Today we’ve created a new simple tool you can use to see the number of links that point at your website (back links). All data is taken from Yahoo! site explorer. This tool is useful in determining the amount of work necessary to catch up to your competitors’ web sites, in terms of link popularity.  More work will be done in the future to improve the tool’s function, more to come later…

It would seem Google places quite a bit of ranking power behind “trusted” domains. For example, Matt Cutts, who works for Google, runs an internet marketing blog and decided to place a few keywords into the body text of a blog post having to do with buying cheap viagra. He then linked to the page with some identical anchor text and just a few days later was ranking in the top 5 for “Buy cheap viagra online”.

This is interesting. I’ve had a similar effect with just one link pointing to a brand new web site, limufood.com, and I was number one for a particular search phrase: “limu food“. Not that this is a competitive search phrase but it shows that Google puts high value behind the anchor text of a given link and will raise the bar for even a brand new domain. I purchased limufood.com recently and obviously is not a trusted domain (yet) but the combination of link anchor text and a domain’s age would seem to really have a major effect on rankings.

Hello everyone, today we’d like to introduce our United Kingdom Best Rank address, BestRank.co.uk. There isn’t much here but will serve as our UK internet address. More to come soon on this domain.

After many months of design, re-design and deliberation, today the new Best Rank web site layout has been put into action, check it out at http://www.bestrank.com. The new site includes a news feed from the Best Rank Blog and a cleaner navigation structure for our human users

We have a new domain name address for the Best Rank Blog, check it out!
Not much to see yet as it is just a simple landing page but more to
come in the future!

Welcome to BestRank.com’s blog website. Here you will find useful information pertaining to the world of search engine optimization and marketing. BestRank is a San Diego based search engine marketing and optimization company. Our focus is to drive quality, relevant traffic to your website through our Search Engine Optimization practices.