Pagerank optimization
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Hi,
I know that pagerank is not of that much importance but still I got few question regarding pagerank that I wish to be answered by senior seomoz staff!
- I heard that the pagerank is used in determination of original content by different ways i.e higher pagerank site get indexed faster and have low chance of easily penalized
- Higher pagerank website entitles you to get your newly written content indexed/ranked well without any backlinks just based on internal links.
I would like to know in detail about above two statements, and lastly I would appreciate if I can get help regarding dmoz listing or any other listing that worth it in terms of pagerank optimization.
Most high pagerank websites are quite strict in linking to other sites, and those who sells link on the site doesn't seems worthfull!
Detailed insight is appreciated on each and every point.
Thanks in advance
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Hi Salman,
If you haven't already seen it, there is a great Whiteboard Friday video from Rand about Pagerank and what you should and shouldn't use it for. In the video, Rand talks about the things that Ryan mentioned in his answer, the points you asked about and a few other things.
Here is the link: What is Google's Pagerank Good For?
Hope that helps,
Sha
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I believe I mentioned it a month or so ago, but I will make an effort to log the next couple times it happens and pass the information along.
Thx Sha!
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Hi Ryan,
The "lost" post is one of a couple of issues I have been talking to the help team about during the past week. If you haven't already let them know that it happened, might be helpful if you could do that.
Seems there's a little gremlin in there somewhere
Sha
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Hi Salman,
With regard to dmoz, it took me a long time to get my website registered with them. Of course the first step is to go through their registration process. In my case, I waited a few months, and then I registered again. Then after a 3rd try registering, I sent an email to one of the editors that I found online, and I asked her why my sight had not been registered. No response from the email, but a few weeks later, my site was finally registered.
Brian
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Hi Salman,
Welcome to Q&A! You've posted your question in the public Q&A, which is open to all Pro members. You'll get a variety of answers from the Pro community here. If you want your question answered by just SEOmoz staff, you'll want to edit this question and mark it as private and you'll be guaranteed that staff will review and respond (though it might take a few days).
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I wrote a nice detailed reply which was somehow lost so I will summarize simply by saying:
Don't look at PR. Ignore it. If you are examining PR, you are looking at the wrong metric. First, it is one of over 200 factors which contribute to a web page's ranking. Secondly, the true PR which is used by Google is updated daily. The only PR figure which you can access is Toolbar PR which is only updated once every few months.
There is so much generic misunderstandings in your question it is hard to properly reply. For example, PR is applied to web pages, not web sites. If you are asking about PR in such detail, you would probably gain equal value to ensuring your meta keywords tag is properly optimized for your web page. In case you don't get the joke, meta keywords is given zero weight or consideration by Google. Nevertheless, because once-upon-a-time it was a factor, you still see brand new sites being created which use the meta keywords tag.
Best place to start learning about SEO is the SEOmoz beginner's guide to SEO.
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