Posts tagged: Ranking factors

What is Technorati Rank and How to Improve It?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If you are running Ads, Writing Paid Reviews or Selling Links from your blog -  it’s important to maximise your Technorati rank.
This article explains what is Technorati rank and how to improve it.

What is Technorati and its rank?
Technorati is one [...]

Is SEO dying as Business?

Days of SEO as a way to manipulate site rankings are counted. SEO is dying as business
I’ll start with that bold statement for those of you who do not like long “foreplay”, and for those who want to know why? - read on.
Why do I think so?
Well, mostly because  search engines get smarter and [...]

Do Links from Sites in a Different Language Help Rankings?

Sometimes you can get free or cheap links from site in foreign languages. The question is - do they help your site to rank better in your own language?
The answer seems not obvious and there are various gossips going around,  as if websites that have backlinks from sites in other languages are sort of [...]

What I would do if I worked for Google?

If I worked for Google, refining their search algorithms to give the Internet users highly relevant content , these are the things that I would do:
Natural occurrence of backlinks
I would thoroughly revisited the link popularity concept by putting much more more emphasis on determining the nature of backlinks (whether they are natural or paid/arranged ones).
Reduce [...]

On Correlation between SEO metrics and Ranking

Brief Review
A recent article by Rand Fishkin Lessons Learned Building an Index of the WWW presents an illuminating summary of the seomoz findings with regard to what SEO metrics have a tangible correlation with search engine rankings.
Basically, the major conclusions are summarised by two graphs. The first one

Shows the correlation of various SEO metrics (on [...]

Evolution of Ranking Factors - Shift Towards Trust and Authority

Over the last several years there has been a significant shift in factors determining site rankings in Google.  While the value of Page rank and on-page SEO have started to diminish, the anchor-text links  and especially domain Trust and Authority have gained much more significance.
A simple graph illustrating the time trend of the above factors [...]