Worried about fluctuations in Google PageRank may be a complete waste of time but still, the PageRank values of individual web pages on a site can give you some good idea about the importance of those pages in Google.

For example, if there are two or more pages on your site with very similar content, find the one with highest PR and then do a 301 redirect on the other pages. This is a vague example but you should get the idea.

Brandon Thomson has created a PageRank Checker service powered by the Google App Engine that lets you calculate the Google PageRank of multiple URLs in one go. You can either upload the XML sitemap file of your website or create a simple text file with a list of all page URLs and upload that to PageRank Checker.

The service can also help you find the Google PageRank of all URLs that are linked from a particular web page.

Worried about fluctuations in Google PageRank may be a complete but still, the PageRank values of individual web pages on a site can give you some good idea about the relative importance of these pages in Google.

For instance, if there are two or more pages on your site with very similar content, find the one with highest PageRank and then do a redirect (301 permanent) on the other pages. This may be a slightly vague example but you should get the idea.

Brandon Thomson has created a PageRank Checker service powered by the Google App Engine that lets you calculate the Google PageRank of multiple URLs in one go.

The service can also help you find the Google PageRank of all URLs that are linked from a particular web page.

Alexa alternatives are soon getting popularity. Compete and Quantcast are two of the few new available website popularity checkers. Alexa lost its popularity for it continued to ignore Firefox browser officially.

1. Compete.com
2. Quantcast.com
3. Alexa.com

Find out your website popularity and ranking compared to all other websites of your competitors.

Getting into the listing of any search engine is not a difficult task but what matters is how have you been listed in that particular site. In this article you can find tips which can help you get into good search engines along with increasing traffic.

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