links and pagerank. how much do links effect rank?
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Links and PageRank
How much do links effect rank?
Sidenote: Domain Age
3 types of links by importance
Inbound links: links from others
Internal links: links within your site.
Outbound links: links to others
Internal Links
Use every reasonable opportunity to linkTo other pages in your site.
-helps spiders-helps audience-increases keyword effectiveness
Internal Links
Make important (or landing) pages on your site only 2 clicks maximum from the homepage.
You can help this with a Sitemap.
Outbound Links
Tells Google what your site is about.
Don’t do it too much… Don’t link to a bad neighborhood or Too many Unrelated pages.
Check your outbound links in google:linkfromdomain: yourdomain.com
Relevant, Quality, Inbound Links
This is a mantra in the SEO community
Only links to your site that are similar in content will help your rank
Links from sites that are more reputable, have a higher pagerank or have lots of link juice will raise rank.
Spam Link
Unreliable links from link farms etc. do not harm your rankOnly if you link to them…
Comments
Besides asking for a link, you can get inbound links by postingOn comments in a site.
Page Rank
Is a measurement of Google’s creation.
It refers to the “importance” a page has on the web.
Numbers go from 1-10. But the highest Ive seen is a six.
The Whitehouse homepage has a Rank of 5
My site’s homepage has a rank of 2
Inbound Links and PageRank
Google uses PageRank to decide how important a link is to you.
The goal is to maximize the number of Inbound links from pages with high PageRanks.
How is PageRank Calculated
Passable Pagerank
Links to many sites, divides the impact of Pagerank
Page Rank Loop
Internal Links Pass on PageRank
Make sure links are relevant
Check your Page Rank
www..prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php