‘PageRank’ Category Archive

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Excerpt: Following on from the revelations that nofollow will  no longer work for sculpting PageRank, there is a post on Matt Cutts’ blog explaining the issue. It is not the information that it will no longer work that is surprising, more the revelation that it has been this way for more than a year! ….when you have a page with “ten PageRank points” and ten outgoing links, and five of those links are nofollowed? Let’s leave aside the decay factor to focus on the core part of the question. Originally, the five links without nofollow would have flowed two points of PageRank…

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Excerpt: Important news from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of Web Spam, who said at a question and answer session at SMX Advanced conference yesterday that PageRank sculpting was no longer an effective technique. For those that are unfamiliar with the term, PageRank sculpting is the process of using the rel=”nofollow” attribute on your least important page links, such as the terms and conditions, privacy policy and registration pages. These pages have a purpose when the visitor is at the site but they unlikely to be the reason a visitor come to the site. Using the nofollow attribute on the links to these…

Just a quick note to say that there seems to have been a toolbar PageRank update. The last update occurred on the 1st April and they usually occur once every three months, so this update is unexpected. Usual caveats apply, it doesn’t mean anything it is just a bit of fun.

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Excerpt: Twitter is becoming an increasingly popular social media tool. An interesting post on Science for SEO to do with Twitter. Wouldn’t it be great to find out who was an influential member of the Twitter community? Google has an effective algorithm developed by its founders Larry Page and Sergie Brin, known as PageRank. A similar algorithm has been created for the Twitter network, by Daniel Tunkelang called, you guessed it, TunkRank. TunkRank measures your influence in the Twitter world. For those that are familiar with PageRank it uses a similar concept of traversing the directed graph the graph of  follower and…

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Excerpt: Google have shown that they don’t hate SEO and are giving beginners advice on how to optimise their sites with the release of  a  Search Engine Optimisation Starter Guide document. Any information that comes from Google on search is extremely valuable as they are an authoritative source and this document confirms most of what we believe to be good practice in on-page SEO. It is pretty basic stuff for the seasoned SEO but valuable information for the beginner as even these basic tips can have the most dramatic results on a poor website. The document gives  good overview on how to…