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« Reply #25 on: 01/13/10 at 10:02 AM »
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^ Tips to be sharing? Buckteeth

My blog is a three but I don't try to do anything for it so... Tongue

http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet
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« Reply #26 on: 01/13/10 at 10:15 AM »
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« Reply #27 on: 01/13/10 at 10:16 AM »
Quote from: Cupcakes on 01/13/10 at 10:02 AM
Quote from: Vasili on 01/12/10 at 10:52 PM
^ Tips to be sharing? Buckteeth

My blog is a three but I don't try to do anything for it so... Tongue

http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet

Thanks Jordan - will take a closer read when I have time. Smiley
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« Reply #28 on: 01/13/10 at 10:25 AM »
Lianko's a 2... used to be 3, but since I barely have any will to update after getting home.
I did plan on organizing things better and using more effective keywords... alas...
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« Reply #29 on: 01/13/10 at 10:10 AM »
Quote from: Ben on 01/13/10 at 10:16 AM
Quote from: Cupcakes on 01/13/10 at 10:02 AM
Quote from: Vasili on 01/12/10 at 10:52 PM
^ Tips to be sharing? Buckteeth

My blog is a three but I don't try to do anything for it so... Tongue

http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet

Thanks Jordan - will take a closer read when I have time. Smiley

SEOmoz is ace, great tools and resources.

I also like the 'SEO for Dummies' book - taught me so much. 
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« Reply #30 on: 01/13/10 at 10:30 AM »
I hadn't checked mine in ages until jem mentioned this thread on twitter.

Eruanna.net = 0!!

It used to be 4? wtf happened!
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« Reply #31 on: 01/13/10 at 10:47 AM »
The latest thinking is that pagerank is based more on current links rather than past links. So if I get a link from the BBC 3 days ago, it's worth more than 3 years ago.

If your website is still live & not gaining links, it's believed to be less relevant. Of course, the age of your site does make you more authoritative, so even if you have a pagerank of 0, you can still have decent search engine rankings if your site is older.

All very confusing, I know!
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« Reply #32 on: 01/13/10 at 10:51 AM »
^ That's something I wasn't aware of. I thought older == more authoritative.
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« Reply #33 on: 01/13/10 at 10:17 AM »
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^ That's something I wasn't aware of. I thought older == more authoritative.

That's why I don't like using pagerank!

Domains as they get older get more authoritative. xhan has an oldish blog, so she'd probably rank quite easily with certain keywords pretty quickly. However, as she hasn't been getting links as much as normal, her pagerank has dropped.

I believe it was done so that pages on the internet that were ages old but had few links coming from it wouldn't be targetted by pagerank spammers for links. Of course, everythng is just heresay, nobody outside of Google knows for sure!
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« Reply #34 on: 01/13/10 at 10:22 AM »
I know about age of domain - it's the only reason I rank at all Tongue
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« Reply #35 on: 01/13/10 at 10:25 AM »
I wonder why I even have pagerank (3)...
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« Reply #36 on: 01/14/10 at 10:29 AM »
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The latest thinking is that pagerank is based more on current links rather than past links. So if I get a link from the BBC 3 days ago, it's worth more than 3 years ago.

If your website is still live & not gaining links, it's believed to be less relevant. Of course, the age of your site does make you more authoritative, so even if you have a pagerank of 0, you can still have decent search engine rankings if your site is older.

All very confusing, I know!

This seems to be very true for my sites.

On Twisted-Barfly I used to get hundreds of links for my free brushes.  Nobody uses PSP8 now so I get zero.  PR dropped with this update to a 3 from a 4.

On our work site, we were a PR6 last year about 3 months after a couple of BBC news stories.  They've run none since and we're a 4 now. 

I will go with that theory.
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« Reply #37 on: 01/14/10 at 10:00 AM »
You're not supposed to tell him he's right Tongue
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« Reply #38 on: 01/14/10 at 10:03 AM »
Why? Only because I am! Tongue
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« Reply #39 on: 01/14/10 at 10:04 AM »
There's a first for everything Tongue
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« Reply #40 on: 01/14/10 at 10:15 AM »
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There's a first for everything Tongue

Hahahaha, I don't get chance to do it very often....
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« Reply #41 on: 01/14/10 at 10:20 AM »
Indefinite.me has a PR of 4
^ Thanks to Jem linking me, hah!  :rofl:
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« Reply #42 on: 01/14/10 at 10:21 AM »
I've got to be good for something. Wink
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« Reply #43 on: 01/14/10 at 10:28 AM »
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Hahahaha, I don't get chance to do it very often....

What? Spell coherent sentences?

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« Reply #44 on: 01/14/10 at 10:30 AM »
Now now children Wink
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« Reply #45 on: 01/14/10 at 10:35 AM »
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« Reply #46 on: 01/14/10 at 10:10 PM »
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Nobody uses PSP8 now so I get zero. 

My sister and I still use it. My still uses brushes for it too! (I just use it to resize pictures. The only reason I use this and not photoshop or something is because I've known it for a LONG time, and can do it in five seconds.)
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« Reply #47 on: 01/14/10 at 10:30 PM »
Quote from: rhyswynne on 01/13/10 at 10:17 AM
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^ That's something I wasn't aware of. I thought older == more authoritative.

That's why I don't like using pagerank!

Domains as they get older get more authoritative. xhan has an oldish blog, so she'd probably rank quite easily with certain keywords pretty quickly. However, as she hasn't been getting links as much as normal, her pagerank has dropped.

I believe it was done so that pages on the internet that were ages old but had few links coming from it wouldn't be targetted by pagerank spammers for links. Of course, everythng is just heresay, nobody outside of Google knows for sure!

oldish? hmph. I would say thats true, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=link:http://www.eruanna.net&start=10&sa=N only 40 sites are linking to me apparently...
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« Reply #48 on: 01/14/10 at 10:30 PM »
^ according to that, only one site is linking me and it's a link from 2002.  LOL I still have a PR of 3, though. My domain is almost 9 years old.
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« Reply #49 on: 01/14/10 at 10:33 PM »
my blog is a 3. My alexa ranking is atrocious. I used to have gotten down to around the 100,000 alexa ranking before...and then I kept on "renewing" my blog and essentially destroying it.
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