PageRank Toolbar Update is near

PR update is going on and can be visible in next few days.

This is what the Google guy, Matt Cutts stated in his blog on 24th July, 2008 -
“Hey folks, I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days. I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites.“

So, be ready to check your new updated PageRank for your websites / blogs and web directories.

My best wishes to all.
Cheers!

Directories Submission Points

Hi friends,

Submission in web directories is an old and still a good way to build link popularity and search engine rankings. You can also see this recommendation in Google’s Link Schemes.

There are thousand of free and paid web directories found on internet. Also, with most of are a dead source now (not getting the submissions), sometimes it is just a waste of time to make submissions in that dead sources. I only suggest or prefer having submission in a worthful web directory which can give some relevant traffic and a stable link for the website. I always suggest – Do it manually, don’t go for any software or AUTO Submissions. I know this will take time, but this is only the right way to do submissions in a web directory.

What we need to check while web directory submission? Check these general points before doing submissions -

• Web directory shouldn’t be a dead source, first of all.
• It should be in Search engines indexing. You can check it by [index:] and [info:] commands in Google. Also check it by Yahoo! Site Explorer. It shouldn’t be a Banned Web Directory by Search engines.
• Should be relevant to your business, or should have a category for your business. Submission in a irrelevant category / directory will just worthless.
• That will be great if web directory having high PageRank.
• Make sure that the directory shouldn’t have any rel=nofollow on the links.

Go for Quality, not for Quantity.

And some more useful points -
Your site should be complete in every aspects i.e. Content and Designing before doing submissions in web directories as most of directories are not accepting incomplete websites. And, always try to use various Title and relevant Description for submissions to get more search engine rankings with more keywords. There are also directories allow you to submit deep links, so good to submit in them also.

Cheers!

Technologies behind Google ranking

Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow in-charge of Google ranking team have made a new post now in Official Google blog about the technologies behind Google rankings. This is addition to the previous post which was the Introduction to Google rankings. There, he shared the philosophies behind Google ranking in the brief:

1) Best locally relevant results served globally. – they often this the “no query left behind” principle.
2) Keep it simple – this simple understandable system has allowed them innovate quickly, and it shows.
3) No manual intervention – answer to “Does Google manually edit its results?”.

Well, the above points are the philosophies of Google rankings. But now, it’s all about the technologies behind the rankings for any website in Google results. Basically, the technologies for understanding the three components (of the search process) including the pages, the queries, and the Google users. He has explained these three components with some good examples.

URL to read about behind Google rankings – http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/technologies-behind-google-ranking.html

Cheers!

SEO Tips for Beginners

Search engine optimization is a process to make a website in a way to get high rankings in major search engines like Google, Yahoo!, Ask and MSN Live on the desire keywords and key phrases relevant to the business.

Everybody wants to get good business and business inquiries through their online profile, product website or business blog and SEO can help you here. Now, if you are just new with SEO (Search engine optimisation), then just try these simple techniques for your site / blog :-

• Choose your Keywords – Think what can a user should search to find your website and try to use it in your website and web pages. You can go with Google External Keyword Tool.
• Title - this is very important thing after keyword selection, always use Title tag for your web pages. Make a title which can present your web page clearly to your visitors and Search engines. Try to use your targeted keywords according to the web pages in Title Tag.
• META Description tag – This can also be a great help if you use META description tag in your web pages under tag.
• Directories Submission – Submit your website in the free web directories available on net but always in your relevant category.
• Link Popularity – Try to get link from other sites relevant with your business to get more backlinks. You can also exchange links. Social bookmarking, article submissions, press releases and blogs are ways to get more link popularity for your site.
• Links in Email Signature – Try to use your site URLs in your E-mail signatures to get more from email holders too.
• Forums Postings – Forums are also a great source to get easy traffic towards your site / blog. You can ask about reviews and usability of your site making it more attractive and user friendly.
• Blog – Make a blog and post there about your products, services and other things related with your site.

This post is available at my SEO blog.