One way Google determine’s a web page’s ranking is by it’s PageRank, a number between 0 to 10 based on how many websites are linking to you (and how important they are). You can find out your webpage’s PageRank at googleranker.com or my preferred method -installing the Google toolbar in your browser. As well as [...]

Spam your pages with keywords
When it comes to search engine ranking, ’spamming’ is trying to fool the search engine into ranking your site higher. Key words are crucial to your search engine rankings but it’s equally crucial that you don’t go overboard with your keywords or you risk being penalised. Your keywords should relate directly [...]

A Google Groups thread has a detailed discussion around the topic of Google spider, GoogleBot, crawling too much. Sometimes servers can be overwhelmed by all the traffic it gets and automated crawlers, such as GoogleBot, can add a tremendous amount of stress to a server that is already stressing. Most webmasters are not in the [...]

It has been widely discussed if additional criteria beyond the link structure of the web have been implemented in the PageRank algorithm since the scientific work on PageRank has been published by Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin. Lawrence Page himself outlines the following potential influencing factors in his patent specifications for PageRank:

Visibility of a link

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More and more each day you probably see Google’s custom search engine functionality appear on site’s across the Internet. In fact, I have implemented the Google custom search engine on two of my own sites. If you are looking for a simple way to enhance your users’ engagement level on your site then I recommend [...]