There is a quick way to see if Google has stripped your site of the ability to give and receive PR, in other words… if your website is banned.
Go to Google webmaster tools and visit the “links” report. Check your internal links if they are set to zero which is the same as your external links despite of your website having both incoming and outgoing links. Then chances are that your website has been banned.
Usually PR update happened every couple months and since the last one happened in early January 2009, I predict that the next one should be coming by mid of March. The periodic updates are the major ones, however minor adjustments keep happening in between also. If you start a blog, most likely your page rank will change from NA to 0 in a matter of a week. This does not mean that there was a PR update, it merely shows that Google knows about your blog. I have also seen pagerank drop or go up when there are no signs of any PR updates.
Ever wondered if people were talking about your website or not? And if they are, then wouldn’t you want to know who is talking about it and what are they talking about.
You can easily find this out by signing up for Alerts on Google Alerts. Just enter the keyword and your email address, choose the frequency of getting an email and the source… that’s it, your done!
Give it a try, the app is still in beta but it works great!
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It is something like WordPress but much more powerful and complex. If WordPress is suited for personal blogs or small scale websites then Joomla would be for larger more complex website.
Most webhost’s offer one click Joomla installation therefore making it very easy for your to get your website up and ready, however getting it to look good is a different ballgame. Out of the box Joomla looks very basic at the user end and you would need some good theme to make it look cool and professional.
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Most of us, when we want to start a website automatically think of a dot com domain name but since almost all the good ones are already taken we end up buying a country specific domain name. Have you ever wondered how it affects your search ranking?
I am not to sure about how other search engines handle country specific domains but Google clearly gives priority to country wise specific domains on their country search engines.
Have a look at the graphic below which I have taken from my Google Webmaster Tool page, it clearly shows that Google automatically decided that the target country is India as the domain name is India specific (.in)
This also tells you that if you are starting a website which might have a world wide audience, then you better stick to a .com or a .net