As usual Vic has taken a confusing topic and detailed the basic differences between what pagerank signifies and why this doesn't necessarily convert to more traffic.

Pagerank is based entirely on links and what anchor text those links contain. You can have a PR7 blog and not draw a single visitor from the search engines. Why? If all of m

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The Google algorithm determines which web pages get displayed in the search engine results page. Guess what it changes on average, twice a day. How the heck can we as internet marketers target such a quickly moving target?
Not only that, but, google has no way of going into their ranking system and making adjustments to any on

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Have you ever thought about the future of blogging? What will blogging be like a year from now? As serious bloggers become more experienced, they create and manage more and more blogs. What will those blogs be like?

What Do You See?

What do you think the future of blogging is? Does Google and Blogger go after Wordpress, buy them for mil

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There are some strange things happening on the PR front again and it appears that Google hasn't finished it's pagerank update. All the main data centers are down at the moment and people are reporting a new round of PR downgrades. You might want t

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I wanted to expand upon a comment I left on Court's blog on this topic to further explain some of my observations about the algorithms behind the infamous Google sandbox. I primarily look into the four major factors I've noted in what puts a site in the sandbox and what seems to make its stay a short one as well as what can g

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Your homepage isn't the only spot where you get PageRank from Google. Every page on your site gets ranked and this tool will show what every single page received. You can also sort the results to show just how many PR6s that you have on your site.

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Does Google own you like a pimp owns a prostitute?rnHave we been sold into the slavery of a whore without realizing it? One of the reasons I wanted to make money online was the freedom to do what I enjoyed and make money. Is that freedom in danger

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Everyone tends to stress how Google Pagerank is so important, but in reality, it has really fallen off.  A lot of people don't take it as serious as they once did.  Now people think if they do NOT have a pagerank then they simply cannot make money online.  Well, that's NOT true!  Whether you're a

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Every blogger has old blog posts (articles) that didn't receive the attention they deserved. You may not care about it, but you should. The older a post gets, the less likely it's going to be seen by anyone or anything besides search engines. Why not revive those old posts by turning them into new posts?

The Idea

While I was examining

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A lot of debate is going round regarding Google's tough action on paid links and many have been penalized. Google introduced the nofollow attribute to weed out all paid links. There are some good and bad points regarding nofollow attribute. Google claims that it will improve the quality of their search results. It seems that they need webmas

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Google's at it again! Watch in real time as bloggers who dared make money from something not AdSense are feeling yet another sting from Google's heavy hand. Seems the ones feeling the worst of the beating are regular Janes and Joes who are trying to make some supplemental income through blogging- and now their PageRank, which determines wha

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If you feel inclined to join some bloggers who have decided to boycott Google, don’t do it just because it’s the right thing to do from a moralistic standpoint. A-list bloggers like John Chow are sticking it to Google because they can AFFORD to. They already have a strong reader base and don’t rely on Google for traffic nor does a lower PageR

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Courtney Tuttle explains that he suffered a huge blow when Google did the Big Slapdown of '07. His PR went down to a 2 then bounced around for a while before settling in a 3. Here he explains how he got up to a 4 and why he's conforming to Google

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There’s been a lot of hubbub on the intarwebs lately about the latest round of Google Spanking going on over blogs doing paid links and paid reviews. While I happen to disagree with Google on their deranking of almost every blog involved in paid posting or paid links, its their system and they can do how they see fit. The one thing I’ve decid

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Many bloggers, myself included, have a love-hate relationship with Google PageRank. As much as some bloggers told us to forget about PageRank, or that PageRank no longer matters, the fact is that it still does. The long awaited PageRank update final

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With this blog suddenly starting to be read by more and more people, I wanted to kind of start tracking how it’s doing overall, what’s working and how the growth has been. And also report back to you.

Why?

I haven’t done this before, mostly because I really didn’t set out with a big plans other than to learn how to run a blog and make i

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Those of you who watch your pagerank may want to go check the pagerank of your domains. It seems Google has been doing another pagerank update. In a number of cases I was pleasantly surprised to see my page rank go up. In some cases my pagerank went down due to my own stupidity. And in one case I was bitten by Murphy's Law on a domain I purc

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If you are a blogger and probably even if you aren't you have heard the recent clamour about Google Pagerank. Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim covered several sites that had reductions in pagerank:

Here are just a few sites affected:

* Engadget (from 7 to 5)
* AutoBlog (from 6 to 4)
* Problogger (from 6 to 4

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