Friday, August 21, 2009

Will I gain Page Rank if I write one post a week?

Ok I know I just wrote an article to slat Google pr however I am interested to see if I can get a Google pr on this blog so I am going to write at least one article a week to see if I can. As of today this blog is an n/a pr, so lets see what happens, I will not bother to promote the site via an links or marketing I shall just add content on a weekly basis.
Just as a side note I have a blog smartstart-toys.blogspot.com which I have written an article once a week for 5 months and it just went from a pr n/a to a pr2 however I have promoted this blog via blog directories and twitter (note too that smartstart-toys.blogspot.com only ranks on Google for the first post I made, so even with a pr 2 it does not rank as well as my brand new blogs with pr 0) so this is why I want to try this blog with no promotion. Stay tuned to find out what happens.

Friday, August 7, 2009

Google Page Rank, What is it good for, does it help your serp’s?

Well I have been working with a number of different clients who have Google page ranks from n/a to 5 and it seems to me that their page rank has nothing to do with their serps (search engine ranking positions), so what it is good for.
Here’s an example for you to see:
Type ‘classy basin taps’ into Google.co.uk or click here and you will see http://bathroomflooringideas.co.uk/basin-tap is number 1 or 2 position.
Now this is a post I made on one of my blogs less than 2 weeks ago and yet it is ranking in position 1-2 for the key term ‘classy basin taps’. This blog has no links pointing to it so how is it ranking so high, so quickly? Also note that the page pr (page rank) of the page is only a pr 0 and yet its position is higher than pr 2s and pr 3s.
Many webmasters believe that the higher a pr is the better a link will be from that page. So if you have a website that only has pr 0 links this will not rank as well for its serps as a website that has pr1’s and above links. Well I have just developed 10 websites this month and 7 are pr 0s and 3 are pr n/as. I have used these websites as a resource to put links to other sites to improve their serp’s and the result was that they ranked higher than those websites with back links of pr 1s and above. So just because a website is new does not mean that links from that website are no good, they may well be better links than from a pr 3 website. The only thing I think Google pr is good for is if you are selling links, as it seem webmasters will pay more cash for higher pr links I was in fact quoted 12 x the pr per year for a link, so if the pr was 4 they wanted $48 a year for a link! Wow, good money if you can get people to go along with you.
If you listen to some so called SEO experts they will tell you that title tags and meta info is not important to Google anymore, well that’s all this page has SEO wise with the key term ‘classy basin taps’ so it must be these factors that are making it rank, remember there are no links pointing to the website. In the actual post I have not mentioned ‘classy basin taps’ just ‘basin taps’, so it cannot be the content.
Also this website was only created 3 weeks ago and it already ranks on page 1 for its major key term ‘bathroom flooring ideas’ and only has a home page rank of 0. If you listen to the same SEO experts that told you don’t worry about title tags and meta info, they will also tell you don’t worry about URL as this doesn’t matter anymore! Well hey guys just take a look at this. I get a URL named www.bathroomflooringideas and 1 week after it going live its page 1 on Google. With no links!! Now hold on, I here you cry, that’s just one URL and the key term is not that difficult well here’s another homeandgardenideas again page 1 for ‘home and garden ideas’. My point is this, some of the basics that SEO experts will tell you are not important anymore are important.
It is important to find a URL that will work well for your important key terms as this will mean less SEO work is required to get it ranking on page 1.
If you are looking to start a website selling preschool toys then choose a URL with preschool toys in it whether it is greatpreschooltoys or preschooltoys4sale this URL is going to rank quicker for ‘preschool toys’ than clarestoys. Also, make sure you do your title tags and meta info as this will all help to get your website better serp’s, let’s put it this way it won’t hurt will it.