Page strength tool

June 24th, 2008

This tool can tell you the relative important and visibility of a webpage, and how strong it’s page rank is in the search engines. This is a quick and easy to use tool that can lets webmasters see the importance of their site.

For those of us who don’t know what the various results mean, here is a brief explanation…

Links pointing to full URL- This is the number of links that are pointing to your page, but it is solely for that exact URL only.

Links pointing to domain - This is the number of links that are pointing to your entire domain.

Position at Google for the first four words of title tag - This is the position in the search results for the first four words of the HTML title tag on your page; it is a good indicator of how well your page is performing at the search engines for a term that is relatively unique and if you are not getting ranked your site may be suffering from a penalty, spidering issue, or is new and has not earned search engine “trust” yet.

Age of Domain – The older your site as indicated by this result then the more trusted it is and the higher the ranking it will get.

Links from domains with .edu TLDs, .gov TLDs – Having links from such sites will increase the value of your site.

Alexa Rank - Alexa assigns a score to every website that is an indication of its popularity. This score is compiled from an analysis of the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users. Although somewhat unreliable in many sectors, the Alexa rank is the most reliable when comparing websites is similar sectors. For example: comparing the Alexa rank of a website about web design versus a site about kittens would not be an accurate comparison. However, comparing the Alexa rank of a website about web design versus a site about web programming would be.

Domain name visibility – This is the number of results that are returned at Google for a search for “www.example.com.” (in quotes, the quote produces pages across the web that have mentioned www.example.com, rather than simply returning a list of pages that Google has indexed from www.example.com. This is a good measurement of how visible your domain is.

Internal link percent - This is the percent of pages on your domain that link to your target URL. For instance, lets suppose your target URL was www.example.com/my-page. The internal link percent would be the percentage of links on www.example.com that point to www.example.com/my-page. It is a way of measuring the importance of a URL on a domain. If the URL you are fetching a Page Strength report is for the homepage of your website the internal link percent is usually 100% because almost all pages link back to the homepage.

Technorati - Technorati is a blog search engine, this is the number of sites Technorati has found that are linking to your URL. Although weighted more toward blogs, Technorati counts links much quicker than Google and provides a better number of links initially than Google or Yahoo.

Google PageRank of full URL and Domain - Although inaccurate and infrequently updated, Google PageRank still offers some indication of the strength of a URL.

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