SEO enhanced

I agree there are far more important things to be focusing on, but if i could share my main pages page rank with all my other pages then i would consider that a very important factor.

Page rank 1 year ago was considered one of the most important factors for ranking, now it is dying out a bit, but expert believe it still makes up approx 15% of your google ranking, which aint bad.

I produce excellent daily content so i am fortunate in that respect, my domain name has none of my keywords in it, but i like the name and will have to live with that, the only way i can get my keywords in my url is via the custom plugin, which if you are correct i DONT want to be using.

Do you use any of the messenger servies Tom?, I would love to discuss this further.

Many thanks.

Sure. I’m on Yahoo occasionally: tomhanna1970 If I’m not on, send me a message and let me know when you’ll be on.

The reason custom permalinks may be useful is that google ranks whether the keywords are in the actual URI.

Also, it’s just silly for a plugin to not work with pretty permalinks.

It’s just silly for plugins not to play well with lots of features including other plugins. But it happens.

Could you argue that having permalinks – which makes it easier to understand the content of the link – is the price to pay for a lower search ranking (assuming this is correct).

Could you argue that having permalinks – which makes it easier to understand the content of the link – is the price to pay for a lower search ranking (assuming this is correct).

Certainly not! ^_^ Permalinks can actually improve your search ranking. See: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_Wordpress#Permalinks

Hi,
You will have to excuse me but I am new to the pc.
I have an e-book selling websites www. ebooks4u .tv
I have had the site for about 2 month before I noticed a google page rank of 1.
I have since got a few hundred inbound links to my site and about 25 out bound links, 1 or 2 links are pr5 sites.
Ok now for my questions how often does google update page rank?
I have been advised to join a traffic rotator website to get more visits to my site, will this help with my page rank or is it just a waste of time?
Thanks in advance.
Regards Brian

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From what I have seen, newer posts will have a pr of 0 for a while.. maybe the sandbox type feature or until google updates pr again.

Also, my main site might be a 5 on girlgeekette.net but many of the internal pages have pr’s of anywhere from 0-5 with many in between 0 and 5.. the ones that have one being 3 4 and 5… so I am not sure that the inside ones get the same rank as the main one.

I don’t really know how, but when I started the site, about 3 weeks later it had a pr of 5 whereas the sister site it came from (Which had previously had a pr of 4 when I used PHPNuke) kept its pr of 4 after having ben up for 5 years. They both use the same SEO and theme.. so I am not sure why one came new with a PR of 5..

The other thing I have had to keep in mind is PR is fine for google.. but from what my stats using awstats say (with about 2000-3000 uniquie ip address a month) it shows that Google is only about 1/3 of the search engine querys… meaing 2/3 came from other search engines.

So.. PR is fine for gogle, but for me, ti was only a 1/3 of the search engine traffic.. so time spent preparing SEO for ALL search engines is more important than just PR for google.

And, the biggest 2 SEO things I have seen take precedent are 1) CONTENT first and formost and 2) Page title seems to be right up there. Since you can put keywords in your title that you will be using in your article, the relevence factor is there..

I did not use permalinks on the old sister site – aleeya.net but i am using them now.. but the PR has not changed from a 4 from the main one.. and I started out using perma links on the new girlgeekeette.net one but I cannot say the perma links made the only difference for me

just my 2 cents..

Does anyone know how often google page rank is updated?
Does using a site/traffic rotator help?
Can SEO help my site?
I would appreciate any ideas.

IIRC about every 4-5 weeks
site/traffic rotator? probabally not.. google doesnt look at traffic, it looks at clean html to help get it indexing correct and incoming links and even intra linking.
SEO can probally help everyones .. most of all though… content is the #1 thing. Without the fresh, good content.. theres no point of even bothering with SEO

word of advice: dont contrencrate on Google and PR.. do it for overall, all search engines in general. PR is a nice factor and helps you measuring with Googles search Engnine, but its nto the main focus point.

forget PR and Google, and concentrate on overall search engines, content and valid presentation.

Thanks for your reply.
I think that maybe the problem is my site doesna€?t change that much as ita€?s a selling site.
I was interested in the fact that google does not look at the number of traffic to the site.
Is it possible to find out which sites link to mine?

in the google search box type
link:yoursitesurl.com and hit search

that is for google.. for other search engines you need to read about them and see what they want for syntax.. some could be linkto: etc..

I see, which is very rare for this forum, a lot of misinformation in this thread. Here’s what I know or believe to be true:

1. PageRank is only one of many factors in Google’s selection algorithms. SEO experts widely agree that it has diminished greatly in importance over time; some even think it has been utterly eliminated, although they are in the minority.

2. Most SEO experts believe that Title and Description are important factors to Google, or at least factors that are taken into account. Most believe that the Keywords metatag, however, is NOT of any importance (or else that its importance is trivial), especially to Google.

3. Google takes some months before assigning PageRank at all to new pages (there may be a few exceptions). For my blogs the lag seems to be a4-5 months. Right now I have PR for what I posted in August and September, but not for what I posted from October onward.

4. Of course you can pass PageRank from page to page in your website, and a blog is no exception. As of this writing the pages on my blog https://www.dbms2.com that have any PageRank at all generally have the same PR as the home page, namely PR=6, and many of those have no backlinks whatsoever except from other pages of the blog.

In response to another question, I find that Google’s listing of backlinks is very incomplete. The same is true of other search engines.

For example, every page of any of my blogs has links to all of https://www.dbms2.com, https://www.monashreport.com, https://www.softwarememories.com, and https://www.texttechnologies.com There are by now a lot of pages. But very few show up in the links search. And it’s not just a matter of slow re-indexing, either, nor of forgetting to ask the search engine to really show all the search results.