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Everyone knows that page rank is driven by backlinks…but, are there other factors? Many people have theorized that content matters. The “freshness” of it, the “quality” of it etc. Do they have any impact at all on page rank?
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August 2nd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Thanks a lot Tim & Steve - this is a big study - very hard for the average marketer to do so this is much appreciated.
It is going to be very controversial as it disputes many “accepted truths”. I think the implications are good although I’d love you to blog aboyt what you reckon are the practical implications about this.
In particular what you think the lesson is for bloggers
Thanks for your generosity in giving this away!
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Thanks Alex!
It occurs to me after reading your comment…that I really want to make 1 thing clear. Just because content doesn’t matter for PR…doesn’t mean it’s not important!
Of course…PR alone doesn’t make sales or get traffic etc.
Just an important component to an overall strategy.
I think for Bloggers…the key is…keep writing great content to get new readers and to keep existing ones, BUT…don’t expect your blog to get great PR just because you are writing great stuff. If PR is important (for traffic etc. and using your blog for its link juice), then you’ll need to focus on a backlink building campaign too.
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Great report Steve. I am going to post about this in my blog for fresh content.
Actually I am going to mail this out to my list as well. Everyone should read it.
Very interesting findings relating to Page Rank. I happen to agree that backlinks and quality of links is more important than PR as that is what has gotten me on page one of Google for several thousand keyword phrases now. My site is only a PR4, but I know sites with better page rank get less traffic than me.
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Yeah…I would agree…I think PR of the page helps in the SERPS to a degree…and all other things being equal (which is almost an impossible state!)…a higher PR page will be higher in the SERPS…but, there are SO many variables…many, of course we don’t even know about.
I think the most important thing about PR…is the link juice you can send on to other pages to impact the SERPS. A link from a higher PR site has a HUGE impact on rankings.
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
I always thought fresh quality content mattered when it came to PR. Although you say it doesn’t, having bad content will affect the traffic and possibly anybody wanting to link to your site, which will, I assume will affect your PR in the long run.
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Hi Guys,
This is really interesting. I think a lot of people are still under the illusion that content is still king when it comes to SEO and high rankings.
While I do believe fresh quality content plays a role, quality backlinks are the number one factor in getting a good page rank and climbing the search engines.
Cheers for the report!
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Good stuff. My site is one of those that does not have much updates. What can you update about s static subject like business letters? Business letter Formats will not change much.
The thing about original content, it is important, for many years, I did not do any link building at all. All my links came from people linking to me WITHOUT me asking for it. And at that time, my site was a PR4. purely from natural links. I only started link building this year. In this context, it is important for PR because you WILL get natural links with good original content.
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Wow, amazing study you guys did and I imagine we are preparing to see an “answer” to backlinking? I sense a product in the works or a new launch? Appreciating the reality of what you shared however, I will look forward to more. You have always provided sound solid content and programs. So bring it on guys.
Looking forward to meeting in person soon at one of these functions. Would love to interview you.
Thanks for sharing and always love more knowledge.
Hugs and smiles
http://www.twitter.com/TanyaChadwick
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I agree, Steve. And the reason is very simple as far as my research goes. The “bot” plain and simple only can count words - there is no algorithm that can assess quality of content.
I pushed a site onto # 1 within days by simply feeding the bot the keyword from the ad to the site name to the page names to the headlines to the tags. It probably is an outside example, but this site at that time had not one link.
The content does not matter to much - what seems to matter is the consistency of or to keywords.
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Hi Steve
Many thanks for that report.
It sure was controversial indeed, but you’ve just proved it, so how can anyone argue with that.
It sure was an eye opener.
Just as you say I have had experience in some of my sites with little content and no updates, especially on landing pages and yet although they do have links the PR remained high.
Makes one wonder, I guess it helps the “Gurus” sell more of the hype.
Many thanks for that insight.
Thanks again
Hamant
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Very interesting indeed.
But as others have pointed out, good content, even if it’s on outside sites like ezine articles etc, will be used by others so it will build backlinks - probably like this site will get!
So… only backlinks count, but good content might create backlinks. And more content means you can target (with backlinks) different keywords on different pages of your site.
Do backlinks to a same site help build the rankings and overall page rank of the different pages in synergy? Most probably if you do internal linking within the site. Again, that’s backlinks counting, but you need content to do that.
And last point, Google has lowered the quality score of affiliate and review sites. That only affects PPC at the moment but it’s not a stretch to think they will find a way to apply this to SE results.
Anyhow, interesting tests and thanks for sharing! The thing I take home from that: it’s still a very good idea to send link juices to many of our older, static sites, as well new ones that will be left unchanged in the future.
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Thanks again Steve and Tim!
As a newbie to the affiliate marketing world, I have been working my tail off to create, original, quality content in my blog posts. Although I know that this is still important, this report demonstrates to me that I need to be more laser specific in my focus to acquire back links.
Thanks for this quality report.
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Brendan - Just want to say again…PLENTY of reasons why content is still super important…totally agree. We were just trying to be laser focused on what impacts PR for this study. In the long run…most sites aren’t viable without good content. Having said that…one of the sites we really studied in this “study” is a 100k per year earner (profit) and the content hasn’t changed in almost 3 years! That’s really the site that pushed us into doing this study…as it has a PR5 and it’s only been up and down a bit over the years… PR4-5.
Tanya - No product in the works!…We just REALLY wanted to know where to focus our efforts. It’s important for our SEO work to have high PR domains that we own and take care of for link juice…so we wanted to work efficiently.
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Great study Steve. Thanks for that. This study will save a lot of time I spend everyday updating and adding content to my sites… This is gtreat stuff men… It’s too bad that I wasted so much time dealing with contwent on the past…
Gianny
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:07 pm
This is a great resource and study for page rank. I have to agree with you that the items in your report don’t affect page rank, but i do believe they affect your organic rankings.
Your backlinks are the most important thing to help affect your PR but PR is not the factor the determines your position in google. This is evident by sites with lower PR scores ranking higher than sites with higher PR scores.
You also have to remember that you are doing this for the search engines but you are also doing it for the visitors to your site. The other factors do have an impact on your visitors.
Thanks,
Preston Rahn
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:15 pm
That is just so interesting. I will spend more time studying a great back linking strategy for my blogs.
Hope it works for me!
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Steve,
Great report indeed. But wouldn’t you say that content/fresh content/duplicate content/on-page SEO still matters for ranking high on SERP for one’s keywords?
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Steve,
Interesting insight from your study, and appreciate you sharing your findings and conclusions. And thanks for reminding people not to draw conclusions that “content doesn’t matter”.
In my opinion, a business can benefit by positioning good content for humans as a priority over manipulating search engines.
And to which ever degree Google algorithms favor (or don’t favor) good content, I continue to find that fresh and frequent content keeps the Google spiders visiting more often. Which leads to many more long tail search terms driving traffic (that we don’t necessarily even optimize for).
Thanks for your study and analysis. The more input, the better we can understand how Google functions!
Bob
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Ronny said
“But wouldn’t you say that content/fresh content/duplicate content/on-page SEO still matters for ranking high on SERP for one’s keywords?”
I would say that content and duplicate content matter for sure…but I wouldn’t say “freshness” matters.
Our study showed no correlation with SERP’s and “freshness”…
Once again…I want to say…CONTENT MATTERS for sure….just not for pure PR and the freshness doesn’t seem to matter for PR and SERP’s
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Video marketing said
” PR is not the factor the determines your position in google.”
It is ONE of the factors though…certainly not the only one, and not the most important one…but it DOES have impact.
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Thanks Steve. It’s always good to get fresh perspective on what is and isn’t relevant and any long term study on Google helps in being able to assist our clients in attaining a higher site ranking. I appreciate your diligence in this study and sharing your findings. Thanks again!
Jeff
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Thank you for your report. Keyword driven articles are extremely important for page rank and in particular traffic. The co-relation between having one keyword driven article to say 200 same keyword driven articles is immense. The more same keyword articles the higher the keyword ranking. If not, boy are we working for nothing. But new content and the fact that it is pinged gives you traffic, makes you look popular and that raises your ranking too. Good article as it has stirred people to think about what they are doing and what the content focus should be.
Paul Glover
http://free-ad-submission.com
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Always thought that links were the only thing that really mattered, but it’s really nice to see some actual proof. Some real eye-openers here for the rest of the IM community - wonder how many will really pay attention? Nice one Steve!
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I find this report interesting for several reasons. It does explain something I’ve been frustrated by over the last 18 months with one of my website.
I have one site in a very tight niche that has all unique, high quality content written only for this site. It is extensive and comprehensive. The competitors in the niche have PR5 or PR4 with much lower quality and quantity of content. I’ve been banging my head wondering why I can’t knock them off the front page of Google for our main KW when I know my site is superior in several ways.
Now it makes sense. Their sites are older (6-9 years vs. my 1 1/2 years) which means they have far more back links than I do. Obviously, my efforts need to be focused on links and links only. The content and quality is there - bring on the juice!
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
You really opened up a can of worms with this eye opener!
I think content is KING if its, not necessarily fresh, but original This means you get a favorite link rating if you have relevant backlinks traffic to sustain Google’s advertising revenues.
We should all bear one thing in mind - Google’s main interest is to dis-tribute news worthy or controversial information that lots of people are interested in, hence any page that is indexed by Google can rate high regardless of backlinks or amount of content. But you need fresh visitors (which backlinks provide) or jucy content to maintain google’s interest.
So, the debate continues - but revelant backlincks will always trump everything else. Frankly, we give too much credit to how a webbot thinks!
Thanks for taking the time and resources to test these theories.
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Kalynn…THAT is exactly what I was hoping would be the take away for folks
thanks.
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Wow! Great report. Thanks for spending the time, effort and human resource to derive at this report. Higher page rank is not the result of quality and freshness of content IF you build your links artificially. BUT if you desire more backlinks from other sites naturally, then they become very important. It will be good to work on BOTH, that is, freshness and good quality content to build natural links AND to continue with backlink building campaign. CHEERS!
August 2nd, 2009 at 7:52 pm
I have just finished reading the contents of your report which is very enlightening.The understanding I have from the SEO and backlink gurus would not agree with some of your findings.Since you have taken considerable time and effort to confirm your results I am inclined to give you my vote.
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I have always felt that Quality Lining was the most important part of SEO…although until now all the SEO Gurus said it was content…I use Links Manager on one site for over 5 years and it always has a great PR as opposed to another site without links manager with much better content etc. Here is a link to Links Manager, check it out! http://budurl.com/r9hl
GREAT REPORT!
Larry
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Very interesting read, some of the things mentioned I 100% agree from personal experience, with others I have no opinion either way, but overall, I’m in favor of this report and your findings. Back links are King, sorry content, ha.
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:33 am
Great info. Thanks for your insight–to create the report in the first place, and the patience to spend a year or more creating it.
I’m still such a beginner I have nothing online yet….but, I’ve seen two separate experienced marketers outline the how-to’s on back links, and they fill up a whole page w/ info on how to do them. Video, articles, mini-blogs, the tons of social media sites, etc.
Apparently, to get on the top page of Digg, (for instance), one’s content MUST be new, fresh, possibly controversial, and as NON-IM-esque as possible (one marketer said the Digg people are too “snooty” for “us”.) We are to “just be real” if we’re using Digg & other social media to help us w/ our backlinks. Not that we have to use Digg, but again, it can be an important backlink source, which for the Digg readers & owners, would mean frequent, fresh content.
Once I (EVER?) get started on a presence online, perhaps the enormity of all those articles (et al) to write (and submit) will (might?) seem simple. Thanks to your report, at least IF/WHEN I get online, and write a few articles, then I may not have to update them TOO often, as long as my focus isn’t Digg & the other social media who crave “new-fresh” more than chocolate!
On the same vein, does anyone actually READ those zillions of articles “out there”? Are they JUST for the backlinks & not necessarily the humans?
Your report also parallels the sales pitches I’ve seen from a few marketers who say, “Oh shucks, this lil’ ol’ site? It’s been up there for AGES/YEARS w/ no updates and it STILL brings me $$$$$$ every day/month/year.” Something possibly other than snake oil is driving those sites to still produce, and if their copy is to be believed, they aren’t doing much fine tuning to it.
Sorry to go so long. Anyway, thanks again for your report.
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August 3rd, 2009 at 12:35 am
Google absolutely cares about content. This is why one phrase on a PR ZERO site can outrank the same phrase on a PR 4 site.
Google measures a whole number of criteria. Look at what they give back to you in report form from Google Anayltics. Investigate their use of cookies in displaying Adwords/Adsense on sites based on historical and GEO Data.
I’m not here to kill your joy, but your premise is misguided. What you should be writing about is why PAGERANK has so little real world value.
FRESHNESS: Google absolutely likes to display new FRESH content. But it will also display old static content. I have been examples of both. First I have a site I didn’t tough for 5 years. Still ranking in the top 10 for a competitive niche phrase. I also posted an article and had it ranking in the top 10 within and hour. So Google does care, it’s up to you to figure out how to leverage it.
QUALITY: It may not change your PageRank (Which is practically useless anyways) but it will certainly change traffic to your site. I have a site that has received traffic from more than 4,000 different keyword phrases. It makes a fair amount of money. What is interesting is almost no one enters through the homepage. The page that most noobs try to rank for with their chosen keyword phrase. And yes I’ve seen plenty of poorly constructed pages ranking well for low volume niches. But this isn’t because Google “Doesn’t Care”… it’s because they have other factors that are more important to Google’s Alogrithum pushing the page ahead of the competition.
CONTENTS OF A PAGE: Google doesn’t crawl every site every day. In fact some pages may not be crawled for a week or a month or who knows how long. But PageRank is just that. And Google will absolutely look at the content on a page. The ranking may be influenced by factors that do not merit a change on a small scale.
The point is… again. PageRank is nothing more than an indicator. I know of a site in the Adult World that Google just hates, despises, and refuses to rank. And it pulls millions of unique visitors each month because of direct referral from other sites. So focus on Traffic.
Anyways. Interesting premise. But what you have really brought to light is that people need to stop obsessing over PageRank. It’s a PR Heaven for Google, and poorly understood. Even more poorly understood than people who think they can DOMINATE GOOGLE with backlinks.
Your observations are as valid as mine as this is not scientific but based on our own real world experiences. Well got to get away from this screen. Take Care.
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:04 am
Sigh, I was wondering how long it would be before I got the “content does matter” comment again! I swear I’ve said that it REALLY does matter…just not to Page Rank.
You’re example of freshness really has no bearing…as we’re discussing page rank…I’d also suggest that you don’t draw too many conclusions from a population sample of 2. That’s why we used over 200 domains. In our studies…freshness really had no bearing on anything…page rank or SERPS etc.
Page Rank is VERY important…critically so…why do you suppose it’s the #1 factor that dictates paid link prices?? Why do you think when you buy sites and domains…the higher the PR the higher the cost?? The free market is RARELY wrong.
If you want to rank a site in the SERPS, the single most powerful way to do that is to get “important” sites to link to you … and how is “important” determined….yup…page rank.
So…I really think you’re WAY off base saying that page rank isn’t important.
Finally…you said
“Your observations are as valid as mine as this is not scientific but based on our own real world experiences”
Err…I’d say no…unless you employed three people and used over 200 of your own domains to do a scientific study.
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:07 am
Great read and good comments. I’m interested in learning more about back link building and creating as many quality links as possible. Looks like I’ll need to go back to the training section of Niche and review the back link building suggestions.
Steve, if you have any updates to the link building, I’d be happy to read another report like this around that subject. I’m guessing though that it would have something to do with article marketing?!
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:22 am
According to Google’s Technology Overview, here is what they say about PageRank and Page Content:
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We use more than 200 signals, including our patented PageRank™ algorithm, to examine the entire link structure of the web and determine which pages are most important. We then conduct hypertext-matching analysis to determine which pages are relevant to the specific search being conducted. By combining overall importance and query-specific relevance, we’re able to put the most relevant and reliable results first.
* PageRank Technology: PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.
PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page’s importance.
* Hypertext-Matching Analysis: Our search engine also analyzes page content. However, instead of simply scanning for page-based text (which can be manipulated by site publishers through meta-tags), our technology analyzes the full content of a page and factors in fonts, subdivisions and the precise location of each word. We also analyze the content of neighboring web pages to ensure the results returned are the most relevant to a user’s query.
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And a link to Patent filed by Lawrence “Larry” Page:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,058,628.PN.&OS=PN/7,058,628&RS=PN/7,058,628
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August 3rd, 2009 at 9:44 am
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August 3rd, 2009 at 11:55 am
Hey Tim & Steve,
great little report there. Very good to know that google is just using back links still to affect your PR. For more top tips check out there own niche blueprint course, fantastic stuff :0)
Cheers Guys
GFS
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:56 am
Awesome. Check out there Niche Blueprint Course for some more serious info on back-linking ;0)
Thanks Tim & Steve
August 3rd, 2009 at 11:57 am
Nice work! The study is very intriguing and interesting. It defies a number of strategy and tricks concerning page ranking. It’s been a while since I’ve practiced the value of content and updates with regards to blogging. I guess, even the result of your study would not change that. However, this is really something to be considered. Do you have other studies about internet marketing like this?
Thanks for sharing!
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Thanks for finally revealing this. I’ve looked at page rank on my sites, and it’s always something around three or four. I read that if your page rank is this low, it means that you can always improve. The question was “How?”
I mean, it’s not like Google ever really wants to tell anyone how to really achieve good rankings for your content.
Thanks again for the heads up. Your information will definitely influence my marketing plan now that I know what’s going on.
Sincerely,
Jinger Jarrett
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
PageRank does not make you MONEY. Rankings DO. What you should be studying is how all those factors effect rankings, that would have been a worthwhile case study. The fact that PR is mostly effected by links is nothing groundbreaking to anyone who has experience with SEO.
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Kurt..it just amazes me that people such as yourself actually take the time to write such idiotic comments…
We all know that high PR links GREATLY affect rankings..RIGHT? … so … It stands to reason that it’s helpful to know just exactly how you might get a site to be high PR…or increase its PR…or preserve its PR…SO…that you can use that PR…like capital to spend on the sites that you want to rank !
Sigh…but I’m sure with all your experience you’re making millions online…so, sorry for the interruption.
Man…just makes me not want to share…amazing.
August 3rd, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Thanks for the great info, i’ve noticed a lot of this with my own site as well.
August 4th, 2009 at 1:09 am
I would have to agree with these findings. I know a couple of my competitors that started an ecommerce website on a blog. They write a bunch of keyword stuffed content that many times makes no sense at all, and Google continues to reward them with high Rankings. I would even go so far as to say that a large number of poor quality inbound links that are purchased, rather than earned, can also significantly benefit a website. Quantity might just outrank quality in a number of factors.
August 4th, 2009 at 3:16 am
Idiotic comment? Here is how you get a high PR…you get links from other sites with high PR. Nothing too special there. Not sure why you are freakin out. My point is that it would be much more beneficial to know how unique content, fresh content, quality content and so on effect your rankings. Since your end goal is rankings not PR. Sorry for suggesting that it would be an interesting case study, apparently your blog comments are only for people who agree with you!
August 4th, 2009 at 4:20 am
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Sara
http://smallbusinessgrant.info
August 4th, 2009 at 5:22 am
Pagerank is good and all, but what really matters to marketers is how high does a site rank. So a more interesting measure which you could add to the report is where the site ranked as its content was refreshed, or as more back links are added. Hopefully you have this information?
Thanks for the report.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Thank god this is finally cleared up. I get so sick of people saying that getting high PR backlinks from unrelated niches is a bad thing. I have seen HUGE increases in my rankings when I build solid high PR backlinks on unrelated sites.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Hi Steve / Tim
Thanks, this analysis is extremely useful stuff and something that hangs over a lot of our heads when buildning and maintaining sites.
I would just like to add my experience here by saying that I have an ecommerce store (created via Niche Blueprint incidentally) that ranks number one in Google for a few highly competitive keywords phrases and I have NEVER changed the content for the product descriptions I COPIED from my main competitor since they day I started.
So unique content is not king - I am so glad to hear that as I hate copywriting. Thanks again - Kev
August 5th, 2009 at 2:58 am
Everybody who works with websites should read this report, and if you sit and think about it everything makes sense.
Just imagine for a moment that YOU operate and run a search engine.
You send out your spider looking for websites and try to match websites found to search inputs ie keywords.
How on earth could you have a ‘duplicate content’ check?
You would have to store and compare billions of web pages, and does it really matter if several websites have the same syndicated article.
The same argument can be applied to the age of a webpage, if the search term goes to a suitable website it doesn’t matter if it’s two days or two years old.
And why have search engines always been interested in links. The answer is simple, when the search engines spider a site they record links as a means of finding out that a site exists.
The only thing the search engines are interested in are :-
making money, keywords and relevance.
August 12th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Are you a professional journalist? You write very well.
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Great study and white paper, but I am surprised to see how many people are actually missing the point.
This was STRICTLY about page rank….so all of those that think you can now stop updating the content on your sites regularly and stop worrying about duplicate content are MISSING THE BOAT.
PR is only one small category on a long list of thing that influence overall rankings. While this report is valuable for what it is, it is by no means some manifesto on how to handle your future SEO.
September 4th, 2009 at 1:52 am
I started a Blogger blog somewhere around march-april using only rewritten PLR content. I had only posted around 5 articles on the site before becoming extremely busing working on other things and pretty much ignoring the blog. The articles were all posted within 2 weeks time I believe and I really did not do to much backlinking for the site. A couple months later I visited the site to creat a backlink to another of my sites and noticed the blog was at a PR1. Now I wont say the content wasn’t decent but I still find it funny that I could get PR without so few posts and incativity for a couple months. So you tell me how the hell google does things!
November 6th, 2009 at 1:04 am
very nice, great contents is important,, but backlink is more important, i guess. for getting no 1 in google we must hv a lot of backlink especially backlink from high PR..
November 6th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Very interesting study and good info to know. So the backlinks are really it then. I’d be curious to see where the tiering is for backlinks in relation to page rank. Keep up the research, it’s appreciated.
November 21st, 2009 at 7:59 am
Holy bejsus, you consistently over the course of three years have been providing market breaking news and information. I don’t know how you do it, but you must work extremely hard to stay at the cutting edge all of these years.
Keep up the fantastic work, I have pretty bought everything you have and would never recommend anything else. except maybe a new squeeze oage for com blue 2 which ive had some trouble with! HAHA, who am I anyway….
Lol keep up the great work!!
It is VERY much appreciated.
Terry
December 27th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
I am totally agree with this. The more Backlinks the high will be Page Rank. (But time also matter)
January 19th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
PR seems to be less and less of a factor in page 1 results for google these days
January 30th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
Who knows how Google does things…they are too confusing for anyone to figure out!
February 20th, 2010 at 10:18 am
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