What Is PageRank? PageRank was invented back in 1998 from Larry Page while he was still a student at Stanford University. It was a definitely a great concept which allowed for all pages in the web to be sorted according to their relative importance. The idea was based on the fact that a site that receives h links from hundreds of sites should be more popular than one that has just a few inbound links. PageRank is about popularity and definitely is one of the main reasons for Google’s success back in the early days of the search giant. PageRank still does play a great part Google’s search results but this is where the great misunderstanding occurs. The way the PageRank value is being worked out internally...
In an industry where your content is king, bloggers need to make the most of every opportunity to promote there articles and valuable contributions. Link building is the process of acquiring inbound hyperlinks to a website or webpage in this case your blog or blog content. The more links you have coming in to your website the better the results achieved in organic search, this in turn means the more visitors you should receive and...
Because of Google’s habit of changing its algorithm through the years, many webmasters changed their domain name, believing that this will improve their SEO strategies. They did this without realizing that this destroyed the backlinks that affected a large part of the website’s SEO. As a solution, these website owners resort to adding insubstantial links to their site, instead of working on their old links. Reworking old backlinks is better than adding new links, because...
Search engine optimization can be a very tricky thing. Fully automated tools that SEOs use for link building usually can’t execute a link building strategy as good as someone would manually. On the other hand, manual link building can be really time consuming and most of the people just don’t have the time. However, I have high hopes for some tools that I want to see in the near future, that would make link building...
There is often talk of building ‘natural’ links when it comes to link building in search engine optimization. What does it mean to build a natural link profile? While the idea is quite simple, there is significant debate on the issue’s importance and how much we are able to push the envelope. The general idea of a natural link profile is that the links to your site should appear to have come about without the aid...
Contests held on blogs are sure website traffic providers. If properly executed, these can generate an incredible number of hits, depending on the length of the contest proper and the prizes it offers. Like any other contest, contests on blogs should be well-promoted, too. You don’t just state rules and prizes on a blog post and expect a boost in site traffic overnight. You have to plan and arrange the contest’s mechanics according to your goal...
Being into search engine optimization for over 7 years now, I came to realize that a very important part of that is writing and publishing articles. Everybody loves a helpful and useful article like a how to guide for example. If the articles you write and publish are helpful, then the readers will be pleased and click on your links for additional information. This, however, only works if the articles are well written. Some of the...
Search engine optimization for Google (interesting, but little known fact is that the Danish term is søgemaskineoptimering Google) is a huge part of the fast growing internet world and if you are familiar with it you probably know that links from different websites have different value. Getting a link from a very reluctant website is not always easy and sometime getting that “yes” seems almost impossible. The way to make people link to your should...
When it is all said and done, there is only so much you can do without the help of others. The most successful websites may start with an aggressive initial push to obtain links, but afterwards it is inevitably the case that those sites retain authority because people willingly link to them. The challenge thus becomes to find influencers and readers who are genuinely interested in the information you provide. Link building can be a difficult,...
The key to the success of any blog is blog posts and infographics that will inspire people to share them. Social sharing, such as on Facebook and Twitter, emails and personal blogs, are one of the top ways that news spreads in the blogosphere. If your blog isn't interesting enough that readers are going to recommend it to their friends and colleagues, it isn't going anywhere, period. But how do you...
