Does It Mean Anything when Your Site Acquires a Page Rank?

[osmolia]

From what I hear you can get decent traffic, but I've studied and took courses about this, and I decided to build my site from the ground up.

My site has been up for a year. I have 140+ pages on the site and my individual page rankings are going up each month.

Just remember Content is King and I am glad I took the longer road because I stand to be a player in the business for years to come.

Template sites was not my choice, but maybe it will work for you.

What software did you build your site with. Just looked at it and it seems pretty solid. I've been playing around with adobe dream weaver and I can get the basic layout down, but when it comes to the h1, h2, tags and all of that, i'm completely in the dark.

The site I used to build my website was wix.com...its not a template site, more like a drag and drop type deal, but there is no html or anything..i never thought websites would be this complicated.

 

[YouGotMyMoney]

isn't wix flash sites?

 

[osmolia]

I'm not too sure of what a flash site would be, thats what it says on their site...there are a lot of animations and things you can use if you choose to...what is a good site to use, that requires minimal knowledge of html and all of the tags and headings, to design a decent website?

 

[OKAdvisor]

HI Guys,

I have been reading through these forums for quite some time now and just decided to make an account and post. I dived into the seo world many many years ago and there is so much crap floating around out there I felt I should make a profile and do what I can to educate people. The problem with SEO is it changes almost every month now. Google is constantly changing their algorithm and tweaking things. Just in the last year there have been 4 significant adjustments to the way search listings are displayed and also the emphasis as to what actually ranks your page.

This might drop a bomb on everyone but when Google says "content is king" they don't really mean that.... Let me explain. In very dumbed downed terms seo comes down to link building. I know everyone hates to hear that but it does. Does content matter? Of course it does but I have ranked many pages for keywords that don't even appear in the content of the page. Content matters but not nearly as much as the links you have coming into your site from other authority sites. You can have the best most informative content in the world but unless you have other site linking to yours, Google will never take notice. Think about it, how does an alogrithm quantify "good content"? What makes my content about insurance any better then the next guys content if we both have the same level of knowledge? The answer is nothing. If you have two websites with the exact same type of content and one is just floating out there and the other your building many links to, the one with the links will rank higher. I hate to say it buts its nearly as simple as that.

Now I am not saying that SEO is simple, I am just saying that ranking a site isn't nearly as hard as complicated as everyone thinks it is. SEO is 20% on page optimization and 80% off page. You can fool around with all your heading tags and content and meta tags and all those fun things, but the real work comes in when you start to build links. You can spend countless hours building links and your placement all depends on your competition.

Say your going for the keyword "Arizona Insurance Quotes". At the moment you are competing with over 5 million other pages for that term. The first guy has 1000's of links pointing to his page. Now is his content the best? Maybe, but I would be willing to bet my life on the fact that he has A: more links and B: more links with that keyword in the anchor text.....

Anyway, I am sorta getting off topic here. I will try to post quite a bit whenever someone has questions and do my best to answer them. I was once just like everyone else and "thought" I knew how all this seo business worked. It wasn't till years of trial and error and countless frustrating hours that I began to get a handle and things and see how things worked. I will be more then happy to share my years of knowledge with anyone that asks.

Thanks Guys!

Darren

 

[BlockO]

okadvisor,
I'd be interested in knowing more about the 4 significant changes that google made to their algorithm. could you elaborate on that?

osmolia, flash sites refer to sites that involve flash animation. flash animation is bad for SEO. google doesn't like them because their bots can't read them.

 

[LuckyFace]

There are fantastic sites 10 years old that have a PR 0. So do not worry to much as long as you are being indexed.

Sure it is, PR rank is no longer makes sense, because you got PR0 websites ranking 1 on the google 1st page

 

[dyadvisor]

LuckyFace:

It sounds like you are confusing PR rank from Google with keyword phrase search placement for Google search engine look up. As time goes by it is desirable to build your website PR, but first make sure you are being indexed by Google, millions of sites are not.

I can get a client a search keyword phrase in the top 1 to 4 positions (often meaning decent traffic), even if their website Google PR is zero and there are 3,000,000 competing pages with some coming from PR1 to PR3 sites.
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Luckyface, OkAdvisor:
Wise men learn, or want to learn, and then talk.
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Annuity Campus: You have many excellent site features. Fix your main keywords from current: summary, annuity, annuities, life, continue to these:
* = keyword density/per 100 words
annuity *3.2, annuities *3.0, life *2.5, LV *2.0, information *1.7, and info *1.7

Also go to Alexa.com, your current Alexa rating should be below 1 million. Yours is at 2,141,286. It will show what keywords are attracting visitors. By changing those mentioned above it should also increase your traffic. Keep using the great combination of a reply form, opt-in box giveaway, and use of videos.
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Dan Lyles: your comments on using flash are correct, Google cannot read flash. Plus they often make clients frustrated waiting longer for your pages to load.