Page Rank 3

Im looking for help about increasing my Page Rank.

Im after PR 3 for a few of my websites.

Any tips or advice would be welcome. How people went about increasing their page rank would be great!

The idea is simple:

1. Bring in more PR.
2. Keep it in.

Step 1: maximize number of incoming links

• one way links are the best
• reciprocal links (in most cases) are worthless (IMO)
• article/content submission is the most effective method

Step 2: manipulate on-site PR

• maximise the number of pages on your site (more pages = more pr)
• manipulate your PR by using a linking structure that channels PR to the most important pages. ie.: frontpage, index pages, category pages, etc
• beware of duplicate content (eg.: linking to /index.html instead of /)
• don't waste PR, 301 redirect missing pages to your homepage

Obviously, it goes without sayin that you should have valid code, senmantic markup, unique page titles and headings, keyword rich descriptions and keywords, keyword rich link texts and URLs.

thank you...

Wow. Thanks Spinal, that's some great info! Already put some of it to use on my site.

But doesn't that mean link exchanges are practically worthless then?

And what exactly does that mean?

Sorry, would just like to clear things up

Blake

I maybe wrong Blake and I would never try to speak for Spinal but I believe article/content submission is about writing articles and submitting them in article depositories like ezine.com People pick them up and use them on their website for content. Now a one way link for you since you put your author info at the bottom including a link to your site.

Content probably tutorials, submit things to blogs, all that have a link back to you.

Oh right. Cool!

But what about link exchanges being worthless?

What's the point in exchanging the links then?

Blake spinal did say IMO (In my opinion) - that is his personal opinion - some other people think differently

He also said in most cases. So there are exceptions, that said he does have some knowledge of this area.

Pete.

Keep in mind most link exchanges are betweeen small sites which are worthless as the sites have poor PR anyway. If you link with a massive site, such as webforumz, it will have a more positive effect as WF PR is about 4/5..

I don't honestly know..Spinal would be the one to advise us. There are articles that think reciprocal linking is valuable then there are articles that say it is not.

There are sites such as the one that was just posted in the link building section tonight. It claims to have a PR 5 which it does on the homepage. When you find your particular section in the directory to list yourself, there are no PR's. Would you think this is useless? My opinion would be yes.

I wrote several articles about 18 months ago and went from a small PR to a 4 within a short amount of time. I am in the process of writing more. I'm going to see if I can up my PR to 5.

Thanks a lot guys.

I think I get it now.

I wrote an article explaining my thoughts on reciprocal linking not long ago...
But there's the gist of it...
- Link is usually on a page with poor or no content
- Links are normally considered poor quality because the content surrounding the link is unrelated
- Content of linking page is almost always unrelated
- Linking pages normally have dozens if not hundreds of external links
- Link pages normally have low PR because of the number of outgoing links
So basically, reciprocal links give you a tiny share of something that isn't worth much in the first place.

Article submission on the other hand...
- Link is on a page of quality content
- Content is related to the link
- Content of linking page is related to your website
- Linking page with have a minimal amount of outgoing links, usually just yours.
- Article pages can only improve their PRs because they get traffic, they get bookmarked and linked to by people (used as reference).
So basically, you get a big share of something that's very valuable...

I'm no genius but I know what I'd go for...

PS.: Article submission put this page top on Google searches for 'seo expert london' within a week. The amazing thing is, I haven't even written anything on that page yet. It's empty!

Spinal that was so well said! Thanks a million!

I'm not the best at explaining stuff...(javascript and machine code is no problem, but it seems us techies always have a problem with 'human language' ) Anyway, I'll be writing an article with everything I know for this month's newsletter. I just hope I get the same feedback...

Gave you some rep points for your effort!!!

HEY, it's working again! YAY! (it's like giving chocolate to a child... LOL)
Thanks!

When you say article submission...where do you post your articles?

Do you mean just webforumz articles or all over the interent?

Mike

theres all sorts of strange places!

Yes do a google search for article submission.
Here are a couple for ya to get you started! http://www.submityourarticle.com/indexi.php
http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://searchwarp.com/

I think the first time I submitted an article I saw about 21 backlinks within a week.

Wow thats pretty good going. Thanks for the links.

Mike