Tag Archives: page rank

Are you suffering from Google Fear?

By Dave | Published: May 28, 2009
Def: “A crippling fear of updating your website home page for fear of adversely affecting your Google search ranking & traffic”. You built your website a couple of years back, you’ve spent time (possibly money) getting your Seach Engine Optimisation right, and you’re proud of your Google traffic and page rank. You know that the [...]
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Conserve page rank juice. Plug your blogroll!

By Dave | Published: February 1, 2009
Thanks to Thomas from Luxury Normandy Gite for the idea for this post.  Once you understand that Google pagerank flows DOWN links, you begin to re-evaluate the links that you have on your website or blog. For example, if a vacation rentals directory insists on a reciprocal link, are you going to give them a [...]
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DMOZ editors for hire?

By Dave | Published: January 30, 2009
Shock!! horror!! Is nothing in this world sacred any more?  After a week of discussions in forums and on blogs about the value of a DMOZ listing for your website’s Page Rank, I’d kind of given up on getting Gite Guru listed in this mystical directory.  For those of you in the dark about DMOZ, [...]
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Reciprocal Linking and the nofollow trick

By Dave | Published: December 30, 2008
I read an interesting discussion on the Lay My Hat forum about the pros and cons of reciprocal linking today, and thought it might be useful to share some thoughts on the matter here. There are two reasons why directories want you to link back to them.
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