Ranking Opinion

Posted by admin
June 20, 2009
Jay G. Have written an interesting comment, so I have decided to put it in articles. Jay, you can write articles and submit your questions right here - it is more useful than submitting it in comments, because more people will see it and it is more likely that you will receive answers for your questions. Jay G. Says: I read a lot about how you should link your site with others of similar content. Of course we should all do this, not only because it is good for our site visitor, but it seems like it would make sense to the search engines. I do have one question though…if it’s all about related content…how does DMOZ have such a high pagerank? And Yahoo? They are all

scattered…linking to pages having little to do with one another and vice-versa. I know that shear volume counts, but there are many sites, such as general directories that have very high pagerank. Doesn’t make much sense to me. Here is my theory…forget all about the algorithms for a minute. I think pagerank and good search engine results are achieved simply by how many times the search engine visits your site. Seems simple, but think about it. If you are linked to by many sites with low pagerank, you will be scanned by the search engines. You may not be scanned deeply and you may not be visited often, therefore giving you a low pagerank. If you are linked to by many sites with high pagerank, you will be scanned much more frequently and more deeply, giving you a higher pagerank. So I think the volume of sites that link to you matters as well as the pagerank of the site. Fewer sites with higher pagerank would equal many sites with lower pagerank. Perhaps I am way off, but from my observance over the years, this is the simplest way to figure it out, since none of us really “know.” I do love reading all of the crazy theories though. Last example….I was just analyzing a motorcycle related website with a pagerank of 7. There are tons of links going to it…the majority from real estate websites, cooking websites, etc…what does that say about relevancy? Makes you think…
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Comment by John on June 20, 2009 @ 6:29 am

I can understand what you say. I agree. For the same reason I often tell: if your website has few pages and you need a good position only for two o three keywords, it’s very important to have backlinks in similar websites, but if you have a site with 20.000-50.000 pages, you need backlinks of every kind. Or not?

Comment by Wythel on June 20, 2009 @ 6:30 am

Well, that’s the basic Pagerank algorithm, as it is describred by Google themselves since years…
Any linking page gives the linked page a PR value, depending on its own PR and the number of links on the page.
PR values are added and… Voilà ! You’ve got your PR.

This is just the basic idea, some secret filters are probably applied.

Comment by Daryl Flagg on June 20, 2009 @ 6:32 am

We don’t deal with any of this. If you have a good product or service, it will sell, as long as you do some type of marketing. You can’t keep your product or service in a black box and expect someone to find it. But, spending soooo much time, energy, and money on SEO is a waste of time in my opinion. If you would put the same amount of effort into promoting your site through proven and well known ways, you will succeed much more. We don’t even know how these search engines are ranking sites. Most of the SEO guidelines are guesses, not all, but most! Think of it like this….if you developed a good product or service and you did some marketing, people will find you. As your popularity increases, other websites will be willing to post your link or banner on their site, maybe even without permission. The time is spent spreading the word by mouth, emails, pamphlets, and other media. We do have around 100 backlinks but they just increased over time without too much work from us.

Comment by 0 derece on June 20, 2009 @ 6:33 am

Can we understand this “if we have 10.000 daily updating pages the backlinks are not very important for pr ” is it true or I understand something wrong ?

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