About Google PageRank (PR) and Alexa Traffic Rank
March 13, 2008 – 5:29 pmGoogle PageRank (PR) and Alexa Traffic Rankings are 2 main ranking mediums you need to be concerned when develope a website.Both are important, since from their respective toolbars users an get an idea of how relevant your site is to their search, and how much traffic your site normally receives.
Google Page Rank uses a voting system by page, with a 1 to 10 scale. It gets super complicated, but for the scope of this article I’m going to try keep it simple. Think of the United States Congress and how each state; the higher the population, the more representatives, ergo the more votes a state can have.
On a website, Page A votes for the importance of Page B via a hyperlink. If Page A is given a specific number of votes based of the PageRank . The more links there are on a page, the more spread out (and lower) the votes will be to the pages being linked to.
In other words, keep the number of external links on your website down, so that you’re only sharing votes with other pages on your own website. Market each page of the website, not just the homepage, so that you have more votes to work with. Lastly, try to only get one-way links from pages containing a high Page Rank. Check out this calculator to get a more visual example of what I’m talking about: http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank_calculator.php
Alexa Traffic Rankings help advertisers get a feel for the number of potential visitors they could solicit to on your website. The more traffic you have, the higher you can charge other companies to advertise on your site. You’re not dealing with search engine ranking with Alexa; you’re talking about actual visitors and web traffic. Download Alexa Toolbar to see your current rank , or visit Alexa.com
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