Oct
28
Uncoverthenet Directory Has PR 0
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After the last Google PR Update, Uncoverthenet.com home page has PR 0 . They have been experiencing a penalty. Their directory homepage has PR 5, and sub pages still have PR.
After the PR penalty to some large directories, many thought Google hated directories, and all directories would be history. But last month site-sift.com ’s penalty was lifted, and site-sift has moved back to PR 8 from PR 0.
Here’s an interesting reading from Uncoverthenet blog.
I have a few sites listed by Uncoverthenet, and I really like the site. I know Shawn and the team have spent some serious time creating and maintaining Uncoverthenet, and I wish them good luck with getting back the PR they deserve.
Discussion about the topic at DP Forum.
Oct
19
Google PR Update October 19
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Google Toolbar PR is being updated today. I was reading Digital Point Forums and found out about this update at this thread.
Daily SEO has moved from PR 5 to PR 4 due to the summer vacation I have taken, and not working on the site.
I have new projects for our site, and it will be updated more often.
Even though toolbar PR’s value is open to discussion, I hope your sites have gained the PR you have well deserved.
Oct
10
SE Ranking Factors Survey & Analysis
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SEO Consultant Rand Fishkin has conducted a survey type research and analysis about search engines ranking factors at Seomoz Blog. 13 SEO professionals have participated to this survey including Rand Fishkin, and Rand has created nice reports from the survey results.
Rand has grouped the factors which affect search engine rankings as:
* Introduction to Ranking Factors
1. In-Document Factors Affecting Ranking (26)
2. Site Factors Affecting the Value of Hosted Documents (21)
3. Factors Affecting the Value of a Link (25)
4. URL, Technical, Hosting & Server Side Factors (11)
5. Detrimental Ranking Factors (10)
Rand has reported the top 10 ranked factors across the 5 categories as:
Title Tag - 4.57
Anchor Text of Links - 4.46
Keyword Use in Document Text - 4.38
Accessibility of Document - 4.3
Links to Document from Site-Internal Pages - 4.15
Primary Subject Matter of Site - 4.00
External Links to Linking Pages - 3.92
Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community - 3.77
Global Link Popularity of Site - 3.69
Keyword Spamming - 3.69
Even though this is basically a survey, and results show the participants’ views, this is a great resource to go through before starting to optimize your sites.
Here’s the full reports, and results of the “Search Engine Factors” survey.
Oct
8
SEO Study, SEO Articles Resources
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SEO Study is a resource for search engine optimization articles. Even though it’s a pretty new site, it has some valuable SEO articles already.
SEO Study is our first link partner, and I’d like to wish success to SEO Study, and hope to see more valuable SEO articles on the site in the future.