Smashing Magazine wrote an EXCELLENT article on Google PageRank. It’s amazing what you will learn from this article. Here’s a summary of impact on Google PageRank:
- Frequent content updates don’t improve Page Rank automatically.
- High Page Rank doesn’t mean high search ranking.
- DMOZ and Yahoo! Listings don’t improve Page Rank automatically.
- .edu and .gov-sites don’t improve Page Rank automatically.
- Sub-directories don’t necessarily have a lower Page Rank than root-directories.
- Wikipedia links don’t improve PageRank automatically (update: but pages which extract information from Wikipedia might improve PageRank).
- Links marked with nofollow-attribute don’t contribute to Google PageRank.
- Efficient internal onsite linking has an impact on PageRank.
- Related high ranked web-sites count stronger.
- The anchor text of a link is often far more important than whether it’s on a high PageRank page
- Links from and to high quality related sites have an impact on Page Rank.
- Multiple votes to one link from the same page cost as much as a single vote.
- Site can be banned if it links to banned sites.
Head on over to Smashing Magazine and read the whole article!
