There is so much rehashed information on increasing Page Rank. Basically, anything that was published before Nov/2008 is out dated. And, this post will probably be outdated within a few months.
How to Get PR2
a) Have a private domain name
This makes it easiest, but a blogger.com or wordpress.com domain will work. The other free blog sites are much harder to increase PR as they are 'buried' deep inside the website.
b) Be online more than 3 months
This can be reduced if you work through networking sites to build inbound links, and get traffic.
c) Change content daily
Post at least 1 post daily. This will 'ping' the search engines daily.
d) Have a feed through feedburn
This will give you an rss feed. Make sure you optimize your feed, add a chicklet to your blog for people to subscribe from, and make sure you sign up for as many 'ping' sites as you can.
You might also want to go to some of the other ping sites to increase your exposure.
e) Submit to search engines
If you use WebCeo, you can probably submit to 200 or more blogs. If not then just use one of the free services on the web.
f) Submit to the blog catalogues
These include blogged, blogowogo, blogcatalog, etc. You can find a more detailed list in this blog. This will help you earn more than 50 inbound links - vital.
d) Tag Your articles
Use tags in your blogs. Keep the tags simple but use keyword phrases, not keywords. This will help search engines index the blog.
e) List Your Articles
Add your articles to Digg, technorati, etc. Ask people to vote for them. Build up a stir.
You can also join a networking group such as divanetworking which will decrease the amount of time needed to build PR. Group members work together to help each other build links, vote, etc.
How to Get PR3
The next step is a little harder but it can be done inthree months.
a) Have at least 50 – 100 articles on the site
This is the common advice. However, I find that Google's magic number is 200-250.
b) Submit to directories
This is also common, and there are still many people telling bloggers to do this. However, SEO marketers are not sure if Google is depreciating blogs that 'buy' links in directories. I know that the only blog I ever purchased directory links to was dropped from PR4 to PR0 last fall.
(however, I also had a copy and paste declaration that it received Paid Posts. Google is against 'obvious' selling of articles)
c) Link to the site from forums
Google gives forums a high rank, and does count the links from each forum, increasing page rank.
d) Join Google’s PayPerClick Program
This only costs $20 - $50 and needs to be done once. It gets your site indexed immediatly with the objective of increasing traffic. Don't worry about ever paying this again.
There is no Google sandbox, but it can take a long time for some blogs to be indexed.
Balancing Google and Keywords
There is one way to make sure that you are climbing up the PR ranks. All you need to do is check your keywords and compare them to the ads at the side of the page. Flip through a few pages. If the ads do not change dramatically, then your website will increase in PR faster.
This highlights some of the main aspects of high ranking blogs - PR4 and higher:
Nich oriented:
- The tighter the niche.
- The shorter the keyword phrase/tag list.
- The more informative and original the content.
- The faster the blog will earn Page Rank.
You can't get above PR3 unless you start optimizing your blogs and paying attention to keywords.
Climbing to PR5
All you need to do to earn PR 5 is get 10 000 inbound links. WRONG. I have a website with 19 800 ORGANIC links and another 26 000 built links. It is optimized for Google, and the topics are narrow with only 30 keywords over a 5000 page site that is updated daily.
http://www.inspireduathor.com/ page rank -PR4 with a prediction of PR4.8
Google does count inside links, but the 19 000 links does not include the 'inside' links.
It isn't as much the number of links you need - but 'what' links they are.
For example Blog A can earn PR5 if:
- if they have 100 x PR4 links
- 15 (or 18 depending on the calculator) PR5 links
- 20 000 PR1 - PR2 links. This I dispute, because I own PR4 sites that far exceed 20 000 PR1 - PR4 links and it is still PR4
- 500 PR3 links
- Buy a PR5 domain
For example Blog A can earn PR6 if:
- 3000 x PR3 links
- 555 x PR4 links
- 19 x PR5 links
- 4 x PR7 links
However, this means nothing if you don't understand what a quality link is
The fewer links Blog A has on their pages - the more value that page has
Technically, if you buy for PR7 links, then you should have PR7. Wrong. If you are buying links from pages with lots of links then the following applies:
Blog A buys 3 links from a PR7 site with 10 outgoing links per page - They get full value and their PR will increase
Blog A buys 3 links from a PR7 site with 90 outbound links - then only .10% of the value is passed. So those 3 links only pass on 30% of the value. This blog owner must buy 10 PR7 links.
Take a look at Part 2 of this article to learn how to use this information.
Again, this is just a guide and not the 'written in stone' algorythm that some SEO pros want you to believe. IF this was true then IA with its 19 000 links (even if each link was only a PR3, and only passed on 20% of its value) would have PR6. However, it gives blog owners a place to start.
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