Comments on: SERPs: What does it mean?

By: PREP adds tool to speed up owner verification of sites | SEO Info Now

PREP adds tool to speed up owner verification of sites | SEO Info Now — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:58:27 +0000

[...] Lastly, the addition of the tool is simple to setup. For members of PREP, all you need to do is log into your dashboard. Then go to Settings on the left side and look for “Fast Verification”. Once there, click on the link. When it opens, there will be four large blanks. Below all four will be 4 different links to each of the respective sites. Click on each and look for the code that it is requesting in the examples below each blank. As always, if you have issues, please call one of admins. Unfortunately, this is not something that we can do for you. With that said, it is definitely something that I highly recommend that each person uses. In the long run, it can help you show up higher in SEO and SERP. [...]

By: Danny Thornton

Danny Thornton — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:21:43 +0000

Sy, you are correct on the Page Rank. With that, I know that Google is now going to calculate your site speed as the measure of importance. As for PR, if you look into Webmaster Tools in Google, it has been removed.

By: hospitalera oes tsetnoc

hospitalera oes tsetnoc — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:03:27 +0000

Oh, sorry Danny, Rich send me the blog post via stumbleupon and I “ass-u-me-d” foolishly that he also wrote it, sorry again! Regarding PR, I don’t remember where, but I read today that Google uses the PR mainly now to determine the crawl rate of your site, means the higher your PR, the more pages they will index. Interesting bit of info to say the least, if it is true, SY

By: Danny Thornton

Danny Thornton — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:41:44 +0000

SY, I guess we are going to have to start designating the authors in the beginning. I actually wrote this article. With that said, you are correct that people forget about their SERP and focus on PR.

By: hospitalera oes tsetnoc

hospitalera oes tsetnoc — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:19:58 +0000

Excellent explanation, Rich, too many people worry about PR and forget that what counts are the SERP your web site / blog shows up in! Thumbs up SY

By: Allegra Dioguardi

Allegra Dioguardi — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:32:35 +0000

Thank you Rich, it does.

By: Rich Dansereau

Rich Dansereau — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:28:01 +0000

Allegra,
Contextual search listings are paid advertisements closely relating to the information the user happens to be viewing.
Algorithmic search listings rely heavily on a site’s meta tags. This is not as popular as it once was because some webmasters practiced keyword stuffing which utilized keywords that oftentimes did not relate directly to site’s content.
Organic search listings are those that are relevant to the search terms.
Hope this helps to clarify the difference.

By: Allegra Dioguardi

Allegra Dioguardi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:23:04 +0000

Thank you! Can you explain: contextual, algorithmic, or organic search listings?