Tip of the day - pass it on...
By the way, many of you seemed to have done pretty well in this update: lots of reports of increased PR - congratulations to you all!
It was also nice to see Traffic Generation Cafe to finally dig out of the trenches of PR0, where it remained for the past year since its inception, to PR4.
However, I wanted to see more than just my home page PR increase.
I wanted to see how the rest of my pages did as well, and that’s where I came to a stumbling block - turns out there’s no easy tool out there to mass check the PageRank for the inner pages of any given website.
I believe I am not the only one with this problem - there were plenty of similar questions on all kinds of forums, all with outdated links to tools that either no longer work or check home page PageRanks for multiple websites at once, not the inner pages.
Once I gave up looking for a solution and thought about it for a second - turned out to be quite a useful exercise! - I realized that I already had all the tools I needed to find all the newly updated with higher PR inner pages of Traffic Generation Cafe.
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The solution turned out to be very simple.
All I needed was:
1. The search query term site:www.trafficgenerationcafe.com typed into Google search box (to learn more about this and other Google search query terms, check out How to Use Google Search Query Terms to Learn More About Any Site);
and
2. SEO Quake Firefox extension enabled (also available for other browsers).
Allow me to illustrate:
In order to make the best out of your results, make sure to sort them by “PageRank” as shown in the top left corner - that way all your higher ranking pages will show up at the top, leaving all the “n/a” pages behind.
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SEO Quake is also a great tool when it comes down to quality one-way link building.
You can read more on how I use it to find potential places to link from in this post:
As always, don’t get too hung up on PageRank - it’s only one of 200 search engine ranking factors Google uses.
I suggest you pay more attention to finding authority blogs in a relevant niche - and then comment away!
Got a better way? Comment to show me that you’re alive!
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Thanx Ana.
But there should be other ways too. I mean, there is no perfect way, to get clear data in one swoop.
Coz, SEO’s surely not that easy.
SEO Quake is gr8, but also annoying & kind of a big mess up, for its purpose.
Atleast SERPs look very messed up with it enabled.
Also, dont think that they all have same fresh statistics. I mean all the other SEO addons too (Firefox).
- I prefer Google toolbar & SEO-SearchStatus (firefox) addons for checking the page rank & other satistics. Using 2 diff tools for verification purpose.
“Aiming for Google, use their tools.”
- Also SEO-doctor is a very helpful addon for understanding a webpage’s statistics.
- Firebug: always useful.
These are the tools that help me understand a page that I visit.
Definitely not perfect, but at least I can do it quickly - checking one page at a time is just not very productive.
Well…… for a site with large no of pages, I guess this is a very useful method then.
Thanx.
Thanks for introducing me to this great plugin Ana. I’ve been looking for something like this. Great work on the blog.
There are many uses for SEO Quake, Darren; I am sure you’d love it.
Me agrada la noticia de que empresas como Traffic Generation Cafe luchen por expandirse por nuestro país, España. España. Espero que tengan una gran evolución y apuesto que así sera, el trabajo bien organizado y solido, que dan sus frutos. Invito y animo a que más empresas pierdan el miedo a expandirse por nuestro planeta.
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Hi Ana-
This may well be a side note that I’m hoping you’ll have some insight on; I’ve been using SEO Quake for awhile. But just recently have been having an issue with seo quake and new wordpress pages…the bar’s inserting itself into new pages that I’m creating. I can remove the code in the html version but then it re-inserts itself.
This just started, so not sure what’s happening unless it’s a bug?
If you have any thoughts, I’d love to hear.
Thanks for all of your great info!
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Funny you said that: I just noticed the same behavior on a post I was drafting today. It was a post, not a page, but SEOQuake did embed itself into the post. I had to trash the post and move the content to a new one.
Must be a glitch… Hopefully temporary, but disturbing nonetheless.
What a great way to find PR of internal pages, and the ability to sort is also a great help. Surprisingly there were some PR4 internal pages although the main site has only PR2. Thanks for sharing this great information.
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Hello Ana. I know I’m always commenting that seem counter productive, but I had that add on installed for the PR and even the Alexa bar and my browzing experience went a little circus. I enable them when I’m trying to do some tweaks and report but don’t have them on all the time. Do you?
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No, it’s too annoying to have SEO quake on all the time - I agree. I only turn it on when doing my research.
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Absolutely agree. SEO Quake is useful tool, but it should not be used all the time. It’s almost always OFF in my Chrome.
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Hi Anna
Great tip! I never thought of using it for my own websites!
Unfortunately I am away from my work computer that has Firefox and all the goodies I use so I can’t try it out..
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Well, a nice tutorial, Ana, for anyone interested in more technical way, I’ve already had a PHP method for this: http://www.intenseblog.com/tutorials/check-pagerank-of-all-pages-within-site.html
Maybe you will find this interesting too.
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A bit too over my head, Jenni, but thanks for the link - some of my more technical readers might find it to be a great solution.
Hi Ana, yes, I’m alive and kicking. Laughing even now after seeing that picture.
I just got PR for the first time at Successful Blogging of 3 so congrats to you on your 4, that’s sensational.
What I don’t understand is how commenting on blogs helps improve page rank or search engine ranking as I thought most big blogs used the “no follow” tag for comments…
Such a lot to learn:)
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Some do and some don’t Annabel, but the point is you still need both dofollow and nofollow links to rank well on Google - if you have both types, your linking will appear natural and that’s exactly what you need.
Congrats on your PR as well!
SEO Quake Firefox extension is the key to all things PR, I use exactly how you have outlined here, but I honestly never used the ‘sort by PR’ option - LOL - I’ve always gone trawling through all the results one at a time! GREAT TIP, funny whats right infront of your eyes yet it’s missed
Lol - yes, it happens!
Wow Ana - just used this tool and was very enlightening. Is a little overwhelming to think about how to prioritize which posts to try to get a better ranking on first!
Hi Ana,
I was suprised by the PR update as well. In your experience how often does Google make their updates to PR visible per year?
It used to be every quarter, Chris, but as of late, it’s about once every six months or so.
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This is really helpful Ana, going to check out that tool. Got our first page rank after 3 months life on the URL - PR 2 - so pretty happy with that. Thanks for your advice along the way.
Geoff
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That’s great, Geoffrey - well done!
Congratulation on your brilliant success related to page rank. It is great achievement and you have earned a lot in blogging.
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Hi Ana,
I just noticed that I have commented more than once on this post. I have been having problems with Akismat which is not letting me comment on certain websites, in frustration I ended up commenting multiple times on this post.
Please delete my duplicate comments, they all convey the same message - How much I like your website
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That’s no problem, Sam!
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Congratulations on your PR4 ranking - I believe your website deserves better ranking, I guess Google bot is limited in what it can see
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It will increase, I’m sure
(I hope!)
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congratulations on the increase, I too came into work this morning and found we had gone from a 0 to a 3, would like to think my methodical efforts are finally paying off.
Thanks Aggy and well done to you too!!! I agree - work brings results!
Hey anna,
Really I wanted to thanks for the post from bottom of my heart because I despiratly need some tool like this after last PR updation of google I wanted to check page rank of some sites which are containing more than 2500 pages in it throught your trick this work going to be easier now.
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It should work. Glad you stopped by, Shweta.
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You have provided nice tip. This is some thing which is infront of us and we don’t know to use it.
But If you have a list of websites, as I have a list of press release distribution websites’ list. Google has changed the Page Ranks and I have to recheck for all websites in my list. For this purpose, I use a tool, we put a list of websites or pages in it, and it returns us their accurate page ranks.
This is really an awesome tool to check bulk page ranks.
Thanks Ross. I am glad you found a helpful tool.
Thanks for appreciation. No doubt, we found new tools when we have to use them. As I found this when I was searching for some thing to check my list’s updated page rank.
But I am happy that you care your commenter.:)
Congrats for the PR4 for your blog Ana. I used the SEO quake extension before, but I ended up uninstall it after a while. I can remember the reason. Anyhow, this is a good and quick tips to check the PR of all your pages.
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Thanks for these great tips Anna. These tips are extremely beneficial. These are things that anyone can easily do to improve a blog.
You’re most welcome, Shilpi!
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for internal pages to rank well we need very good hard work on deep linking.
and weight age should be given to each and every page
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No problem , I like your blog and I will visit it regularly.
thanks for replying.
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Thank you for the useful tip on SEO. Currently I am using WebRankStats extension. This works cool. But has a serious disadvantage as well. It just checks the rank of the domain even when we are on other pages. I would love to use SEO Quake.
Thanks for visiting, Andrew. Yes, SEO Quake is about the best.
I have been using SEO quake for a while, but this didnt hit me until now. A good way to check inner pages. Although I believe PR is not worth a lot of our time.
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Yes, it is a good way to check the pages. I disagree on the PR not being worth a lot of time though.
It’s tips like these that keep me coming back Ana. Using this showed me that while most of my pages have no PR at all (yay fun) some of my blog posts are PR 2! Go figure…
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Most of the online internal pagerank checkers I have tried are limit to a certain number of pages like 100 or something. I used to have a decent internal checker that would crawl pages query google and tell you the rank. It did a lot more than 100 internal, but it seems to only work with windows xp and earlier. Can’t seem to get it to work with newer software anymore. Seo quake is decent, but if you make to many queries to fast google may block the rank in the toolbar for your for 30 mins to 1 hour. The key is to check slowly with it.
Thanks for that tip, Ray!
Anna if you need your internal pages with good rank too, then you must post twice a week not daily, and then keep working on them and see how it goes.
Thanks, Usman!
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I am really happy about your PR4 rank, if it was not for a Bot you would have got a much higher rank. Congratulations!
Thank you, Sam. You are right.
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Congratulations on your PR4 rank, It will really be great if you could keep us updated on what the new ranking is doing to your traffic.
Thanks Sam! I will do.
Another great post, Ana.
Congratulations on that PR 4.
My guesstimate would have been in the ballpark of between PR 3 - 5.
The fact of my turning up to your site and seeing PR N/A was insulting, to say the least.
I new something was amiss, as I seen many sites with almost zilch content(Poor quality) which were ranked between PR 0-3.
Seo quake is a fantastic, easy to use tool. Though, it can become quite addictive.
As to your instructions on using SEO quake(After entering site search query term to Google) to check all pages for relative PR, this would be of great help. Especially for sites with plenty of pages.
My site not being too large, I tend to check my pages(Individually)( PR, Alexa ranking ,etc) usually a little while after publishing a new post, or having gone back and done major renovations on older posts.
Congratulations again, on the move up the PR ladder. You certainly have earned it.
Daniel.
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Thank you, Daniel. Yes, it can be a bit addictive
. It is interesting to see how it changes with “renovations”.
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Ana:
Being a new blog, it was nice to see PR increase for the blogs I read. Hoping for good stuff next time around. At least now I will know how to go about checking everything out.
Thank you for always showing us “how” to do things!
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Hey Ana,
Awesome post!!
I have often wondered the best way to check PR on all of the pages on my site. The wondering is over.
I just added SEO Quake to my firefox browser and went to google to check my site. To my astonishment, my home page is now getting a PR of 3 and many of my posts are getting a page rank of 2.
Considering that my site has only been up since Dec of last year, I am very happy with those results. Now to get more traffic.
Thanks for sharing this Ana and have a great day!
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That’s GREAT, Ian! Well done!
Hi Ana,
It is funny that we always want to keep us from being obsessed with the PR but it feels great when there comes a rise isn’t? And then for at least a couple of days, we check our internal pages, we check our competitors, A-listers and so on. I was bit obsessed 2 days after the update. Anyways nice tip here.
BTW: I got a message that I should login to comment here. Is it just me (my browser?) or have you tightened up your fences?
Jane.
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I noticed your PR 4, looks good on you! And you are more than deserving of it.
Always great content!
I wanted to ask, what plugin are you using for the related posts that has the opt in form built in? It looks awesome!
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SEO Quake slows down my browser. iPageRank extension for chrome does the same job as SEO Quake it doesn’t affect my browser.
Glad you found a solution!
I have looked the ipagerank website. They say that they don’t check google links. Does this work for you with google links?
I must admit that I installed the SEO Quake Firefox extension a long time ago, but never really used it. After reading your post, I’m going to revisit this useful tool. Thanks!
I hope you like benefit from it this time around, Simon.
I would certainly not “obsess” about PR, but I must admit it is nice to see it trickle up a bit.
I have a pet theory that for the past year plus Google has been throttling the results for some reason. (maybe to get it in peoples head that PR is not that important)
For instance there is no way your site “just” got a PR 4. I am sure it has been that way since (well before) the last update…. at least pr3 during the last.
Anyhow, who can “really” know.
Congrats on the PR4. I got a PR4 this last update too…I know it certainly “feels” good…even if it really means very little.
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Congratulations on your improved PR Ana… I can’t believe the number of people who still aren’t familiar with the SEO Quake addon. It’s been a life saver for me many times. But I guess we all have to start somewhere right.
Thanks for this tip for checking out our other pages. Sometimes I just forget about them which isn’t always a good thing. Not when it comes to Google.
Have a wonderful day!
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You’re most welcome, Adrienne. For me it is a lifesaver too.
Hi Ana,
Seo quake plugin is very useful no doubt about that. In this post again it proves very useful.
Hi Ana,
congratulations to your new page rank, it was well deserved and overdue, was it not ? I guess the PR is one of a few visible factors people take into account when they look at a website, just like the Alexa Ranking. Like a nice car and a tidy house…
Thanks for recommending SEO quake - it’s the second post I read about it today. So I guess it means I really should have a look at it
Thanks for sharing your insights.
Take care
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It’s a great tool indeed, Oliver - there are many things you can do with it.
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Love it and thanks for the reminder. Totally forgot I already had SEOQuake installed but decided to disable it for quite a while. Actually this is also a great method for analyzing and perhaps do some “link building” on competitors and other websites
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I’ve been using it for that very purpose for a while now, Francisco - I think you should definitely “unretire” your SEOQuake.
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Hi Ana, I just tried your recommendation and it worked perfectly. By the way, I’m glad to announce to you that my new blog which I started 16 days ago is now with a page rank of 2. I’m so glad.
Thanks for sharing practicable tips - it’s priceless to me!
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You are so very welcome, Michael.
As far as your PR2 is concerned, I hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but PR2 for a 16 day old blog? Makes me want to shove this whole PR thing down the toilet for sure…
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Thanks Ana, I never took it the wrong way. Actually, this my domain name wasn’t a new one. It’s been packed for a year now. I never updated any content on it.
It was last month that I decided to turn it into a blog where I can network with other successful bloggers. I believe the age of the domain has a lot to do with increasing my PR from 0 - 2.
All the same, I’m not taking the wrong route or any black SEO tactics, i shall keep you updated.
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Haha,
I have to agree with Ana. 16 days to get pagerank when some people have been waiting for a YEAR or more for a move in PR seems almost shocking.
It is almost like you haven’t paid your dues in suffering at Googles hand.
Anyhow, that is not YOUR fault. I do not mean to sound bitter! (Although I am sure I do)
Great job! You FOR SURE had to do the right things quickly to get that!
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Hello Steve,
Thanks for commenting. If you ask me, I have not suffered on Google’s hand and I hope never to. Some of my colleagues who used back door for their backlinking had to pay for it recently during the Google update.
I’m just touring the right path and hopefully, success is sure.
By the way, I checked your blog, it’s charming and full of helpful content.
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Ana - Useful tip. Thanks. PageRank is a controversial subject in the search forums. While I would not obsess about it and remain aware that it is nothing more than a metric from Google about the link popularly of a page, I also think it is foolish not to consider this metric when it is fresh. My guestimate is that about 20% of the weight in Google search relevance algorithm is based on link popularity, the metric measured by PageRank. It’s widely assumed that a link profile that includes exterior links to both your landing page and interior pages is optimum for ranking, well, so this tip is great for checking on the link popularity of interior pages
You and I both know, Randy, that Google doesn’t necessarily update toolbar PageRank with their true latest numbers - those “fresh” numbers could already be legging behind by months.
It’s amazing how many bloggers focus on building home page links only, isn’t it? Big mistake.
Ready your article on SEP - nicely done!
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This is what I was dong anyway..it very easy and don’t take anytime at all. Here you can see who did well and who you need to work on.
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