How do I: Improve Page Rank?

To improve page rank, you simply need people linking to you. Even though the concept is pretty simple, there is a tad bit more to it. Google gives every website that it indexes a score from 0-10 called its “pagerank”. This can be thought of as a quality score in Google’s eyes.

In order to boost your pagerank from say 2 to 3, you would want to acquire some dofollow backlinks from pages that are rated a PR 3 or above. It could be done with a larger quantity of lower PR links, but I want to stress to you quality over quantity. This is why you will find some services on the web require a fee to submit your URL to, most of them have a higher pagerank, or a “more important” list as far as Google is concerned. Does this mean that your 200 backlinks from PR 0 and PR 1 sites are useless? No.. The lesson here is that it is not the number of backlinks you have to your website that will help you improve page rank, but the QUALITY of said links.

• So how do I see what a site’s pagerank is?

Do you use firefox? If so, look for a “pagerank plugin”. There is one I use called “SearchStatus”.

Alternatively, if you do not use firefox, try this free pagerank tool.

Traditionally, it is the pagerank that plays a big part in establishing the overall value of a website. All websites start from PR 0, and eventually rise to the top, i.e. PR 10. The increase of your page ranking depends on how well you market your site in your chosen niche, and be gaining more incoming traffic to your site. You can get more traffic by following the different SEO techniques such as link building, keyword optimization and the like. If you have an ecommerce website, then tracking your stats and pageranks greatly important since you need more clients to serve and support your business.

• So where should I start?

– Making A Deal With Other Webmasters

One method of spreading links is to contact other Webmasters and ask them to put up a link of your site in their page. It would be best to contact them first via email and explain the benefit of exchanging links. Be professional and polite if you want them to approve of your request.

– Publishing Articles

Article publishing is a good way to spread your links on the Web. This involves coming up with informative and quality content and publish them on submission sites online. Like blog sites, you can place a link of your site as a signature or directly embed it to one of the keywords on the content. As an added bonus, you can also submit the same post to blog sites as well. You won’t have to worry about copyright issues since you will be publishing them under your name — so no worries.

– Social Bookmarking

A fast way of populating your links on the Web is through the use of social bookmarking. Web surfers and spiders tend to frequent social bookmarking sites to find quality links for information, business, or just simple fun. Create an account in one of the bookmarking sites on the Web and publish them. Just make sure that they are set to “public” so other people can see your bookmarks and add it to their list for a wider coverage.