my reviews and finds

Have you ever actually looked at how Google pagerank is calculated? Me neither! I knew it had to do with how many people actually link to you one their page, but its a little deeper.

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."

It makes sense, so now how do you get your page on those more important sites? Stay tuned! You can read more about pagerank explained here.

I have spent most of this week looking for ways to promote my site (for free of course!) I have blogrolled those links for your convenience. Then I submitted it to a few Blog Directories and other Site Submission Services. This apparently can take days to actually take effect. The best Site I have found is: http://www.sitesubmit.ca/index.php (Click on "Testing Wizard")This Site will check everything on your Site for you to make it "Search Engine Friendly" It is free also. I submitted all three of my sites, but the only one that actually passed is http://carolsplaceforpeace.blogspot.com I am certain this is because of the newness of this site and the lack of links to it as of yet. I will try it again in about a month. I reccommend that you use this sevice to check your own site and if you are lucky enough to get a certificate, you can check mine out at http://carolsplaceforpeace.blogspot.com to see what it looks like, I would suggest you proudly display that on your site as I did on mine. It seems like it is kind of hard to get one! Let me know how this worked out for you. Also I would do a Google Page Rank Check here: http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php and show that on your Site as well, even if the Page Rank is zero. Now, go use this tool and come back and let me know how Your Site Ranked! A link back to me would be cool too - LOL!