Tools and hints for webmasters

Google PageRank™; promoting your site; earning
revenue; checking coding; about the Internet.

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Displaying Google's PageRank:

Google.com created a type of figure of merit for web pages. They state:

"PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results."

"PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page's importance." ₁

Pageranks range from 1 to 10. Zero is used for penalized or non-analyzed pages. It is on a base 10 logarithmic scale like the Richter Scale.

A free Pagerank Checker, as shown above, can be downloaded from www.PRchecker.info. It can generate an image containing a page rank for any website page or homepage.

Domain Crawler provides PageRank and other data at www.domaincrawler.com. They provide coding for a handy widget that displays the website's Page Rank over the past two years. Shown below is their large graph; a small graph is shown on our home page.

Promoting your web site:

Accept payments and donations from visitors to your website:

Earning money from your website:

Check your home page's coding, load time, and links:

	SiteInspector checks your sites browser compatibility, links, popularity, load time, "Submit It!" readiness, spelling and HTML validity. No charge. See: http://siteinspector.linkexchange.com/
	NetMechanic will check your pages' load time, for free. See: http://www.netmechanic.com/
	Broken link checkers - all free: Xenu's Link Sleuth:™ "Link verification is done on 'normal' links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continuously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time." See: http://home.snafu.de/ W3C Broken Link Checker: This was created in 1994 by the chief standards body for HTML coding. See: http://validator.w3.org YellowPipe.com also has a link checker at: http://www.yellowpipe.com/

Information about the Internet:

	WayBackMachine has stored more than 10 billion pages -- over 100 terabytes of data -- in its archives. Their goal is to build a digital library and other cultural artifacts in digital form for public access. You can view web sites, frozen in time as they existed as early as 1996. See: http://www.archive.org
	Alexa, a web navigation service, has compiled some interesting information about the Web: number of domain names, number of unique host machines, number of intermittent sites, etc. See: http://www.alexa.com/
	Network Wizards conducts an Internet Domain Survey survey gives the total number of Internet hosts on a semi-yearly basis. See: http://www.nw.com/
	Website Services Magazine provides "helpful and valuable information about online business trends, industry insights and best practices." They offer a free subscription to their magazine in either printed or downloadable format.
	According to a Pew Research Center poll, as of 2007-FEB, 47% of Americans have a broadband connection at home, 15% have dial-up Internet access, and 29% do not use the Internet. The latter group have a median age of 59, and 25% report a household income under $20,000 a year. Pew reports:

"Many report worries about information overload and few link information technology to greater control over their lives. Moreover, non-internet users are apt to see the online environment as a dangerous place -- that is, a place with inappropriate or irrelevant content. Given that these non-users are people with worries about information technology and not a lot of extra disposable income, luring them online won't be an easy task." ₂

References used:

1. "Corporate information: Technology overview," Google.com, 2010, at: http://www.google.com/

2. John B. Horrigan, "Why it will Be Hard to Close the Broadband Divide," Pew Research Center, 2007-AUG-01, at: http://pewresearch.org/

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