Static Home Page: Will it Affect my SEO?

@webjunk
If I was unclear then I apologise but that’s not what I meant. I was purely referring to page rank in Google after a page has been indexed.

One can submit a sitemap to help index their pages but once they’re are indexed, their individual ranking in search results depend on external incoming links.

Sorry Joseph. You are still wrong. Incoming links is only one variable out of literally millions of variables. Also consider that some incoming links can negatively impact ranking. Again if you look at the example I posted in my last post it proves your theory wrong.

Thanks for all your help. A hot debate to be sure!!

Ok, let me rephrase then. The ranking of a page in Google search result depend mostly on external incoming links. Ofcouse they use other variables but the most important one is PageRank.

And I’m sorry, it’s not my theory.

Relevance. As Larry said long ago, we want to give you back “exactly what you want.” When Google was founded, one key innovation was PageRank, a technology that determined the “importance” of a webpage by looking at what other pages link to it, as well as other data. Today we use more than 200 signals, including PageRank, to order websites, and we update these algorithms on a weekly basis.

Ref: https://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html

Also watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyQsNGW-kD8 from about 0:20 to 0:30 for a quick explanation on PageRank. Just in case anyone who doesn’t know the person in the video, his name is Matt Cutts, head of Google webspam team.

Edit: BTW, how did you check the incoming links for the site in your example? I used the link: operator and got nothing.

You are still wrong. That Google article is out of date. And Do you really think Google or any SE is going to give away all of its secrets? Thereby allowing sites to capitalize on loopholes when they spend many $$$millions (or billions) to stop those loopholes being exploited? Those of us involved with the Internet about ten years ago remember when searching (Google, Yahoo, etc.) for “Honda Civic” returned thousands of porn sites. They expoited those loopholes.
Also by those of us who work with SEO and optimization on a large scale know that Pagerank (which is the Stamford algorithm) is depreciated in recent times. There is NO direct connection with high PR equaling high SERP. Do a Google search for “WordPress” and see that results are not sorted by PR. And just like my other example, many of the results are Inside pages and are displayed before thier Home Pages. And maybe you need to look up the algorithm. It is much more complex than just links and the weight of the referring sites. You will notice the algorithm has no provision for link farms. They usually have very high PR but are well known for several years that they have a negative impact on SERP. You are wrong for thinking “Google search result depend mostly on external incoming links” as they do not.
Google (since you seem stuck on that one) heavily uses the content. As only one example Keywords in larger text (especially heading tags like <h1>) have a priority over PR. Results are about keywords. ANd do not confuse PageRank with SE Ranking/SERP as they are two different things.
This will be my final post in this topic. I am only explaing how SE’s work to help others on here. You are doing what I had said NOT TO DO! But you do as you want. Hopefully others will do a little more due dilligence. Trying to help those just learning about these things.

There are many places to check the links although none are complete. Most webmasters have their favorite. The fact you are not familar with this common tool tells me you are just starting with this stuff. Here is two off the top of my head. I only picked that website somewhat at random. Could search for many other sites that exhibit the same results like searching wordpress.
https://www.backlinkwatch.com
https://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker

Ok, fair enough. Tried comparing PR to SEPR and you’re right, RP isn’t as important as I thought. I guess I was influence by that article and the amount of times I see it been mentioned around the net.

I only talk about Google because it’s the only one I’ve looked up and have knowlegde of. I’m not in the internet industry (if I was I’d be on the coding side anyway) and all I have is a little blog that I play around with. I tend to trust official documentations from Google because I don’t see they’d have anything to loose by telling people how to do it correctly.

Anyway, I guess that’s the end of this discussion. Thanks for the links as well. I’ll be using it.

Cheers