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	<title>Web Hosting Mind &#187; SEO</title>
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	<description>From the founder of T35 Hosting, comes the web hosting blog! Come experience the Web Hosting Mind and get a sneak peek into the news, technology, and issues of free web hosting!</description>
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		<title>Using HostSEO.org to Dominate Search Engine Results</title>
		<link>http://www.webhostingmind.com/seo/using-hostseo-org-to-dominate-search-engine-results.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Melen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Using HostSEO.org to Dominate Search Engine Results SEO hosting is the most important tool for a webmaster who wants to improve search engine rankings through link building. Typically, when webmasters link up their own websites to each other, they do so through a single IP address. This can prove to be very problematic for link [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Using HostSEO.org to Dominate Search Engine Results</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.hostseo.org">SEO hosting</a> is the most important tool for a webmaster who wants to improve search engine rankings through link building. Typically, when webmasters link up their own websites to each other, they do so through a single IP address. This can prove to be very problematic for link building due to the nature of the search engine spiders. These spiders will often times either ignore or assign lower value to inbound links from domains located on the same IP address. As such, webmasters who own multiple domains are constantly seeking new ways to link up their websites without running into the issue of devalued links. One method of doing that is through SEO hosting services such as HostSEO.org.</p>
<p>HostSEO.org allows you to host your domain on one server with different unique c-class IP’s, making the search engines identify those domains as owned by different people. Having the search engines think your websites are unique and different means you get all the SEO benefits of link building without compromising any link juice. While this does not necessarily provide you with more links from your websites, this does ensure that the links between your websites are considered inbound links from outside sources. If you have several PR5 websites all linking to each other, hosting them on separate c-class IP addresses will allow them to pass their full link juice to your other websites. This will provide you with an array of high quality backlinks, elevating your website to higher search engine positions and increasing both visibility and traffic.</p>
<p>HostSEO.org additionally ranks as one of the best SEO hosting services. As one of the fastest growing hosting companies with over 5,000 people currently using their services, HostSEO.org offers 99.9% uptime with a 30 day money back guarantee. HostSEO.org’s reliable service is backed by a 24/7 help desk and 8 hour live chat service manned by a helpful and knowledgeable staff. In fact, HostSEO reviews from ReviewGuru.com stand at an impressive 97% Excellent score.</p>
<p>What makes HostSEO exceptional is the fact that not only do they provide superior hosting services, but their prices are also incredibly competitive with hosting services of lower quality. Starting at prices as low as $13/month, HostSEO allows you to experience the results of SEO hosting without the financial burden. Testimonial from a satisfied customer said HostSEO was far superior to HostGator, a claim that many other web hosting services can only dream of. As a subdivision of T35 Hosting, one of the largest web hosts in the world, HostSEO provides reliable servers that allow your site to load faster without any downtime.</p>
<p>Creating back links is the most effective way to improve search engine ratings. HostSEO.org lets you mount a very effective link building campaign for your websites from <a href="http://www.hostseo.org">unique c-class IP</a> addresses without being hindered by major search engines.</p>
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		<title>Back Link Build Partners with T35 Web Hosting to Promote SEO Services, Launches Revolutionary HostSEO.org</title>
		<link>http://www.webhostingmind.com/web-hosting/back-link-build-partners-with-t35-web-hosting-to-promote-seo-services-launches-revolutionary-hostseo-org.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Melen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Hosting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buy backlinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[link building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seo hosting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Backlink Build has partnered with T35 Hosting, to create HostSEO.org, a new revolutionary service that allows you to host multiple domains each on separate class C-IP addresses. The SEO company hopes that this new hosting plans will help webmasters who want to take advantage using SEO service to increase the popularity of their website. New [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Backlink Build has partnered with T35 Hosting, to create HostSEO.org, a new revolutionary service that allows you to host multiple domains each on separate class C-IP addresses. The SEO company hopes that this new hosting plans will help webmasters who want to take advantage using SEO service to increase the popularity of their website. </strong></p>
<p><em>New Jersey – June 9, 2011 –</em> HostSEO.org gives webmasters the ability to assign unique class C-IP’s to each domain. Each Class C-IP address costs $5, which great considering you receive 20GB of space and 2000 GB of bandwidth as well as an instant backup service.  There is no limit to the amount of unique class C-IP’s one could buy and the amount of domains one could have on each class C-IP. However, in order to get the full value of SEO hosting each domain should have its own IP. Another benefit to using the SEO web hosting service is that you could manage all your domains under one WHM account.  In addition, just like Backlink Build, HostSEO.org has a live chat feature to help users who are new to SEO and SEO web hosting.</p>
<p>Hosting on Unique IP’s determines how well a webmaster can increase his search engine rankings. It’s no secret that all major search engines, including Google, partially determine your website ranking based on the sites that link to you; and webmasters typically have multiple sites linked together to improve their backlink hits. The more times web users hit the backlinks the more the higher the website ranking; however, the ingenuity  of search engines allowed them to determine if your sites are all hosted under the same server. Therefore, search engines will not rank increase your website ranking if they find out all of your sites under the same server. Nevertheless, HostSEO.org allows you to host all of your websites from one server but on unique class C-IP’s. Search engines cannot determine whether your sites are on the same server, thereby allowing you to pass link juice when linking your sites.</p>
<p>Additional Services offered by all HostSEO.org Plans:</p>
<ul>
<li>cPanel and WHM Control Panel</li>
<li>Private Name Server Support</li>
<li>Unlimited MySQL Databases, Domains, Email Accounts, and cPanel Accounts</li>
<li>PHP, MySQL, CGI/Perl &amp; Python Support</li>
<li>One-Click Script Installer</li>
<li>Advanced Stats / Logs</li>
<li>CRON Job Support</li>
<li>24x7x365 Support</li>
<li>Premium Network</li>
<li>No Contract and money Back Guarantee</li>
<li>99.9% Uptime Guarantee</li>
</ul>
<p>Backlink Build, a web development and SEO expert company, was founded in 2009 and has since developed relationships with over 400 clients engaging in numerous niches. The company’s <a href="http://www.backlinkbuild.com/">website</a> offers unique and highly integrated <a href="http://www.backlinkbuild.com/linkbuildingpackages">SEO packages</a> with a combination of backlinks, blogging, social bookmarking, and directory submissions. <a href="http://www.t35.com">T35 Hosting</a> was founded in 1997 as a free web hosting company. Currently, it boasts a total of 1.8 million customers and it continues to grow every day. It also offers paid web hosting services with unlimited domain hosting.</p>
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		<title>Buy Millions of Do-Follow Backlinks for Cheap</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Melen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are still selling footer links on our T35 Hosting Network. With over 1,500,000 sites and over 15,000,000 pages, you can instantly get millions of backlinks and receive and instant boost in SEO and Traffic. The links are sold on a monthly basis and get 150-350 clicks/day. Our network is quantcast &#38; compete.com verified and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are still selling footer links on our T35 Hosting Network. With over 1,500,000 sites and over 15,000,000 pages, you can instantly get millions of backlinks and receive and instant boost in SEO and Traffic. The links are sold on a monthly basis and get 150-350 clicks/day. Our  network is quantcast &amp; compete.com verified and ranked in the top 2,500 sites in the  US. Please shoot me an email at alex1@t35.com if you’re  interested. Mention that you this offer on our blog and I’ll throw in  a special discount!</p>
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		<title>Millions of backlinks for pennies!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Melen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those interested, I wanted to let everyone know that we finally have one footer text link spot opening on our free hosting network. This spot, sold on a monthly basis, gives you millions of backlinks on our free hosting network while also giving you 150-350 clicks/day. Our network is quantcast verified and ranked in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those interested, I wanted to let everyone know that we finally have one footer text link spot opening on our free hosting network. This spot, sold on a monthly basis, gives you millions of backlinks on our free hosting network while also giving you 150-350 clicks/day. Our network is quantcast verified and ranked in the top 2,500 sites in the US. We get over 4,000,000 unique monthly visitors with over 20,000,000 monthly impressions. Please shoot me an email at alex1@t35.com if you&#8217;re interested. Mention that you found out from this blog and I&#8217;ll throw in a special discount!</p>
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		<title>Link Building and Purchasing Backlinks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Melen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Money Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Link building is the most important aspect in getting a website the priority placement on various major search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Therefore one might call link building as one of the more powerful promotional tool on the web. The advantages availed of a successful link building process is An increased traffic to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://www.backlinkbuild.com/" target="_blank">Link building</a></strong> is the most important aspect in getting a website the priority placement on various major search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Therefore one might call link building as one of the more powerful promotional tool on the web. The advantages availed of a successful link building process is</p>
<ul>
<li>An increased traffic to your      site</li>
<li>Higher visibility on various      search engines.</li>
<li>Savings on a lot of      promotional expenses.</li>
</ul>
<p>Another way to move up the ladder on the rank list of the search engines is to <strong><a href="http://www.backlinkbuild.com/" target="_blank">buy backlinks</a>.</strong> However this method includes a lot of expenditure as one need to buy a lot of backlinks, which, besides also need to be relevant. If you have the money, then it’s no problem. Buy backlinks is an investment as it sooner or later helps you bag in good amount of lead generation.</p>
<p>In the process of link building we can also employ the help of<strong> <a href="http://www.backlinkbuild.com/" target="_blank">link building service</a></strong> firms. These link building service firms may come out with packages which are ideal for the websites that are newer and desire to be indexed and ranked high in various commonly used search engines.</p>
<p>Thus buying backlinks and taking help from professional link building service firms help in link building and increasing the link popularity. Link popularity here, meaning the link numbers that point to your website from various other sites. Also one might add that it is not the quantity but quality of the links that is important and matters at the end.</p>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s new site ranking service: Google Ad Planner</title>
		<link>http://www.webhostingmind.com/industry-news/google-to-unveil-an-alexa-type-site-ranking-service.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Melen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Industry News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reported last night that Google is close to offering a website ranking service that would compete with Alexa as well as the paid offerings from Comscore and Nielson Online. Google&#8217;s service will of course be free and instantly sent shares of ComScore (SCOR) down in late trading. This is particularly interesting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Wall Street Journal reported last night that Google is close to offering a website ranking service that would compete with Alexa as well as the paid offerings from Comscore and Nielson Online. Google&#8217;s service will of course be free and instantly sent shares of ComScore (SCOR) down in late trading. This is particularly interesting since Comscore&#8217;s article earlier this year about Google&#8217;s decline search traffic (and specifically clicks on search ads) sent Google&#8217;s stock down almost 20% over a two week period.</p>
<p>I checked with several industry insiders and the rumors I&#8217;m hearing are that this service will be very accurate and fundamentally different from alexa (which ranks your site in a relative scale compared to other sites). I&#8217;m even hearing that Google plans to get the data from actual web servers (raw numbers!).</p>
<p>T35 is currently ranking top 5,000 on Alexa:</p>
<p><img src="http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?o=l&amp;c=1&amp;f=555555&amp;u=t35.com&amp;u=&amp;u=&amp;u=&amp;u=&amp;r=6m&amp;y=t&amp;z=3&amp;h=200&amp;w=450" title="t35 alexa" alt="t35 alexa" height="200" width="450" /><br />
I wonder how well we would do when Google ranks us? One thing is for sure, this service will definitely give more ammo to the internet marketers of the &#8216;net.</p>
<p><strong>June 30th Update:</strong> The service is officially in beta, and I have been playing around with it all evening. It looks really cool and will probably put a lot of companies out of business.</p>
<p>Here are some screenshots:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.webhostingmind.com/images/googlemediaplanner1.gif" title="google media planner1" alt="google media planner1" height="200" width="450" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.webhostingmind.com/images/googlemediaplanner2.gif" title="google media planner2" alt="google media planner2" height="200" width="450" /></p>
<p>It still seems a little buggy, for example T35 Hosting shows up in the &#8220;Body Builder&#8221; category, and the stats don&#8217;t seem close to the actual numbers. Still, once the bugs are fixed and they are out of beta, I think this will become the premier internet marketing tool.</p>
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		<title>Anchor Text Variations &amp; Other SEO Tweaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Melen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[T35 Hosting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even with all our recent tweaks, t35 doesn’t seem to be doing too well in terms of SEO. After a recent seo analysis, it was brought to my attention that it might be impacted by the anchor text of the sites that link to us. In particular, about 99% of our anchor text is ‘free [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even with all our recent tweaks, t35 doesn’t seem to be doing too well in terms of SEO. After a recent seo analysis, it was brought to my attention that it might be impacted by the anchor text of the sites that link to us. In particular, about 99% of our anchor text is ‘free web hosting’, including all of the 6,000,000+ member pages on which we have a footer text link on.</p>
<p>Apparently, Google might consider this somewhat of a ‘google bomb’ where someone tries to manipulate the ranking of a site with millions of links with the same keyword. So for our latest SEO tweak/test I decided we are going to try to vary these a little bit.</p>
<p>The game plan is to dynamically rotate the 6,000,000 back links we have from member pages so they contain different anchor text each time the page loads. So in effect, we went from 100% weight on “free web hosting” to 15% &#8220;Free PHP Hosting&#8221;, 25% &#8220;Free Website&#8221;, 25% &#8220;Free Web Hosting&#8221;, 10% &#8220;Free Hosting&#8221;, 10% &#8220;T35 Hosting&#8221;. It’s difficult to tell if this will boost our overall ranking or just hurt “free web hosting” while improving the others. At the same time, I’m somewhat scared to lose our top 10 “free web hosting” listing on yahoo. This should be very interesting, and I’ll keep you guys updated as soon as I see any ranking changes.</p>
<p>On a similar (SEO) note, our brand new directory site seems to have dropped off from google a few weeks ago. The only major tweak we made recently was going from domain.com/category/ to domain.com/category.html. I asked on several forums but couldn’t get a definitive answer as to which is better for SEO. I’m going to try changing it back and see if it helps. I’ll keep you guys posted!</p>
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		<title>Do link exchanges still help SEO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Melen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With all the changes going on with the google algorithm I decided to find out if link exchanges still greatly impacted search engine rankings. As you can probably guess the main keyword we target for this blog is &#8216;web hosting blog&#8217;. When this site was just launched, it received a lot of attention (and a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With all the changes going on with the google algorithm I decided to find out if link exchanges still greatly impacted search engine rankings. As you can probably guess the main keyword we target for this blog is &#8216;web hosting blog&#8217;. When this site was just launched, it received a lot of attention (and a lot of links) which quickly propelled us to the top spots for our keywords. Since then, most of the attention has dwindled down and we now barely crack the top 30 for the same keywords.</p>
<p>In an experiment to try to validate the importance of link exchanges, I am going to try to get several other established sites (PR3 and above) to link us with the keyword &#8216;web hosting blog&#8217;. Although I&#8217;ll check back in with the results, everyone should be able to monitor the progress of this test by simply seeing how well we are moving up in the rankings for &#8216;web hosting blog&#8217;.</p>
<p>My gut feeling is that although most people have disreguarded link exchanges in recent months (since google started penalizing for the practice), it is still perhaps the best way to get better rankings from the search engines.</p>
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		<title>Do site titles matter in Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Melen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After spending countless hours researching and trying out SEO techniques, I decided it might be a good idea to share some of the experiments with everyone else. For this specific test, I wanted to know if changing a site title would have an impact on the search engine rankings. Although most SEO experts agreed that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After spending countless hours researching and trying out SEO techniques, I decided it might be a good idea to share some of the experiments with everyone else. For this specific test, I wanted to know if changing a site title would have an impact on the search engine rankings. Although most SEO experts agreed that a good title would increase your CTR once in the listings, very few were confident in how big of an impact it would make on the rankings themselves.</p>
<p>Most importantly, I was trying to find out if putting your keyword first (instead of your site title) would make a difference. For example: Is “T35 Hosting – Free Web Hosting” worse than “Free Web Hosting – T35 Hosting”.</p>
<p>Although no experiment with search engines is ever perfect, I tried to put in some controls and changed nothing except the title for an entire 2 weeks. In addition I used two search engines (Google and Yahoo) for this experiment.</p>
<p>Yahoo with old title:</p>
<p>Rank #11</p>
<p>Yahoo with new title:</p>
<p>Rank #10</p>
<p>Google with old title:</p>
<p>Rank #90</p>
<p>Google with new title:</p>
<p>Rank #86</p>
<p>Surprisingly, the new title increased the search engine rankings (although only by a little) on both Google and Yahoo! Although I still think it’s better to have your site name first (for usability), the search engines apparently prefer your keyword first. In addition, click through rate on my listings also went up! There you have it folks &#8212; titles do make a difference. Although I don’t think a title will make or break your rankings, it’s a contributing factor (albeit a small one) on both Google and Yahoo.</p>
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		<title>Google Page Rank Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Melen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who follow Google Page Rank, this has been a pretty exciting week. After an almost 6 month wait, Google has finally updated the rank value it assigns web sites (which then contributes to how well the sites rank in the search engine results).  The major change for this update has been [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">For those of you who follow Google Page Rank, this has been a pretty exciting week. After an almost 6 month wait, Google has finally updated the rank value it assigns web sites (which then contributes to how well the sites rank in the search engine results).<span>  </span>The major change for this update has been in the way Google looks at “paid links”. For years, webmasters have used the google page rank of their site to trade, buy and sell links.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For example, if you were to start a new website, you would have a starting page rank (PR of 0). To reaise your PR you would have to get sites with a higher PR to link back to you. This would in effect put sites with high PR in a good amount of power. They could now sell links on their site, and the higher PR, the more money they could get for the links.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Google has obviously never been a fan of this. They want sites to link to you because you have quality content, not because you paid them off. In effect, you would be cheating the google algorithm and make google think you are a good site that deserves to be higher in rankings (while in reality, you just paid off some high PR sites).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After several months of speculation, Google has finally rolled out their “paid link penalization” page rank update. Although this in itself wasn’t surprising, the kind of sites that got hit is shocking. Forbes, New York Times, and many other notable web properties were hit the hardest. In fact, Forbes.com now has a measly page rank of 4, while our three new websites that were started just a month ago now rate at PR5!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><img src="http://www.webhostingmind.com/images/prupdate.jpg" title="pr update" alt="pr update" height="119" width="439" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On that note, although I don’t claim to be an SEO expert, I have been experimenting with some SEO for our new websites. Surprisingly, I must have figured out the correct formula because all 3 of our new sites were ranked at PR5 &#8211; something that is unheard of for a brand new website! Unfortunately, those rankings came at a cost of lowering T35.com from PR6 down to PR5. I am hoping that once the next PR update rolls around, the new sites will be considered *established* and will boost T35 to PR6-7 instead of dragging it down to 6.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>With Google now officially frowning on paid links, and even link exchanges, I wonder how this will impact the web development landscape? At the same time, more and more people are becoming frustrated with the vagueness of the Google page rank. It might be a good opportunity for another company to come out with their own site ranking tool. Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.com are all good candidates.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would love to hear some feedback from all of you guys. How was your site affected by the new page rank update? Do you plan to change the way you conduct business (link exchanges, etc..)?</p>
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