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January 2010 PageRank Update
For the second year in a row now, Google has updated the publicly-visible Toolbar PageRank with the change of calendar years. The last update was approximately three months ago in October, so it’s been looking pretty steady with updates in January, April, July, and October. I find that having PageRank updates at regular intervals is [...]
Blogroll Algorithm and PageRank Update
Blogroll Algorithm Update
The blogroll algorithm that is in charge of detecting and indexing blogroll information for Google Blog Search has at last arrived about a week ago. This update primarily deals with how links to blogs are counted if they come from a blogroll.
Googler Jeremy Hylton explains,
We have launched a ranking change that reduces [...]
Nofollow vs. No Follow
When it comes to link building and PageRank (PR), whether a link is nofollowed or not (a.k.a. dofollowed) can be a pivotal issue. Many link builders generally base their link building efforts on the quality of links pointing to them, rather than quantity. This then implicitly lead to the use of PageRank as a measure [...]
September 2008 PageRank Update
Toolbar PageRanks usually get updated about four times a year, or once every three months. Google surprised most SEOs this month with an early export of PageRanks - the last PR update was in July 2008. With all the rumours floating around about PageRank, be sure that you understand exactly what PR is and isn’t, [...]
Microsoft BrowseRank & Implicit Voting
Many people have heard of PageRank, which seeks to numerically value the importance of a webpage based on the quantity and quality of inbound links to, and outbound links from, a webpage. Microsoft researchers and developers have created a better (according to some) method of evaluating a page’s importance, dubbed “BrowseRank.” Rather than ranking based [...]
