Hi. Question 1: Say I do a search on some keyword in Google. Is shows ten results on the first page. Some of them are articles that contain the keyword but the articles themselves are a part of a big website that is not about the keyword subject. For example (theoretical) "raising children" on a microsoft.com. The "raising children" page is PR2 while microsoft.com is PR8. If i were to do some articles about "raising children" would I compete against the "raising children" artilce/page or against entire microsoft.com Another example: I do a search on Canon Powershot 100 (camera). Search result give me some sites, one of them is an Amazon product/buy site about Canon Powershot 100. If I were to build a page about that camera, would I be competing against the specific page on Amazon or against entire Amazon? Question 2: Is there a guesstimated timeframe on reaching certain PageRank and/or search result position? Question 3: How to assess my "search result page" competition? Number of backlinks? Number of indexed pages in entire website that contain searched keyword? PageRank? Question 4: General one - what are 3 best ways to rank high nowdays? Question 5: A weird one - what are the upcoming trends in positioning, IOW what will be a good thing to have/do NOW to be ahead 3-6 months from now. Cheers and take care. Charlie.
Question 1: You are fighting a specific page, however, if it's a page from the likes of amazon / microsoft as per your example you are fighting the weight they pass down to said page making it harder to out rank said page. Question 2: No time frame as such. Page rank (please don't get to hung up on PR as it's just a gimmick) updates every few months basically. SERPS rankings are always on the move, once a page / site is indexed then it will start to rank (if you are working on it) but the time it takes depends on how aggressive you are being with links. The faster you rank, the faster you fall (as it's a good chance you will be hit with spam issues) Question 3: You could use a variety of software to do this, for example market samurai would get you all the data you wanted. There are quite a few choices and most people have there fav! You can also do this yourself, get the list of top 10 results and just start looking at the data you can pull from Google / Yahoo on how many backlinks they have etc Question 4: Natural links / bought links (same niche, different IP's, different anchor texts) / various People who are really making the money will not tell you what is working for them so be ready for a load of shit replies / answers to question 4. Question 5: The idea of SEO is still the same, build a good site, good content and you will rank. It's getting off the mark that is the hard part as getting those natural links is never easy. Build a site for the target market, make it a good clean site, good content, easy to navigate, clean code, various ways of displaying data (videos, text, pictures) then do a wee bit of link building to get the ball rolling. If you want to make a quick buck spam it with links then come back here in a few months complaining you have been banned from Google. If you are going for the long term then keep on building content and links (slow and steady) don't do anything dodgy (no spammy links from shit sites) and within time you should hopefully have a good site, good link profile, followers / repeat visitors etc You then just keep on doing what you were doing.... Hope some of this helps.. now... time for plenty of dodgy replies... go!
Yes if an internal page is ranking not homepage you can outrank them even if they're microsoft.com however you still have to do backlink analysis to see how many backlinks link to the page. So regardless what page is ranking (homepage or not) check how many backlinks they have, backlinkswatch.com If page has 10,000 backlinks for instance it will be almost impossible to outrank. So looking at the search results if there are internal pages it probably means they have fewer backlinks yet it still is important to check and make sure. 2 months generally speaking for low and medium competitive keywords assuming you use good link building methods. PR 3 within 3 months again assuming you use good link building methods. Two plugins both do the job well: SEO Quake www.seoquake.com Search Status www.quirk.biz/searchstatus Only 1 best way: get backlinks, and it has always been that. Do what looks natural and normal, just like it always been: avoid stuff like spinning (which creates useless unnatural unreadable articles), keyword density and stuff trying to get a 5% when instead you should build your content naturally for your website visitors... and so on. Jack
Question 2: Google should be updating PR in the next 6 weeks so general rule of thumb, if you get a couple dofollow PR4 links in the next 6 weeks, your site will go to PR3 when the update happens. If you get a PR5 link, your site will go to a PR4 when the update happens. It sometimes varies a bit, but this is how it has been for me. Question 3: The free way is to install SEOquake on your firefox or Chrome browser. Also using a backlink checking tool like Magestic SEO or SeoSpyglass will give you a decent idea of your backlinks and the backlinks of your competitors.