The concept of PageRank was developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University and that design led to the founding of Google by both. They were the first to display results almost exclusively due to the PageRank of sorted pages. That represented a revolution, since up to this time, the Internet search pages were only then evaluated by how often the keywords in the text and in the meta tags occurred.
PageRank was an innovation where the webmaster could no longer easily manipulate the positions in the search results pages of thier web pages just by repeating certain keywords. This novel method of valuation also attributed to the great success of the search engine Google, because much more relevant search results were delivered. But it turns out that this method of evaluation of a web page could not remain as the sole criterion, because link exchange, link buying and blog entries also affects PageRank.
PageRank is still used for the assessment of sites by Google, but with much less weight than before. Meanwhile, Google stated that the collation of results happen after more than 100 different assessment criterion are implemented, still PageRank plays a very important role.
]]>Today, reading from an entry written by Everton of ConnectedInternet, I found a plugin that allows you to do so. This plugin add http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect? automatically to all internal links within your blog. Here’s the authors description on the plugin.
The plugin scans your entire page (header, sidebar and all) and replaces any internal links (links that include your domain, like ‘iamnotashamed.net’ for my site) with the Alexa Redirect link, which simply means it adds: “http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?” to the front of your link url. For Example, in the html:
<a href=”blog.iamnotashamed.net/about-ariah-fine/”>
becomes
<a href=”http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/about-ariah-fine/”>
I certainly don’t think so. Although this sounds really promising on boosting Alexa, but will this affects google indexing? How will Google treat links that starts with redirect.alexa.com? I’ll leave the question to you. Also, by doing that, I assume Alexa will be your direct referral source on links, this can potentially screwed the accuracy of your statistics readings, especially if you are stats freak like me. I want to know exactly who click from where to where.
I’m not writing to encourage the installation of this plugin, but rather creating awareness of such.
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