Pagerank fraud is becoming a serious problem. When someone is offering a domain name for sale, they can artificially inflate the domain’s PR. It is achieved when offending domains use a 301 or 302 redirects that point their sites to sites with a high Pagerank. This is a well known trick in the SEO (Search [...]
Inbound links serve three purposes:- (1) they add linkpop and PageRank to the site, (2) they send traffic to the site, and (3) if the link text (the text that is clicked on) is good, then the page’s rankings can be improved.
(1) for linkpop, either text or graphic links are fine, [...]
Here’s an interesting question: If a competitor really, really wanted to get rid of me and didn’t mind being unscrupulous to do it, could he set up a bad link scheme that gets me tossed out of Google’s index?
Well, maybe. Let’s just say that it might be a good idea, especially if [...]