How I got my blog from Google PageRank 0 to PR4 in two months

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.

These are the 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.

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, 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.

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?

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