Posts About ‘Pagerank’

SEO: Back to Basics

So now that we’ve thoroughly established that SEO is not dead and we all still have jobs, livelihoods, and incomes, let’s get back to actually getting some SEO done, shall we?

I caught a tweet last week of a fellow in Northern Ireland who, in all seriousness, described himself as a ‘seasoned SEO guy’. In this tweet he advocated the use of PageRank Sculpting. Naturally I felt inclined to put the matter straight and educate the poor chap on his dependence on outdated info. Unfortunately this is wasn’t the only case of ill-informed SEOs using outdated practices that I’ve come across recently.

So let’s discuss a few contested SEO issues and try to sift through the disinformation to distil some proper best practices. (more…)

Understanding Google Page Rank [infographic]

Infographics, you can’t seem to miss out on them these days, they are everywhere. This one, made by Zippycart, is one we couldn’t let go off on this Sunday afternoon. An infographic all about Pagerank. On how it works, which are the best kind and how trading links is useless. Enjoy! (Click for full size) (more…)

Doesn’t Google know how to rank social media?

Originally posted on Searchcowboys

Pagerank is not dead at all, its alive and kicking and its looking at Twitter. In an interview with Technology Review Googler Amit Singhal tried to explain the way Google looks at how to rank real time search results. The interview showed that Google is still looking at rankings like they did with Pagerank. This is Pagerank all over, only focussed on tweets, not links.

Amit Singhal was one of the lead developers of Googles real time search, so he knows what he is talking about. And without a doubt he is very smart guy, probably a lot smarter in what he does than I am. Still, I expected more from him, and more from Google for that matter. Google failed to come up with a new ranking method and therefore took Pagerank of the shelf. But with that they seem to hint at the fact they have no idea how to rank social media. (more…)