Need help - Critical review of my site from SEO perspective.

[badar]

Hello,

I am trying to improve Google PR of my website: http://www.badar.com.pk/index.html but it is somehow stuck at 1 for many months. Please note that PR of two sub-directories is 2 ( http://www.badar.com.pk/nishat/ and http://www.badar.com.pk/central/ ).

Your valuable critical review from SEO perspective, comments & suggestions would be of great help!

Thanks in advance,
Badar.

[irka]

Hello welcome on V7N ,

I just checked your link pop and you have 6 backlinks from google, 42 from yahoo and 170 from msn. That's soso...

Get more backlinks and your PR will grow up! How to get backlinks? Contact other websites related (or not) to your website content and ask them to trade links with you.

Good luck

[badar]

Thanks irka,

That was my analysis too but here is the actual scenario:

1- If u check back-links in Google using "link:http://www.badar.com.pk", there are only 4 websites linking back to mine.

2- If u check the same thing using Back Link Analyzer from seobook.com (http://tools.seobook.com/backlink-analyzer/) and include the 3 major engines (Google, MSN & Yahoo), then the link popularity is 24 with 9 Class-C links.

How can I improve IBL in google where as MSN & Yahoo have better results. Do u recomment any freeware utility or a very low cost paid service?

Thanks again,
Badar.

[yfs1]

Whether its 9 or 24 (Its just looking at different datacenters), it is still very low. Most of SEO is about links and you really want to at least be in the 100s in Google (As you know they don't display every link).

How are your rankings? (Which is what is really important)

[Janet]

Submit your site to as many free directories as you can. That will give you a good start on your link building.

[yfs1]

Originally Posted by Janet

Submit your site to as many free directories as you can. That will give you a good start on your link building.

And if you want to be time effecient, you can use a manual submission service. The best one I have ever come across (and I have tried out 5 or 6) is definately Directory Sumission.net - Always really quick and really inexpensive.

The person that owns it goes by the forum name "Tuning"

[badar]

Thanks yfs1 & Janet,

I certainly agree to the discusion so far. But here's another twist:

I recently made a new website: horizoncomputers.info which is a single page website and its PR is already 3. Please note following related facts:

1- horizoncomputers.info domain was created on Feb 06, 2006 where as badar.com.pk was created on May 07, 2002

2- This new website of Horizon Computers has zero back links where as mine has atleast some in Google and other SE's

Question: How come such a new website has higher PR as compared to an old one like mine?

Regards,
Badar.

[wrmineo]

NeO has a pretty neat set-up on one of his sites that really aids in this effort too - the Directory Whiz can help you get listed in hundreds of free directories in relative short order and at no expense.

[yfs1]

Originally Posted by badar

1- horizoncomputers.info domain was created on Feb 06, 2006 where as badar.com.pk was created on May 07, 2002

Age has nothing to do with PR

2- This new website of Horizon Computers has zero back links where as mine has atleast some in Google and other SE's

Question: How come such a new website has higher PR as compared to an old one like mine?

Well the first point is that SE's (especially Google) don't always show every recognized link. The PR3 site you mentioned does have at least 1 link and when it comes to PR, it isn't the number of links but the "quality". That Searchlight listing shows a PR0 in the Toolbar but that doesn't mean that is what it is. Not to mention I am willing to bet there are other links which are not displayed.

Regards,
Badar.

Unless your only aim is to sell links or do link exchanges, forget about PR and concentrate your full energy on rankings. Spending time analyzing your Toolbar PR is like a dog chasing its tail. And if you ever manage to catch it, you can be sure Google will have an unexplainable update the next day.

What would you rather have? A Toolbar PR0 that ranks Top 10 and brings in 1000's of qualified visitors or a PR4 that ranks Top 100 and brings in a few people a month?

[badar]

Top 10 is my obvious choice! Need to switch to a different forum thread

[Manish Pandey]

Well i guess yfs was querring about your current rankings...

Manish

[badar]

Infact, I agree to his comments and hence chose Top 10 ranking against certain keywords to drive more traffic rather than higher PR but listing in Top 100 resulting in lesser traffic.

The Final Verdict - Higher traffic should be the KPI (key performance indicator) of ur SEO efforts!

[WagerX]

Thanks.. good discussion.. I got soemthing out of it.