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Get the Most from SEO for Firefox

Written by mbpage on August 14, 2008

There is always something new to learn.  I’ve had the SEO for Firefox installed in my browser for some time and used it periodically but always felt it was a bit of a pain.  Why because it wasn’t set up correctly.  While going through my RSS feeds today I came across a SEO for Firefox video by none other than Aaron Wall.  Check it out, it helped me a lot.

Page Rank Update - What The ****

Written by mbpage on July 28, 2008

So I’ve just been through my first Google Page Rank Update.  Where is the science related to this?  I have a dozen or so sites that have accquired PR1 & PR2 status out of the 35+ I have developed over the last 4 months.

Why some have been awarded PR and others haven’t is a complete mystery to me.  One site, another blog I have only made 2 posts on in the last 4 months and has no back links and no traffic (now PR1) whilst this site posted to regularly and having a number of back links and good traffic gets no PR at all.

I’m not attached to PR (which is just as well) because it seems completely random.  In fact on of my sites got a PR2 that is only just a month old and hasn’t really been worked at all yet.

What has your experience of PR been - I’d love to hear from you please leave a comment.

The SEO Swindle

Written by mbpage on July 17, 2008

Sometimes you just need to start with a controversial title. So why “The SEO Swindle”? Well what is the purpose of a link building strategy? To improve your rankings in the serps and build page rank right? The higher your PR the easier it is to exchange links and the higher you rank in the serps.

Well I was looking at a friends site today as I’ve been asked to convert it to a blog. I ran it through several tools including SEO Elite and discovered it had only two backlinks. One from the original developer who has a PR5 site and one from a blogger which is a PR0.

The site in question has no SEO and I mean none. Meta title is the company name, no meta keywords, no meta descriptions - zip, nothing zilch. The only positive is the age of the domain which goes back approx 7 years.

So why do I mention this? Will it has a PR3! A PR3 on a site with just 2 links and no traffic. What this says to me is that PR is awarded simply because of the PR5 link of the web developer. The age of the domain may have something to do with it but I can’t back this up with any evidence.

In conclusion if you want to get a PR value for your site simply get a link from a a high PR site with a small number of links that isn’t a directory or article directory. Am I right or am I right wrong?