Pagerank according to some bloggers is an important factor determining the power of a blog, while for some others Pagerank is just another rank. I belong to the second category. I totally disagree when someone says me that “Pagerank is proportional to your blog’s power or quality”. Rubbish!
Pagerank according to me is not a blog quality determining factor. Pagerank in fact according to me has nothing to do with a blog’s quality or power. Pagerank is totally based (as far as I have researched and read on other blogs) only and only on one thing i.e. the number of blogs linking to your blog and the pagerank of those blogs. So in short the entire concept of Pagerank revolves in and around links, number of links, quality of links, authority of links, pagerank of links, etc.
So if you want to increase pagerank of your blog, you need to concentrate on your back links. Simply getting backlinks from millions of sites out there won’t work, you also need to concentrate on the quality of those links.
Factors Affecting Pagerank
- Number of the backlinks.
- Quality of the backlinks.
- Number of OBL (Out Bound Links) from your blog.
- Number of other pages the site linking to your blog links to!
- Site design and structure.
- Google + (Explanation below)
Ways To Increase Pagerank
- Building high quality links.
- Building a link wheel.
- Interlinking your site pages.
- Reduce the number of external pages you are linking to.
- No-follow external links
- Have a crystal clear site structure.
- Social Media sharing.
- Try building natural (at least natural-looking) backlinks.
Factors Not Affecting Pagerank
- Your content! (Unbelievable? Explanation below)
- Number of indexed pages.
- META tags.
- Domain age.
Factors Affecting Pagerank
Here are 6 factors that affect your site’s pagerank. Studying these factors, analyzing your strengths and weaknesses, planning, preparing and following a strategy can surely help you to improve pagerank.
Number of the backlinks
Your site pagerank depends a lot on the number of unique pages linking to your site. If you have a high number of backlinks, you can expect a high pagerank. This is the basic law.
Pagerank ∝ No. of backlinks
For those who didn’t understand the above formula, it means that pagerank is directly proportional to the number of backlinks you have. A site having 10,000 backlinks is expected to have a higher pagerank than a site having just 1000 backlinks.
So in short if you want to increase pagerank, concentrate on this principle and increase backlinks. There are certain things that need to be taken care of like – quality of backlinks, backlinks building speed and a few more. Your backlinks need to be good quality, you must build links at a human speed (slow). By human speed I mean to convey, build links at a natural speed and don’t use automated link building software or sites.
Quality of the backlinks
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity
The above quote by Mahatma Gandhi says a lot. Of course it’s related to human nature and human characters, but here I try to relate it with blogging & pagerank and to some extent even modify it.
Your site pagerank depends a lot on the quality of sites linking to your site or page. For example, a link from a PR4 site will give you more link and PR juice than a link from a PR3 site. In order to build a high pagerank you must concentrate on the quality of backlinks as well. Try building high PR links.
The pagerank of the site linking to your site is not the only factor affecting the quality of backlinks. Another quality factor is the authority of site linking to your site. A link from an authoritative site (a popular news site, a popular magazine, a widely read blog) is not less than a Christmas gift! Such links can take your site from PR1 to PR4 in no time!
Number of OBL (Out Bound Links) from your blog
If your blog page links to 100 external sites, your pagerank will be divided in 100 parts. So a PR4 will be divided into 100 parts and each of the external site will get + PR 4/100. So at the end very less PR value remains for your own blog and your pagerank can decrease. So link to few selected external sites and if you feel that you have linked to a lot of external sites, simply nofollow the links.
Number of other pages the site linking to your blog links to
If a site linking to your blog page links to 100 other sites, the pagerank will be divided into 100 parts. So if that site has a PR4, each of the 100 sites linked from that site will get a PR4/100 boost. So in order to keep a large share of pagerank for your blog, try building links from sites having a less OBL count.
Site design and structure
Your site design and structure may not be affecting your pagerank directly, but indirectly it affects your pagerank. Having a good site design, W3 valid coding, crystal clear structure will help search engines crawl your pages with ease and if you often interlink to your internal pages, a good and clear structure will help Google distribute pagerank evenly.
Google +
I am not sure if Google + counts affect your pagerank in any way now, but I think, in future Google + count will be a major factor affecting your pagerank. One of the major aims behind launching Google + was to improve the quality of the Google search results. Presently only SERPS (Search engine results page) are determined by the number of Google + counts, but in future I expect Google + counts to be a major factor affecting a site’s pagerank.
See, doing well in Google + will no doubt improve your traffic. Why not maintain a decent Google + count? So in case Google decides to use Google + as one of the many factors affecting your site’s pagerank, you may get a benefit!
Increase Pagerank
Building high quality links
So in order to increase pagerank you must immediately start building links. Try to build as many links as possible, but don’t neglect the quality aspect. Try getting links from authority sites in whichever way possible. Try getting links from educational sites (.edu sites) or government sites (.gov). Getting links from such sites is very difficult, but a single link from such sites can increase your page rank and even boost your search engine rankings. A few ways to build high quality links are,
- Guest blogging
- Social media
- Selective link exchange
- Building links from Squidoo, Hubpages & other authority sites
Building a link wheel
If you haven’t heard of a link wheel before, let me tell you that building a link wheel is one of the most effective ways to get high quality backlinks. When you build a link wheel, you inter link a few sites and each of these sites link to a common page from your site. Eventually all these sites get a ranking boost and your site page gets a major ranking boost.
Example:
Site A links to Site B which in turn links to Site C. Site C links to Site D and so on. Each site links to the consecutive site and a common page (a page whose pagerank you want to increase). You get an immediate rankings boost, because the pagerank value of each site page is evenly distributed between the sites and eventually all the high PR pages link to your page. This proves to be an immediate link boost! Building link wheel is time consuming so try making it as effective as possible. Build a long chain of sites, inter link all of them, don’t follow a link building pattern, etc. are a few ways to build an effective link wheel.
Interlinking your site pages
Don’t forget to interlink your site pages. If you write a post about increasing pagerank, don’t forget to link to a few related posts. Write a post on each of the sub-topics mentioned in the post about increasing pagerank and interlink them.
Interlinking not only helps you to distribute pagerank evenly between your site pages, but also helps your visitors stay on your site for a much longer time which in turn reduces bounce rate!
Interlinking has many more benefits. Doing anything in excess harms, so does interlinking. Over-interlinking may confuse and distract your visitors and they may end up leaving your site! So don’t over-interlink your site pages.
Reduce the number of external pages you are linking to
Your pagerank is shared equally among the various pages you link to. So if your page has a PR1 and it links to 100 pages, each one of them will get 1/100 PR bonus. Thus very less link juice remains for your inner-pages. Also it’s believed that Google ranks pages with too many external links lower than the ones with less number of external links. It’s because pages with too many links mostly contain paid links, are made for link exchange or some other foul practice. In short, avoid linking to too many external sites and in case you decide to link to many external sites, just make sure that you have no-followed the links.
No-follow external links
No following external links is one of the best ways to keep the link juice reserved for your own site pages. Now, I don’t mean no-follow all the external links. You can remove the no-follow tag from certain links. You can remove the no-follow tag from guest writer’s links, links to your other blogs, links to high-authority sites like Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, etc.
Have a crystal clear site structure
Having a good site structure, inter-linking all internal pages helps in distributing the link juice properly and thus you can expect a higher pagerank. In order to increase pagerank, have a good navigation system at place. Link to all the important pages from your home page so that they get more link juice and there’s a PR increase. Link to your popular blog posts or the posts you want to recommend from your homepage.
Don’t forget to check if your site is validated by W3C. Having an error free site helps Google to crawl your site pages easily and efficiently.
Social Media sharing
Now this is something different. You already know that social media can help you get tons of visitors everyday. But do you know that social sharing can also help you increase your pagerank? Let’s classify it.
- Social Interaction Services
- Facebook, Twitter, Etc.
- Can get you a lot of traffic, indirectly build links and increase PR. This is how it works. You tweet or share your post on Facebook. Someone reads it, likes it and links to your post from his blog. Thus you get a free natural back link which in turn increases your pagerank.
- Social Bookmarking Services
- Digg, Reddit, Etc.
- Can get you a lot of free traffic, indirect backlinks, direct backlinks and also increase pagerank. Some one likes your post and links to it (indirect backlink). You share your post on a dofollow bookmarking site (direct backlink).
Try building natural (at least natural-looking) backlinks
The best way to build natural links is to ask your friends to link to your blog posts. Another way is to guest blog and request a link inside the body. Another way to increase pagerank, but a costly one is to hire a designer, get an infograph designed from him and then sit back and count the backlinks!
Factors Not Affecting Pagerank
Your content
Shocking, huh? Yeah, but your pagerank does not depend on your blog content! Even if you write 1000 words articles or if you copy a blog post from an other blog, your pagerank stands unaffected. How is that possible and how can I say that?
Long time back I found a blog which copied all my blog posts. When I visited that blog, I found out that the blog had a PR4. So what I concluded was that you don’t need to have original content in your blog. Pagerank doesn’t depend on your content. Pagerank just depends on the links.
Does that mean you should stop writing and start copying? Of course no! A duplicate post can get a PR4, but still it won’t rank higher than the original post (in 99% cases). So write original articles only.
Number of indexed pages
Long time back I read an article about increasing pagerank. One of the tips was to write a lot of articles and have a lot of pages indexed in Google. I researched and found out that it isn’t true. The number of indexed pages has nothing to do with your pagerank!
META tags
Another article I found out suggested that filling META details properly can increase your pagerank. But it’s not true. Filling META details properly can help you rank better in Google, get more traffic, but it cannot help increase your blog’s pagerank. May be when someone visitors your blog, likes your blog posts, links to you, you can get a backlink and see a PR increase, but that’s only a possibility! A visitor won’t link to your blog post always if he likes it!
Domain age
If domain age was a factor, many domain traders would have been partying all day long! I don’t think domain age affects your pagerank in any way. I have several domains, older than a year, but all have PR-NA. One of my friend has a 10 year old domain with a PR-NA. So I don’t think, the domain age affects your pagerank in any way. If it does, it affects your pagerank slightly and it’s certainly not a factor you must focus.
There are many more factors not affecting your pagerank and there may be more things that affect pagerank. I have listed only the best ways to improve your pagerank. If you have any more tips to increase pagerank, feel free to share it here!
Also if you are interested in finding out your future pagerank, try out this future pagerank prediction tool. Of course its not always accurate! In case you are not aware of a PR checker, have a look at this list of pagerank checkers.
Hey, i want to ask something important, a lot of blogs are stealing my Original articles, today i noticed that one blog is copying my original articles on daily basis, what i am gonna do, this will effect my traffic. that blog stole almost 280+ posts and i filled Google DMCA application for blogger against that blog, but the main thing is that how i am gonna save all my articles from getting copied, is there penalty for my blog, in future coz they are using my articles..? My every article is using some where so how i am gonna protect my articles, This will result in loss of more than 50% traffic.
If this will gonna happen to my articles, then why i am wasting a lot of time writing the original content..?
You are right, but all blog posts copied somewhere! Just ignore. These sites do not last longer than a few weeks!
i disagree with you… i had the same problem as Ahmad.. and the sites that were copying my content outranked me in a couple of months… i had to drop that site and start a new one :(
There is no way out of this actually! Don’t worry Waleed! Such sites don’t last long. Google identifies them easily. Try reporting for spam here https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreportform?hl=en
I saw Matt Cutts Video and according to him, if the scraping site are getting your articles and they are ranked higher in Google then go for the DMCA act to remove that content from the search results. There are many high Ranking Blogs that are using my articles, then what i am gonna do….?
Make use of DMCA then. But how many articles will you report – 5, 10, 20..how many? Isn’t it too time consuming? I just let such scrapers go. One day they will surely come down and that will be my day! :)
I am gonna report those blogs which are ranked higher than My blog. Its according to Matt Cutts that you should do.
Only DMCA report will help me remove that duplicate articles, checkout this video of matt cutts about the DUPLICATE Content http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LsB19wTt0Q, Or Spam remove report will also helps to remove that but if my site crawls later than the Duplicate article site, then there will be some sort of problem for me too. But its okie because now after two or three minutes of posting my new article, Google crawls it.
Okie then i am just gonna Report them as Spam, i installed Chrome plugin to do report where i find my articles.
Can you share the plugin URL please? I would like to install it as well to quickly report! Why I don’t file DMCA is because it consumes a lot of time, but yes its really necessary!
Yes here is the URL :https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/efinmbicabejjhjafeidhfbojhnfiepj
Thanks! :)
I got reply for the DMCA take down request and the infringing sites have been Total removed from the indexed and i searched them through Google and i didn’t find them ha hah great.
Cheers Waleed! Party time! The efforts finally paid! :)
There is little confusion, their adsense account is disabled and site is remove from the index, but funny thing is that i posted an articles today and i visited their site and my article is automatically posted their too with the date of 23 Nov, but i posted that today on 24th then how is it possible. My time stamp shows that. I don’t know what happening.
That’s my original article: http://fashioninfotoday.blogspot.com/2011/11/arabic-mehndi-designs-arabic-body-henna.html
and the copied articles URL is: http://www.bestholidaychoice.com/arabic-mehndi-designs-arabic-body-henna-designs-mehndi-patterns-designs/
Hey i got this mail yesterday:
Hello,
Thanks for reaching out to us.
We have received the DMCA counter notification provided at the bottom of this email in response to the complaint you filed with us. As described in 17 U.S.C. 512(g), by this e-mail, we are providing you with the counter notification and await your notice (in not more than 10 days) that you have filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the counter-notifier’s allegedly infringing activity. If we do not receive such notice from you, we will not remove the AdSense publisher from our program.
If you have any questions, please contact our DMCA agent at 650.214.4053.
Regards,
The Google Team
What to do now, I dont know anything about this, can you please help me..!
Seems you’ve filled DMCA complaint against someone who has been stolen your content without permission. Have you been copyrighted your content? If yes, then you need not worry. Anyway, make sure you consult this issue with your lawyer as well. OR simply contact the DMCA agent at given number …
You must file a case against that site in court for DMCA to remove that Adsense publisher. I think it’s a waste of time to file a court case just to get a post removed. Just ignore.
I got personal mail from the admin of the blog, and i am still laughing at this..:D
Hello:
Once , I removed your article when you notified me.
However, my site removed from Google.
now what you want jealous man.
He Filed a counter notice against me so that’s why Google is asking me to take step. He removed single article of mine that i reported in DMCA request. So that’s Google wants some more prof. I also mentioned all the Articles that he is stealing in my answer mail against that counter notice, that all…EM Happy..:D Now he will never gonna get his site back in Google search results and Every one knows Google disable adsense for no reasons..:P He told me that he was using RSS feeds to post articles from open sites.
You can also block access to RSS feed for his IP address … So he won’t able to access any feeds update from your site …
Yeah, that’s what I told you. He uses automated tools that pull articles automatically from RSS sites. These guys dream of automated easy income, but end up losing what they have! :D
Congrats Waleed! :)
yeah it works…….and it was a great tutorial dude implemented some of them to my blog….thanxx…!!!
Welcome, do let me know your new PR once Google updates it :)
WOW! What a great tutorial! Thanks a lot!
I really love this very informative about getting high PR for my blog, yes i agree by also adding google pulse (google+) can help boost our blog’s pr. Thanks, keep on writing quality content. Search engines loves quality content.
LOL! What a blogger :P For the first time I am seeing a black hat blogger requesting ;)
There are several plugins available for WordPress which make that possible. Well it doesn’t matter. It depends on which post was indexed first in Google. As yours is the original one, your post might have indexed first.
Thats a great plugin buddy. thanks for sharing it here.
Hi waleed, Register and Install DMCA widget to your site that might be help.
Wow, this post was really amazing. I read tons of articles, but nothing as clears is this explanation of the real deal about pagerank :)
Thanks for these tips. I am a newbie and found these recommendations great in my odyssey to build a better blog!
Thats so nice Mark! Do try these page rank increasing tips and let me know if they work for you :)
Original articles and high quality communication is important.
If you are talking about increasing pagerank, only communication and links are important!!
A detail explanation in a very simple language. It took some time to understand some concept but I “Understood.” I’ve read many blogs for this but could hardly figure out what they meant.
Suraj, what’s the best part in this post? Just asking ;)
Wow, that’s unbelievable. Content doesn’t affect pagerank? Hmm…
Jasmine, yeah! PR currently depends just on links. I have seen many scraper sites having PR3+!
I agree it’s really frustrated trying to learn how to build backlinks, drive traffic, etc., so reading your article has given me more motivation! It is wonderful that you have such great results and increased income.Thank you so much for the advice!
Thanks for the comments and also compliments. All the best for your blogging journey! I feel awesome to have motivated some one!
Wow, very awesome..
Thank you Berita! :)
yes, i am agree with you good post it is.
Try to get more and more quality back-links.
From what I’ve noticed over the years (been in this game since ’03), Pagerank really only matters if you’re selling links to people who care about pagerank ;)
I’ve had pr2 websites outrank pr6 sites for several high traffic keywords on google, I’ve also had new (2-3 month old) sites with 4 or 5 backlinks outrank established sites with hundreds of backlinks.
The 80/20 rule *really* applies to generating traffic, there are a few very important aspects which far out-weigh all of the other smaller ones:
– Make sure the keywords you want to rank for on google are in the link (the webpage URL you want to rank higher in google).
– Your backlink text is somewhere in the link (preferably the domain name itself)
– Have the H1 tag on your site match both of the above.
Most of the battle, of corse, is getting backlinks. On-site SEO seems to be dead nowadays…
Nathan, you have been in SEO game from quite a long time! WOW! In short you are right, PR just matters to advertisers, link buyers, link sellers, etc. It’s just a number you see! ;)
And what you have said is correct. A new site with can outrank an established site with proper SEO and few quality backlinks. Hard, but possible!
On-page SEO is not dead. The truth is that Google pays more importance to links, so on-page optimization gets not much value!
In addition, the real point of SEO is to optimize all the web pages to improve conversions. This has always been the case for actual SEO, as opposed to the only promotion. Optimization means to increase performance of the website for search engine benefits along with promotional techniques. Ignoring one side could left your chances in the drain.
“Number of the back links”
“Quality of the back links”
These two points are more important, because link building is not about getting back links and back links from any website. If you build 10k back links form 0 value sites then it would equal to 0% results.
Pretty great article. and nicely put. I just read the first two passages once again. The way of writing is totally excellent :)
I never care about PR, honestly, when PR increases i found my earning decreases. :D
PR is essential to pull guest writers, sponsored writers and advertisers. When we simply focused on our content then traffic comes automatically.
Robin.
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Robin, your comment made my day, thanks for the sweet and encouraging words! I am repeatedly reading your comment ;)
Even I hardly care about PR, but a good and higher number looks good :D Earnings decrease? That’s so sad! :P I have not seen an earnings decrease, but PR doesn’t matter to me :D
Saksham :)
Total site good means, good content and keywords,tags and more.
Exactly!! I don’t know why you wrote the above comment here?!
Talwar Very informative Post. You explain all basic things about Page Rank.
Oops, I though there were a few advanced tips as well. Don’t you think? ;)
Nice post, but i wont encourage the use of the NO FOLLOW Tag. No follow may deplete your pagerank, you can do a research about it at http://mattcutts.com
Umm, really Joseph? I am heading onto his blog now! :)
Fantastic article!
Myself, and many others I’ve read in the comments here had the same problems with content scrapers. The individuals still believes that they were doing nothing wrong by scraping the content. Which is annoying. My thing about this is, and I am sure a lot of bloggers know this as well, the time it takes to write–then for someone to just rip the article without asking. I hope there is a solution to this eventually. Like if someone built a plugin of sorts that required anyone wanting to “syndicate” your posts should first be required to officially request syndication. Like, put some kind of “request button” or something. Ah well, hopefully sites like these only lasts so long. Encouraging the community to report these sites could help as well.
Great post!
Aidy, you have suggested a nice idea. I think some plugin developers should work towards creating such plugin! It will not only help the developer (all people will use it) but also help all honest bloggers like you and me! Thanks for your views and the comment! :)
Hi Waleed, If you have another idiot stealing your content then I doubt it could benefit them. Google will see it as duplicate content and only take note of the original.
Then what can i do, I am spending a lot of time writing those articles with high searching keywords naturally and they stole my article in a jiffy, what do you think is there any effect of copying on my blog rank..? They are surely getting traffic on my articles, and they are also getting benefit. I filled a form at Google.com/dmca.html But i didn’t get any reply, according to that from they are gonna contact back after 24 hours but its more than 36. And can you please tell me what does that means
( Google will see it as duplicate content and only take note of the original. )
if it means that Google will show results of the original articles in the search results then its okie for me.
I am not really surprised to read that people do still really care about Page Rank but this doesn’t make me the person from the 2nd category. I think by now people should realize that there is nothing in a PR and should consider some other important factors that help them grow further in SERPs. My quick advice to all the people who care about PR is: stop thinking about PR and invest the same time in building some good links.
Mike, people still value PR as it’s one of the many factors advertisers use to buy links. Nothing else ;) People should focusing more on links and less on their PR. PR keeps changing. Instead people should write good articles, link to them from other blogs and have fun with the traffic!
Amazing site. It’s funny because i stumbled here from a backlinking site. Anyways great information. I’m currently working on increasing my sites traffic, but having some trouble.
How do you go about asking people to link to you, or what if someone steals and article from you, could you force them to link back to you?
If the stealer uses RSS to copy your articles, you cna force him to link to you unless he uses some advanced tactics to remove the outgoing links! You can simple email them to add the links back (finding email is sort of tough) :)
At the moment the Pagerank is not so important.
Thanks. Good article!
You are right!
Google Page rank is based on back links. Back links are Links pointing to your website from another website.
The more increase the page rank, follow these steps…..
. Join forums
. Submit to search engine directories, Using ezine ads
. Creating and publishing articles.
. Links from related websites
Yeah, we must concentrate on all the above things. Forum links value less, but still helpful to improve SERPS.
A perfect guide and thanks for providing such information to help business websites increase the page rank.
Carin, I agree with you ;)
Even though Google Pagerank has been disregarded time and again as being useless…I still think it is a yardstick for bloggers and webmasters. :)
My blog has been stuck at pagerank 4 for ages and I don’t see how I can increase it to 5. :( Any idea?
I think a very good, high page rank link will help you. Try getting a PR6 or 7 direct link. You may have to buy such a link. But if you want a higher page rank, you should. Or a slower method is to write a lot of guest posts. :)
That’s a very detailed post on Page Rank. It clears up some of the misinformation out there about PR. Thanks. I believe if you have great content, people will link to you and naturally increase your PR.
Ricko, that’s like being a good blogger. Natural links are the most valuable and the hardest to get unless you build a good rep.
I used to think that the PR of a site was for the site, but now I know that each page can have it’s own page rank. Just as you mentioned above we need to get the backlinks in order to help get the page rank so that we can get to the first page on the search engines.
Backlinks and good content are the two most important things as far as I am concerned. Thanks for the very informative post on backlinking. It’s important
All pages including the internal pages get a page rank depending on the number of links pointing to the internal pages. Both are important. Page rank for showing off and personal encouragement and good content for readers and getting traffic!
Wow, I didn’t know that there are many factors affecting the PR of a site. all I knew is having Do Follow links from high PR sites.
Jeff, there are several factors. But each small or big thing revolves around dofollow links :)
Links , links and more links. The hard part of course is determining which links are of high quality and which are worthless.
I am just starting out at this with a new site for my company and it is a big learning curve.
Therefore, thanks for the informative article.
In short, Links from sites getting regular quality visitors are good, the other links are equal to useless :)
Great tips bro ! Nowadays , Webmasters doesn’t care much about Pagerank , but in my opinion , it is still an important factor which determines the strength of a blog !
Fantastic Article! Thanks for Sharing Such a wonderful Tips! In My Opinion Inbound Links Matter Most! You have to make qualitative inbound links for your site! As many as you got qualitative links as many you have chance to enhance your search engine visibility!
This is the first article on Pagerank that is comprehensible and well written. One thing to be realized here is that getting a desirable pagerank is takes time and hard work. There are formulas that needs to be followed and modified.
It certainly needs patience after all Google updates PR every few months! And as far as hard work is concerned, where you don’t need it?
Thanks for publication , very useful information! But I have 1 question.Google improves its technologies , how it’ll action on our pagerank in the future? Because my pagerang droped down.
We may need to improve our methods. These methods are not guaranteed to work in future.
I recently had my page rank increased from nothing to PR1. It’s not a big step but it have noticed a difference in traffic.
JG, positive difference right?
This is awesome post for every bloggers, who wants to improve their pagerank for low aged blogs. I am also trying this idea to get high PR for my blog
Recently i have started my website. i am learning from you pagerank increase tips. thanks for the tips.
Saksham you are a genius. Honestly i have been looking for an in depth information on how one can increase a webpage pagerank. Because hardly you will come across analysis on pagerank tutorial online.
Increasing page rank is never an easy task….I’ve done it with several of my sites in less than 2 months but it usually doesn’t stick unless you keep working on it. Great article. I will consider these tips. :)
That’s right. It needs constant efforts and links too! PR is not there to stay for long unless you keep on building good back links!
I really liked the article. Very useful information. Thanks for the post.
wow what a great explanation about pagerank..really a great stuff..first of all i need to say thanks to Saksham Talwar…
After reading thz i could say there is no doubt about pr…
thanks for sharing it..
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Congratulations on all the hard work you’ve invested so far. Creating backlinks really was a foundation for your success. I think I need to do more of that for my new blog.
Thanks man, I didn’t knew that Google + have effects on pagerank.
It may not be affecting now, but in coming months it will :)
taught pagerank was based on the quality of content and domain age, but this your post has really given me the true definition of having a high page rank, thanks
You are welcome. D try out my pagerank improval tips and let me know if they worked for you :)
oh .. great tips….
if i would to know ??? when google update the google pagrank ??
does 3 months ?
There is no fixed schedule. Usually it happens every 2-3 months and some times more.
Seriously? Content is one of the factors not affecting pagerank..
I’m surprised..
Seriously, content hardly plays any role in determining your PR. Everyone who read this article was surprised ;)
I really liked this article. It goes to my favorites. Thanks
Very good post, really helpful. I’ll try these tips to improve my site PageRank.
Don’t forget to share the result :)
that is good idea for increase our pagerank,but sometimes google is not fear althought have much backlinks but google keep away from pagerank
Thats due to low quality back links!
great article for newbie or other blogger. pr is very important things for every sites.
I really agree about the backlinks and quantity and quality matters! I must say 10 quality links will still win over 2,000 quantity low quality backlinks.
social media networks are good way for improve our website page rank
I don’t think domain age matters a lot,i have seen a video by Matt cutts,he himself said domain age is not a deciding factor.
good tips,,,,quality of articles does not have a direct immediate impact on page rank but in long run it will have,,,after all people come to your blog only for articles(information’s) and other bloggers are more likely to link to your articles if they are good.
Great article and for the first time i understand how page rank is worked out by google , its interesting that back links are still so relevent but its quality not quantity
Great tips on PR, although like you said, its not a great quality indicator, but it is definitely something worthwhile keeping an eye on :)
pagerank is not important for the webmasters, i think mozrank or trustrank most important for the seo sites.
Thanks for sharing the methods to increase PR Saksham. I also think that PR is just useless, but it attracts advertisers.
This is one of the best articles that I have seen on PageRank. It is important to keep in mind that having a solid PageRank is not the only factor affecting your search engine rankings. It is also important to make sure that your site has desirable content as well as good keyword use and proper meta tags.
You said “Factors Not Affecting Pagerank: Your content”
So, what is my content then for?
I’ve been not into hunting for pagerank, but still getting good SERP rankings and got PR1 too.
My site has only backlinks from the other sites where my content has been featured, or from my comments on other’s blogs. Yeah, this comment too has one link, if you approve it.
My strategy is like, 1> Make content, have fun, comment a little, but not lose money and 2> Make some money.
I have a website which got PageRank 3, but after I change my domain, my PR is now 0 and alexa no data… how to fix it?
Umm if you watched Matt Cutts videos on YouTube and if you know about Panda site content does effect page rank and how your site is ranked on Google. Google now looks at the quality of site content and its uniqueness on the web.
Quality of content is important!
Thanks, Saksham, very nice article! Interesting point about duplicate content. One interesting thing I noticed is that links from sites like DZone or Reddit tend to rank higher than the original articles which they point to. Not sure what to make of it.
How do you decrease the alexa ranking?.Are these methods suitable for alexa ranking too.Is traffic an important factor in deciding the page rank.
I’m still fighting to increase the pagerank of my blog, shall follow your remarkable tips closely. Thank you for sharing.
These are some very helpful suggestions towards SEO. I am realizing “no-follow” is a very important feature to implement and I enjoyed reading it clearly defined here. Also some other great thoughts on backlinks, etc. I do wonder if Google+ really matters as much and if it will help page ranking.
There’re some points need to be considered:
1) Building a link wheel: most link wheel building to day are spam and Google will punish this type of link.
2) Interlinking your site pages: not sure how it can help to increase your pagerank here (this’s some kind of passing pagerank from one page to another)
3) Reduce the number of external pages you are linking to: no, it won’t affect much your pagerank, especially, if you link to a relevant, high quality website, you got a big chance to increase your PR.
Thanks somuch. I am new to seo. and this really helped me. I learned alot here. Especially the importance of backlinks and good content. thanks again!. I will recomend more people to this blog.
Great article my dear friend, Though as you have mentioned in your article great content does not affect our page rank, but great article also need some sort of research and if we mentioned the name of that sites we, borrowed some information that it would not affect our rank , but if someone again mention our article in his/her article then it will surely enhance our page rank, Am I right ?
~rakesh kumar
Hello Saksham, I am glad to know you. The page rank of my webiste is 0, I started blogging from the end of 2011. I get so many knowledge from your site. I like this article. I will do what you tell in this article. Thank you so much. Keep writing.
High quality information. Thanks for sharing. On-site and off-site SEO finally is what matters. A good SEO strategy implies better serps and also higher PR. It’s not like the parameters in these two fields are separate
I am totally with you page rank is just another way to rank your blog. I think it is all in social networking and the relationships you can create. Great post!
well all these years i thought that the age of the domain also affects the Pagerank.
Pretty Good explanations
Some body please explain major differences between do follow and no follow backlinks.
My PR is 0 but I have gain enough knowledge about PR from here let’s see how it goes now … :)
my PR is 0 after reading this post i have gained enough knowledge abour PR hope it will increase soon :)
My confusion with linkwheel: Do each pages need to be a pagerank of X? Or do they any of the sites, for example From A, should be PR2 then the rest is PR0 is okay? Can you tell please? Thanks!
A very interesting acticle. But this is the first time i get to know that content is not a factor of getting higher page rankk.
This has helped me a lot. Taking some notes and going to try to increase my page rank on new and old websites of mine.
Thanks Again
Thank you for this article which sums up the parametres main well enough. However it happens that sometimes the pagerank is to classify in a unpredictable way probably bugs. To say to you righteous man be always careful.
Yeah very nice post. Thank you. But sometimes Alexa rank is very low and google PR is high. Why that happens ??
Because Alexa depends on traffic and PR on the number of links your site has.
Great points you have here. I only disagree to one point: Unique and high quality content affects your page rank and of course your site’s SERPs. Matt Cutts said that with the upcoming Google update the Googlebot will become smarter and it will count a site’s content much more, penalize those with duplicated one.
But what you have to remember is that Pagerank is only one of many many pointers that Google includes in it’s Algorithm.
Increasing Pagerank does not always mean a better position but naturally in increasing PR you are making better all the other factors.
very good blog for someone making a high PR network. Very useful indeed.
Thanks
Read the complete post and you have differentiate SERPS and PR. And concentrated on PR more..but I would like to know the use of PR ? All what matters are google rankings and not PR actually..right ?
SERPS matter more. For me, SERPS were and are important :)
That explains it. I’ve never been above a 3. I wondered how people increased their rank.
I have always said that Google + will somehow be implemented in the algorithm somehow. These are all great tips to understand how to rank higher on Google. It’s surprising at how much work it really is!
The tips are good but I want to know if they can be followed now in 2012 with new google updates. I really don’t know how to increase my PR. It went from 1 to 0.
According to my personal experience we need to keep all external links no follow and should try and get more natural back links. In any case link wheel must be avoided Google knows it very well and will trace it soon
if any one has two websites… both websites have same number of visitors. but one site google page rank is 1 and the other webiste has page rank of 4. will there be difference in earning of website (adsense) ???
No, it all depends on the traffic each of your blog gets.
Good and original contents is the best way to increase page rank. Nothing more nothing less.
Its all about proper SEO, you will get your desired page rank if you will optimize your website very well.
Ya you are right.Domain age does not affect many more.
thanks…….i will try to increase Backlinks but do u have any tricks…
Great tips for increasing page rank. The one which I’m puzzed about is no-follow links. Exactly which types of links should be no-follow links ( besides those on sponsored post). and does it mean that linking to a high PR site (PR 5 and above) using a do-follow link would be better for us then a PR2 Site?
Interesting article, I will tray to use your tips. But how long does it take to see significant changes?
really useful tips! Those go for Serps too i suppose. If we talk about outbound links, i think that a lot of times they are reciprocal and in those terms especially when exchanging with higher PR sites, they could increase your site PR.. Not outbound themselves, but the outbound in conjustion with the incoming that they cause.
A complete guide I want from a year. I am glad that i found this article Saksham. Nice post must say.
Waouh!a really hot talk here!looks like am even too late to say a word in this debate’ful article.Well in short,I mean it’s quite a plesure I have read and learn a lot from your post Saksham.Very nice article!I am also a blogger who is trying is way on the blogging world.Articles like this are really of such a help for us!!!Thank you man!Keep it up!
Applied this tips , now waiting for the next pr update, fingers crossed :|
GOT PR1 thanks a lott saksham , followed all these tips and just noticed u have added this Google + part recently na?
after reading this post i have learned a lot.All the confusions related to pr are now cleared,i will try the tips explained above to increase my blog pr………..and thanks a lot for the article……….
A very good and helpful analysis in detail about the page rank myth.
Factors affecting PageRank are a big question for all of us but many “myths” such as that META tags filling them “properly” or Number of indexed Pages or Domain’s Age those ones are of no connection with PR, I lost so much time trying to be in comliance with above . I agree link, link , link quality and natural that counts.