If you’re new to SEO you will likely to read several forums and get some advice. Some of the ideas here is irrelevant and we’ll talk about it:

“I need a PR3 for my website”

PR stands for Page Rank, although it is not the rank of a page in Google!
This is what Google applies to each page on the web and applies a score of between 0 and 10. New pages will probably have 0 and Google updates page rank around 4 times per year.
PR is generally produced from people linking to your website. Therefore if a website with a PR4 link to you, you should get a PR3. And that is all it means. Although PR is only updated for users (on the Google toolbar) 4 times per year, Google is constantly updating PR in its own systems.
A PR6 and above page will get indexed more regularly than sites below but that is all the real benefit unless you intend to sell links on your site for money.

Many people get excited when new PR is applied, but why ?

If you have a PR4 but no search traffic what is the point?

So the best advice for now is to forget all about PR for the time being. It will just come as you add links to your site. Forget about it now and just prioritize on how you can get a lot of traffic to your sites.

Submit to Thousands of Search Engines

You do not need to submit your site to any search engine, else period. Forget about this and spend your time on other activities.
The search engines will just automatically find your site from links pointing to it from other sites. So forget about submitting your site to any search engine and do not pay for any submission service. It really is a waste of time and your money. Just focus on link building rather than submitting.

I’m already indexed in the Search Engines

Cool, so your site is in the search engines. So what?
You need rankings. So even if you’re indexed, this means nothing. Alright, it’s good that the search engines have found your site but until it starts ranking that is no use to anyone.

I already rank for my name, I don’t need SEO

Some people will tell that they don’t need SEO of any form because they already rank for “mr. paulo pennies’ laundry and dry cleaning services.” Well that has to be a good news. But the number of people actually searching for those terms is probably…..null. A search for “laundry and dry cleaning services” is going to be a much more common phrase and this would be what we should be aiming for.

Google doesn’t show all my links

Well, that’s just how it is I’m afraid. Google only shows a snapshot of links to your site. It’s always been like this and Google admit this is calculated. So don’t worry if Google does not show your links – they know about them and you should not be concerned.

To find out the real number of links to your site and your competitors, see below.

Common operators

Here are some common special operators that you can use to find out how your site is doing in the search engines.

Find people linking to your site:
Google and MSN – type in “link:www.yourdomain.com”
For Yahoo – type in “linkdomain:www.yourdomain.com”
(without the quotes)
Remember that Google only provides a snapshot of the links to your site. It never displays them all – that’s just how it is.
To see the number of pages indexed
All search engines – type in “site:www.yourdomain.com”
(without the quotes)

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