How Alexa and Google Pagerank can Help You Find a Better Car

By Jim Carlton

Although I use the internet throughout the day to update myself on news and to identify good deals on cars for sale, until recently, I was unaware of several tools that could actually help me make more informed searches and decisions. I found it annoying that several of the top results in Google were actually lower quality auto classifieds than those on the second and even third page with car advertisements not being posted for several days at stretch. But then I asked a friend of mine for help and soon discovered the wonders of using Alexa and Google Pagerank together.

Despite unfounded reservations, my friend convinced me to switch browsers and use Firefox instead. In hindsight, it was a great move and I realized that not only was Firefox faster, it also saved the sites I had open in multiple tabs and reopened them for me when I restarted the browser. We then downloaded and installed Alexas site ranking and Googles Pagerank toolbars.

Alexa is one of the best-known site ranking services and they have a straightforward and easy to use toolbar. On installation, it displays the ranking websites you visit using a graph of the daily traffic trends and a numeric ranking. The really helpful quality for me was the ranking shown next to each of the search results. A bar displayed next to each search result displays the overall ranking of a particular website.

Pagerank ranks websites on their authority by using a combination of sites linking into a particular website, freshness of content, age of the site and the volume of visitors. It ranks sites on a scale of zero to ten with ten being the best score. It is normally displayed in the upper section of your browser. Unlike Alexa, several websites can achieve the same score and the scores are update after longer intervals of time.

Once you're done installing and familiarizing your self with these tools begin searching. Type in the most apt keywords like used cars on sale and your search results now actually have meaning. I filter sites in the search results based on the Alexa rank, clicking sites within a ranking of sixty-to-seventy thousand. I then explore each site to see which ones rank higher n Google. I now have a great resource that lets me find the best deals available with fresh offers for all kinds of cars on these different websites.

The use of these tools is not restricted to the search for great deals on cars alone. It can be used practically for all the things you search for on the internet. Its simple and once you get past installing and getting acquainted with these utilities you wont want to search the web in any other way. - 21396

About the Author:

Jim Carlton writes on discovering the web and saving cash on deals found on the internet. To purchase a Toyota, Honda, Suzuki for Sale visit Good Deal Hunting free classifieds.