Link Exchange, Anyone?

[Brian Vuillemenot]

I'm tinkering with my website, so if you have a photography website and would like to exchange links with mine (link below), send me an e-mail and I'll get you linked up. Let's send our website visitors to each other's sites and not back to the evil search engines!

[Da Food Dude]

Nice work. How is your search engine placement? Do you know what you PR is?

MR

[Brian Vuillemenot]

Thanks, Food Dude. As far as what my PR is, for what search phrase are you talking about?

[Da Food Dude]

I don't think that PR is related to any "search phrase". How are you doing with your favorite search phrase on Google?

[Brian Vuillemenot]

So by pr do you mean page rank after a given search (like "landscape photography" or "California landscapes") or is there some overall pr score one can get? If so, how do I go about getting this information? Thanks!

[Da Food Dude]

Brian

This place has some pretty interesting tools.

http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools

[Greg Miller]

Brian has a Google Page Rank of "3". An easy way top check is using http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php

[Brian Vuillemenot]

Thanks for the links to the tools. Any thoughts on how a pr of 3 stacks up? Based on the low number of hits I've been getting through "that search engine", I'd think it would be pretty low, but I ran a number of other photographer's sites, and they all were between 2 and 4.

[Kirk Keyes]

Brian has a Google Page Rank of "3". An easy way top check is using http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php

My photo site has a "Page Rank" of 3 as well. My site for Lotus 30 sports racing cars has a PR of "1", but it turns up well with the search "lotus 30".

So what does this page rank refer to?

[Greg Miller]

A PR of 3 is repectable. It is difficult to get a rating over 5 unless you have some pretty serious links to your site from other highly rated sites. Google generally is not in a hurry to update its PRs so it can take a long time to see your PR affected by getting new links pointing to your site.

Where you tun up in a search result depends on the other sites' PR's plus how well they match the search criteria.

All of this has a bit of Voo Doo mystique about it - no guarantees.