Alexa Traffic Rank Update

Today I felt quite happy after playing with the SeoQuake Toolbar. With the toolbar installed, I can see the Alexa, PageRank, indexed page, etc. of all pages I visit. I try to compare my personal blog, Duan Says... with other personal blogs that I visit regularly. I'm happy because although my personal blog is quite new. Only aged more than a month old but already have higher traffic rank than other blogs eventhough they are older than my personal blog. From all blogs that I linked in that blog, only a few have higher traffic rank. That is only because they are very much older and their contents are very good.

What have I done to achieve that? What most important for personal blogs is the chatbox. Chatbox allow you to directly chat with other bloggers and show them the address of your blog. Blogger communities in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and maybe The Philipines are very unique. We can easily change links with each other just by asking in the chatbox. We can quickly be friends by using chatboxes on our blog. Chatboxes are also the best place to find links to other blogs because even in a single chatbox, many users leave messages together with their links. For a niche or flagship blog, the use of chatbox might not seems appropriate.

I did also submit 2 post of that personal blog to Digg and StumbleUpon. Eventhough there are not so many visitors from the two services, perhaps that still contribute to my traffic rank. I did also wrote some topics of current event that I read in the news. Those pages did brought some search engine traffic to that blog. For this blog, the traffic rank is already 3939213 and among all my blogs, this blog has the highest traffic rank. This maybe because I did make some contribution in some forums and placed links to this blog in my signature. Recently, Entrecard start to bring some traffic to this blog. The other important traffic highway to all my blogs are BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog. Read What to Do With Your New Blogs for more information on how to increase traffic to your blogs.

My personal blog still have PageRank 0 but the Alexa rank is higher that other personal blogs eventhough they have Pagerank 2 or 3. In previous post, I showed the Pagerank formula that Google use to measure pagerank for a site. What makes me confused is my personal blogs have the most links to other blogs with higher pagerank but still it has Pagerank 0. This blog however, only made link exchange with few blogs, already have Pagerank 1 eventhough it is younger than my personal blog. My artworks blog, which has the slowest traffic also have pagerank 1. I thought by linking to many blogs of higher pagerank could make that blog have higher pagerank quicker. I am still not sure how this blog and my artworks blog have higher pagerank than my personal blog. I will make an update about that soon.

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Google Pagerank Formula

David Callan had wrote a very good Google Ranking Tips and what interest me most is he did also write about the Google Pagerank Formula. A little math. The post really explain everything I want to know about Pagerank.

The Formula:

The damping factor:
The damping factor is the amount of your PR which you can actually pass on when you vote / link to another site. The damping factor is widely known to be .85, this is a little less than the linking pages own PR.

PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + ... + PR(tn)/C(tn))

In layman's terms PR(A) is the Pagerank boost your page A will get after being linked from someone else's site (t1). PR(t1) is the pagerank of the page which links to you and C(t1) is the amount of total links that (t1) has. It is important to know that a pages voting power is only .85 of that pages actual PR and this voting power gets spread out evenly between all sites it links to.

Imagine http://ABC.com was linked by XYZ.com's link page which had a PR of 4 and 9 other links, here's how the formula should look like:

PR(ABC) = (1-.85) + .85*(4/10)
PR(ABC) = .15 + .85*(.4)
PR(ABC) = .15 + .34
PR(ABC) = .49

To sum up my site would get an injection of .49 PR after being linked from a page with a PR of four and 9 other links.

Let's say I was linked from a site with a PR of 8, double the previous example's amount, which had 15 other links, a total of 16 outbound links, my boost would be:

PR(ABC) = (1-.85) +.85*(8/16)
PR(ABC) = .15 + .85(.5)
PR(ABC) = .15 + .425
PR(ABC) = .575

The above two worked examples show that not only is the PR of the linking page important but what is also important is how many other sites are also linked to from that page.

I think we've had enough maths stuff for now, just remember that the name of the game is to get as many links from pages with high PR and few other links. The more of these links you get the more your PR will grow and the more your rankings will improve for your relevant keywords.

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Comparison of PageRank, Traffic Rank, and Pageviews

I've made a research about PageRank and found out these data. Data are estimations obtained from Websiteoutlook.com

Site--PageRank--Traffic Rank-------Backlinks--Daily Pageview--Daily Ads Revenue------------------Net Worth
----1--------------10-------------------2------------------0--------550000000---------$1,650,003.16----$1,200,000,000.00
----2----------------9-------------------1----128087566------1100000000---------$3,300,003.00----$2,410,000,000.00
----3----------------9-------------------3------------------0--------366666666---------$1,100,003.00-------$803,000,000.00
----4----------------9-------------------5---305182567--------220000000------------$660,003.00-------$481,800,000.00
----5----------------9-------------------7---314270788--------157142857------------$471,431.57-------$344,150,000.00
----6----------------8-------------------9---137689286--------122222222------------$366,669.49-------$267,670,000.00
----7----------------8-----------------28------------------0----------39285714------------$117,859.97---------$86,040,000.00
----8----------------8---------207410-----------40358------------------5303--------------------$18.74----------------$13,680.20
----9----------------7-----------------40-------7849014----------27500000--------------$82,502.65---------$60,230,000.00
---10---------------7---------------118-----11391757------------9322033--------------$27,968.74---------$20,420,000.00
---11---------------7---------121057-----------25618------------------9086---------------------$29.90----------------$21,827.00
---12---------------6-------------2287---------348494--------------480979----------------$1,445.39-----------$1,060,000.00
---13---------------6-----------32173---------484090----------------34190-------------------$105.02----------------$76,664.60
---14---------------6-----------40613-------6241725----------------27084---------------------$83.70----------------$61,101.00
---15---------------6-----------46402---------509946----------------23705---------------------$73.56----------------$53,698.80
---16---------------6-----------91106---------190846----------------12073---------------------$38.67----------------$28,229.10
---17---------------6---------158168---------862720------------------6954---------------------$23.31----------------$17,016.30
---18---------------6---------162579---------744822------------------6765---------------------$22.74----------------$16,600.20
---19---------------6---------179977-------1191708------------------6111---------------------$20.78----------------$15,169.40
---20---------------6---------184496---------272070------------------5962---------------------$20.34----------------$14,848.20
---21---------------5----------84253-----------78944----------------13055---------------------$41.40----------------$30,222.00
---22---------------5------------85866-----------46361----------------12810---------------------$40.67----------------$29,689.10
---23---------------5---------129078-----------87425------------------8521---------------------$27.80----------------$20,294.00
---24---------------5---------150452-----------61649------------------7311---------------------$24.17----------------$17,644.10
---25---------------5---------157092-------------2141------------------7002---------------------$23.24----------------$16,965.20
---26---------------5---------173312---------153693------------------6346---------------------$21.27----------------$15,527.10
---27---------------5---------180148-------------3567------------------6106---------------------$20.55----------------$15,001.50
---28---------------5-------1054223----------33352-------------------1043-----------------------$5.37------------------$3,920.10
---29---------------4-----------71934----------34029----------------15291---------------------$47.87----------------$34,945.10
---30---------------4-----------90054--------271422-----------------12214---------------------$38.64----------------$28,207.20
---31---------------4-----------94728----------10059-----------------11612---------------------$36.84----------------$26,893.20
---32---------------4---------131867----------29531-------------------8341---------------------$27.02----------------$19,724.60
---33---------------4---------248628----------60826-------------------4424---------------------$15.27----------------$11,147.10
---34---------------4---------410164----------------47-------------------2681---------------------$10.04------------------$7,329.20
---35---------------3-----------28369--------237702-----------------38774-------------------$118.05----------------$86,176.50
---36---------------3-----------22682--------107688-------------------4849---------------------$16.28----------------$11,884.40
---37---------------3-------3748230------------------0----------------------293----------------------$2.61------------------$1,905.30
---38---------------3-------4208585------------------6----------------------261----------------------$2.52------------------$1,839.60
---39---------------2---------219300------------------0--------------------5015--------------------$16.46----------------$12,015.80
---40---------------2-------7723234--------------100----------------------142----------------------$1.84------------------$1,343.20
---41---------------1-------------7920----------81567-----------------138888------------------$416.66--------------$304,161.80
---42---------------1-----14786544------------------5------------------------74----------------------$1.22---------------------$890.60
---45---------------0-----------64462----------23472------------------17064--------------------$51.19----------------$37,368.70
---46---------------0---------602433------------6440--------------------1825----------------------$5.48------------------$4,000.40
---47---------------0---------939121----------24217--------------------1171----------------------$3.51------------------$2,562.30
---48---------------0-----12487472------------------0------------------------88----------------------$0.26---------------------$189.80
What I can say is better to have high traffic rank than pagerank to have high revenue for your site.

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Create a Sitemap for Your Blogger Blog

I found a very good posting by Peter Chen of http://blogger-tricks.blogspot.com/ about how to add sitemap to Blogger since we don't have access to Blogger server. If you have submitted your blog to Google Webmaster Tool, you might know what the problem is. If you still not submitted your blog to Google Webmaster Tool, better do it now because that tool really helps to tell Google that your blog exist. In the post, Peter suggested that feed url to be used as the site map because the feed contains all your blog posts. I had just placed my sitemaps and still in pending status right now. I'll post an update to this when/if the sitemap is accepted and see what the results are.

Results for the above actions - Feed url as sitemap:
After a few days I've submitted the feed url as sitemap for my blogs, the results are error messages. The urls are not allowed by Google therefore I believe we don't have to put any sitemap for Blogger blogs. The blogs are already indexed and can be found if people searched for the right items. This means that having no sitemap for Blogger is will not disturb our place in Google.

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Meta Tag Generator and Checker

Does your site or blog have meta tag? I mean the meta tag that describe your site or blog and helps search engines to find your site. We know the meta tag is important but somehow don't really know how to write it properly especially if we are not really good with html. We can't just write anything because it is a coding and might have syntax error if we make a mistake and will just be a waste of effort.

I just made a meta tag for this blog using the Meta Tag Generator from SEO Chat. All you have to do just entering the keywords that are related to your site and the description in the forms. After a button click, the code is generated and just paste it in the HEAD section of your site or blog.

Somehow hours later i found another Meta Tag Generator by Addme.com and I use this instead.

I also found a very nice meta tag checker at MetaChecker.net. This meta checker can analyze the relevancy of your meta tags with your page contents and also have ratings for the meta tags either they are good enough. There are also other meta checker at 13 Meta Tag Analysis Tools. The meta checker at SEO Chat and Addme.com seems useless.

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Where is My Page in Google?

Have you ever try typing some keywords that are related to your site in Google and then try to look where your page will be. Clicking Next again and again and if you're fortunate, maybe you'll find your site on page 10 or 35 of the search results. Just now I found this Microsoft Excel file posted in Check your page ranking in Google Search. It is very nice because you just have to type the url of your site or blog and the keyword you like to search for. With a click of a button, the software can determine where your site is in the result page. Thanks to http://kikiat.com who might be the author of the file.

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More on SEO and PageRank

Just now I found several posting about SEO and pagerank that I think worthy for sharing.

30 Tips for Exploding Your Site Traffic from SlyVisions.com
5 Easy Tips to increase your Google PR from Increase your Google PR
Four Tips to Increase Search Engine Ranking by By Scott Buresh
Three Basic Steps to Search Engine Optimization by Alice
Search Engine Optimization Tips - Part One by Cayumi Nagasumi

I'll post more whenever I found something interesting.

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Something About Search Engine Ranking and Pagerank

Just now I found some interesting post and I should share this to you. The first is "Updating A Blog Can Damage Its Search Engine Ranking". You can read more about the post by yourself. My theory is when the contents were updated, some important keywords that makes our blog popular might also changes. Try use the site analysis tool to find out what are the important keywords of your blogs. For example, if visitors from search engines came to your blog because of the keyword "money", let that keyword be in the front page of your blog. Also in the title, meta tag and description. Also make sure the main keywords will last forever and people will always search for them. This is because for my other blog, most of the visitors are from one keyword and after several month, that keyword might have lost its popularity and the number of visitors has decreased a little.

Another interesting posting is from Matt Cutts, a Google engineer, "More Info on PageRank". This posting is kind of Q&A session between Matt and somebody but it is very informative on how to increase site ranking. It something like backlinks, keywords, algorithms.

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