Google Engineer Hints at Quarterly PR Updates?
On Mar 11/2004 on a WebmasterWorld Forum (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/22566.htm">http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/22566.htm</a><!-- m -->) a Google engineer with the online nickname Googleguy (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/08/greets-from-googleguy.html">http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/0 ... leguy.html</a><!-- m -->) seemed to hint in a jokeing way that Google might go to guarterly updates of visible PR.
The following is what he said. "I heard that at PubCon, DaveN suggested that Google should only update the visible PR and link: data once a quarter or so...
" to which edit_g responded "Is that a hint as to a new policy or are you just messing? (somebody had to ask!) 
". Googleguy never responded back nor made any more comments on that thread.
Well I think it is some thing to consider. Here we are without a toolbar PR update for 94 days. To me it seems like we might be right around the corner from a toolbar update.
I have been working on my new site SEO Company (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.seocompany.ca/">http://www.seocompany.ca/</a><!-- m -->) getting ready for a big reciprocal links campaign and been thinking about how to make my offer more attractive. It seems people are more willing to give you a link if your site has high PageRank. So I worked out a deal that would get me some high PR text link ads. I talked to an internet friend that runs an online Hip Hop Jewelry (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hiphopcapital.com">http://www.hiphopcapital.com</a><!-- m -->) site that needed a deeper crawl. He's off to get a quote on some text link ads that will give him a deeper and more regular crawls.
I thought it would be good to post some good common sense pointers when purchasing text link ads and the benefits of text link ads.
Benefits of text link ads.
1. Brings traffic to your site. In almost all cases this is your main objective. You want traffic that you can convert to sales.
2. Inbound links give weight to your ranking. You want numerous keyword anchored links from relevant pages.
3. The PageRank vote. Purchasing links solely for their PR vote is discouraged by Google. In fact some sites have had there PR transfer cut off for blatantly selling links based on PR only. Beware of these kinds of sellers. While PR is a gauge to the value of text link ad, there is more to it that than.
Things to Consider when purchasing text link ads.
1. Make sure you have an agreement that can be renewed.
2. Pick sites that have a lot of inbound links. You can judge this by what PageRank value their pages have.
3. Ask to see a print out of the stats for the last 2 months with the option to login to the stats of the site. If you are not getting a home page ask to see the stats for the traffic on the filename of the page that is being offered you. If they can't provide them go somewhere else.
4. Don't get site-wide links! If site-wides are not already devalued they probable will be soon.
5. Ask for the page and position your link will be given on a domain. You want your link to be clearly seen so you can get as much traffic as you can.
6. Beware of curbers. Like the people that sell cars on the side of the road (they call them curbers) you don't want to buy from some one with doesn抰 have an established business or is not working with one. If some thing goes wrong you want to have some recourse.
On Mar 11/2004 on a WebmasterWorld Forum (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/22566.htm">http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/22566.htm</a><!-- m -->) a Google engineer with the online nickname Googleguy (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/08/greets-from-googleguy.html">http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/0 ... leguy.html</a><!-- m -->) seemed to hint in a jokeing way that Google might go to guarterly updates of visible PR.
The following is what he said. "I heard that at PubCon, DaveN suggested that Google should only update the visible PR and link: data once a quarter or so...
" to which edit_g responded "Is that a hint as to a new policy or are you just messing? (somebody had to ask!) ". Googleguy never responded back nor made any more comments on that thread.Well I think it is some thing to consider. Here we are without a toolbar PR update for 94 days. To me it seems like we might be right around the corner from a toolbar update.
I have been working on my new site SEO Company (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.seocompany.ca/">http://www.seocompany.ca/</a><!-- m -->) getting ready for a big reciprocal links campaign and been thinking about how to make my offer more attractive. It seems people are more willing to give you a link if your site has high PageRank. So I worked out a deal that would get me some high PR text link ads. I talked to an internet friend that runs an online Hip Hop Jewelry (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.hiphopcapital.com">http://www.hiphopcapital.com</a><!-- m -->) site that needed a deeper crawl. He's off to get a quote on some text link ads that will give him a deeper and more regular crawls.
I thought it would be good to post some good common sense pointers when purchasing text link ads and the benefits of text link ads.
Benefits of text link ads.
1. Brings traffic to your site. In almost all cases this is your main objective. You want traffic that you can convert to sales.
2. Inbound links give weight to your ranking. You want numerous keyword anchored links from relevant pages.
3. The PageRank vote. Purchasing links solely for their PR vote is discouraged by Google. In fact some sites have had there PR transfer cut off for blatantly selling links based on PR only. Beware of these kinds of sellers. While PR is a gauge to the value of text link ad, there is more to it that than.
Things to Consider when purchasing text link ads.
1. Make sure you have an agreement that can be renewed.
2. Pick sites that have a lot of inbound links. You can judge this by what PageRank value their pages have.
3. Ask to see a print out of the stats for the last 2 months with the option to login to the stats of the site. If you are not getting a home page ask to see the stats for the traffic on the filename of the page that is being offered you. If they can't provide them go somewhere else.
4. Don't get site-wide links! If site-wides are not already devalued they probable will be soon.
5. Ask for the page and position your link will be given on a domain. You want your link to be clearly seen so you can get as much traffic as you can.
6. Beware of curbers. Like the people that sell cars on the side of the road (they call them curbers) you don't want to buy from some one with doesn抰 have an established business or is not working with one. If some thing goes wrong you want to have some recourse.