06 Aug 2009 12:34 am
Getting high Page Rank for your website is one of the most difficult tasks any company or webmaster will face.
It could take a lifetime to achieve a maximum page rank of 5.
Page Rank was invented and patented by Google and is based on a calculation from 0-10. In simple and basic understanding terms, Page Rank is a unique way to gather relevancy regarding your website and how authority your website is including what type of backlinks your site has and the quality and relevancy of those backlinks your site has.
If your site has edu links pointing to it or gov links pointing to it for example it must be very authoritative, or if your website has many natural links and discussions are made from natural sources mentioning how great your website is online and are pointing to your site, this tells google that your site is popular and gives you a ranking accordingly.
Page rank is updated quarterly but has no specific date on update and as a result webmasters around the world are always patiently curious or inpatient to find out when their site will be updated.
Large website companies that are on a page rank of 6 or higher are usually International news websites which naturally grow very popular and as a result reach high page rank, and go as far as company websites such as pepsi.com, adobe.com and even google themselves.
I am very proud to have recorded my own success regarding page rank for one of my website SEO2Webdesign.com , which has finally reached a whopping Page Rank 6 from the very most recent update on 27th September 2008
Some Useful links:
- Live Page Rank Browser Plugin
- Page Rank Explained
- Page Rank Update Chart
- Page Rank Discussion
06 Aug 2009 12:34 am
As we are moving further towards unique content, and search engine presence, as well as unique identity (unique domain names), there is an increasing amount of bloggers and Internet Marketers to follow and that are being very active in this field.
Unique headlines and domain names are becoming extremely difficult to come by.
Choosing the right headlines can be the one thing that brings users attention to your webpage you are promoting. If the headline is unique and contains the right words that users a searching for, this could be the one thing that brings more traffic.
People know that if you find a domain name similar to the words you want to rank for, you are already 20% there in regards to SEO. Same fashion now is being used with headlines of blogs, if your overall website is very well optimised your headline may appear at the top of the search engines within hours of writing a post.
Finding a Unique domain name is similarly the same situation particularly .com’s. How far can this all go? Lets say you find the most amazing headline for example “Browsing the Web” and you not only write a great article about browsing the web but you also think this headline is so good, I might actually see if I can register this domain name: browsingtheweb.com and what do you know? It’s gone!
I’ll give another example, a movie production company has named their movie “gone in 60 seconds” if it’s not the movie producers that go out and buy that name, it will be somebody else that does, the same situation goes for a book or even a magazine.
I think domain names are being cleaned up in all areas possible.
There are still alot of certain tricks to find good domain names, but of course as days go on it is becoming more limiting.
06 Aug 2009 12:34 am
Are you one the few suffering from Internet Addiction? Surprisingly if you type in google “Internet Addiction” there are 1,260,000 search results for this word.
The few most common patterns from an Internet Marketing, Web Development Professional (me) perspective that I find most addicting is:
1. Turning off the computer
2. Wanting to check emails continuously, particularly from clients.
3. Checking clients rankings continuously to see if the keywords they are ranking for are increasing in the search engines.
4. Submitting links continuously to websites, directories, forums, blogs and social sites and tweaking SEO as much as I can.
5. Reading the News, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Tech sites to be up to date with the latest information.
6. To continuously work whether it means finding new clients, designing websites, programming, development, preparing invoices or SEO, I am driven to succeed past the success level and further to success that success has no meaning.
7. Buying and Selling Domain names - There are always great bargains or domainers wanting to flip a good domain which I always try not to miss.
8. Buying Websites - I rarely buy websites, but it’s more like I don’t want to miss a great business opportunity if I can find a bargain website of interest for sale.
The type of symptom I feel when I am not doing all of this, is I feel that I could be missing out on something which has not been acted to immediately or I have not found because I was away from the computer.
I was also amazed to see that there really is alot behind the addiction noted by Bratter and Forest which define addiction as “a behavior pattern of compulsive drug use characterized by overwhelming involvement… with the use of a drug and the securing of the supply, as well as the tendency to relapse after completion of withdrawal.
Like all other addictions, Internet addiction is a psychophysiological disorder involving tolerance (the same amount of usage elicits less response; increased amounts become necessary to evoke the same amount of pleasure), withdrawal symptoms especially, tremors, anxiety, and moodiness), affective disturbances (depression, irritability), and interruption of social relationships (a decline or loss, either in quality or quantity). Well im lucky I have an understanding wife here.
But none the less I think if you are happy with what you do, the addiction is worth it all!
Let’s all not feel embarressed here, can anyone else express how they feel or if you have an addiction I would like to hear about what it is that brings you back to the world of the web.
