PageRank is assigned immediately. You just can't see it. You'll have to wait until at least the next public PageRank update and maybe even to the one after that before you can see your pages' PageRank.
SEO has nothing to do with PageRank. PageRank is a mathematical formula that quantifies link popularity. It does not indicate whether a site is optimized. It does not indicate whether a site is any good.
Submitting to directories isn't going to help your rank much unless you are targeting minor keywords so don't expect that to do a lot for you. You should still do it for a new site to get it started, though, as you need to start somewhere.
RSS feeds don't really affect SEO. But still use them as you visitors may like them and happy visitors are a good thing.
Keep adding fresh content and promoting your site. Patience is key as nothing happens quickly with SEO.
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If page rank is not effected by link submitions and SEO then what does? it was my understanding from other sites that the more back links you have, either from directories or other sources that most commonly effect PR.
How often is PR updated? month? year?
Thanks for all the help
PageRank is affected by links both incoming and outgoing of which directory submissions can help. But it is not based on quantity. It's based on quality. You can have thousands of links and still be a PR1. Weak links from sites like directories will give you a tiny bit of PR but do absolutely nothing for your rankings.page rank uptaded every 90 or 100 daysPublic PageRank, which is what you see in your toolbar, is updated every three months or so and the number you see in that toolbar is rounded and is at least that old and most likely much older then that. Internal PageRank, which is what is used in the SERPs, is updated daily.
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Do outgoing links help me at all?
No.also where do meta tags fit into all this? I know they dont contribute to PR or anything like that but they have to have some purpose right? Meta tags do not affect SEO.are there other meta tags or other header information that should be placed besideds keywork and title?
The title tag is not a meta tag. And the only tags that you should use are the description, keyword, and robots tag but only use the robots tag if you wish to block content from being indexed. Otherwise it serves no purpose.
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"description" meta tag can help to increase your ranking and not page rank.
Not true. Meta tags do not help your rankings in any way. The meta description tag may be shown in the SERPs but it is not used to rank that page.- outgoing links will help in the case that you point your outgoing to relevant web sites and avoid dead links. It won't help your rankings but linking to a good website will make your visitors happy.you can used outgoing links to encourage others people to point a backlinks to your web sites.(this practise is more important for blog than web sites). Reciprocal links have little to no value in SEO. They are devalued because of they are seen as a manipulation of the SERPs. One way links are much more valuable. Plus if the site you link to is in a link farm and they link back you may be considered part of that link farm which is obviously a bad thing.
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I'm more than a little confused...
throughout this thread it has been stated that neither KeyWords nor Description haev any affect for Search Engine Results.
If that is the case - why are they still recommended and why are they still used???
Because they do serve other purposes. One prime example is that Google and MSN will use the meta description tag in their SERPs for pages that they cannot find a suitable description for.Additionally, stating the reciprocal links can be a bad ting - how the hell can you stop a site liking to you?
You may block the link (prevent traffic from that IP/URL etc.)... but you cannot actually revent people linking to you.
You can't control who links to you but you can control who you link to. A reciprocal link takes two links to be reciprocal.
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The Descript is moot... as they will apaprently take the first chunk of text they encounter instead if the Description is not there ???
Sometimes you will rank well for text you don't have on your page due to off page factors. In these cases, and maybe others, the meta description is shown.Do you get -points for a shite site linking to yours though?
Maybe, maybe not. The worst those links can be worth is nothing. So it can only get better from there.
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Hello,
you need to wait for 3 months now the pagerank is taking more time to update we need to just wait and see just gone submiting your site to free directories or outsource your directory submission
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