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Why I blogging? Why you blog? This is an interesting question. It’s an important question to know what you blogging for? At least, it would help to achieve the purpose or aim of your blogging.

I never put on this kind of survey to my reader. But I’ve read blogging survey result from Chris. It can be use as a reference for all of us. What can we learn from the pie chart?

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What is Page Rank? PageRank is a numeric value (1 to 10) that represents how important a page is on the web. It is Google’s way of deciding a page’s importance.Normally we call PageRank as “PR”.

Since PR refer to a page’s importance, higher PR page will show in higher position in search results. Hence it is important to build a high PR page if you are keen to increase traffics. People will then easier to reach your blog.

How Page Rank Works?

Before talk about the ways to increase PR, we must understand the way of how PR works. Google never reveal its current Page Rank formula calculation. But from its original formula, we know the basic concept behind it.

PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + … + PR(tn)/C(tn))

Formula above is the original Page Rank algorithm that reveal by Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google Founders) in their publications. Not understand what the algorithm means? Don’t worry, I will explain in simple way.

In simple way, the algorithm above can be translate to

PageRank = 0.15 + 0.85 * (a “share” of the PageRank of every page that links to it)

But what does the “share” means? The “Share” means the linking page’s PageRank divided by the number of outbound links on the page. Although we do not know the exact PR algorithm, but we can conclude that a link from another site increases our site’s PageRank. Especially one way link. (more…)

What is happening on AhTim.com ?

Time flies, it is already 4 months of blogging life in this blogsphere. If you followed my blog post, it was 2 months ago since my last SEO report on November 2007. Why I never update my SEO report on last month? This is because I am too busy with upgrade my wordpress theme and wordpress version.

Also there are too many holidays on last month, including my Shanghai vacation trip that took me about 1 week off. Not only that, since I won an iPod Touch on last month, I have spend more time on this new gadget - iPod Touch 16GB rather than blogging.

After all, now I am waking up myself and start to blog again here So how is my SEO result after 2 months efforts ?

My Monthly SEO report

1. Alexa

If you still remember, my alexa ranking on November SEO report was 342,972 and now cllimbed up to 224,090. It was 34.66% improvement on Alexa ranking this month Although this is not a very huge jump compare to previous months report, I’m still quite satisfied with the progress. I found that when our ranking get higher, the harder we could move in.

According to my previous target, I want to achieve at least 200,000 in Alexa ranking. But seems like still a gap in between my target and achievement. I will try harder to achive the target in my next SEO report! Hopefully by carry out a 20 days post challenge could help me on this, its time to do preparation.

2. Google Webmaster

This is my latest top search queries result that extracted from Google Webmaster. 8 Out of these top 10 results are related to iPod touch. 1 keyword related to linux and 1 keyword related to yahoo. I noticed that since I post iPod Touch articles, there are not much people comment on my blog, maybe this gadget still not famous in Malaysia? Anyway, iPod Touch articles did bring me more raw traffics from search engine! (more…)