still have no PR but i have 5 pages of my web site indexed by google
dont make any sense to me please help

PR doesn't come with your pages being indexed by Google. PR updates happen once in a while. Just wait till next update. To get PR you'll need links from sites that already have it.

Submit your site to as many directories as you can. Just by doing this you can reach PR5, there are that many out there.

Gaining high PR does not = rankings, for that you will need links with your keywords in. Try to variey them, Google is getting more clever in its old age!

will it help rankings a lot if you have a keyword in your url? is it enough just to have it appear a lot in the body and title etc ?

Originally Posted by b3nn3t

will it help rankings a lot if you have a keyword in your url? is it enough just to have it appear a lot in the body and title etc ?

Don’t forget...that PR bar isn’t always reliable either, I ignore the sucker more and more....as for ranking, the top 2 elements are your title and content, just be careful not to overdue the keywords in your copy.

If your copy starts to sound to repetitive start dropping some of those keywords, make sure your not overdoing the placement of the words, keep your most important keyword/phrases at the top of your pages. The biggest mistake people make is trying to write specifically for the engines and not the actual users

I have had search engines grab the phrases from the bottom as well. (just something to think about)

Originally Posted by b3nn3t

will it help rankings a lot if you have a keyword in your url? is it enough just to have it appear a lot in the body and title etc ?

A keyword domain can be very powerful, you only have to look at few searches on Yahoo to notice how it favours keyword domains.

It can also help you when you get listed on some directories as they will use your URL and others will use the name of your site.

Titles and content are important with the most weight given to your title then H1 tag, H2, H3 and so on. This is known as on-page optimisation and works well on search engines that favour on-page over off-page like Yahoo (although they are starting to use an off-page algo)

Search engines like Google put more weight on off-page factors. You need links with your keywords as the actual clickable part of the link (anchor text), don't use the same anchor text all the time and mix it up a bit. Google's last update saw a new more complex link filter being implemented that will look for websites that have identicle anchor text being used, the result of seting of this filter is the page in question receiving a ranking penalty.

Use both on-page and off-page SEO. The on-page will help search engines to theme your website as well as boosting performance and the off-page will improve your rankngs even more.