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Google Page Rank Update – One Win, No Losses

Posted August 3, 2008

Welcome back!

It looks as if the latest page rank update is complete. Despite Matt Cutts’ recent declaration that some earlier penalties will be revoked, several of my websites are still languishing at Page Rank 0 due to their previous association with the infamous PayPer Ppost embedded code. All links with that company were severed over six months ago but these quality blogs have still not recovered.
I have another domain that gets the highest traffic counts of all my sites and that has Page Rank 1, but that has stayed the same in the latest page rank review. I was disappointed because I post quality articles on that blog at least three times a week and I have worked hard on optimizing it. Maybe nex time …. The good news for me was that a new travel blog that I launched on 13 June has achieved Page Rank 1, not bad for a site that is only six weeks old. I got this site indexed by Google in four days and I have posted detailed posts at the rate of more than two per week ever since.
Why do I care so much about Page Rank? Because I believe that higher ranked sites will always do better in organic search results. Higher PR = higher SERPS ranking.

Tags: Google Indexing, Page Rank, SERPS

Filed under: Page Rank, search engines

Plugin Makes Your Blog SEO friendly

Posted March 16, 2008

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Wordpress is such a user friendly blogging tool and some great plugins have been developed to make it even better. The All in One SEO Pack Plugin for Wordpress is one of my favourites, because it does all the search engine optimization (SEO) work for your blog in a couple of simple steps, and will help you make more money blogging. If you do not know much about SEO, no need to worry: the plugin asks you a few simple questions and you include your information in boxes on the ‘options’ page once the plugin is installed. If you are a complete newbie to SEO then you can download this excellent free ebook, SEO Made Easy, that will give you a good understanding of search engine optimization. Maybe you think that organic SEO sounds a bit geeky? Is it boring to talk about your SERPs position? Well there is nothing geeky in getting lots of free traffic from the search engines and Making Money From Your Blog!

The All in One SEO Pack plugin sets up all the key on-page ranking factors. For me the cleverest part is the way it deals with titles. The SEO plugin for Wordpress changes all page or post titles from the Wordpress default style, which is not search engine friendly as it starts with the main blog title. So every page has the same initial title. The plugin puts your post or page title first when seen through a browser bar. This is a handy tool – I spent ages changing the Wordpress code manually to do this, and now I find it is available in a simple plugin. Remember, when you download this plugin: it can seriously improve the money you make by boosting your search engine rankings.

Tags: Keywords, Make Money Blogging, Plugins, SERPS

Filed under: plugins, search engines, wordpress