SEO Newbie Question ?

Ozpoker · #1 11-29-2006, 12:39 AM

Okay I've got SEO Elite

Now everyone is quoting PR ranks which I though was page ranks.

But what keywords are your PR ranks returned on? When someone quotes PR6 and they're from http://www.abcdefg.com site - is that for keyword "abcdefg" or what?

Firstly let me say I am committing the first seo crime or having my site on redirection - my site - http://www.ozpoker.net.au is redirected to http://ozpoker.proboards46.com/

I had alway intended on using proboards temporarily and then moving on to the main site but the probaords site has grown so much and to be honest it looks reasonably good now and is easy to use so I'm not sure I will move any time soon.

The problem is I am always going to struggle with google as they hate proboards sites and I have most of my links to the www.ozpoker.net.au as the proboards address looks amateurish ( I am, I admit it ) and is difficult to remember.

But using SEO Elite for keywords "oz poker", "oz poker league" and "ozpoker" I am rank "1" at altavista for ozpoker.net.au and rank 3 at google for "oz poker league" on ozpoker.proboards46.com

It doesn't say anything about page numbers and if you search it is literally 1 in the list or 6 in the list.

Anyone care to help an idiot understand?

PPP · #2 11-29-2006, 04:06 AM

Page rank isn't how a page ranks in the search results. It's a number on the Google toolbar. Download it and you'll see: http://toolbar.google.com

SunPoker.com · #3 11-29-2006, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ozpoker

But using SEO Elite for keywords "oz poker", "oz poker league" and "ozpoker" I am rank "1" at altavista for ozpoker.net.au and rank 3 at google for "oz poker league" on ozpoker.proboards46.com

In addition, I would concentrate on trying to rank for some more popular keyword terms. I can't imagine many people are searching for ozpoker in the grand scheme of keyword phrases. You will have to branch out your keyword targeting.

Mark

Ozpoker · #4 11-29-2006, 04:56 PM

so let me get this right - this is some sort of google toolbar thing?

And when people say they are PR"x" and then don't offer what the keyword is that they rank that for does'nt really mean that much - it could be any highly selective keyword ? - is that right ?

Obviously the goal then is to rank highly for popular keywords in your niche market ? - so for mine it would be "australian poker" or "aussie poker" or some of the sites we promote?

And the holy grail would be "poker bonus codes" or similar?

kaus · #5 11-29-2006, 08:17 PM

Oz have you been able to submit a sitemap using your proboard? Its the only thing I am having difficulty with.

PPP · #6 11-29-2006, 08:45 PM

Ozpoker, pagerank has nothing to do with ranking for any term. As I said, if you install the google toolbar you will see what it is. Very roughly, PR represents the link power of a web page.

Ozpoker · #7 11-29-2006, 11:16 PM

Kaus

No not yet - but I haven't put much effort in to it either.

Maybe some of the guru's here could tell us how to make it work ?

PPP

I tried - this is an old NT and I can't install

I will install on the other tonight and hopefully it will all make sense.

Cheers