Ron Davies

OK, so it is something readers have been asking me about for a year or so, so maybe it isn’t that big of a revelation.

Just the same, it is a big addition coming to the RonaldDavies.com site and I believe newer readers and members will find it very useful and informative.

I plan to stay in the path I am on with teaching affiliate marketing the way it REALLY works, which is NOT the way it is being taught almost everywhere else I read about it. Interestingly enough, the sites that are teaching it incorrectly are being run by people that have no real background in affiliate marketing, let alone any financial history to back them.

In any event, if there is a specific topic you would like to see covered on Ron T.V., be it affiliate marketing in general or as it applies to professional blogging, drop me a line and we will see what we can do. I have about a dozen email requests for topics here I need to cover for existing members, but we will get through those shortly.

Have a great day!

Ron

I have been asked about this a few times, so I am going to try and clear the air as best I can.

For some time, a number of clever web 2 marketers have been sneaking “External Links” in over at Wikipedia in categories related to their keywords.

Ok. I can sense a few blank faces so I will explain…

Google ranks your site based largely on the authority and quality of the sites that link to you. This means that if WordPress.com links to you, and Google does consider WordPress.com to be an authority site, that value is passed on to your site when Google ranks you, and when they determine your Google Pagerank.

Since Wikipedia is clearly seen by Google as an authority site on literally thousands of subjects, getting a link from wiki to your site would be a good thing, no? Let’s explore this a little more deeply…

Many of the Wikipedia category pages and result pages are ranked by Google as PR 5 or even 6 in some cases. A free PR 5 or PR 6 link to your site certainly wouldn’t hurt would it?

But wait…before you knock yourself out chasing links from Wikipedia you should keep one thing in mind…

Wikipedia uses strictly “nofollow” links.

Now, this does not mean that a link from wiki to your site is not a good thing, it just means that Google does not credit your site with any of the “good stuff” that would normally have been carried to your site if Wikipedia was NOT “nofollow”, that’s all.

IMHO, a link from them must have more value than no link at all, mustn’t it?

If this kind of pursuit interests you, have a look at the video below where I linked a Wikipedia PR6 page to my affiliate program directory site called “WhichAffiliate.com”

Cheers,

Ron

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Google’s “Pagerank” system is not actually owned by Google, it is licensed to them by Stanford University, to whom Google paid about 1.2 million Google shares. Stanford since them sold the shares for a cool $336 million.

Pagerank in a nutshell:

… a PageRank results from a “ballot” among all the other pages on the World Wide Web about how important a page is..

How it is derived is shown here at Wikipedia if you are interested, but really this article concerns itself more with finding out what your Pagerank is, and even more importantly, what it is going to be the next time the system at Google runs an update.

To see what your Pagerank is right now, simply go to Google.com and install the Google toolbar, which any Internet marketer worth thier salt is using every day to simplify tasks anyway. Be sure to select the box to “Enable Pagerank”, then restart the browser, and go to any webage and you will see the result in a little graph on the Google toolbar. Mouse over the graph, and it gives you a text explanation of the rank.

Click the image below for larger version:

Google toolbar pagerank feature

Now that you know what your pagerank is currently, how can you find out what it will be after the Walmart full of Google Datacenter computers does the nexr update?

Go to a website we built specially for this purpose, www.PageRankPredition.com. There you will simply type in your site domain (this means no http://, just the www.mydomain.comsot of thing) . I also recommend you enter your email address to receive an email with your current Pagerank, as well as automatic updates should your pagerank change.

Then, click the button and the system calculates future Pagerank in a way that is completely unique to this site where:

“Our Prediction algorithm is completely different from any other system you might find. Most systems online will just use results from multiple data centers and give you an average. Our script actually gets all current results, as well as experimental results from Google labs, back-link counts from the AJAX API, MSN and Yahoo, as well as Google. We run checks based on historical data, showing which sites with similar data to current query received in an update. “

More details available on how it works and how future pagerank prediction is done.

Pagerank prediction form

Ron Davies