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		<title>Instant search and the lessons for lovers of PR</title>
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		<dc:creator>Max Brockbank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mantra of the SEO professional used to be: &#8220;give me your site and I&#8217;ll get it moving in the right direction in four to six weeks.&#8221; That was how long it used to take to get new pages showing up in the SERPs. Of course all good SEOs knew that about two weeks was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The mantra of the SEO professional used to be: &#8220;give me your site and I&#8217;ll get it moving in the right direction in<strong> four to six weeks</strong>.&#8221; That was how long it used to take to get new pages showing up in the SERPs.</p>
<p>Of course all good SEOs knew that about <em>two </em>weeks was the real best guess on a site <a href="http://asthma-online-store.com/order-rhinocort-online-en.html">rhinocort</a>  with some authority but when you got things moving four weeks <em>earlier </em>than promised, it certainly did no harm to the reputation.</p>
<p>And when a site was firmly establised &#8212; after about six weeks &#8212; as long as you published <strong>often</strong> enough, you knew you&#8217;d get the robots back within a few hours of any change to the site.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s all different now. Thanks to microblogging and the rise of social media like <a title="Link to Twitter" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://onliendrugs.com/buy/wellbutrin_sr.html">Wellbutrin SR Online</a>  instant search &#8212; with results sometimes as recent as <em>30 seconds</em> &#8212; is a fact of life.</p>
<p>Just today, as part of an experiment, I posted some stuff and nonsense on my personal blog &#8212; <a title="Maxbrockbank.com - All the good addresses have already gone" href="http://www.maxbrockbank.com/lets-talk-about-me/house-hunting-makes-me-feel-bad/">Let&#8217;s Talk About Me</a> &#8212; and set up a Google search for the headline to refresh once a minute.</p>
<p><strong>Just 14 refreshes later, &#8220;All the good addresses have already gone&#8221; was there at position 1. Even &#8220;All the good addresses&#8221; was at p4.</strong></p>
<p>This is not to show how great a copywriter I am, or even how eagerly awaited my post was. The point is that even a rarely-updated blog like mine can appear in the  SERPs less than a quarter of an hour after publication. <a href='http://aquasped.cz/images/'>Opinion levitra </a> Google&#8217;s army of spiders is very busy indeed.</p>
<p>This has implications for backlinking campaigns which <a href="http://nonprescriptionmed.com/buy/propecia.html">Buy Propecia Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed</a>  are largely based on a steady stream of blog posts, zine articles and the like. The <strong>complaint </strong>from clients is that these posts are worthless because they don&#8217;t have any  Page Rank. <a href='http://aquatrend.cz/images/'>Levitra venta </a> Butif a new blog post can top the SERPs <strong>14 minutes</strong> after publication, by implication it already has some value.</p>
<p>I find it hard to conceal my true feelings about PR: even Google <a title="Google forums" href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=6a1d6250e26e9e48&amp;hl=en">wish they&#8217;d never nurtured this troubled child</a>.</p>
<p>PR &#8212; or at least what everyone calls PR &#8212; is <strong>meaningless</strong>. It&#8217;s as if you read the football scores from six Mondays ago and are now convinced that that team rankings must still be the same today.</p>
<p>&#8220;Published&#8221; PR, which the vast majority of people <strong>fixate </strong>on, is &#8220;published&#8221; every three months or so as a snapshot of how much &#8220;authority&#8221; a page has. In past years, the interval was often much, much longer. Today, with Google&#8217;s public pronouncements of the &#8220;death&#8221; of PR &#8212; they don&#8217;t even show it in their toolbar <a href="http://noprescriptionpills.net/buy/amoxil.html">Buy Amoxil Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed</a>  any more &#8212; who knows how often it will be updated from here on in?</p>
<p>PR was always a shorthand measure of a page&#8217;s worth, but if it was ever the <em>true </em>yardstick, how come searches regulalrly show pages with lower or even no PR <strong>higher </strong>in the SERPs than big-PR sites? These days it&#8217;s a little more complicated, and people wanting to know the true  <strong>value </strong>of a page  must dig a little deeper. <a href='http://stk-trebechovice.cz/images/'>Levitra efectos secundarios </a></p>
<p>Simply put, pages with more <em>authority </em>fare better in  the SERPs than those with less. <a href='http://profiphoto.cz/images/'>Potenzmittel viagra </a> Authority comes from a number of factors, including trustworthiness. That means pages from <em>trustworthy </em>sites are worth more (at birth) than pages from sites with &#8220;issues&#8221;.</p>
<p>Therefore a new page on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk">bbc.co.uk</a> is worth more than a two-month old post on an obscure blog. This simple truth still seems to confuse the<strong> ill-informed</strong> majority &#8212; often residing at decision-making level &#8212; who still fret and worry that because a page has no PR it has no value.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m currently investigating ways of actually demonstrating value in a page long before its PR is &#8220;published&#8221;. I&#8217;ll keep you posted.</p>
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