Most SEO and online marketing professionals know the Google tool bar Page Rank stopped being an effective indicator of a websites authority about a year ago. However, there is still tons of sites trying to sell advertising based on their websites "Page Rank" as well as individual companies obsessing about why their page rank has not gone up despite all their efforts of good brand seo.

Though Google still uses PR in the back end of the algorithm, they have said in their typical sideways fashion, they are most likely NOT going to be updating PR again. John Mueller from the Google Switzerland team said this in a video post to the official Google Webmaster channel.

How to create a Google Plus page for business?

Preparation:

1) To have a Google Plus account, you first need to set up a GMAIL account.

2) Prepare profile picture of at least 250px by 250px and a cover image of at least 900px x 500px.

3) Decide which type of account you will want: Local business, organization, community, etc. If you are a local business serving a GEO specific location, or just want to take advantage of GOOGLE MAP listings, which often show above non-map listing, create a LOCAL account.

Google Launches App Indexing

Google introduces APP indexing

Got a Droid app and website? You are in luck. Google is currently testing a new service called App Indexing. Here is how Google describes it.

"Google is working with app developers and webmasters to index the content of apps and relate them to websites. When relevant, Google Search results on Android will include deep links to apps."

 5 Ways To Get Google To Notice You

If you have a website, chances are that you’re looking for ways to improve your traffic flow and get more visitors. Having a good search engine ranking is the best way to get more visitors to your site. Your search engine ranking determines which page of the search results you show up on. Ideally, you would like to be on the first page, which consists of about 10 links to 10 different pages.