Hi all, I am very happy to find this amazing forum and i hope to get some good advices, let me begin by tell you a little about my business, I operate a computer repair and support company based in Miami, We are looking to get more visitors from Miami. Our website is www.miamipcservices.com Some questions: 1. What is PR ? I checked on some website, and my website seems to have number 2? what does it mean? 2. I understand that i need to have websites to have a link to my website in order to be higer in google? do i need websites that have the same topic, like computer repair in miami to link my website to get good results, or any website in the world is ok? I know this is all so basic questions, but help is really appreciated here. Thanks Liran
Ans 1) PR = Google "Page Rank" - this is how google weighs you in terms of popularity i.e backlinks etc Ans 2) Yes, Relevant backlinks are always welcome (except from banned websites) as relevancy will boost your rankings. Links from other websites help too but that is only a fraction of what you can achieve from relevant linking.
all we did is put our website at directories, the only sites that actually have a link to our website are directories i believe, is there anyway to check who has got a link to our website? we started the website like a few months a go, is ranking 2 considered ok? what is the most common way to increase ranking?
let me clarify here that ranking which you are quoting is nothing more that PAGE RANK and not the actualy search engine ranking.. The backlinks are counted regularly by google but reported during a backlink update. Note: Not all backlinks are reported by google. You can try MSN or yahoo to check backlinks using the link:domainname.com command As for the only links being directories - try to increase your link popularity by exchanging links with relevant websites..
yes.. try to build links from relevant websites, that push you higher in google. rankings in google are solely independent of PR.