Google

April 23rd, 2005, 9:18 pm

How does google determine which site should be on rank 1, 2,3 etc?

Number of visits?

Links?

Time online?

anyone know?

April 23rd, 2005, 11:19 pm

Mainly it's determined either by keywords - and you are the only one with those exact keywords, or if you pay google to put your site at the top.

April 24th, 2005, 11:54 pm

do you mean search ranking or page rank?

April 25th, 2005, 6:09 am

Funny_Fuzz wrote:

Mainly it's determined either by keywords - and you are the only one with those exact keywords, or if you pay google to put your site at the top.

What on earth are you talking about?

You cannot pay google to put your site at the top of natural serps nor is it based on how many keywords the page contains.

In answer to the original question -

To know exactly how google ranks sites you would need to know googles algorithm.

What we do know is that at the moment google are predomenantly using link popularity and anchor text to rank sites. It isn't focusing much on keyword density like yahoo and msn however it is still important to concentrate on this for optimization of the other major engines.

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April 25th, 2005, 7:37 am

This link provides some helpful info:
http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusines ... kFAQs.html

April 25th, 2005, 2:27 pm

Links are considered to be "votes".

Much like real life, votes can be rigged, so the site who votes for itself the most will usually win.

September 2nd, 2005, 7:36 pm

thanks for the replies.

do you know about page rank N/A what does that mean? i had that on my site for months now.

thnaks

September 3rd, 2005, 7:00 am

Page rank NA means that your website is not being indexed.
Try registering in dmoz.org



Regards

Nicky
http://www.jnbsilver.com

September 3rd, 2005, 7:37 am

Try reading this article: http://www.prchecker.net/articles/pager ... ained.html

Sorry for linking to my own site, but it will definitally help you better understand the PageRank system.