Yes, Google does have guidelines. You can click here for the full page from Google.
- Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
- Don’t use cloaking or sneaky redirects.
- Don’t send automated queries to Google.
- Don’t load pages with irrelevant keywords.
- Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
- Don’t create pages that install viruses, trojans, or other badware.
- Avoid “doorway” pages created just for search engines, or other “cookie cutter” approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
- If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.
Problogger notes to forget about Page Rank and just build a better blog. Seems like everyone’s been bugging him for the inside scoop that he doesn’t have; everyone would like to post their new page rank score to be able to sell more ads. PR usually gets updated every 3 months and they are way behind, but it’s ok everyone, just keep on blogging.
You can use iwebtool to get a PR prediction. Right now Blogging The Movie has a PR 5 with at 70% accuracy. I would not take this prediction seriously however you can have a little fun by testing it out yourself.
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September 28th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Nice informative post.
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:12 pm
PR5 in less than six months?!?!?!
That’s some incredible work, Prija. If you keep up the pace, BTM will be PR8 before spring
October 4th, 2007 at 7:39 am
PR 5 in the coming update is simply amazing. I’m sure it will be PR 7 by the update after this one :p
October 4th, 2007 at 7:39 am
PR 5 in the coming update is simply amazing. I’m sure it will be PR 7 in the update after that :p
October 29th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Hi Prija, The PR has updated, but Google has been very strict this time. My blog didn’t show any increase. This blog got a 1, but I’m sure it will improve drastically in the next update
October 29th, 2007 at 11:40 am
PS, good to see CashForComments got a 3