What is PageRank?

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Chances are you have been onrepparttar Internet and have been surfing in and out of websites looking for valuable information pertaining to a favorite topic or researching a subject for school or work. As you type in keyword(s) you matchrepparttar 127895 information you are searching for on Google, you come up with 10,000 pages of information. It’s virtually impossible to go through every one, so you refine your search by adding more exclusive keywords. Voilarepparttar 127896 number of pages reduces to around 1,000. Still this is a lot of pages, but you start looking throughrepparttar 127897 information to find what you want.

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How important are back links?

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By Jakob Jelling www.sitetube.com

When setting up your website for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) on Google there are several factors you need to look at in order to obtain a high rank on their search engine. Of course your content and meta tags must be inline with positive density percentages and reciprocal links. Google then takes your website and performs a mathematic equation and places a numeric value on your website depending on one ofrepparttar most important features, reciprocal or back links.

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