Free tool to find Page Rank
Have you ever wondered what the Page Rank of one of your pages is? As long as your site is indexed by Google then you can find the page rank of your site's home page, any sub-section of your site or any page within your site here.
Enter your URL in the search box below to find your page rank (Enter URLs in the form: http://www.celtnet.org.uk):
The aim of every on-line business is to be seen. Because the only way you can really be seen on the internet is if you have a large number of in-bound links to your site. These links also affect how highly search engines such as Google rank your site. Indeed, obtaining inbound links or back links in quantity and quality can influence your search engine rank immensely. One simple way to obtain back links is to submit your link to directories. Online directories exist for the sole purpose of providing links to web users to various sites categorized under relevant topics.
Directories both catalogue links so that users can have easy access to them but they also publish these links on the web so that they can be found and indexed by search engines.
Some directories even feed their databases to other directories and search engines. Search engines base a certain factor on directories in judging a website’s popularity and relevance. Depending on the quality of the directory and the number of back links your website has, search engines will be able to determine your relevance and qualify your website accordingly.
However, you shouldn't just submit your site to any directory you come across. What you need is an 'SEO-friendly directory'. What's one of these? I hear you ask. SEO-friendly directories allow all links on their site to be followed and indexed by the major search engines. This means that the page on which your site is listed shouldn't have any META tags that prevent your link from being indexed. This would be the following code: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">. This menas that any links on a page with this tag will not be indexed neither will the link be followed to your site.
The individual links must also be plain. They cannot have the rel="nofollow" tag attached to them, otherwise the link will never be followed to your site. An example of this would be: <a href="http://www.celtnet.org.uk/rel='nofollow'>Celtnet</a>. Links should also be plain and not created by javascript, as the search engines ignore javascript in any pages. All links also need to be direct. Any website using indirect links to connect to your pages are not valuable. An example of an indirect link would be: <a href="http://www.webdirectory.com/link.php?link_id=53">Website</a>.
If a directory is to be considered SEO-friendly then it should employ none of the tricks detailed above. This actually significantly reduces the number of directories to which it's worth submitting your website.
Please note that the page rank calculator above simply gives the current page rank of your site or a page in your site as it is in the current Google database. However, Google only updates its page ranks every three monts. This means that the page rank they give for any page in your website doesn't reflect the actual page rank of your site or web pages. The tool below uses a predictive algorithm to predict what your 'real' page rank is. Have you been working hard on SEO but your PageRank is still zero according to Google? Try the tool below to see what your actual, current, page rank is:
