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[harjitsingh]

Does a specific number of incoming links gets a new site some page ranking. My website is getting cached almost every 2nd day. but there is no pageranking to it.

I have sites with PR 6 pointing back to my website, which was revamped 2 months back. Initially the site was not getting cached, since it was not developed as per SEO friendly.

[robwatts]

Hi harjitsingh

Yes. To read about how PageRank works there is a paper on it here

Google does visible toolbar PR updates every few months. I really wouldn't worry about that green bar though Its meaningless for ranking purposes.

Edited by robwatts, 07 December 2005 - 03:17 AM.

[Michael Martinez]

Does a specific number of incoming links gets a new site some page ranking. My website is getting cached almost every 2nd day. but there is no pageranking to it.

All you really need is 1 link (a really, really good link).

I have sites with PR 6 pointing back to my website, which was revamped 2 months back. Initially the site was not getting cached, since it was not developed as per SEO friendly.

Are you really concerned about PageRank, or about your rankings in the search results (there is no connection between the two concepts)?

To get good rankings in search results, you need to be concerned about other things than PageRank. The more natural inbound links you have, the better, but you still need to be sure your on-page content is relevant to the search expressions you target.

[articleplus]

There is no specific number people can tell you. The no. of links need to get top ranking depends on:

1. Competition in your industry
2. Quality of links you get

[harjitsingh]

Thanks for the information.

The reason I was concerned because most of the clients read there competition on the basis of PR rather than keyword phrase based ranking.

I am aware that PR(green bar) is not related to search engine listings, but having a green bar more than 50% adds to the convincing of the clients in the business point of view.

robwatts, can I know how you located my picture?

[robwatts]

>robwatts, can I know how you located my picture?

Sure, I saw it in your blog. Hope it didn't offend. I removed the reference regardless.

[Manish]

First of all you must understad there are 2 main kinds of links...

1. Reciprocal links: Where site A links to site B and in return site B links back to site A. But these used to be a good but now it weighs less...

2. This is the most important called the inbound links, where people link to you without in return you link to them.... This has got much weight for search engines.... a few inbound links would be far more better than 100's of reciprocal links...

So try to get the links from various site having different ip addresses... this also gives your site much weight... so you rank well....

Different ways could be 1. Writing articles, 2. Wiriting in forums etc...

So you now would have understood the profit of linking....

Take care...

Harjit one question where are you from?

Bye,

Manish

[harjitsingh]

>robwatts, can I know how you located my picture?

Sure, I saw it in your blog. Hope it didn't offend. I removed the reference regardless.

No, It did not offend me, just wanted to know how you landed there

[harjitsingh]

Harjit one question where are you from?

Bye,

Manish

Thanks for your reply, I am from Bombay/India

[Michael Martinez]

Some Web designers help get their client sites crawled (and confer some PageRank) by linking to them. There is some risk in doing so as you reveal to your competitors who your clients are. Nonetheless, if you want to try that, I recommend you assign a profile page to each client, link to each profile page from your site map, and then have a secondary page that describes each client site briefly (1 short paragraph) and in each paragraph you link to both your profile page and your client page (so you give your clients two links).

The profile page should explain what the client's goal was and how you helped achieve that goal. For example, you could say (the fictitious company) Mumbai Maximum Marketing wanted a Web site that ranks well on Google for one expression, well on MSN for another expression, and well on Yahoo! for a third expression. Without being too detailed, you would explain what you did to help them achieve that goal (it could be as simple as saying, "We chose paid placement for Yahoo! and Google and focused on natural search results for MSN").

The client profile pages thus work for you as well as for your clients, because people who are considering your services will be able look at some case study overviews and decide if they like your work.

You should prominently disclaim the permanency of any placement results. No one should be holding a search engine marketer to permanent success without a monthly support contract. So, if some of your clients drop out of your business portfolio, you may decide to keep their profiles in place with a link to the disclaimer.

[harjitsingh]

Thanks Michael Martinez,

Great advice, will definately work on it. would like to have more advice in future, afterall this place is to help the SEO community.