The BIGLIST of SEM and SEO Blogs has been released and is a very good resource at looking for specific SEO related blogs. The list has been compiled from 400 websites that provide comprehensive information regarding SEO and SEM.

Although our SEO Unique blog did not make the list it is hardly surprising as we have only been live for a few months.

With our readers support we hope our information will one day make the list.

As some people do still consider seo a method of witchcraft here’s a small but effective tip for you and before you all start thinking “I know this, it’s obvious!” I still see this being missed throughout particular “seo companies” clients.

Anchor Text

Anchor text is a term you will hear a lot in the world of seo. Anchor text is the text used when creating a text internally or externally from your website. For example, if you have a 2 page website about cars (it’s an example, humour me) then the actual text you use to link each page together is called “Anchor text”.


So on your website you have a link labeled - “Click here to visit page 2” – this is your link and the actual words used count as your anchor text. The page you are linking to has lots of content about cars but because your anchor text has no mention of cars you are not utilising anchor text fully.

What some people don’t realise is that using good anchor text inside your website helps with your overall seo “score” of your website. It’s easier to navigate therefore easier for the Google bot to visit your websites pages. So ideally if you are linking to a page about cars have “Quality car repairs and car information” – this is making that particular page more relevant than “Click here to visit page 2” which will do absolutely nothing for your seo work.

This practice should always be used for internal links and external links and also with images. It’s these phrases an keywords that should match with the content of your website and that’s what Google picks up on!

Over the past few weeks webmasters all over the world have all had one thing in common.Checking their beloved websites page rank. Yes - that’s right, it’s that time of the year where Google updates everyone’s page rank. Webmasters have predicted that the date of the Q3 page rank update should have occurred by now, internet related forums are full of debates and rants on why the page rank has not yet happened.

So what’s the big deal with Page Rank (PR)?

Well, in short, page rank is a number Google assigns to your website that is supposed to represent its importance. This number (in theory) should represent how Google picks its websites when displaying search results. So if you have a website selling “cars” and your page rank is only 0 or 1 then don’t expect to get many organic hits from Google. However if your websites page rank is 7 or 8 then you should expect to be at the top of search phrases for “cars”.

Is page rank that important?

Well, in our experience we say no. We did a small test over a period of three months whereby we spent absolutely nothing, that’s right nudda! Instead we looked at some of the other ranking factors that Google uses to rank websites in searches. Areas such as content and coding were top of our agenda. We created keyword rich content and followed the seo rules when creating the Meta tags etc.

So what were our results after 3 months?

Shocked to say the least! We found that our new seo website was on the first page of SERPS (search engine page results) for quite a lot of important keywords and we spent nothing! Below are a small list of some of the keywords we feature on the first page of Google for:

1. Dmoz explained

2. Alexa explained

3. Advance white hat SEO

4. Buying pr text links

5. Buy high PR directory submissions

Conclusion

In conclusion we feel that page rank is over hyped by webmasters that sell their links at high prices, just because they have a good PR. If you are looking to sell the links on your website then we hope you get your desired page rank (within reason) and make lots of money. If you don’t hit your target, don’t panic, it’s not the end of the world, just remember content and good coding will bring you the results for free.