Page Rank and Inbound Links

One of the problems with people who are in the business of blogging is that they do not understand page rank. They have a vague idea that Google wants lots of inbound links. At first they generate dozens, then realize that Google counts very few of these - and stop.

Unfortunately, they do not realize that it may take several weeks - to months for Google to actually apply the pagerank to their site. If you use the Google page rank tool to test www.inspiredauthor.com's back links, you'll see about 20. If you use yahoo, you'll see 175. If you use an actual web software program that tracks, you'll see 280 for Google and 3000 for yahoo. This doesn't mean that the sites do not count them. It means that it will take time for Google to apply the page rank to my site.

One the other hand - WHERE the links come from is important. For example, if you have 2 or 3 inbound links from a PR8 site, then you'll have a PR 4 or PR5 site. But, it may take thousands of links from a PR1 - PR3 site to bring up your rank.

Why do you want to do all this work?

One - so Google AdSense will pay you more. When you check your AdSense earnings, you'll notice that at PR1 - PR2, you may only earn a few cents, even if the CPC (Cost Per Click) is $20 - $200.

Two - so your site's pageranks higher, and Google will include you in more searches. The higher you rank in searches, the more traffic your site receives. And, of course, the more traffic you receive, the more hits you get.

Inbound links are not the only aspect that effects Google page rank, but it is a good place to start.