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Which factors do have an impact on PageRank?

1. Each inbound link is important to the overall total. Except banned sites. “PageRank is a form of a voting system. A link to a page is a vote for that page. Higher PageRank pages are viewed by Google as more important. Their votes are given more value by Google — much more value, in some cases. In general, the more voting links, the stronger the PageRank.”

2. Adding new pages can decrease Page Rank. “The effect is that, whilst the total PageRank in the site is increased, one or more of the existing pages will suffer a PageRank loss due to the new page making gains. Up to a point, the more new pages that are added, the greater is the loss to the existing pages. With large sites, this effect is unlikely to be noticed but, with smaller ones, it probably would.”

3. Page Rank can decrease. “You can lose some important links that are no longer linking to your site. PR loss can also occur if some of your linking partners also experience a drop in their own PR, possibly setting off a chain reaction of lower PageRank all through the immediate linking network.”

4. Links from and to high quality related sites are important. “The more closely related the pages, the higher the PageRank amount transferred.” “Linking to high quality sites shows the search engines your site is very useful to your visitors. Unless your site has been around for years and is well established and trusted by Google, this factor will have an adverse effect on your site’s overall ranking. Linking only to high quality content sites will give your site an edge over your competition.”

5. Incoming Links from popular sites are important. If pages linking to you have a high PageRank then your page gains some part of their reputation.

6. Site can be banned if it links to banned sites. “Be extremely careful of any out-going links from your site. Don’t link to bad neighborhoods (link farms, banned sites, etc.) Google will penalize you for bad links so always check the PageRank of the sites you’re linking to from your site.”

7. Illegal activities will penalize your PageRank and possibly ban your site from Google. “Hidden text, deceptive redirects, cloaking, automated link exchanges, or anything else against Google’s quality guidelines” can ban your site from Google.

8. Myth: the higher your google PageRank, the better the results. “While pages with a higher PageRank do tend to rank better, it is perfectly normal for a site to appear higher in the results listings even though it has a lower PageRank than competing pages. [..] Google examines the context of your incoming links, and only those links that relate to the specific keyword being searched on will help you achieve a higher ranking for that keyword.”

9. Related high ranked web-sites count stronger (or don’t they?). “One-way inbound links from websites with topics that are related to your website’s topic will help you gain a higher Page Rank.” Other one-way inbound links from pages with high page rank but unrelated topics do help a little, but not nearly as much.

10. Different pages from a site can have different Page Rank. “Search engines crawl and index webpages not websites, that is why your page rank may vary from page to page within your website.”

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Google uses many factors in ranking. Of these, the PageRank algorithm might be the best known. PageRank evaluates two things: how many links there are to a web page from other pages, and the quality of the linking sites. With PageRank, five or six high-quality links from websites such as www.cnn.com and www.nytimes.com would be valued much more highly than twice as many links from less reputable or established sites.

How Does PageRank Work?

1. PageRank is only one of numerous methods Google uses to determine a page’s relevance or importance.
2. Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. Google looks not only at the sheer volume of votes; among 100 other aspects it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. However, these aspects don’t count, when PageRank is calculated.
3. PageRank is based on incoming links, but not just on the number of them - relevance and quality are important (in terms of the PageRank of sites, which link to a given site).
4. PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + … + PR(tn)/C(tn)). That’s the equation that calculates a page’s PageRank.
5. Not all links weight the same when it comes to PR.
6. If you had a web page with a PR8 and had 1 link on it, the site linked to would get a fair amount of PR value. But, if you had 100 links on that page, each individual link would only get a fraction of the value.
7. Bad incoming links don’t have impact on Page Rank.
8. Ranking popularity considers site age, backlink relevancy and backlink duration. PageRank doesn’t.
9. Content is not taken into account when PageRank is calculated.
10. PageRank does not rank web sites as a whole, but is determined for each page individually.
11. Each inbound link is important to the overall total. Except banned sites, which don’t count.
12. PageRank values don’t range from 0 to 10. PageRank is a floating-point number.
13. Each Page Rank level is progressively harder to reach. PageRank is believed to be calculated on a logarithmic scale.
14. Google calculates pages PRs permanently, but we see the update once every few months (Google Toolbar).

Impact on Google PageRank

1. Frequent content updates don’t improve Page Rank automatically. Content is not part of the PR calculation.
2. High Page Rank doesn’t mean high search ranking.
3. DMOZ and Yahoo! Listings don’t improve Page Rank automatically.
4. .edu and .gov-sites don’t improve Page Rank automatically.
5. Sub-directories don’t necessarily have a lower Page Rank than root-directories.
6. Wikipedia links don’t improve PageRank automatically (update: but pages which extract information from Wikipedia might improve PageRank).
7. Links marked with nofollow-attribute don’t contribute to Google PageRank.
8. Efficient internal onsite linking has an impact on PageRank.
9. Related high ranked web-sites count stronger. But: “a page with high PageRank may actually pass you less if it has more links, because it’s spread too thin.” [RY]
10. Links from and to high quality related sites have an impact on Page Rank.
11. Multiple votes to one link from the same page cost as much as a single vote.

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Huh! sick and tired of all the methods to make the ‘Round Corner Box’ in HTML. If you put a query in search engine you will get thousands of result on how to go about it. Some tutorials explain you how this can be achived by using HTML + CSS + JS + images and other by using HTML + CSS + images. Almost all of these will be using 2 to 8 images to attain the desired result. The most popular one was with four images without JS. See my posting ‘Round Corner Stretchable Box‘ on Feb 19th, 2008. What if you can create a Round Corner Box without the use of JS nor images?

As I was stumbling thru the sites I came across the listings for the Round Corner Box in SmileyCat. My eyes got stuck in one of the listing. Achieve the round corner with no images and that too without the use of JS. WOW!!! this was my first reaction. I have gone thru the tutorial and with shamefaced I thought why couldn’t I think about this method when I was spending hours on research to achieve this without the use of images. Read More

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1. Divide and conquer your code
First consider the structure of your layout and identify the most important modules in your CSS-code. In most cases it’s useful to choose the order of CSS-selectors according to the order of divisors (div’s) and classes in your layout. Before starting coding, group common elements in separate sections and title each group. For instance, you can select Global Styles (body, paragraphs, lists, etc), Layout, Headings, Text Styles, Navigation, Forms, Comments and Extras.

2. Define a table of contents
To keep an overview of the structure of your code, you might want to consider defining a table of contents in the beginning of your CSS-files. One possibility of integrating a table of contents is to display a tree overview of your layout with IDs and classes used in each branch of the tree. You may want to use some keywords such as header-section or content-group to be able to jump to specific code immediately.

Defining a table of contents you make it particularly easier for other people to read and understand your code. For large projects you may also print it out and have it in front of you when reading the code. When working in team, this advantage shouldn’t be underestimated. It can save a lot of time — for you and your colleagues.

3. Define your colors and typography
Since we don’t have CSS constants yet, we need to figure out some way to get a quick reference of “variables” we are using. In web development colors and typography can often be considered as “constants” — fixed values that are used throughout the code multiple times.

Create a color glossary - a quick reference to the colors used in the site to avoid using alternates by mistake and, if you need to change the colors, you have a quick list to go down and do a search and replace. Alternatively, you can also describe color codes used in your layout. For a given color, you can display sections of your site which are using this color. Or vice versa — for a given design element you can describe the colors which are used there.

4. Order CSS properties
When writing the code often it’s useful to apply some special formatting to order CSS properties — to make the code more readable, more structured and therefore more intuitive. There is a variety of grouping schemes developers use in their projects. Some developers tend to put colors and fonts first; other developers prefer to put “more important” assignments such as those related to positioning and floats first. Similarly, elements are also often sorted according to the topology of the site and the structure of the layout. Some developers use a more interesting approach — they group properties in an alphabetical order.

Whatever grouping format you are using, make sure you clearly define the format and the objective you want to achieve. Your colleagues will thank you for your efforts.

5. Indentation is your friend!
For better overview of your code you might consider using one-liners for brief fragments of code. This style might produce messy results if you define more than 3 attributes for a given selector. However, used moderately, you can highlight dependencies between all elements of the same class. This technique will dramatically increase code readability when you have to find some specific element in your stylesheet.

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Outline

Quite frankly, this property has dropped off the existence of the design radar. Mainly because of lack of browsers supporting this CSS 2.1 standard (yep, it’s an actual property), but nonetheless, it too has a shorthand property. This property follows the exact same (or same exact - they mean the same thing) specification as the ‘border’ shorthand property. But, for purposes of this being a Guide, it must be here. So:

outline properties

element {
outline-width: number+unit;
outline-style: (numerous);
outline-color: color || #hex || (rgb / % || 0-255);
}

Outline written as shorthand:

outline shorthand property

element {
outline:3px dotted gray;
}

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