Search Engine Optimization

Nice Google Page Rank Checker tool to Display Live Google Page Rank on your Web Pages.

http://www.pagerankbar.com

Place the FREE code on your web pages to display the actual pagerank of a Web Page.

For those of you who use some of the advanced query syntax in MSN search engine such as link:, linkdomain: and inurl:,

You may have noticed that this functionality has been recently turned off. MSN have been seeing broad use of these features by legitimate users but unfortunately also what appears to be mass automated usage for data mining. So for now, MSN have made the tough call to block all queries with these operators.

MSN Team are doing their best to get this back online as soon as possible in a manner that allows folks that use this functionality for real queries. 

Hope to get lost features back soon

Today Google updated its PageRank database. Many websites gain Page Rank while many dropped their pagerank. Check your page rank and see how it affects your site.

Most awaited Backlink Update is finalized and Google finally shows up the backlinks.

Google Backlink Update Date : 25-Apr-2007

Google Web Accelerator is an application that uses the power of Google’s global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before.

Download : Google Web Accelerator 0.2.70.88

Google Bombs are Internet pranks. Google heavily relies on the number and the type of links that point to a web site. If many web sites link with a special search term to a web site then the linked web site will get a top ranking on Google for that search term. Some webmasters abused this behavior of Google’s ranking algorithm to get web sites to the top of the search results that normally shouldn’t be there. Now, recent google ranking update on 25 Jan Reduces Googlebomb Impact.

Google, the Search Engine King, gave more emphasis to keep their search results as clean as possible.

Google search engine ranking algorithm has a variety of spam filters in their ranking algorithm that try to remove low quality web sites.

If your web site gets caught by one of these filters, it will be very difficult to get high Google Rankings.

Google Spam Filters are :

1. Google’s Sandbox Filter
2. Google’s Trust Rank Filter
3. Google’s Domain Age Filter

All the three Google filters take into account the age of a web site. Google Sandbox Filter, implemented by google is a filter that prevents New Web sites from getting high rankings for competitive search terms. This filter is called Google’s Sandbox.

Google’s TrustRank filter is an important filter. Web sites with a high TrustRank get high rankings on Google. The TrustRank of a web site is determined by the age of a web site, the quality of inbound links and the contents of a web site.

The Domain Age filter is another filter that considers the age of your web site. Web sites with old domain names are more likely to get high rankings for competitive keywords on Google.

Recent Google PageRank update is finalized on 21-Jan-2007.

Though update is not propagated to all google datacenters but it will be propaged to all datacenters in few days.

This update was initiated on 10-Jan-2007, but google has not updated the pagerank of  all the pages of the site. Now the update seems to be finalized.

Use Google Suggest tool to know about top search keywords for certain search term.

Visit Google Suggest at http://labs.google.com/suggest/

What are backlinks? Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. Backlinks enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page. In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node (Björneborn and Ingwersen, 2004). Backlinks are also called incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.

Increasing backlinks to your site is very easy, but something that typically is totally overlooked. So many bloggers worry about why their posts/articles don’t receive any comments… where in reality you should be only worried about commenting on other blog sites. Commenting is the key to increasing backlinks. For every comment you leave on another blog site, eventually this will count as a backlink. It does take time for Google to account for the link and attribute the backlink back to your site. It seems like once every four months is when Google updates their PageRank. But again, its just a matter of time before Google does find the pages you comment on.

Additionally, as these pages that you comment on increase in their own PageRank, so will your page that links from these pages. Commenting on other sites is very important towards increasing backlinks to your site. Also it is important that you do not spam people on other sites. If you comment on another site, make sure the content reflects that high quality and unique content already found on your site. Google bots as well as people are less interested in comments that say, “Hey, nice site… I liked your article”. It is better to add your opinion, view, or suggestion in comments.

The more content you add, the more keyword groups Google will eventually tag up with your content.