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This article will take a little insight in several most popular ranking systems around here and teach you how to get better Google pagerank, get better results on Alexa and Moz ranking systems as well. Many of these tips will seem very basic and easy, but that’s so through – optimization is not hard, bust just requires small but regular time investments. If you can use those tips in daily basis, then you definitely get some great results! For example, check on 1stwebdesigner.com website which is only a little bit more than one year old, but has got really high rankings!
I wrote a post Learn SEO by Improving Important Web Ranks a few months before but now I guess it’s the right time to upgrade and elaborate it because Google and other search engines are changing their policy at high pace. First we need to get head into three of the most important ranks on web:
Nowadays there is a big fuss that Google removing page rank or it’s the end of page rank. Well yes Google have removed page rank from webmaster tools, but still I don’t think it’s an end to page rank because this topic is going on from past 4 years. That is why we will talk about improving page rank as well.
Page rank is one of the most important and commonly talked about ranks on web. its the heart and soul of SEO and getting traffic from search engines. Page Rank is said to be an estimate of your site’s popularity on the web by measuring the number of websites linking to your site, assigned by Google. Page Rank is determined by Google Links not Inbound Links!! This is an important part to understand, Google links and inbound links are not same. Inbound Link means that links pointing to your site from another site, while Google links are an extract of the quality inbound links. In Short Google links are taken from the inbound links, but only quality links.
Improving page rank is a difficult but still not so difficult task to do. You can easily get about PR 3 in first two months. Sounds impossible? Well not actually I can do that with a challenge :), I have done that to plenty of sites. So how to? Some very Simple Techniques!!!
This includes proper page Title, Proper Keywords, Proper Description and most of all Proper Content. Now what do i mean by proper?
By Proper I mean that your title, keywords and description should not consist of extra stuff like numbers, stop words (and, or etc.), same keywords must not repeat more than 3 times in title and description. In Content Optimization Keep your content clean, fewer images, Use your main keyword in H1, also try to use keywords in h2 and h3. (For Details see this post : on page Optimization)
Normal Links: <a href=”http://www.sitename.com”>sitename</a>
Nofollowed Links: <a href=”http://www.sitename.com” rel=”nofollow”>sitename</a> (See This post for more: Nofollow)
In about two months u will achieve Page Rank 1-3. If you want to improve your site’s Rank and push even further please see this post: Link Popularity Building
Moz rank is some what like link juice estimation. Link Juice just like page rank flows from page to page of your site or links to others sites on your pages.
In simple words the more quality inbound links you have the better moz rank you get. Quality links are considered as inbound links on sites whose page rank is higher than your site. For example if my site’s page rank is 2 then putting link on site who’s page rank is higher than 2 or 3 would be considered as quality Inbound link, of course by using proper link posting method.
Proper Link posting is something like this:
Normally if u post a link u do it like this. <a href=”http://www.sitename.com”>Site Name</a>. Well yes u did made a link but not quality link. Here is how u can optimize your link. <a href=”http://www.sitename.com/” title=”your-keyword”>Your Keyword</a>
Now what’s different in it? You are using a title attribute which strengthens your links focus and instead of using link on your site/brand name it’s better to use your keyword in it.
Once you do this and get a grip on SEO Moz tools you will easily control the flow of your link juice in your site and can control your site’s SEO to some extent
Ok, everybody knows what it I won’t get into details is. Just simple to improve alexa rank just install alexa toolbar and browse your site daily. Refresh after a few minutes or so in a week you will improve your rank to about 200000 places. Note also this will work only to really new and fresh sites, for well established websites you still need traffic to get ranked.
When u will go through all these steps just to improve your site’s rankings once, you have learned SEO.
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 16:39
This is a great article and I think it will help the rankings for our website and blog.
Saturday, March 20th, 2010 07:17
I personally don’t pay much attention to Alexa :-) their accuracy is more then just questionable in my experience.
Friday, March 12th, 2010 08:41
I have found that samurai warrior to be the greatest tool for keyword research
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 07:48
Google gives me a lot of luv, MOZ is new to me thanks for telling me about it, but I won’t change me seo because it’s the same as google and alexa gives me no luv.
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 19:36
Very nice.
I like your Perception :)
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 23:09
It is all about backlinks for SEO. Everything else comes secondary.
-Kai
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 21:47
Great Article. Very informative. You could always use one of those free url shotening services you can install on your server, this way you wouldnt lose the back link.
Saturday, November 7th, 2009 19:15
Great post…I’ve also been doing some posts about SEO..such as backlinks. Also offering a free e-book “SEO Made Easy” on my Blog. Stop by and check it out!!
Friday, November 6th, 2009 22:20
just re-did my company website. Your tip will come in real handy as i try to drive traffic to it. Thanks
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 07:56
Nice post. I think I need to bookmark this and review again later . . . lots of stuff here. Also, I heard Alexa ranking (as far as Google is concerned) has been reduced significantly as a criteria. Is this true?
Nice work.
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 17:39
I love it how web designers always talk about SEO like it some dodgy, black market activity and if web designers weren’t so ‘pure’ and ‘legit’ they would be able to master SEO in a day.
Pagerank is no longer considered a good signal for determining the authoritativeness of a website, its only good for obsessive SEO’s and websites that sell links.
Your readers should also understand, having a keyword rich webpage with ‘s etc IS NOT going to do squat for your Pagerank. You can only earn Google pagerank from links from webpages that have a higher pagerank than yours.
An anchor’s title tag is also a non-factor when it comes to the relevancy of a link. It is the actual anchor text itself that passes the link relevancy or increase in SEO effectiveness.
URL shorteners like bit.ly do pass on link effectiveness, because they utilize 301 redirections, most modern search engine spiders recolonize this as a signal to pass on the link juice.
Frankly I’m surprised you didn’t mention the super effectiveness of putting all your keywords in the Meta Keywords. :-)
Anyway nice work on the headline and getting so many retweets, pitty about the content.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 20:03
Thanks very much for the tips. Especially the link quality, I always post a link with the sitename. I didn’t notice that need use keywords and domin sites. Thanks for your excellent posts.
Monday, November 2nd, 2009 09:39
thanks for the tip and your other post are featured here :)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009 00:25
Thanks for this. The last Alexa toolbar tip, to install it on a network is a very clever idea.
Sunday, November 1st, 2009 23:27
If you’re going to write an article in English, at least use correct grammar. I couldn’t even get through the first 2 paragraphs because nothing made sense. Your sentences were missing words and it became annoying. Maybe you’re good at getting high rankings, but you suck at crafting a well written post.
Sunday, November 1st, 2009 21:42
I don’t think the browser you use makes a difference. Google gathers data about which search results you click on regardless. And the sites you visit without searching aren’t going to get bumped up in search results since you’re not searching for them.
Sunday, November 1st, 2009 20:13
not sure about the alexa trick. Whats the point of having you and a bunch of networked pc’s visit your site to push up rankings?
Cant see how that will improve conversions or income (if thats the aim of a site imo)
Sunday, November 1st, 2009 11:45
Google ignores “Keywords” now, just incase YOU didn’t know! ;o)
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 08:48
Thanks for the info. I’ve used other people’s advice on my site, but they never explained why I should do things. This post gives me a few ideas of my own.
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 05:16
Thanks for the tips, I’ll be sure to use them on my site.
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 04:28
Google does not take meta tags into account for PageRank (documented here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html).
Furthermore, placement isn’t solely based on Page Rank, which is but one factor in SERP position for a given search. The other important elements of SERP positioning include the first, say, 25% of the content, the title, and the URL.
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ranna azam
Friday, December 9th, 2011 15:03
all the above mentioned tips are the most important ones in improving the rank of website.. mentioning all f these in the same tutorial is the greatest thing you have done.
Ankit kaul
Saturday, October 8th, 2011 21:19
I just had a question in mind that does Google takes Moz Rank into consideration in SERPS??
Or its some invaluable parameter like complete rank.
Simon Halliday
Saturday, July 16th, 2011 12:12
Very helpful tips. Sometimes you just need to be reminded of the basics.
Ben
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 20:54
To get better page rang on google I would recommend to bookmark the website with as many as possible social network sites such as delicous or digg each day. After a 2-3 months the PR should go up.
Rejseside
Monday, January 2nd, 2012 17:17
Great article. I will try the last tip – installing the Alexa toolbar – and browse my own website. Thanks again.
Fred
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 10:50
nice article bro, i check my alexa rankings regularly but it always shows wrong count of my backlinks :(
Sam
Monday, April 16th, 2012 04:02
Anytime you can forget usefull things, and you can remember by reading and learning from others. Thank you.
Seo
Friday, April 6th, 2012 07:43
Most of these I know and use, but I realized a few essential issues. The title=”your-keyword” was some thing I didn’t realize was measured. I’ll need to focus on that much more. If only most of individuals toolbars ended up available for chrome, I’ll ought to go check out from equivalent chrome extensions…Thanks for the info.
Ivan
Sunday, April 1st, 2012 11:47
Thanks for sharing..lots of good info..great read
Unopi
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 16:40
This is highly informatics, crisp and clear. I think that everything has been described in systematic manner so that reader could get maximum information and learn many things. This is one of the best blogs I have read.
Norman
Saturday, March 10th, 2012 18:13
The best article I have read so far about the difference between these 3, and the first one that really explained it :)
John Kanef
Thursday, June 16th, 2011 06:22
Most of these I know and use, but I learned a couple of key things. The title=”your-keyword” was something I didn’t realize was measured. I’ll have to focus on that more. If only most of those toolbars were available for chrome, I’ll have to go check from equivalent chrome extensions…Thanks for the info.
Jay Karsandas
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 00:25
Ive just started using SEO Moz tools. The Site Explorer is fantastic if you get to grips with it you can do some great analysis of what improvements you can make.
Good info thanks for sharing.
Thesikkone
Thursday, November 11th, 2010 20:36
Backlinks are important…but a lot of low-quality links can hurt your site more than it helps. Shoot for links on high PR sites for the best results.
Daniel
Friday, October 22nd, 2010 17:50
Truly helpful post, especially for a newbie like me. I was NOT much aware of MozRank, thanks for your explanation.
Paul
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 15:08
Very interesting read, i have been seeing my Alexa rank drop slightly, i did not realise that you can influence this parameter by clicking through your own website, and i suppose it really defeats the purpose as you want better rankings for the right reason
Thanks for the Post
Arwans
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 06:52
i’ve already familiar with google and alexa, but moz, it’s a new for me, never use it as a parameter…btw thanks for telling me this moz…
incomen
Sunday, August 1st, 2010 12:50
The most important is to have backlinks and fresh content… The rest comes second…
Jurissam
Sunday, November 28th, 2010 01:45
Nice Post, thanks for sharing.
pal bha
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 13:31
Nice Tips for SEO, great article,
Thanks
Sandie
Saturday, May 21st, 2011 09:47
Hey, very informative and interesting.
Looks like you put a lot of effort and research into it.
Keep up the good work!!
Alex
Friday, May 6th, 2011 20:04
Great article, useful information. Thanks for sharing!
Jennifer
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 18:53
I am new to all of this and really enjoyed the information that you provided. My website is only 6 weeks old, and I have been driving myself crazy trying to get my PR up. I will still continue to do that, but I will be adding MozRank to my list as well. Thank you for taking the time to share this great info.
TruXter
Friday, March 11th, 2011 23:19
Looks like LinkzDirect is no longer active.
But yes I ahve always known that Google Follows Alexa
Myra
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 22:50
This is a very sloppily written article. It’s a shame because there is some useful information here. Other than grammatical & punctuation errors, my biggest piece of advice is to not assume that “everyone knows what it is” and give more details. Also, proofreading & asking for a second & even third opinion could not hurt.