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How to lose visitors and lower your pagerank
Posted by codesucker • 4/10/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: google, pagerank, Ranking, SEO, web development
I finally wrote a post I think is good enough to share with BC publicly.
On these forums we are always talking about ways to optimize your blog, respond better to search engines, tips for not upsetting your visitors - well, this article takes a sarcastic spin on the whole concept by telling you what NOT to do.
You will be pleased to find no 'jargon' on my site, I promise not to overwhelm you with techie talk.
The article can be found here: codesucker.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-lose-visitors-and-lower-your.html
Why should you listen to me? I'm a web developer with 4 years of solid experience building interactive websites. I have a bachelor degree in computer science and a strong understanding of how Google ranks websites.
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Bravo. That has me in stiches. -
Great article codesucker. I laughed at #9 "Have an audio clip play as soon as the page loads. This will also help destroy your load time but best of all it will annoy your visitors and encourage them not to come back". I hate that too. It's even worse when a site has a video but you can't watch it because of the conflicting song in the background. -
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The sad part is that I only understood half of that -
Your writing is truely excellent there. I like the article. -
It seems I'm already following your advice! -
That is why you are a happier person now
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Nice. Weirdly polybore has found that google page rank (in this polybore instance) seems to be inversely proportional to traffic.
Having gone from PR4 to PR1 gradually over a period of months it is somewhat surprising that in that same time traffic has increased 5 fold.-
Hmmm - my page rank has also dropped - to n/a.
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Mine is also N/A. When it was 3, I had little traffic.
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I have more subscribers now than I did before - maybe that's it?
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Maybe that's it. I had 0 subscribers, and now I have one or so
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My subscribers went from zero - to like 200, between various subscription platforms.
Perhaps all of that technology works against page rank or something.
Not that I care, because with all the subscribers, I'm gaining new readers everyday - but still... -
That's why I don't bother with PageRank
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the last pagerank update april 2 I had a 1.. it's been 'flickering between n/a and 0 ever since. I thought I angered the Google Monster but I don't know. Other non-blog related sites of mine have went up.. I dunno Google is being kind of ass these days, about more than just pagerank too
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The algorithm was changed and the last PageRank update reflected that very strongly. Reciprocal linking to non-related blogs is a goner and no matter how many times I post this to this forum some members still don't get it.
Be perverse and link to unrelated blogs if that's your thing but don't expect any mileage from it. Google is staying true to the original intent. Reciprocal links carry very little in terms of relevance or PR and there is a good reason for this. Google wants natural links pointing to your pages, reciprocal links are artificial and therefore Google does not want to give any weight to them.
Ensure as many links as possible are anchored with your targeted keywords, however, make sure your anchor text relates to your page and that they are as varied as possible (long tail). If your anchor text does not relate to your page Google will see it as anchor manipulation and ultimately spam, this will have a damaging effect on your site. -
No matter what anyone says about it, I still think the PageRank number for a website is randomly voted on by inhabitants from the faraway land of Narnia
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@Friday I think thats true in a way.
@timethief - I thought recip links to non-related sites were always a bad idea. It looks like they are getting even stricter
this is very good advice 'Ensure as many links as possible are anchored with your targeted keywords, however there is one word of warning here, make sure your anchor text relates to your page' -
Indeed they have always sucked bigtime but some bloggers are hooked into the unrelated reciprocal link exchange mindset and they won't give it up. Then they whine about their PageRank.
Look how many times we see lame threads posted to this forum looking for blogs on _______ (fill in the blank ) instead of using the search utilities and making sensible targeted selections of related blogs, visiting, commenting and forming relationships that could result in a mutual advantage arrangement such as periodic backlinking to related articles what do we see? We see members riding these lame show me your (art, photography, whatever) blog threads up and down the board for days on end and then we see other members come along and resurrect the same threads again ... DUH!
So have you ever taken the time to trace what happens when members do connect in these threads? I have. They do either an unrelated or a related reciprocal link exchange and that's it. They don't know how to follow through. Hello! Links are an indication of actual relationships. That's what the search spiders are looking for real, natural and actual relationships.
Gob! this is turning into a rant -- sorry.
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I left you a comment. Your post is like the ones I wrote on the same subject some time ago now.
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