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It’s long been speculated by webmasters and SEO’s that when you redirect a 301 page, the page rank which was passed to the ending page was diluted.
However, Google’s Matt Cutts has come out to set the record straight – its nothing but a myth!
In a recent Google Webmaster Help video, Matt answered the question: “What percentage of PageRank is lost through a …
These days its not too often that we hear news of Google PageRank, but when the search giant announces an update to the PageRank toolbar it certainly gets the attention of SEO’s and webmasters. Have we got your attention yet?
It would seem that Google has update the PageRank toolbar sometime around 7th February, with many webmasters noticing that Google pushed out new PageRank values …
If you have been wondering whether it is worth it to sell links in order to make some extra cash, you should listen up. Google’s Matt Cutts recently released a blog post that makes it pretty clear that it is not a good idea to sell links unless you want to end up with some pretty serious penalties as a result.
While in the past …
Google has been on the war path of late handing out the dreaded unnatural link warnings to webmasters left, right and center.
So how can you be one step ahead of Google and ensure your website isnt targeted. A recent article from SEOGadget suggests that unnatural link warnings are most likely caught by computers and algorithms. And what do computers and algorithms look for? Patterns …
If you’ve recently seen your toolbar PageRank disappear, you are not alone. SEO forums have been buzzing this week with speculation that Google finally disabled their Toolbar PageRank scores from working.
The good news is that PageRank is still alive in the Toolbar, however Google have changed the lookup URL.
The change means that third party PageRank tools (including my favourites) have been …
A Google user recently asked our favorite Google employee, Matt Cutts some tough questions about the Google PageRank toolbar which I though might interest all you lovers of the PageRank metric.
The question that was asked was: “I use the Google Toolbar to monitor PageRank. I read on the Internet that it gives old and quite unreliable data. Can I have reliable realtime PageRank information …
Every business owner wants Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) to work for their site. However, the field is constantly changing, and it’s hard to know what advice is still valid.
Every day a new SEO myth is born and unfortunately, not all old SEO myths die off.
To help you avoid some of the more common SEO and marketing pitfalls, here’s my list of the top …
When most of us just started to believe and accept that PageRank is finally dead… guess what, it’s not – in fact it is back with a bang! Google surprised everyone with a sudden and unexpected Page Rank update leaving webmasters with emotions ranging from being excited, to sad to angry, to not affected.
For all those not familiar with PageRank, this is Google’s way …
Some things are just difficult to get over! And Google’s ‘PageRank’ metric or PR is something that webmasters refuse to get over even though the feature was removed from the Google webmasters tool two years ago!
PageRank, in the past, was one of the 200 signals that Google used to crawl, index and rank web pages. Ever since Google removed PageRank from its webmasters toolbar …
URL shortening services like “goo.gl” and “bit.ly.” are marking their prominence in the search world with the uprise of the social web, and most especially on micro-blogging services like Twitter.
In the past, these URL’s have drawn little concern for search engine optimizers, because Twitter and other social pages were almost never included in the SERP’s. However, times have changed and Google now indexes these …