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Google ranking tips - Page 3
By David Callan
I think we've had enough maths stuff for now, just
remember that the name of the game is to get as many
links from pages with high PR and few other links. The
more of these links you get the more your PR will grow
and the more your rankings will improve for your
relevant keywords.
Google Pagerank™ and web directories
The best thing you can do for your PR seems at the
moment seems to be getting listed in Dmoz.org. Dmoz.org
is home to the Open Directory Project which is a human
compiled directory of websites.
Pagerank™ is widely known to be biased towards big name
directories such as Dmoz.org, Yahoo and Looksmart.
This is true, especially in the case of Dmoz.org. These
ODP links are treated like gold by the Pagerank™ system.
It doesn't even matter what the individual PR of the
category page is. I have seen sites gain a large PR
boost on the toolbar as soon as Google updates its
directory with the latest one from Dmoz.org. This is
because Google uses its own version of the ODP for the
Google web directory.
Don't believe ODP links are very important to Pagerank™?
Don't believe a listing in the ODP will boost your
ranking?
Well they are and it will. Perform a search for almost
anything on Google and you'll discover that 75-80% of
the top 10 results are also indexed in the Google
directory and therefore also listed on Dmoz.org. The
fact of the matter seems to me to be if your not listed
with the ODP, you shouldn't expect much traffic from
Google.
Getting a listing is not difficult, it does sometimes
take time but it's not difficult. Just make sure your
site has good content and follow the guidelines for
adding a URL. Try to get your index page listed at
least. I say at least because although ODP claims only
to list your index page, there are plenty of sites with
5 - 10 pages listed.
Therefore if your site has very distinctive sections you
can submit each section, beware though that this must be
done slowly, otherwise you may be banned from the
directory altogether for spamming. Once Google updates
its directory these listings could do wonders for your
sites Pagerank™. My article entitled Open Directory
Project guide is a complete guide to getting into the
ODP, I highly recommend you read it.
Regarding Yahoo and Looksmart, Pagerank™ will usually
allocate a more than normal amount of PR boost for any
sites listed. Tips on getting listed in Yahoo can be
read in Yahoo submitting tips.
If you're a non-commercial site or have a site that's
almost completely non-commercial you can get into the
Looksmart directory through http://www.zeal.com/ I
really love this site, just like Google obtains its
directory results from ODP, Looksmart obtains its
non-commercial listings from the Zeal web directory.
Without Zeal I would have to fork out hard earned cash
and all my site does is provide free information in the
form of articles and tutorials.
To continue, I submitted AKA Marketing.com on a Tuesday
and was listed in Zeal by Thursday morning. On Monday I
checked my logs and found lots of referrals from
Looksmart, I was in Looksmart already. I looked at my
logs later only to find MSN had updated its database
from the Looksmart database and was sending me loads of
visitors because of the good listing I got. My site was
listed in Zeal, Looksmart and MSN within six days.
Needless to say I highly recommend you get over to
Zeal.com and submit your site.
Before you can submit a site however you must pass a
member quiz, the quiz is a fairly simple straightforward
one, you might however learn a thing or two while doing
it.
If you happen to be a webmaster that has a listing in
all three of Dmoz.org, Yahoo and Looksmart then I'm
guessing your site has good to very good PR and
rankings.
Google ranking tips - Conclusion
In closing I would like to recap on some of the main
points you have just read. Be sure to have your main
keywords and keyphrases in your title tag and well
spread throughout your page, use header tags wherever
possible. Get as many links from as many high PR low
number of outbound links pages as you can. Get listed
with Dmoz.org, Yahoo and Looksmart.
Well that's it. I hope you have enjoyed reading this
Google Ranking tips article as much as I have enjoyed
researching and writing it. I also hope that you can put
this advice into use and help get yourself some real
traffic.
Article by David Callan - admin@akamarketing.com
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