Reading Time: < 1 minRand over at SEOmoz has done a nice little “whiteboard Friday” video about Google PageRank and what it’s really about. He covers four areas where increased PageRank can benefit a site: crawling, inclusion, freshness and ranking. It’s a fairly short video (8 mins) and it’s well worth your time. Do you agree with Rand’s conclusions? […]
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Don’t let your web design firm trash your Google rankings
Reading Time: 3 minMany of you are getting ripped off by your web design (or hosting) companies, and you don’t even know it. A while back on my SEO blog I talked about the benefits of doing some minor PageRank sculpting to your site. Another simple piece you could add to that is the tiny bit of text […]
Don’t believe the hype — PageRank isn’t completely worthless
Reading Time: 2 minThe hot thing for the last year or so is to proclaim “PageRank is useless! Ignore it!“. Some of the dumbest things I hear are statements like “A PR2 site can outrank a PR7 site, therefore PageRank is meaningless.” Duh! If a higher PR site always ranked better, then Google.com (PR10) would rank first for […]