Google Page Rank Updated?

Was there a Page Rank export today? Anyway, this blog got a Rank 3 now. :-)

My blog is one month old - Tips to improve site traffic

I would like to express my thanks to everyone who visits my blog. You are the reason why I am keep doing this ... ...

Google Report - Blog Traffic Overview
Learning Point:

1. I will write more posts during the weekend as the blog traffic goes down during each weekend;
2. Long posts are better than short ones (Blog traffic goes up a lot after I write a long post);
3. Use images, and upload them to flickr;

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Google Report - Usage Summary
Learning Points:

1. Share my knowledge & experience (Posts of those type getting more page views than others);
2. Use proper labels which indicating what the blog is about;
3. List your best posts as they will attract your new visitors;
4. Encourage and help people to subscribe the feed;
   

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Google Report - Traffic Source
Learning Points:

1. Use proper referral sites, including: digg.com, linkedin.com, wired.com, blogcatalog.com;
2. List which sites/blogs you like;
3. Try to reduce the bounce rate by putting proper labels against each post

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Google Report - Search Results
I am not using Google AdWords or any paid category services. What I 've been doing is:

1. Leave comments on others' blogs, forums;
2. Only submit your blog to relative blog/site categories;
3. Allow comments on my blog and reply emails asap;
4. Write some posts about google (Google like that, and they promote those posts, which means they generate more links from their engines);
5. Make the blog looks pretty and armed with useful technologies (google analytics, digg, snapshot, google adsense, etc); [Drop me an email (alexzang@gmail.com) if you need help to implement them]
   

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Technorati Report - Blog Response

1. Check technorati account regularly;
2. Understand why other blogs response to mine and express your thanks;

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Thanks once again for all your help!

Google Webmaster Tools Updated

The google webmaster tools updated this morning, and it looks like this now:

Not only the looking feel changed, but also some new functions they are providing, including Top Search queries, etc. Take a look see if anything interesting there ....... :-)

Google Page Rank Prediction Tools

It has been 132 days since the last google pagerank update, and it is certainly the longest wait in the last 2 years. After weeks of anxious waiting for this update, I start to look for some page rank predicition tools to give myself some fresh air. I've found 2 tools so far, working fine. Give the tools a try while you are making your best guesses for the next update. :-)

1. Raketforskning
2. Iwebtool
3. Siteranks

How web developers can help to improve page rank in search engine results

Understand google core first

Introduction

Google runs on a unique combination of advanced hardware and software. The speed you experience can be attributed in part to the efficiency of our search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PC's we've networked together to create a superfast search engine.

The heart of our software is PageRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to play a central role in many of our web search tools.

PageRank Explained

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages' relative importance.

Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines dozens of aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.

Integrity

Google's complex automated methods make human tampering with our search results extremely difficult. And though we may run relevant ads above and next to our results, Google does not sell placement within the results themselves (i.e., no one can buy a particular or higher placement). A Google search provides an easy and effective way to find high-quality websites that contain information relevant to your search.