Blogging gone Crazy

So the site has a page rank of seven or higher does it mean it is an authoritative site? Most webmasters will say "yes" but google has admitted that their PageRank system still has ways that it can be manipulated to give high page ranks.

If a page has high page rank, the best way to rank it is to do a little research on the website. The biggest most important factor is how old is the site. You can check on the age of a site by simply going to a whois site such as networksolutions. If a site is a page rank seven and was created three months earlier screams PR Manipulation. Another factor is using other metrics such as alexa, compete, quantcast, and technorati to name a few.

Don't always rely on the google tool bar. Google has said that it is simply for entertainment purposes.

Hopefully this gives some insight on how to spot good sites for link building or tweaking your site to become an Authority in your niche.

Well you have a website and wondering what to do now to get traffic. One of the hardest things to do when launching a website is getting traffic to it. Hopefully, some of the strategies talked about here will help.

One of the most important things, and I know everyone has read this before, is to have good content on your site. If the site has nothing to offer then nobody will come back to your site. Having readers come back to your site is a good way to build traffic. If they come back, there's a good chance that they will tell other people.

After making good content, the site needs incoming links. Incoming links is important because it is considered a vote for your site in the eyes of search engines. Having more links gives you higher search results for your site. For example if you have a website about kittens and type kittens in a search engine. The site will have better placement in the Search Engine Result Page(SERP). A good way to find sites that are similar to yours is as easy a just going to your search engine of choice and typing in say kittens from the previous example. You could go down the list and email the site to ask them to add your site to theirs. A lot of the times most webmasters are sick of getting these emails because they are at the top of the SERP. What I personally use is quotes after the primary keyword like: kittens "add your url". This makes the search engine search for websites on kittens and for pages that have add your url in them. This is a very powerful and handy technique.

Another way of generating traffic to the site is joining social networks and directories. Joining a social network such as forums or sites like myspace will help boost traffic. On the downside of this is that you have to be very active in the network. Most of the social networks are free to join which is great. Joining a social directory such as the blogflux directory can boost traffic also. The down side of directories is that some of them you have to pay to be listed.

Lastly is a costly one, using paid advertising like google ads. Using this technique will boost your site overnight. It's pretty simple the more you pay the more the potential your traffic.

The key to get top rankings in search engines these days lies in understanding how search engines evaluate your links and links pointing to your site. In the eyes of search engines, the most important measure, is a link that is related to your pages; the link anchor text is related to your site and what the site says about it. The more important the page is, the more value the search engines consider the link from that page. Important pages are either linked to alot of other unimportant pages or linked to several very important pages or both. For example, if you have lots of links pointing to your page your value of your site goes up on search engine results. Keep in mind all links are not equial, links from unimportant pages have less value then links from important pages. It is important also to what the anchor text says when linking to your site. Another example is say, you have a CD site and you use the anchor text "Video games" to link back to your site. The search engine may pentalize you for using the wrong anchor text. Your challenge with links is: collect as many links as you can without tripping any spam filters and penalities that the search engine uses. Link to pages that are only related to your content on your site. Lastly, control the text of the link pointing to your site.