PageRank is the process or algorithm that measures the importance of any webpage residing on the World Wide Web. It’s named after Google’s Larry Page rather than “web page” as some believe and is in fact patented by the Stanford University and Not Google. (Google has the exclusive licensing rights which they paid for with 1.8 million shares).
We gripe about it, we love it, hate it, swear it means nothing to us, and yet continually find ourselves checking to see if it may or may not have changed since we last looked. Many swear it holds no value, and yet websites are continually measured by it, and will continue to be until that day when Google decides to pull the PR plug!
So for those of you who don’t care about PageRank, or feel it has no value, you can stop reading. (Why did you start in the first place?) For the rest of us who are interested in increasing it, and squeezing out the last bit of PR juice, read on.
Tip #1:
Treat link building as an ongoing process that needs to be fulfilled each and every day. If you are taking the time to write a blog post, and share it on the social networks (which are back links) then also spend a few minutes on your link building campaign. It’s easy to pay some link builder to build a thousand links to your site, but it’s much more effective to build ten a day over the long haul, and will go much further in the eyes of Google.
Tip #2
Utilize an internal linking system within your blog, or website. There are plugins available for WordPress that will automatically choose keywords that are important to you, and then hyperlink then to related pages within your site. Internal linking is important if you want to pass your PageRank throughout the inner pages of your blog.
Tip #3
Do your competitive research. This is something that should be done before starting a business, or launching a site (in my opinion), but gets overlooked in the excitement of the possibilities ahead. Take a look at the top ten sites in your niche, and see where they are getting their links from. If they left a comment on a PR 6 article on Mashable, follow suit, if they wrote a guest post for a popular tech blog, get out your keyboard and start writing.
Chances are the top sites in your niche didn’t get to the number one spot by accident. You can capitalize on their hard work and start building up a similar link portfolio. When you’ve finished with one competitor move on to the next, it’s only a matter of time before you’ll occupy the number one spot for yourself!
Tip #4
Write content that people are going to be inclined to link to, “how to” articles, or diagrams and infographics tend to do very well. If you try and put out high quality link bait once each month, you’ll increase the amount of links that point to that article. You can leverage those articles by linking to sites within your network (see Tip #6) to take advantage of these highly linked articles to point back to important pages or sites within your network.
Tip #5
Comment often on other websites, but don’t leave things to chance. Rather than simply visiting your favorite site and leaving a comment on the newest post (which has zero PageRank at this time) scan the site first and locate its highest PR pages and leave comments on those pages instead.
Tip #6
Use your network! Most of us own more than one website; often we spend time and energy into increasing the various measurement aspects of each of those sites, including its PageRank. Make sure you are including links to your own sites from the rest of your network. If you have an inner page with a PR 4, or 5 use that page to link to yourself. Take advantage of
Tip #7
Quality over quantity! If you could build just one single high quality link each week, you’d notice a dramatic increase in your Page Rank in a very short time. Granted getting a PR 7 or 8 Backlink is difficult at times, the reward is well worth the effort.
For those of you who earn their living online, you most likely spend a fair bit of time “online”. Keep an eye out during your travels for opportunities to grab a link, either through a comment, setting up a profile, an exchange, or perhaps a guest post. Chances are you’re visiting several sites already that could benefit your own site, but are simply wandering past without noticing the missed opportunity.
Tip #8
Build backlinks to your backlinks! What I mean is we’ve all spent time building up web 2.0 properties that point to our main sites, but have you invested time in building links to those properties? If you’ve invested in Squidoo Lenses, or Hub Pages, then also spend some time building backlinks to those pages. Because many of those sites sit favorably already with Google it won’t be hard to increase the PR of your pages, and of course you’ve made sure to link to your own website from those pages right?
Tip #9
Stop giving link juice to pages that don’t need it. We’ve all got those Privacy policy pages, contact us, or Earnings disclaimers on our websites, but do you really care if those pages have PR? Use the NoFollow attribute on them and save your juice for pages that actually do matter to you. Pages that will increase traffic because a PR 4 will drive you higher in the SERPS and allow you to rank for the keywords you targeted on that particular page.
Tip #10
This one goes against previous tips in that it actually encourages linking out generously. Now while you can be stingy and limit the number of pages and websites you link to and keep every ounce of PageRank juice to yourself, chances are there won’t be too many other websites or bloggers who will be inclined to link to you. By being generous (but smart) with your linking activities you’ll encourage other webmasters to link to you which of course will increase the PageRank of your website.
It’s important to remember that link building is something that should be ongoing. It’s by consistent effort that we achieve most of what’s desirable, and that includes a high PageRank.
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Backlinks: Why You Need Them, And Where to Get Them!
Why do I need backlinks?
Who cares if you have any backlinks! Well, actually the search engines do… quite a lot actually.
They take into consideration, how many sites link to your webpage, and consider it to be a kind of “vote” for your site. I mean who would link to a site that had no useful info on it, or provided no value?
Another thing that gets factored into the equation is the quality of those backlinks pointing at you. Do you have 30 PR0 sites linking to you? Perhaps you have twenty or so links from sites on the same IP? (All from your other websites, it’s assumed) Perhaps you have mastered the art of blog commenting to the 9th degree, and have 10,000 of those, and only those?
It’s a good idea to have a healthy mix of backlinks; your goal here is to target three things.
Building backlinks should be an ongoing part of any website’s marketing plans. Do some keyword research, calculate just what you need in order to rise to the next level, or SERP (Search Engine Ranking Position) and decide on the number of links you’re going to build on a monthly or weekly basis. If you’re not comfortable you can always outsource work like this to other companies, or even other website owners.
I have to be constantly building backlinks for my own sites, so I have no problem taking on a handful of clients each month, and adding their site into my own backlink building program.
“Remember! The more roads that lead to your website or blog the more potential traffic you’ll receive”
Where Do I find Backlinks?
There is one question that I seem to answer at least once a week.
“Where can I find more backlinks?”
Here are some of the backlinks I personally build for my sites, you can implement some, or all of them depending on your needs. Not all niches will need a ton of backlinks, if your company or website is in a specialized niche with very little competition, you may only need a handful of high quality backlinks to ensure a first page rank.
These are in no particular order, use the one’s you feel most comfortable with.
Forum Links – A good way to build traffic to your site (and pick up some backlinks) is to join a forum in your field, if you start answering questions in an online forum you will soon be considered to be an expert in your field, and people will be inclined to click on your signature link to visit your website.
Add a small link to your site at the bottom in your “signature” (remember to follow the forum rules, and don’t spam simply to get your link out there)
Social Bookmarking – Social bookmarking sites allow us to bookmark our favorite sites, stories, blog posts, pictures, etc, all around the web. Some of the more common one’s that I’m sure you’ve heard of are Digg, Stumbleupon, or Delicious. There are literally hundreds and even thousands more, and at each one you can create a bookmark (which is also a backlink) to your site, as well as any other you find interesting! I receive thousands of visitors a month to each of my sites from just one of the bookmarking sites I’ve listed above. Bookmarking should be a part of everyone’s backlink building strategy!
Article Marketing – This is probably one of the oldest methods for driving traffic, and building backlinks. There are thousands and thousands of article directories on the internet today. How do you get a backlink from them? It’s simple, just submit an article you’ve written, or have the rights to, and voila! You now have a backlink from their directory to your site. Remember, not all directories are created equal, start at the top and work your way down. Choose the highest quality article directories first. Again, decide on your backlink schedule, and build accordingly. Whether or not you decide on submitting to 20 directories or 200 directories a month, the most important thing is to try and stick to a schedule.
“Consistency is the key to a good backlink building strategy!”
Blog Comments – Commenting on blogs in your niche (or others) can also be a great way to build backlinks to your site, or blog. When leaving comments always go for quality over quantity, if you leave a comment that adds value to the discussion, or post then it’s much more likely that someone reading the comment will click through to your website where you will then have the chance to convert them to perhaps becoming loyal readers on your site.
Guest Blogging – Want a backlink from an authority site in your blogs niche? Write a great post and offer it up to the site you’re trying to get a backlink from. It’s a good idea to start by leaving some decent comments first as the site owner will then have an idea of who you are, and will know that you’ve already been contributing in some fashion already. Remember when you leave comments on a blog, your adding content. Who loves content? Google does! So you can be assured that a blog owner will value the added content and will be more open to the idea of having you guest blog for them. It’s a good idea to offer up your best work at times like these! (Hint – if the article you offer up doesn’t work for one site, keeps it and offer it up to the next blog on your list!)
Directories – There are a vast number of web directories out there. I take advantage of two different kinds, SEO friendly free directories, and paid directory listings. When looking at paid directories I’ll usually only consider a few like Yahoo, Best of The Web, or Eaton Web Directory. There are also some great free one’s, dmoz is one not to be missed, though in past years it’s been getting much harder to get included into their directory for one reason or another. Always be sure to choose the most relevant category to submit your site to. Directory owners receive dozens of submissions each and every day, and you don’t want them to click the “delete” button, simply because you’ve listed your site in the wrong category. It’s also a good idea to keep a list of sites you’ve submitted to, as well as another for sites you’ve been accepted into.
Press releases – Sending out a press release can be a great way to announce your website to the world. You will end up with backlinks, exposure, traffic, and possibly more sales if done right. It’s also a great way to announce new products or services you’re launching.
And there you have it; these are just a handful of methods you can start using today to build up your backlinks to your blog or website. There are many other one’s out there as well, but I’ll save those for another day!
Once again, thanks for reading, and have a great day!
Warren
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