Google can determine if sites are relevant to each other using the same algorythms it uses to find if phrases are searched on.

Michele, you are fine linking to another site if it makes sense,...

Thank you... I have been saying this for months and have been catching a lot of heat for it.

just ask dani :p

I think it probably also has something to do with their IPO. There is no logical reason for google to cause any kind of shake up or stir in their rankings that could **** some people off while their...

hey Dani... PR is poop! :p

neener neener neeeeener!!

The backlinks shown seem more accurate than before. The command www.domain.com -site:www.domain.com used to return a more true count of people linking to your page (usually double or triple the...

You would certainly be best getting the domian pointed to where it is hosted.

It is not good for search engines. A 301 redirect is the lesser of all evils, but you can't do that on homestead. You are best off putting a page up that informs the users you moved and has a link...

*nods* for sure.

without going too far in, it looks decent to me. I am not sure however, if the robots.txt blocks the weakening link pop from all the links. The less links on a page the more potent the links are. ...

On a positive note, I think I cought wind that it is also experimenting with a bot that can read javascript write stuff too. But I wouldn't bet the farm on it.

That looks like something you could...

Ok I am a knuckelhead. I guess this was a chicken before the egg thing. ;-)

I sent you a PM RE: this topic. :)

Yes it does. From what I hear it prefers if the javascript has the actual URL that it wil be landing on window.location("http://www.mcpmedia.com"); and it doesn't read it if it is inside a select...

Google's PR has nothing to do with Yahoo, Intomi, AOL, or the new MSN coming out. Although Google is the biggest of them, it is not as big as all others combined. Since G is the only one that uses...

the Alexa toolbar is only good to use a a very general gage to see how your site is doing. I would put as much weight on the Alexa rankings as I do in gogle's PR (BTW, I put little weight on PR,...

lol @ SEO Guy's sig.

I only show around 200 backlinks and I have a 7. I must have a few high PR links in there or something.

This article will help clarify what I meant about the PR thing.

http://www.axandra.com/news/newsletter111.htm

As I had expected, PR is less important than some think.

The term "devalued" was incorrectly used- I meant "depreciated". Just like the good ole font tag. Google still does rather parse a clean URL, especially ones with less than 3 variables, but it is...

Interestingly enough, the need for mod_rewrite, html extentions, and PR are all becoming devalued in all the newer SE algorythms. 6 months ago a PR 7 would get you super high rankings because PR was...

PR is only good to leverage your site with link swappers. It really has nothing to do with real web page optimization. I have a PR7, but I can't even crack the 1st 2 pages of SERPs for [Arizona Web...