Google PR Update 27 September 2008

Seems like Google Updated the page rank on 27th Sept 2008 again. This time the update came in earlier than expected in only two months from last PR update happening on 25th July 2008 only

Some of my sites that gained PR
http://homejobsblog.blogspot.com/
http://myfirstwebhome.blogspot.com/
http://indywheels.blogspot.com/
http://mysitereview.blogspot.com/

The gain in PR and back links shall be reflecting in a day or two for others too.
Check out your sites, For some it might decrease as well.

Another blog for which I was expecting a PR Free HD Trailers didn't started yet in Sept 2008 PR update, I hope it does get a PR in next update.

In general Google has been generous in PR this time as i didn't notice any loss in PR on any of my blogs.

Kudos Google... and Thanks for the updates.. :)

Google launches internet browser Chrome

Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.
The browser is designed to be lightweight and fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia.
Called Chrome, it will launch as a beta for Windows machines in 100 countries, with Mac and Linux versions to come.
"We realised... we needed to completely rethink the browser," said Google's Sundar Pichai in a blog post.
The new browser will help Google take advantage of developments it is pushing online in rich web applications that are challenging traditional desktop programs.

Google has a suite of web apps, such as Documents, Picasa and Maps which offer functionality that is beginning to replace offline software.
"What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build," Mr Pichai, VP Product Management, wrote.
The launch of a beta version of Chrome on Tuesday will be Google's latest assault on Microsoft's dominance of the PC business. The firm's Internet Explorer program dominates the browser landscape, with 80% of the market.

How to submit your link to Search Engine

Submit your urls to different search engines using add url links provided by them.

http://www.google.com/addurl/
http://www.dmoz.org/add.html
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html
http://www.whatuseek.com/addurl.shtml
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
http://www.alltheweb.com/help/webmaster/submit_site
http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx

These are some good submission sites. There can be few more but I feel they are sufficient to start with.

Link Building Strategy

Out of all link building strategy, Link Exchange is the most common. This essntially consists of exchanging links with similar sites/blogs. Mostly these types of links are displayed in the form of blogrolls. This type of link building strategy is also known as two-way links or reciprocal links, since both the sites link each other.

Some easy ways to get two-way links:

1. If you have mutiple sites or blogs, make a blogroll of your own. Its a good way of building two-way links initially with in your own sites.

2. Link directories are another good way of two-way reciprocal links. You can post your link on a link directory and you will need to post its badge on your site in return.

3. You can post an index of your pages or blog contents on the mage page template somewhere. So its displayed with every page.

General points to be noted while exchanging two-way links:

1. Make sure where will your links be displayed. Blogrolls on the main page template are the best but hard to get.

2. Check the PR of that page where your links are to be displayed. People generally asks for links for their main site or main page (which might have a good PR) and return with a link from an interior page of their site which hardly has any traffic or PR.

3. Don't always go by PR, some sites are bound to succeed in long run. Try building links with sites that might succeed later, even if they have a low PR at the moment.

This is a good strategy for starting up link building campaign, but this alone is not sufficient.
Maximum benefit is derived from one-way links. Oneway links are links pointing to your site or blog and your blog not pointing to the same page or site in return.

Some easy ways to get one-way links:

1. Blog and site comments. You don't need to spam comments section with your url for this. Instead use name and url section to post genuine quality comments.

2. Forums. Forums can be a good source of one-way links in two ways. One by having a link to your site on your profile page. Also by including your site and blog links in your signature. So every reply you post on any thread in a forum earns you a one-way link to your site.


Third kind of link building is probably the most useful. Its the three-way link building.
In three way link building strategy you get a link from someone's site and post the link for some other site of the same person in return. Which inturn might be linking to his original site.

Let say You have sites A and Your friend has site B and C, Now you get link from site B and you give link to site C. B -> A -> C
And he in turn links his site C to B C-> B.

Well I can't explain it simpler.

All about links

Links are very important for a sites PR and reputation. Here I would be explaining all I know about links. Anybody can correct me or add anything that I might have missed in comments.

There are two types of links for a site/blog:

1. Inbound: links that point to your site or blog.
2. Outbound: links that point to other sites from your site/blog.

No doubts that inbound links are most important for your sites Ranking but importance of quality outbound links cannot be ignored at the same time.

If your blog or site is relatively new, you should start with good outbound links in relevant sections of your site. I have seen an increase in my sites listing with good outbound links, on some of my blogs initially.

To build initial inbound links, comments and forums are a good starting point.
One such forum where you can start with link building is Digital Point Forum

Also blog catalogs and link directories are a good starting point.

If you are building links to your blogs then you can also consider Technorati and Digg to register and network with people.

Do Follow Blogging

What is Do Follow?

Do Follow is an action or a step a blogger initiates to remove the attribute rel=”nofollow” in its blog codes or HTML template either manually or if using Wordpress, via a plugin.

Blogs that have the ‘no follow’ link disabled/removed from the comments, means that if you comment on these sites, you will get an actual link which will help your popularity and importance in searches and may eventually increase your page rank.

In simpler terms, it means that you care for your readers. You're rewarding them with a link back to your site every time they visit and comment on your blog. It is helping each other build a sense of community within bloggers.

This group is open to all blog catalog bloggers who took a stand to remove the rel=no follow tag created by Google (and followed by other search engines).

If you don't remove the rel=no follow tag on your blog code, it means that every time someone leaves a comment on your site, the link stays there. It will not be crawled by Google or any other search engines. It will be ignored by them hence will not help in ranking the importance of that page. If you wrote a very helpful article and you got traffic and people commented on it yet you did not remove the rel=no follow, Google will simply ignore those comments which could have helped increased the ranking of that particular page.

Top PR 10 sites after July 2008 Page Rank updates

Here are top PR 10 sites after July 2008 updates on 25th july.

For those who don't know what a PR is: Its "Page Rank" which in an integer value between 0-10. This value indicates the popularity and importance of a page or site for google. So higher the Page Rank, Higher the Popularity and you listing in the search results on search engines.

Title	PR	GBLs	YBLs	URL
Adobe	10	31,200	3,161,946	http://www.adobe.com/
World Wide Web Consortium	10	16,200	1,818,990	http://www.w3.org/
Google Search	10	324,000	310,453,338	http://www.google.com
National Science Foundation	10	9,970	847,553	http://www.nsf.gov
The White House	10	10,700	1,374,863	http://www.whitehouse.gov
US Goverment website	10	10,100	3,439,135	http://www.usa.gov/

Important PageRank ( PR ) 10 sites and internal pages

W3.org Page Rank ( PR ) 10 sites:

Title	PR	GBLs	YBLs	URL
World Wide Web Consortium	10	16,200	1,818,990	http://www.w3.org/
W3C CSS Validation Service	10	225,000	26,294,588	http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Adobe PageRank 10 sites list:

Title	PR	GBLs	YBLs	URL
Adobe	10	31,200	3,161,946	http://www.adobe.com/
Adobe Support	10	1,500	6,279	http://www.adobe.com/support/index.html
Adobe Company	10	720	327	http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/index.html
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3	10	15,800	33,807	http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/
Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro	10	639	3,012	http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnectpro/
Adobe Downloads	10	3,940	94,289	http://www.adobe.com/downloads/