Alexa Web Rankings...Eh??All Is Revealed, Including Page Rank & No Follow Links
Confused about Alexa web rankings, page rank and no follow/do follow hyperlinks?
Alexa
is an organisation that ranks websites in order of popularity, number one being the most popular. At the time of writing the top 4 sites are Google, Yahoo, Youtube and Facebook - no surprises there. |
Don't take page rank, Compete or Alexa web rankings at their word - these tools are all flawed. What we all want is a magic all-seeing tool that can rank our sites in order of how many visitors they get. Until Big Brother takes over the web, that will never happen. |
What Is Page Rank?
It's a measure of how important Google thinks a webpage is, on a scale of 1 to 10. Not every site has page rank. The Youtube and Twitter homepages have a very high page rank of 9. Be aware that writing an article for a directory with a homepage that has a page rank of 7 for example does NOT mean that the page where your article is published also has a page rank of 7.
However, it does make sense to secure backlinks from such places. I have got to the 8th place on the first google results page for the phrase "toddler discipline" with just one article that I wrote for
ezinearticles
Do Follow & No Follow Links
A backlink or inbound link is where site A links to site B without B linking back in return.These backlinks are one of the major factors that determine if a website gets to the first google results page. Lots of backlinks = a good ranking,while just a few means you will languish forever on page 40 of the search results.
Any website can build up backlinks (and page rank, and Alexa web rankings) by writing articles and creating a link to that site. However, article directories can choose whether to hide theselinks from Google and other search engines. These links are called
do not follow or no follow links. With the no follow atribute, you get the link, but it doesn't contribute to your popularity with the search engines.
Links that Google et al recognise are called do follow links - and obviously these are the ones you want.
It is common practice for forums and blogs to make all links from contributors no follow, but I was shocked when I saw that article directories are doing this too! Needless to say, all the article directories recommended by us are Do Follow, i.e. the good guys!
Niche Directories
This is seen as a better quality link by search engines such as google, because it's like a vote of confidence from someone who likes what you like...which is what the search engine users will also like. And these users are who the search engines are there to serve.
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