What is Google Juice?
What is Google juice? These days, everyone is concerned about SEO, and it is good to start from the basics. Google Juice, in essence, is the value that Google gives to your site, for having a priceless link from a good site. The value adds up for each link, and you get better search rankings!
Google’s algorithm for ranking sites depends on several factors, some of which maybe unknown even to the experts. There is one thing that the experts agree - it is complex. Uniqueness of the content and the age of your domain/site are some of the key factors.
And one of the biggest factors, apart from original content, is the number of links to the site. When there is a higher number of links to the post, Google considers the site more authoritative, since more sites have linked to the source.
Googlebots will crawl and index your site more often if you have inbound links. Thus, without going into further details(which I have to save, for another post), let me tell Google Juice is invaluable to your success in optimisation for Google.
No wonder black-hat SEOs use automated software that make thousands of blogs on free platforms like BlogSpot, with backlinks to source!
TonNet said on June 4th, 2007
Everyday your page looks better! Kuddos!
Ashwini said on June 5th, 2007
“When there is a higher number of links to the post, Google considers the site more authoritative, since more sites have linked to the source.”
What about when a site exchanges links!
Google is smart enough ..
Post authorSumesh said on June 5th, 2007
Tonnet, thanks! I am going through several templates a day, as I have to learn the different ways of code markup used in WordPress. Some day soon, I will have my own custom theme!
Ashwini, seems you’re first-time here.Thanks for commenting. When links are provided in a post, as a reference, Google gives value. But isolated links(like those in the sidebar), though carrying some value, are not as good as the other one. Again, as I mentioned in the post, Google’s technology is not completely understood even by the experts!
Linu said on June 6th, 2007
You have explained it in a simply way… Good work
Digging your Article…
Publishing your Feed excerpt in other site like squidoo.com, blogger
Social Bookmarking through ‘Onlywire’ helps you to get your new pages indexed by google faster..
I do it regularily… because of..Google Juice…
Ashwini said on June 6th, 2007
I am not new to your blog though…
I read your comment in DI {labnol}
We have somethings in comon
15 age
Indian
Maybe you too in 10 th class
Can’t live without blogging
That attracted me towards ur blog
Then I read ur comment on Rishi’s blog that ur readers are passive and don’t comment
So here goes mine…
By the way, if you put a link on the sidebar,
you get a Google Juice value from each post a blog have posted and indexed by Google
Post authorSumesh said on June 6th, 2007
Linu, thanks. Actually, I prefer long posts, but this one wasn’t meant to be. I wrote this because I linked to it on the previous page, and just wanted to get this post up as soon as possible. Will find more info ASAP. BTW, can you give me the digg page URL? I want to see how many diggs it has got.
Ashwini, now that’s nice. Yes, I am in 10th grade. And can’t live without blogging(heck, not one day without my computer). I know that my regular readers are passive, because I see them in MyBlogLog widget. Thanks for the update on Google algorithm, but I am sure they don’t just sit there watching link-exchanges(unless they’re Technorati
)
Ashwini said on June 6th, 2007
Just forgot to mention another similarity..
We both have a almost dead dial up connection.. broken most of the time… India’s Great!
Another quest…
I c u r doing paid reviews from smorty.That i think pays u via Paypal.Do you have a credit card or so..?
I just asked bcoz I faced some trouble when was abt to purchase a custom domain from Godaddy.I already got money from Smorty but still Paypal is asking for a card.
Coming bvack to the topic….
Technorati watches link exchanges?
c the authority of worldblogcollection.blogspot.com,,,purely a link exchange dir but having 300 + authority?
Ok enough…
I think it will turn out to b a debate
Post authorSumesh said on June 7th, 2007
Dialup connections are our bane. There’s broadband for homes just 100m away from my home
Btw, Smorty sucks. I did a couple, and still am not approved. I am ditching it - just isn’t worth the trouble.
Yes, I have a credit card. PayPal asks you credit card for a tie-in, meaning you can transfer funds between them.
And yes, Technorati just counts the no. of links from different blogs. The only good thing is you can see the incoming links. As for the bad thing, everything else about Technorati is!
If you’re interested, we can make it a debate and write posts, interlinking them. Are you game?
Ashwini said on June 7th, 2007
I am very much interested but two thing acts as barriers…
My Dial up
10 class
I mean i can’t enough time to run my blog, so would you like guest blog on my blog..?
I was looking for quality writers..
Is there any method where transactions can be made via PayPal and no cards involved?
Shankar Ganesh said on June 7th, 2007
Hey Sumesh and Ashwini!
I hope you’ve checked out my blog! And good luck in blogging!
I’m also 15. I’ll be engaging in the comments henceforth here
Ashwini said on June 7th, 2007
looks like there are many passionate teenage bloggers from india
Post authorSumesh said on June 7th, 2007
AshwiniYeah, I am stuck with my dialup - it has been acting strange, and I cannot even update my feed reader.
As for guest blogging, same problem here, and I am already losing out on studies a bit. Have to make up for it, so I am sorry to refuse the offer. Maybe I will take it up, after 1-2 months. Thanks for the offer!
And yes, there are quite a few teenage bloggers - and Thilak leads the pack with his impressive earnings($3000, wow!).
Shankar, nice to have another 15-er blogger. And yes, I have known your blog some time back, following a comment link from Rishi’s blog!
Linu said on June 8th, 2007
Ashwini: you mentioned about buying a domain. I run a shared server and offer hosting and domain registration service exclusively to some freinds. I run most of my website on this server.
You can check it out: http://www.bethelwebhost.com
Domain Price: http://domain.bethelwebhost.com
Shankar Ganesh said on June 9th, 2007
Hey Sumesh, why not you install the Subscribe to comments plugin over here? It’ll be easy for me to keep track of comments
Post authorSumesh said on June 9th, 2007
Sh…just a secret between us! I have been working on a theme of my own, which is why I have not even posted for last 4 days. Once that is done, I will have “Subscribe to comments” and AJAX Preview. Happy?
Shankar Ganesh said on June 9th, 2007
Okay, cool. Happy
redspace said on October 26th, 2007
ya everybody is concerned about Google and SEO. it drives us all crazy. who doesn’t when it means popularity and could lead to generation of income. that’s why we always see an updated algorithm
put forward by SE especially google. most changes are made to battle SE spamming and manipulation especially the one using automated software.