Whats your page rank?
April 3rd, 2008 Posted in InternetI get asked by people all the time “why does my website come up on page 5 when i do a Google search”. The answer is a simple one, you don’t have the right stuff. But what is the right stuff? Google uses several factors to determine your “page rank”, which basically is how important they think your page is.
The Google Bot focuses on:
- Inbound links - Sites that link to your site, this can hurt you if they are a link farm so be careful
- Keywords - But not meta keywords they don’t do anything for Google
- Page title - The line in the upper left corner of your browser
- Image tags - When you hold your mouse over an image it should read something relevant
As there are probably a few other secrets on how Google determines their page rank we can take a step in improving placement with the above items. Another key is to change your content frequently! Anyway you look at it most end users don’t have the skills to get this done but hopefully their webmaster does.
-mike
2 Responses to “Whats your page rank?”
By Tom on Apr 4, 2008
Your knowledge of Google is as good as your NTN game for a change. Here is an example of your wisdom.
Type the word “Clintons” into Google.
We are in the middle of the greatest political primary season since 1968. You would expect Hillary Clinton to occupy the first 100 places in Google and, meanwhile, the greatest band to ever play in Montana is number 5.
Now type “The Clintons”
Nope, not Bill and Hillary! It’s John, Josh, Levi and A. J. occupying the top spot. That is the power of a website updated daily.
Or simply click here for a taste of the rockies…
http://www.clintonsband.com/
By mike on Apr 5, 2008
Even google is against Hillary! The truth is “The Clintons” band site has the right stuff, keywords, changes and links.
For kicks throw “sniper fire” into a search and see who comes up..
-mike