My Life With IT

I know my traffic here isn’t much to shout about. I haven’t even worked towards making the Alexa rank or Technorati rank to be higher. In fact, I’m not working so hard at improving the rankings.

So, how do I improve my Alexa rank? I know I can’t do a thing about Google Page Rank though. Perhaps I should use some of the tips by Dosh Dosh in improving my Alexa rank by using the redirection method, install Firefox with Alexa toolbar and flaunt my website.

I have been linking to other sites all these time but I guess I still need time to work towards being discovered, Stumbled upon or Digged.

When my Page Rank (PR) dropped, I was upset. That was because I had spent months on this domain and managed to get it to PR3 after 4 months of hard work only to see it drop drastically to PR0 overnight. Total devastation.

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However, there is not much I can do except not to link to link farms and those suspicious looking websites that are suspiciously looking like they are culling links to increase either Technorati ranking or Alexa ranking.

When the PR changes began, everyone was trying to figure how it worked and what to do to rectify it. How PR worked to me is a mystery despite the given equations. I get more confused even with the various examples of Page A link to Page B, etc. Perhaps with a colourful spreadsheet, this would explain Page Rank better.

The effects of the number of pages also affect PR. The equation given as below:

PR(A) = 0.25 + 0.75 (10 + PR(B) + PR(C) + PR(D))

I’m not quite sure about sub domains will cause the entire domain’s Page Rank to be affected but judging from the recent turn of events, I guess it could contribute.