Comments on: PageRank – What It Is and What It Is Not http://www.seopittfall.com/pagerank-what-it-is-and-what-it-is-not tips, tools & techniques to build a better website for visitors and the search engines they use. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:12:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pittfall http://www.seopittfall.com/pagerank-what-it-is-and-what-it-is-not/comment-page-1#comment-8483 pittfall Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:30:54 +0000 http://www.seopittfall.com/?p=34#comment-8483 Thanks for the comment. There really is beauty in the long tail of search, isn't there? Linking should be about providing something worth linking to, however, when it comes to commercial sites, it is much tougher. Not just because valuable websites are potentially competition, but also that when/if you get a link from a related website, it is potentially a negative link (not valuable). My advice, build the quality content for your users and you will show up in SERPs. Thanks for the comment.

There really is beauty in the long tail of search, isn’t there? Linking should be about providing something worth linking to, however, when it comes to commercial sites, it is much tougher. Not just because valuable websites are potentially competition, but also that when/if you get a link from a related website, it is potentially a negative link (not valuable).

My advice, build the quality content for your users and you will show up in SERPs.

]]> By: dcphosting services http://www.seopittfall.com/pagerank-what-it-is-and-what-it-is-not/comment-page-1#comment-8422 dcphosting services Sun, 08 Jul 2007 07:54:28 +0000 http://www.seopittfall.com/?p=34#comment-8422 As a small provider of business web services, our goal is always to bring the intended traffic to our customer's websites. (Doing something to, say, getting a client banned from Google would probabely be a lawsuit against us.) One particular commercial client has a PR2 on their main page and on a tonnage calculator page. The other 700 some pages have PR0. Yet, in searches related to their products/services, they are usually on the first page of the SERP in most search engines . So I too believe that PR has little value (to commercial sites). What I fail to understand is that if in-bound links should be from related subjects/sites, why would a site put up a link to their competition? That is almost as dumb as putting up google ads on an e-commerce site. PR fails to take in consideration that there are commercial and personal websites. I am constantly reading SEO articles and visiting SEO sites to learn what to do and not to do (in my earlier years, some of my SEO “tatics” where more of a black-hat nature through ignorace rather than malice [Listen to that inner voice when it says that this doesn't seem right]). I find that many sites push Page Rank and in-bound Links and they push them hard. Often, I believe, the true reason for their push is that $99.00 linking program or $350.00 SEO program they wish to sell you (I also think that some of these sites are really just a form of multi-level marketing program with their resellers who can recruit their our re-resellers). As a small provider of business web services, our goal is always to bring the intended traffic to our customer’s websites. (Doing something to, say, getting a client banned from Google would probabely be a lawsuit against us.) One particular commercial client has a PR2 on their main page and on a tonnage calculator page. The other 700 some pages have PR0. Yet, in searches related to their products/services, they are usually on the first page of the SERP in most search engines . So I too believe that PR has little value (to commercial sites). What I fail to understand is that if in-bound links should be from related subjects/sites, why would a site put up a link to their competition? That is almost as dumb as putting up google ads on an e-commerce site. PR fails to take in consideration that there are commercial and personal websites.

I am constantly reading SEO articles and visiting SEO sites to learn what to do and not to do (in my earlier years, some of my SEO “tatics” where more of a black-hat nature through ignorace rather than malice [Listen to that inner voice when it says that this doesn't seem right]). I find that many sites push Page Rank and in-bound Links and they push them hard. Often, I believe, the true reason for their push is that $99.00 linking program or $350.00 SEO program they wish to sell you (I also think that some of these sites are really just a form of multi-level marketing program with their resellers who can recruit their our re-resellers).

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