One site was worked on is a very high PageRank site (PR8 home page), implying (though not proving) that it was seen as a fairly authoritative site. While Google has now rolled the Panda algorithm into the main algorithm, many publishers have never...
These may be the result of buying links that pass PageRank or participating in link schemes. This may be the result of selling links that pass PageRank or participating in link schemes. Have you ever received a Google Webmaster email stating that...
Beckman went on to say, just as Google has PageRank, which is based off of about 200 different ranking factors, Facebook has EdgeRank, which is an algorithm used by Facebook to determine what is displayed in a user's News Feed based on three main...
PageRank sculpting. Every major Google algorithm update is followed by weeks and weeks of posts addressing the specifics of the particular change. It just took that long for the message to sink in and Google to take a real swing at penalizing these...
It's similar to PageRank in the amount of misconceptions that are beginning to swirl around the buzzword. How would Google get this needed digital signature? To add to the hype, people are completely misunderstanding all of the signals Google is...
The big thing Google wants webmasters to do is to ensure that if those advertorials are paid for, that you use a rel="no follow" so that those links don't pass PageRank, just as you would for any paid links on your site.
In addition, proper pagination is a scalable way to flow more (or a larger percentage) of PageRank to your archived content. Not only does this elicit more page views with readers, but this practice also helps flow link equity to deeper content and...
Link farms and spam blogs aren't going to help you, regardless of their PageRank or domain authority. Use Google to find target sites. There's a lot of panic and turmoil right now in the world of link building, but there doesn't have to be – you...
Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts reports that they have taken action today against several thousand link sellers that were passing PageRank. If you have bought so-called “clean” links that pass PageRank, you might want to take a closer...
More importantly, they should not flow PageRank. Cutts did clarify there is nothing wrong with advertorials, simply that they don't want them to be abused for PageRank and linking reasons. The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished...
If you are locked into the world of PageRank and rich anchor text, chances are that you would view publishing multiple articles with the same site as a waste of time. Classical PageRank thinking would lead one to believe that repeat posts at the...
If your penalty is in regards to an on-site issue, such as selling links that pass PageRank, then you need to remove or nofollow those links. If your website has received a manual penalty notice from Google, then your first step is to repair the...
Most sites have no Toolbar PageRank, are not indexed in Google and if they are, they don't rank for the brand/URL or any snippets from the homepage. Same Google Analytics number or Google AdSense number used.
Google assigns weight or authority to links using its own PageRank currency, but like any currency it is limited and that means that we all have to work hard to earn it from sites that have, over time, built up enough to go around.
This notion is at the very core of the original PageRank thesis. First and foremost, I don't work for Google. This article represents my opinions, but my company has worked on helping large numbers of sites get Google penalties removed.
Press websites refuse to link out, even to accredited sources and webmasters nofollow links in case they "leak PageRank" or link to a "bad neighborhood". Google has done well at scaring webmasters to linking out fairly to other websites.
Ever since Google introduced PageRank in 1998, we've all been taught to look at link metrics, whether it's PageRank itself, SEOmoz's Domain Authority, Majestic's CitationFlow, etc. Page metrics are hugely important, especially when you consider...
In addition, you don’t want to inhibit the flow of PageRank through your site. Let’s face it, either you can tell them about it, or Google can at some point. I use my programming skills on a regular basis in SEO, and especially when performing SEO...
Author Rank is more variable than PageRank when it comes to recognizing topic diversification. After all, unlike PageRank, it's difficult to increase Author Rank, but extremely easy to decrease it. Know how to properly format each post as Google...
I'm happy to see him ask that we not use Toolbar PageRank as a reliable metric, only as a potential indicator of quality that needs to be examined in conjunction with other metrics. Actually there's a lot of information here about PageRank, which...
