 1 worded keywords fix your 37 images with missint alt tags I could go on for a few hours.. I own PR4-6 sites.
Chris 3:09 PM on March 19, 2009
Thanks for showing me the light! I entered my website, http://cafegov.us and it was a 27. Not bad for out of the gate! Is it?
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Great read. I incorporated this into the car title loans blog we have @ MaxCash Title Loans blog. We do title loans. It's kind of boring.
Here is another good tool. We did this for our Las Vegas business. Tagally. This was also for title loans.
And last, We did a PR campaign for online car title loans. The link is prlog.org For our online title loans business this worked.
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Russ G 4:03 PM on March 27, 2009
Thanks for a great site. Implementing some of the tips *right now*.
Jason 9:45 PM on March 27, 2009
good to understand PR algorithm
but PR of my site is only 0~~
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amit 9:32 AM on March 30, 2009
Thanks for this easy-to-understand explanation of page rank and its importance.
Paul Viau 8:16 PM on March 30, 2009
My site is over a year old. I get top ratings for my keywords. 1st page 1,3,4 . My traffic is excellent ! I am better than 97.2 % of websites. I have 730 inbound links.
What am I doing wrong?
Jay 7:08 PM on March 31, 2009
nice article, but i found it alittle confusing, im sure its not and its just me, my site has been up for 2 weeks and has a website grader score of 80, my page rank is not avalible at the moment.
Hersband And Wife 9:33 PM on March 31, 2009
Thank you for this info it is the best info on SEO we have found thus far.
ellyn 2:57 AM on April 02, 2009
Thanks for such useful info
Sue 9:51 AM on April 02, 2009
Thanks for a very informative article!
Sue
Premier Cleaning Services 2:43 PM on April 02, 2009
Very helpful info. Thanks
Sandra 12:29 PM on April 03, 2009
Thank you so much! My website is fairly new and I'm doing as much as I can to increase it's exposure on the web. Your article has given me some very solid info to go on.
Thanks again,
Sandra
Kasey 7:27 PM on April 04, 2009
Fantastic article, plus the website grader is great for new webstores starting out like mine, keep it up!
Joe 7:54 PM on April 04, 2009
It looks like somebody broke this page way back in October. Everything after that post is in bold. Here's the closing tag this page has been needing. :P
Traveller 12:36 PM on April 06, 2009
I just went down from PR4 to PR3, despite adding new relevant content daily, getting a lot of visitors, etc :-(
Daniel 7:39 AM on April 07, 2009
I love your website, it is full of great information, A great source of information to study and pur to use.
Thanks,
Daniel
David Nagle 4:01 PM on April 07, 2009
Great article for beginners. Check out my expanded blog article on the subject! http://awoa.com/blog/
Kasey 1:22 AM on April 08, 2009
great article and great advice, it just seems to take a lot of time but can be time spent well.
Webmaster 6:24 AM on April 08, 2009
great article...this helped us understand the phenomena of google page ranks..thanks..
Shay 1:32 PM on April 08, 2009
Oooh, low page rank - gotta work on that! Thanks for the tips!
Jason 5:44 PM on April 08, 2009
Great article. Thanks for the insight!
Webhosting-10 2:26 AM on April 10, 2009
Yippi! We are a Page Rank 4
Looking to increase even more by next couple of months.
Adeel 8:45 AM on April 12, 2009
THATS GREAT I WAS SEARCHING FOR THIS INFORMATIONS FOR MANY DAYS> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Andrew 11:08 AM on April 12, 2009
Very informative article. However I am an SEO Specialist and theres one thing that would help a lot of you. Maybe you have realized this, if you are using Blogspot, thats a great way to rub google the right way. An even better way to help your entire site score, and you page ranking is to take yourname.blogspot.com and take your site... yourname.com/blog or blog.yourname.com and make this into a redirection to your blogspot blog.
Just a little tid bid, from the
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Thanks
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jwieczorek 3:56 PM on April 12, 2009
Good job! I've added your blog to my RSS Reader.
Jay 3:27 AM on April 13, 2009
Great help, but my PR sucks hard
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Sanjeev 5:25 AM on April 16, 2009
Great Info for new startups, who have time but not much funding.
This article gives a direction what is required to be done for companies like us.
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madcom 8:39 AM on April 16, 2009
Learnt a lot in this article. I need to work a lot harder on my links.
greg 7:11 AM on April 17, 2009
some great tips for a new website like mine, i scored a 0 so i think some work needed
Melany 1:22 PM on April 21, 2009
Thanks for the info. :)
Josh 6:37 PM on April 22, 2009
Your Google PageRank check isn't giving out the correct PR for my site...
It's showing that I have a PR2, but the Google toolbar shows that the index page of my site has a PR3...
Here's the link to my report:
http://website.grader.com/wsgid/2861920/default.aspx
Abdul Rahman 12:36 AM on April 23, 2009
This is an awesome content...
Lenny 1:37 PM on April 23, 2009
Thank you for a great article. I ran the report for my sites and getting a decent number, but still have some work to do.
Trying to improve my sites as we speak.
casey 9:41 AM on April 26, 2009
very helpfull thank you.
Keith Greer 7:46 AM on April 27, 2009
Just wanted to say tanks for the post and your Website Grader tool, great help!
Quentin 8:14 AM on April 27, 2009
Wow I have a pr5 for my streaming audio site http://mp3soundstream.com which I have actually fought hard to get over the years.
With your web grader I will try and go the next level. Common PR6
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Alex 9:14 AM on April 27, 2009
I found your article very useful, for months I have been wondering how the page ranks worked.
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Michael 7:34 AM on April 29, 2009
Thank you for this brilliant article! It's been immensely helpful in helping us gain pagerank.
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Super Awesome Guy 7:39 AM on April 29, 2009
I FINALLY have a page rank... 3 isn't too bad for the first page rank :)
Mike 2:37 PM on April 29, 2009
Very useful article!
Clara 5:05 PM on April 29, 2009
This is really hard, I run a test on my competition on website.grader.com
One of my competitors have 950 links to them.
I have 20 :(
I am working in every suggestion!
Will see! A question.. does the virtual tour helps as much as a video?
Matthew 5:15 PM on April 29, 2009
One of my competitors has 100 or so links to them... I have 71,000+ (and growing every day)
danielsheehan 10:35 PM on April 30, 2009
Hi Dharmesh,
Excellent article.
Clear, concise and to the point but I wonder why your PR went down to 4 from 6 since this was published? And How can I get my Seattle wedding photography website up from a 4 to a 6?
Laurie Manny - Long Beach Real Estate 11:47 PM on April 30, 2009
It is becoming increasingly difficult to hold onto page rank. Is Google constantly raising the bar?
Jim Dean 7:41 AM on May 03, 2009
Great info web site ranking and how it works! I could use a lot more hands on info (how to, what is best, etc) but every little bit helps.
Atlanta Photographer Chris Hamilton 9:41 PM on May 03, 2009
Thanks for the great info! I'm a photographer based in Atlanta and am always looking for ways to increase my page rank. Check out my website Atlanta Photographer
Atlanta Photographer Chris Hamilton 9:54 PM on May 03, 2009
I tried to use the tag by looking at others, but didn't get it right. Here's a link to my site one more time. Atlanta Photographer
fotografo cali 2:15 PM on May 05, 2009
Interesting article. I'm doing a big effort with organic SEO in my website, but my PR is still 2.
I'm wondering if PR also depends on the expiration date of your domain.
Florida Photographer David Dunaway 3:46 PM on May 06, 2009
I already knew that incoming links are the key. How about some info on how to acquire them? That is the real issue.
Thanks
Paul Almond 2:35 PM on May 09, 2009
Thank you for a useful article. We are looking into getting someone to do SEO now, so it was helpful.
David Dunaway - Photgrapher/Webmaster for www.tonybirds.com 9:02 PM on May 09, 2009
Made a mistake on the website address above so I'm redoing it. Also wanted to point out that Hub Spot has been extremely helpful in helping along our SEO. We just need to know more about how one gets well ranked sites to want to link to us.
Suze 10:25 AM on May 10, 2009
This post and all the comments is huge - broadened my understanding of page ranking. I've got a lot to work on... thanks.
Tom 9:59 AM on May 15, 2009
Thank you for this article. Very usefull indeed.
Tom @ FotoPortfolios 10:02 AM on May 15, 2009
Thank you for this article. Very usefull indeed.
KarenH 6:28 PM on May 17, 2009
Finally I understand how this works! Now to start writing relevant material and submitting articles on higher ranking websites. Thanks http://www.unlmitedwealthandfreedom.com
Lacey 8:13 PM on May 19, 2009
Thank for the info. I will definately put it into affect on my website and hopefully I will be at a 3 by the end of the year.
Peter Tsai 10:35 AM on May 23, 2009
Thanks for everything. I'm at 3 now and I use Website Grader every week or so to monitor my ranking. This site has helped me a lot!
Jenny 6:27 PM on May 23, 2009
Hello Dharmesh Shah,
After starting my online store I thought all I had to do is have quality products with great pictures. Boy was I wrong on that, but considering I have only been opened for a month now I am slowing climbing this mountain. Your article on Page Rank should be mandatory reading for anyone thinking about opening an online store!! So they will know what they are facing and what it will take to actually have customer traffic! Thank you very much, Love your site it has been very helpful to me! Jenny
David Dunaway 7:44 PM on May 23, 2009
I'm a bit ticked with HS website grader. Our initial score was 23 so I made some changes recommended like reducing keywords, tittle length etc. Though it shot our grader rating to a 41, once Google crawled the changes it dropped our site back almost two pages on the top search phrase I use for measuring progress in Google search positioning. I was fool enough not to keep record of exactly what was omitted so I'll have to work from memory to restore what had been pleasing Google before I tried to please the grader, presuming it would increase my Google standing. Be warned. Their suggested changes could set you back on Google even if it moves up your grader score. Again, my fault for being naive enough to take the grader as the Gospel and failing to record changes for a quick return if needed. Live and learn. And I hope I live long because in SEO there is a lot to learn!
Renee Hindman 11:42 PM on May 24, 2009
soo much to learn...
Daniel Dewulf 11:55 AM on May 31, 2009
like all the people before me did:THANK YOU
Now I have some work to do
All the best,
Daniel-Belgium
Thameemul Anzari 1:18 PM on May 31, 2009
Very Good Article. I am a newbie for SEO. I got to this article in my first searching.
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Catherine 9:01 PM on May 31, 2009
I am a newbie for SEO too. I love the article so much, finally i know how it work!
Dan B. 1:57 AM on June 03, 2009
We make great Pancake Mix, but you guys have great SEO suggestions.
Thanks
Mike Story 8:58 PM on June 03, 2009
I'm a 6! Not too shabby. Thanks for the great insight into Google Ranking Algorythms.
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Heilner 5:18 PM on June 05, 2009
Español:
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Michael 10:01 PM on June 05, 2009
great website, learned a lot
Martins 7:43 PM on June 07, 2009
It only gets better.
Hubspot is a teacher amongst teachers and that is the reason why love-mediator.com is now getting off the ground where it has been for 2 years.
Keep up the good work.
Trevor 2:49 PM on June 08, 2009
Wonderful article! Really helps me out a lot. Any idea how long it takes to get a Google Pagerank? I don't have one yet :S
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kathryn barlow 2:02 PM on June 12, 2009
This has been very helpful! Thanks for posting this easy-read!
Louis 9:19 PM on June 18, 2009
Thanks for the information. It certainly takes some work to figure out the inner workings of SEO.
Jenny 9:27 PM on June 18, 2009
Very informative. This site has been extremely helpful with marketing. Thanks!
Tucker 9:32 PM on June 18, 2009
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Nuno Bandeira Salvador 5:53 AM on June 19, 2009
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E-TARD 9:45 AM on June 20, 2009
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Kevin Lam 10:23 AM on June 22, 2009
I use your website grader so often, I'm surprised I don't even look here. This is a great reference on explaining how PR works. It's just weird however, to see my tool say that a website's PR is 6, but when I put the URL into your website grader, it drops to a 3. I wonder what that's indicating.
Is the tool outdated or your website grader outdated?
FredM 9:37 AM on June 23, 2009
Nice intro. One of the best basic/understandable explanations (much better than the google site).
Gary Darden 8:43 PM on June 24, 2009
Great post. How do I get a link from you? :) Or if anybody else is interested let me know.
Diego 12:17 PM on June 25, 2009
I do not understand. What is the importance of traffic. i had looked that there are a lot page which have a big traffic rank but later the page rank is 0, what happend this?
Egon 2:43 AM on June 26, 2009
Nice work. It helped me to get redirecting 301 done.
Egon 2:44 AM on June 26, 2009
Nice work. It helped me to get redirecting 301 done.
Angelo 11:56 PM on June 26, 2009
An informative article for sure.
I've had my site up for a month or so now but I still seem to get a PR of 0. I'm working on building links.
The Website Grader tool is VERY useful for pointing out things that you can work on to improve results.
Anton 2:41 AM on June 28, 2009
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Aniruddha Sahasrabuddhe 7:41 PM on June 28, 2009
I dont think your website grader is showing correct information.
1. My website has meta description and meta keywords for all pages, still the grader shows that it is missing
2. The grader shows google pagerank to be PR0, but when I check it on prchecker.info the actual rank is PR3
I am not sure what is going wrong.
Black Bear Design 11:13 AM on June 29, 2009
Thanks for the article. Our page rank actually fell for some reason. We have a lot of inbound links, I think they are just not quality inbound links.
Rod Claar 1:16 AM on July 01, 2009
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Tom Hill 7:25 PM on July 02, 2009
Great post, helpful and insightful.
Dave 12:34 AM on July 04, 2009
This is one of the most clear and concise posts I've seen in some time. Kudos and great tool. www>Blackball Online
PC Hardware Fix 12:53 AM on July 04, 2009
Thanks for providing such a wonderful information. One can get idea how the page rank is calculated and the alog of the Page rank is related to which.
Rimbow 9:26 AM on July 04, 2009
hey friend nice to meet you.
PageRank algorithm in the other, there is a value N which is the overall number of web pages, so a user has a probability to visit a page divided by the total number of pages available. For example, if a page has a PageRank 2 and total web page 100 in the hundred times he visits the page that is 2 times (note, this is a probability).
PageRank algorithm in the other, there is a value N which is the overall number of web pages, so a user has a probability to visit a page divided by the total number of pages available. For example, if a page has a PageRank 2 and total web page 100 in the hundred times he visits the page that is 2 times (note, this is a probability).
Zina 11:02 AM on July 04, 2009
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spiney 11:09 AM on July 04, 2009
not only is this a PR bible - grader, as well as being an outstanding tool, has become for many breadline webmasters, as compulsive an addiction as chocolate or snood - I cant praise any SEO tool (at any price) more highly - though it leaves one confused that some SEO sites/companies, offering lesser, ineffective tools & strategy do have PAYING CUSTOMERS - when its possible to do an outstanding job - so easily using the free resources here...A+ spiney
Daniel Dewulf 1:31 PM on July 04, 2009
Very good info and articles.Thank you hubspot.Question:I am starting with affiliatemarketing and have a lot to learn.My site has now a PR2.But no single page is given a pagerank(or some with 0/10)Is there an expanation for this????Best regards from Belgium.Daniel Dewulf
I have a blog actually,because I am still a dummy but now I will sit up a new blog with a domainname and use wordpress.org
Khye Hickey 3:46 PM on July 06, 2009
Absolutely perfect, I have been using the website grader tool and it has been very successful managed to get from a grade 60 to a grade 80 in less than a day.
ali 3:29 PM on July 09, 2009
Great article..
who want to link to
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siyetehan 12:35 AM on July 10, 2009
thanks! this is very informative
Vikas 3:05 PM on July 10, 2009
Good Article and well written!
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Drug Recovery 6:52 PM on July 11, 2009
Excellent article, I know have a much better understanding of this complex algorithm. My drug recovery website only has a PR of 3 and I am trying to get it higher.
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Jay Howard 1:27 PM on July 13, 2009
Thanks for the good reading.
Lisa Marie 5:58 PM on July 15, 2009
Thanks for the great content on this site! My e-commerce site has been live about a month and a half and we are a PR 0. : ( Some wedding blogs (our industry) have written about us and linked to us, but beyond that I'm stuck on how to at least get to a 1! Seems like no one will want to link back to me because we are a 0 and it might hurt their own rank? Wish I knew where to start on getting past the big zero!
Rodney 9:54 AM on July 16, 2009
Great article and I love the Websitegrader site. I HAD a Google PageRank of 4, but the last time I ran it, I got a grade of 0! What happened?!? I haven't made any significant changes to the site.
Scott 12:16 PM on July 17, 2009
These comments are spot on. I've been trying to improve my site http://www.redflagmd.com using your information and so far it seems to be working!
Danny 10:54 AM on July 21, 2009
Thanks, great post mate.
Paul 3:05 PM on July 24, 2009
Interesting situation. We recently redesigned our entire site, and our page rank dropped from 6 to 5. When publishing articles and news to your site, should this be done in a fashion that it will always exist on your server in some fashion even after multiple redesigns of a site?
Shaun 9:18 PM on July 26, 2009
Is it true that it takes a website 1 to 2 years to get well established on the internet?
Ruby 9:58 AM on July 27, 2009
Really enjoyed this article. Thanks
Andrew 10:12 AM on July 27, 2009
Thank you, very succinct and clear definition. I am having trouble getting off PR0, but it's a relatively new site.
Thanks again...
Online Typing 2:44 PM on July 27, 2009
Thanks for sharing this great tips.
Alex Roberts 5:38 PM on July 28, 2009
Nice article, and nice webgrader. It's great for seeing what you're doing right versus wrong.
Evelyn Vincent 3:28 AM on July 29, 2009
WOW - what a terrific article. You explain things very well on your blog and in the grader results. I ran my site through your Website Grader and scored 80 - right now I'm working on making tweaks based on the results. I can't wait to see the difference your suggestions make! Huge thanks!
Risk-Free Marketing Services 6:27 AM on July 31, 2009
Nice description of how PR works. I use your Website Grader tool quite often to help client's understand how their websites are doing, but typically they have little knowledge of these concepts.
Our site is currently at 93% but I use your advice and have seen it increase nearly 10% over the last 6 months or so.
Thank you for making it easier!
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PlaneaTusFinanzas.com 8:15 PM on August 02, 2009
Interesting. I'll try to use your tips in order to increase my Google PR.
spitefulgod 8:54 AM on August 03, 2009
Well I hate to burst your bubbles but I have a pagerank of 10... er no wait that's 01 or 1 for short. Ohhh well. Link me for free big boys
Dave Durbin 12:59 AM on August 06, 2009
Google's PageRank algo can be a funny thing. We've had sites rank a 1 and be at the top of some pretty heady company. It's a useful measure but not the only one.
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redviewpoint 6:22 AM on August 07, 2009
Thanks for this great article. Very helpful to new bloggers like me. My blog http://www.redviewpoint.com scored 56 last month and now it's 87. Still my pagerank is at 0.There's lot of work to do and I'm enjoying it. Once again, thank you so much. :)
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Indiana SEO Guru 1:17 PM on August 08, 2009
There is really great information here....unfortunately, not everyone will take the time to read it. But, for those of us that do....it gives us great advantages.
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Mark Brace 4:47 PM on August 09, 2009
THanks for the intersting information. I'm always looking for more info on SEO. I never know pagerank was a multiplier and to try to get links on high page rank websites. I have a mission now. I'm working my way through this I have a page rank of 2 at my www.markbrace.com and a hubspot of 77, but I really need to crank it up a notch. thanks again for the help.
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Mark 11:10 AM on August 11, 2009
Great Article!! thanks for all the useful info. Can you do an article explaining No follow links??
Thanks
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Jim Clark 5:08 PM on August 11, 2009
Great post - simple and easily understood. Thanks!
RV Exit 10:50 PM on August 11, 2009
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Michele 12:57 AM on August 13, 2009
my website had a pagerank of 2 and
today I checked and it was o
What could possibly have happened?
Shane Strong 1:26 AM on August 13, 2009
Thanks for the great read I have been using your website grader for almost 7 months now and I am at 97.2% I hope within a couple of weeks to make it to 98%.
Doug 12:52 PM on August 15, 2009
Very good information. Thanks!
Weathy Dream Date 9:22 AM on August 16, 2009
Thank you for the very useful information. I use WebSite grader often. My site went live in July.
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Weathy Dream Date 9:25 AM on August 16, 2009
Thank you for the very useful information. I use Website Grader often. My site went live in July.
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Weathy Dream Date 9:26 AM on August 16, 2009
Thank you for the very useful information. I use Website Grader often. My site went live in July.
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Amber 3:17 PM on August 17, 2009
"However, if you get a single link from HubSpot.com (the sponsor of this blog), it’ll help you more than a 100 Uncle Charlie websites. Why? Because HubSpot.com has a PageRank of 6 and a link from it is much more valuable." Even just posting a message comment will be a quality inbound link? I am testing this. It should show up in my webmaster tools on bing or google. I hope you are right! I'll let you know. ;)
Lindsey Tyner 4:46 PM on August 17, 2009
Great article, I plan on trying these techniques!
Louis Kemler 5:13 PM on August 17, 2009
Thanks for the great article. I've managed to get my site up to 85%. Still waiting on a few things like Dmoz and such. No page rank yet, but the site is only a few months old. I'm building up a fair amount of inbound links.
Michele 7:08 PM on August 17, 2009
Patrick,why do they ( or anyone else) have NO FOLLOW tags?