PageRank is Nice, but is PageRank everything ?

Arham Haryadi January 10, 2008 11

I get a decent amount of Google traffic, even when I’m not writing, for terms I never intended to rank well for. I’m not an SEO expert, so I attribute this to the SEO-friendly WordPress habits I tend to practice.

PageRank is nice, it’s a good guide to how important Google thinks your blog is, but it’s not everything. Your goal should be to make the first page for terms that people are likely to use when searching for the topic.

John Chow is actually doing an interesting experiment with the term “make money online”or CosaAranda with wadah belajar Adsense for his blog topic discover.

sense of your permalinks
This is another really, really easy tip to follow through on. When you first install WordPress your URLs will probably look something like

“http://www.domain.com/page/?id=6?

It’s useless. What does a page ID of 6 mean to you, a search engine or even your visitor? It means it’s the 6th post or page you added to the site. Great.

Why not edit your permalink structure so that it looks like “http://www.domain.com/03/2008/the-title”? This means a lot more. It means the post was written in March of 2008 and even tells me what the title is. So let’s go to Options, and select the Permalinks tab. then if you have problem with .htaccess you can read my previous article.

Sense your <Title> tag

Don’t make every single page on your site has the same title then you’re making a huge mistake. Chris Pearson wrote a great article that explains how to use WordPress code to make your titles change dynamically depending on which page your on. This will help tremendously with indexing and also getting people to actually click through to your site when it shows up in Search Engines Results.

The only thing you have to do next is learn to write great headlines.

Niche your Topic

This is important for a number of reasons, but it also makes sense in relation to SEO. If you’re hoping to rank high for a term in Google, MSN, Yahoo, or any other search engine (are there any others?) it makes sense to have more than one page about that topic.

What Next ?

do some research on SEO.

read SEO topic on PetrusSEOganda,CosaAranda,Arham Journey :-) , or Pak keke on SEOkita / Markebiz……..

hey, Do you think Meta tag still help you on SEO ?

  • http://www.jimmysun.net jimmy

    I read that the Meta tag is not as useful as it was before on SEO. is that right?

    • http://blogguebo.blogspot.com Blogguebo

      Means? Sorry, I just don’t get the point of your comment. It seems interesting though.

      • http://anti-uin.org/ KaiToU

        Hmm.. interesting blog… ;)
        blon sempet pake bahasa inggris, neh :P

  • http://blogguebo.blogspot.com Blogguebo

    Well, it’s like a dilemma. PR is not everything but we still need a high PR to get more touch by other bloggers or even advertisers. I still struggle on it anyway. Trying my best. :)

  • rani
  • http://kuliweb.wordpress.com chempez

    before thinking bout PR, we should focus on how make good contents. give what our visitor looking for, then they will be our web fans :)

  • http://www.cosaaranda.com cosa

    it’s all about traffic

    as for pagerank, i think advertiser (who want traffic to their site) would start to ignore it in the future. Why? Because, according to the latest PageRank Update, it’s now VERY EASY to get a minimum PR of 3-4. Even a site with NO traffic from search engine can obtain that.

    But it’s still a nice thing to brag if you have a site with PR7 :)

  • http://goyangan.wordpress.com goyangan

    i have no PR…cuz i’m not student :D

    • http://syamsurizal.wordpress.com syamsu

      haha funny :D

  • http://bloggive.blogspot.com riff

    PR is important but is not perfect without perfect keyword too, right?
    PR and keyword important too but keyword i think is most important. Correct me if i am wrong… :) like cosa said “it’s now VERY EASY to get a minimum PR of 3-4″.

  • http://bisaku.wordpress.com toni

    So inspiriting…
    However, even if it gave you a high PageRank in all the search engines around the globe, visitor will be the last judge and they will judge based on its contents.