‘PageRank’ Category Archive

CSS Content-First Layouts

October 14th, 2008 by Carl | 2 Comments | Filed in Basic SEO, CSS, Google, Linking, PageRank, Usability

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Excerpt: Search engine optimised layouts using CSS can make the content the first thing the search engines see in your source code while presenting more visually appealing content to your visitors. CSS Content-First Layouts In order to create a webpage where the content comes first we need to mark up the areas of the page. We use div tags and the id attribute to define containers. If you wish to define more than one of a particular container then you should use a class. IDs are used only where they appear once in the source code. CSS classes can have multiple instances. It…

Google Toolbar PageRank

October 8th, 2008 by Carl | No Comments | Filed in Basic SEO, PageRank

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Excerpt: One of the things that confuses people when they start SEO is the idea of Google PageRank and Toolbar PageRank. The term PageRank is used interchangeably with Toolbar PageRank but they are slightly different. This short post should clear up any ambiguity. Google PageRank PageRank is the system of determining the quality of individual pages based on the number and quality of pages that are pointing to it. The more incoming links which are of good quality, the higher will be your PageRank. PageRank is used as one of the many factors which determine the position of your site in the Search…

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Calculating PageRank

September 18th, 2008 by Carl | 4 Comments | Filed in PageRank, mathematics

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Excerpt: Introducing PageRank The one thing that made Google the most successful search engine in the world was way in which it chooses the results to show it users. PageRank is the method developed by Larry Page in 1995 and applied to the Google search engine in 1998. The method of sorts results depending on an algorithm with takes into account the number of links pointing toward a particular page. The basic premiss behind it being that a page with a greater number of links from similarly authoritative sites is likely to be a web site which has content related to…

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Redirecting Websites

September 17th, 2008 by Carl | 2 Comments | Filed in Basic SEO, PageRank, SEO tips, URLs

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Excerpt: Suppose that you already own a website that has been running for years and now you are looking to move up the rankings by designing a new search-engine-friendly web site. Or maybe you update several websites that have exactly the same content. Redirecting the web site can improve your ranking and save yourself time and money. In the last post we talk about domains and we mentioned that you should buy variations in the domain such the .co.uk the .com, .net, etc. in order to protect your company name. What are you going to do with all these domains? Some people…

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