I had a pleasant surprise present from Google on the New Year’s Eve. Google did the toolbar PageRank update on 31st December and HowToMakeMyBlog.com jumped from PR0 to PR4.
I registered the domain name on October 24th 2008 and published the first article October 25th so to be Google PR4 just over two months after registration of the domain name is very surprising and feels like a great achievement.
I was thinking about steps I have taken, steps that you can take, to get your blog site to be ranked PR4 by Google in a short period of time.
What is Google PageRank?
Google PageRank is one of numerous factors Google uses to determine the importance of a blog and it is based on the value of your inbound links. Google evaluates how many links there are to your blog from other pages, and the relevance and quality of the linking sites. DigPageRank can help you check your own PageRank.
I believe that the following factors have contributed towards Google assigning HowToMakeMyBlog.com with a PR4:
Guest posting
- I wrote two guest posts at Problogger. Each of these has given my blog a high-quality, relevant inbound link as ProBlogger is PR7 blog.
Links from related high ranked websites transfer more PageRank juice than links from non-related sites.
- Guest post 1: Create A Media Kit To Attract Advertisers To Your Blog
- Guest post 2: Get Inspiration from Blog Comments When Writing your Next Post
Calculate the value of an incoming link by looking at the PR of the linking site, and dividing it by the number of links on that page.
I highly recommend writing guest articles for relevant blogs that are ranked with higher Google PageRank. Read more about how I got guest article spots on ProBlogger.net.
Other inbound links
- Putting my link out there by commenting on relevant and high-profile blogs, being part of social media sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, posting useful answers in relevant forums.
I would recommend taking time each day to work on your blog promotion. Comment on relevant articles, discuss on relevant topics in forums/social media, and in other ways try to get your blog name and URL out there.
Check your PageRank backlinks and see the value of each of them and the anchor text they have linked to you with.
Blog onsite PageRank factors
- Content is not taken into account when PageRank is calculated but writing useful and keyword-rich articles that makes people link to, comment to or submit via StumbleUpon, Twitter and other social media gives you inbound links.
- I regularly updated the blog writing 56 articles from October 25th until December 31st.
- I optimized the internal linking structure.
How is your blog doing with Google PageRank? What did you do well to get where you are? What did you do bad to not be where you want do be?
Have I forgotten some reasons that you think definitely help increase PageRank? From your experience are some of the reasons I have listed not that important?
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This was very informative, thanks for sharing.
Great site and some really useful tips. Consider yourself bookmarked!
I’ve been struggling to get some good PR for some of my blogs, so now I have some ideas of what to do to boost their ranks.
Thanks again.
Roger Mayne
Great post and blog. Gave you a Tween ‘n Stumble. I will be back and I am looking forward to more great info. Thumbs Up!!
Is stumbleupon really makes lots of traffic? I just knew that. Before this i just actively used del.icio.us and technorati to generate links. Anyway, great post and excellent content. I’m considering to add your site to my blog for moneymakers gallery for inspiration.
Thanks for the comments, I am glad this post was useful to you!
@xaer8 – I have a more in-depth post about traffic from StumbleUpon. Check out How I Got 2000+ StumbleUpon Visitors Using My 10 Step Strategy.
My blog is currently a PR3 but hopefully on it’s way up as I add to the postings and comment on other sites as well.
Really inspired by you. My target- PR0 to PR 4 in 3months..
Marko — very interesting post, it’s extremely helpful. I’ve been working on building the PR for my blog and I want to ensure I’m following the proper steps.
Thanks for sharing your impressive pagerank experience with us. I will certainly get started on implementing many of your suggestions on my blog.
Those are some great suggestions, Marko. Thanks for the tips! I'll be bookmarking your site.
Thanks for sharing your impressive pagerank experience with us.
Hello! I enjoyed your posts about the page ranking. I have had my blog for about 6 months now, I was a PR2 and then I got my own domain through Google and it dropped to a PR0. I am very disapointed and wondering how to get my page rank back up. I will follow some of your advice!
Thanks for the tips. I've recently begun a blog and I'm working like crazy to build myself an empire of quality inbound links. Thanks for the advice here.
Amazing work and the best part is that you are sharing the knowledge with others. Keep up the good work !!
Hi,
Would you be so nice, to explain me, why does my homepage has 0 PR, I have about 50 back links to my website, and it's about 2 month old.
http://www.ead.co.il
Thanks
Hi , my blog is http://www.fun-duniya.blogspot.com, if some of the visitors can have a look at my blog and let me know, what are the customisations can be done .. so that i can make my blogspot look better ..
Thank you, you answered the question I have been searching for which was whether or not to place keywords when blog commenting.
I own a web site .. http://www.prvacationrental.com took most of your advice about your blogging and focused it on my web site … just linking content to content… after a year and a half PR4 awsome I know that this formular would work on a blog …if I only had one..I just would be able to update it all the time…Got one question for you tho..when I go to google to check my backlinks…it doesnt show that many…but when I go to my account in google it shows 75% of them…do they (google) not want you to know how may backlinks you really have or do they not want to show you there formula on equating PR ..
thanks
Not sure but I know from my blogs that Google restricts the number of backlinks they show. If you go to Yahoo for example, they will show you a much higher number of backlinks compared to Google.
Great tips; I’m already trying to implement some of them.
Thanks!
Great Post.
My blog is just past the 1 month and i have been trying to build as many backlinks as possible. This means submitting to directories, commetning on blogs, participating in forums. I know there are many other ways and will soon start using those as well.
Hopefully I’ll get a Google pagerank soon.
nice man , even i gained PR2 from PR 0 , but in 4 months , waiting for 2 PR more !
Thanks for sharing your stories guys! I am glad it is working out well for you! Keep working on it!
The advice given and approach taken to achieve a higher PR is well stated. I would add that besides doing what you speak about here to also utilize Social Media. A combination of things is sure to help overall.
Womderful site. As a Professor in COmputer Science who teaches SEO, I was struck by how you clearly defined dividing outward links’ value by dividing the sites PR by the number of outgoing links it has on it.
Excellent
that’s great post. this’s good way to up PR.
thank a lot for good tips!!
it was a standard tips for making PR up. and i have done everything just like the author tells. but unfortunately my blog wasn’t ranked by google.
i must to work hard for that. thanks.
it was a standard tips for making PR up. and i have done everything just like the author tells. but unfortunately my blog wasn’t ranked by google.
i must to work hard for that. thanks.
Excellent tips.Page rank is just one measure Google uses to rank sites in it´s index.I have seen many sites with PR 0 with excellent content in the same niche that outranks PR 4 or PR 5 sites.
Definitely interesting finding out about PR ranking
Great Information , well i guess that promoting a blog needs continuous effort plus social attendance thru twitter , facebook ,,,etc.
your pr is 3, not 4
Great tips, thanks! I’m gonna implement these right away.
@Fatos – Definitely! Posting useful blog content regularly and getting relevant inbound links are very important for your PR rank. Using different language doesn’t influence your PR chances directly, but as you say there is less people in your target audience, less good blogs that can link to you etc.
@Coffee Talkee – Oh wow great job! Keep working on it, and your blog will keep growing.
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