Here is a simple process to to follow to Increase your Web Site Page Rank
1. Do keyword research for your keyword you are targeting and find keywords that have the highest commercial index (CPI)
2. Research sites that have related content and a high page rank and list them to add links.
a. Comment on the targeted forums with link in signature on forums
b. Comment on the targeted blogs using link with useful information to be seen as an authority.
c. Set up a twitter account with the domain name or keyword
d. Add a link on your facebook profile to the site.
e. Set up a facebook fan page with keywords and link to site and good content.
3. Add no follow to my outgoing links like this <a href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/courtneytuttle” rel=”nofollow”>RSS Feed</a>
4. Add video to the site – google loves videos
5. Add pictures to the site
6. Post often so the content is fresh
7. Limit keywords used and tags so site appears as a expert for specific keywords
8. Post articles to other sites like ezine articles with links back to the site.
a. Mix up the articles and change the titles so they are not exactly the same and post them to other article sites.
9. Look for opportunities to get a link to your site on an authority site like .edu and .gov
10. Distribute your videos to as many video sites as possible with hyper links back to a specific page on your site
11. Answer questions on yahoo answers relating to your keywords and add a link to the site.
12. Answer questions on linked in relating to your keywords and add a link to the site.
13. Submit a press release relating about the site and include a link.
14. Submit domain to the yahoo directory
There are many more ways to increase page rank and a treasure check of tools to use. I will be discussing them in a future post or sending them out to my subscribers.
For more information or to have a page rank proposal created for you contact @ClayFranklin on twitter or send me an email at Clay at ClayFranklin.com
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Clay, I really found your post useful. I have a hard time with page rank.You listed some things I found very good
I can tell you know a lot about it. thanks.
Thank you Gail,
You have inspired me to write another post about page rank. I set up a autoresponder series (and continue to add to it) that has additional SEO, page rank and Using Social Media to drive traffic to your web site and other internet marketing and social media tips. (email sign up box for this series)
Thank you again. I am a perpetual student at my local college taking SEO, web analytics, Blogs, SQL server, internet marketing and all the digital media classes online.
If I have not already, I will be installing a do follow plug in for this blog so each commenter will get a little link juice.
I only know how to increase alexa rank. My PR is still low. Only a PR 2 site, but my blog traffic is good enought to keep me motivated to write new post regularly. I already knew these great tips, but didn’t really implement them. I should take action now ;) thank you for the reminder!
This article is great. All these tips are in front of me, and I can not seem to acknowledge them.
Thank you
Clay, very useful no-nonsense or fillers post.
Question though: why do you promote “no-follow” tag? There are obviously pros and cons to it. Pros: it encourages more comments, cons: it can potentially leak the juice from your page. What are your reasons?
BTW, Wordpress automatically uses “nofollow” tags.
Best,
Ana/YourNetBiz System
Hi Ana, Thanks for stopping by.
Page Rank is a good topic for discussion.
I like to use no follow tags on advertisements and links to resources included in blog posts that I do not want to pass page rank to. Google does follow no follow tags, it is just that we are telling google not to pass page rang to the link.
The “nofollow” actually means “don’t pass PageRank” to the page this link references yet it does not always work like that according to Jerry West. I also like to add no follow tags to the About, Contact Us, Privacy Statement, Terms of Use, pages, and I learned this from Jerry West.
Another interesting topic to discuss is site maps. Guess it is time to write up an article on site maps for SEO.
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Thanks for the follow-up, Clay; it makes absolute sense.
Best,
Ana/YourNetBiz Mentor
Building up your link count with high quality relevant back links from trusted sites is a great way to improve your page rank quickly.
I still think that people pay to much attention to their PR of their site. I think, but not sure, Google only updates the PR, the one we see on the tool bar, every six monthes or something.
I do have a question about ranking though. In my webmaster tools, it says I am rank 6 for a keyword I am trying to rank for, but when I do an actual search, I am ranked like 20.
Does anyone know why the difference?
Great blog by the way, lots of useful information here to read.
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Good summary Clay. I find that Blog commenting still helps, despite what some might think and in fact I guess that’s proven by the fact I’m here doing it now LOL!
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I’m always on the hunt to find .gov and .edu site links they are pretty hard to obtain but I guess they can be I’ll keep searching. Thanks for the tips I’m definitely going to use them more. I keep forgetting yahoo answers I’ll work on that as well
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Great list! Just thought Id add that I have submitted a couple of my bigger sites to the Yahoo directory and found that it did help their rankings and traffic – especially in the Yahoo search engine.
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Thank you for a great list. I need to go to yahoo directory and make my links no follow.
Where do you submit press releases?
I think any links coming from do follow and relevant sites can help to increase page rank right? but PR is dead gone from my point of view, less people are optimizing for it.
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very important Article ,and all the steps very important and every step is more important than the other
Thanks!
Great list Clay! Something I like to do when I need a little boost is add new content not only to the website I’m working on but also to the webpage itself. I also like to add links to other “authority” websites so that Google can see I’m really trying to provide a quality service.
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Very helpful post. I did know most of them but points 11 and 12 I hadnt even thought of! Off now to see if i can help anyone out with some answers – thanks!
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Thank you for a great list,thanx ;)
Great idea about leveraging Yahoo answers! This is something I’d never thought of but I’m sure it would have lots of good effects for the website. Yahoo probably gives you extra credit in their search engine if you appear often in Yahoo answers as well…
Great list! I can’t believe how few of these I’ve actually done. I set up a site a couple of weeks ago that I would love to get traffic to so I can make some money off it but I don’t know where to start. Some of these ideas I hadn’t even thought about, so thanks for giving me that extra push.
These tips are great. Well worth the effort! These can be particularly helpful to those who are on their wits’ end trying to get more traffic into their sites.
All of these tactics will work in increasing your page ranking. There are several different ideas, like a keyword rich footer,that can help boost your ranking too. For any web design help and questions, contact us.
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In addition to considering the number of links to your page and the ranking of the linking page, to compute a page’s PageRank, Google considers hundreds of factors including
how fast a site is gaining links
how long the links persist
when your site acquired the links
the click through rate (CTR) of Google’s search results, cached pages, favorites on the Google Toolbar
the stickiness of your site (i.e., the effectiveness of your site in retaining individual users)
Thank you for a great list!!
Josefina Argüello – E-marketing
Hi clay the points you mentioned in this post is good but I want ask one thing that Google considers Social Bookmarking and reciprocal link exchange for Page Rank .
Certain sites having penalty directly such as direc , blogs that re-blog other blogs content, sites like statscounter with no true cont t value besides having lots of backlinks, have been knocked down. You may think why your site which dont buy/sell links also gettin This is actually not really your fault. Your site might probably received lots of PR juice previous
Good list! I would also like to add two points:
- Be careful with your pagerank and get a good internal link flow (for example, avoid unnecessary footer links to ensure the acquired page rank flows to the important pages in your site as much as possible);
- Avoid internal duplicate content (eg one single blog post returning on several pages: often caused by unnecessary use of tags). By internal duplicate content many pages of your site may end up in the secondary Google index.
Hey Jos, Great tips. Thank you for taking the time to share these tips with my readers.
Hello Clay, Great article! Another brief and concise Page Rank discussion from an expert. Thanks. I will definitely follow this simple process.
I wanted to say thanks to you for this great read!! I’ve got you book marked to view fresh stuff you post.
Its nice to read some post about this nowadays. Its meaningful and somehow sharing this to readers like me, makes me want to surf the web to be able to get more wonderful ideas.Thank you for posting this.
Do you think page rank can be generated on a site if it has really good content? or is it just dependent on links?
Thanks for the list. I woould only recommend forum signature links if you are a regular contributor to the site and it would better if the forum is industry related.
Very true, most forums require a minimum amount of posts before they allow you to use a signature as well.
I am glad PR isn’t the only factor now. Prior to the quality factor it was almost impossible to get anywhere with a competitive niche because the top ranking sites would already have millions of incoming links. With the focus on quality and authority you have to be a bit cleverer with how you get your links.
on linked in relating to your keywords and add a link to the site.
13. Submit a press release relating about the site and include a link.
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Your pagerank bares no relevance to the return in traffic you get from search engines.
I would recommend not to get obsessed with pagerank. In differing with others, Google pagerank is just a irrelevant measure. What really matters is actually getting traffic and conversions. I have a PR4 site with just a few backlinks about 30. All sources are good but it does not have any traffic, why? because it needs authority and authority is not given by page rank.
All these points are quite valid especially the yahoo answers are the source to get the back links for long tail keywords which is great to attract the potential customers and also there are many other way like using the targeted keywords with the technique to get the result properly
There is lot of way to increase the web site page rank. I thing SEO service and social networking sites are the best way to get fastest growth in the ranking of web pages in leading search engines.
Thanks for the tips, they are much appriciated.
Hey Clay,
Great list. I have found the most success by simply commenting on good blogs. Even though financial consulting has nothing to do with blogging, I tend to follow and comment on much more blogging websites because I actually learn a ton of information.
In the beginning I read that commenting on blogs was good to do, and that was about the extent of my SEO knowledge. I quickly learned that a great side benefit was that when I would look for sites to comment on, I would read and learn many different techniques to promote and share my services.
Hi there – thank you very much for valuable informations. Especially the tip with twitter was amazing. I like articles like this one because you´re providing very useful informations to desperate people like myself, when I´m stuck in SERP on 4th page and I don´t know what else to do. Thanks again.
great tips – I found the best way to up your pagerank is to get links from other sites with high pagerank, do-follow links that is, and I have found that the time it takes your webpage to load is one of the factors of it too :)
In my opinion, making your site trustworthy and reliable, building high quality backlinks are the most efficient way to increase page rank. Build outbound links from your website to authority sites like Wikipedia. Just make sure that you are linking to post that is relevant to your niche/keyword. It tells Google that your are also contributing or supplying more information.
Great tips on how to increase your page rank. I must admit that I am very impressed by all those tips you have given.Writing fresh and new content for your site really works wonders as readers look forward to something new each day. Social media sites can also help in promoting your site hence increasing your page rank.
I find them great tips and very helpful for newbies. Thanks a lot!
Thank you for writing this list. It has helped give me better perspective on building links. I didn’t realise that building links equated to building reputation and then this helps with rankings in Google. Is link building going to be as effective in the future i wonder. Is link building going to be more or less effective than social proof in the future.
Thanks for any further advice
Steve
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Hey Steve Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
I would guess that social proof becomes very powerful in the future.
I suspect our phones will tell us what everyone else in the store is buying and we can scan a qr code and get recommendations from our friends.
But back to link building, a press release or a link from Mashable or the Wall street Journal in body text will have huge authority for a long time.
As you say social proof may become more important in the future.
If I linked to your new blog with a keyword anchor text, it would provide a bit of a vote of confidence by my site and my reputation as Clay Franklin that it is a worthy destination for whoever searches for the anchor text used on the link.
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This blurs the distinction between a link and a social proof.
Those are great tips and recommendations. we have implemented most of them, thanks for the share!
I did write a few boring posts when I first started this blog. I switched it around to see what I could do to provide useful information in each article that would help others.