Want to know how to improve PageRank for your site? Not sure what PageRank is / means? Read on for some tips and advice.
Google ranks pages from 0 to 10. The higher your page’s rank, the more traffic and rankings you’ll get.
Search engines rank websites according to many things and higher search engine ranking can equal having more traffic sent your way because Google will respond to queries for information based on what it believes is a page that scores as most relevant to that query.
If two websites sell similar products and attempt to rank for the same set of phrases, in many cases, Google will display a site with a higher PageRank ahead of the other site. PageRank can change on an ongoing basis. If your site is years older than another site attempting to rank for the same things, that site could surpass you due to doing more to achieve a higher PageRank. Here are some tips on how to improve pagerank..
How To Improve PageRank – Some Tips
1. Update your site regularly – Add new pages and create interactive pages, such as blog posts on the site that encourage comments and linking to that page from outside sites (such as bookmarking sites, microblogs, etcetera.)
2. Link to your website from other sites – This could include email signatures, forum signatures, profile sites, from blog comments, article directories, press release sites, and so on. Link to more than just the home page. Link to various pages within your site.
3. Give away content – Submit to article directories and put links back to your site within your resource box. Make that article available for syndication so other websites will publish the article. By doing that, they’ll link back to your site from their site and this is read by Google as a popularity vote for your site. More votes = better rankings.
4. Link to authority sites from your site – If you have a PageRank of 1 and you know of a site that has a higher rank in your industry, it could make sense to link to that site. You can do this in blog posts, resources pages, a linkroll, and so on. You’ll want to make sure you’re not sending your customers and prospects to a competitor of course, but authority sites could add credibility to your site. Sites that could be considered good authorities could include sites with .gov or .edu extensions. A Wikipedia link to explain terminology is a good example of linking to an authority page. Tip: set the link to open in a new window so that if your visitors click the authority links, they’re not leaving your webpage to do so.
5. Write link bait – Link bait articles (such as top ten lists or articles that offer breaking news, etc.) can become popular quickly and encourage others to link. Each of those links equates to a popularity vote and this could quickly improve your PageRank.
Creating an ongoing strategy to get more backlinks and improve your PageRank could help you attract traffic, build authority, and increase your online success. By following the above tips on how to improve PageRank, you’ll be on track to do exactly that!
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Good article. I like to add that pagerank should not be the main goal of an SEO. I rather work on keyword ranking by looking at my server logs or analytics and try to improve what Google and other search engines seeing already.
I have seen sites with very little content and few poor quality links having a high page rank but a link from them not as useful a link from a lower PR website but highly relevant and trusted from Google.
But anyway, I liked your article. Keep up the good job
cheers
Al Sefati
I agree with you Al. Optimising for profitable keyphrases should be the main aim and if you can achieve a nice PageRank while doing so, all the better
I want to learn more about pagerank and about your blog posts, so i want to subscribe to your blog with my e-mail, but there isn’t an option for that. Can you make an opt-in box for subscribing to this blog? Otherwise, I will forget the website and will miss all the interesting articles.
Hi James, you can subscribe to the RSS feed at the top of the site if you are interested. The little orange button up the top right will do the trick
Nice article Sean.
I like your tips on how to improve PageRank.
I’d be interested to know though, is it true that a sites pagerank is only reviewed every 3-6 months or so, or its constantly reviewed.
Cheers,
Cade
Hi Cade, from my understanding PageRank is changing all the time (internally). The actual PageRank that you and I see, is only updated on a 3 monthly basis
Hi Sean,
Interesting article on how to improve your PageRank.
So I will be following your tips on how to improve my PageRank.
As a little bit of trivia, it’s interesting to note that the term ‘pagerank’ actually comes from one of the Google founders’ names – Larry Page. It’s double meaning is quite cool.
I didn’t know that PR are evaluated only quarterly. My site is quite young, and I definitely want to improve my page rank. Thanks for the tips.
It’s been a very nice article really help for SEO to increase the Page rank. I follow your steps to increase my site Page rank.
Great article Sean! I’ve been looking to boost my page rankings and this stuff will go a long way in getting me there.
Nice article- love the tips and they take some time to fully get going and up but it is well worth it! Thanks!!
my blog is new
and PR is zero
I have a PR-II blog and yet I get massive traffic from search engines (2000-3000 daily)
wondering how I can improve upon the PR.
Thanks you for all articles this website. It’s a good help
good tip about the “authority” links. never new it was important.
Hello .. I want to ask something .. I started blog on 28th of july 2011, today i chked my page rank and it was 2/10. I went crazy to see this lol
Here is the link to my web u may chk it out,
Http://gametecknow.com
And one of my post had page rank 3 higher than homepage
I dnt knw wat is this please make me understand this
Thanks
Hi Daud
It is possible (but rare) to have a higher PR on an internal page than your homepage.
Maybe you just have a lot of backlinks to that page?
I have been trying to improve my website ranking trilogicuk.co.uk for months now but without success, we repair laptops and rely very heavily on position in search engines.
thank you sean
as you have more experience, can you tell me how much time it would really take for blog to rank high and to achieve good traffic ..
i have been working on it day and night, submitting links to directories, using social media as well.
i dnt have many backlinks to that page.
one more thing, does it hurt if include linkback to source of that post ?
for example i write an article and link it to source of it would it hurt my seo by degrading or something ?
Is this good thing to do ?
should i set authority links to NO FOLLOW ?
You there ?
Anyone knows how many backlink must I get to increase the pagerank by 1 knot?
amazing article..
..thank you.. 
Good old link building has been my method for the websites I look after for various clients of mine. I like to make sure that their website actually has some thrust and power behind it so when the on page seo is put in place the website actually ranks as it should.
If it takes 3 months for our efforts to eventually affect page rank, it becomes difficult to pinpoint what actually did the trick when we see our site go up or down on the SERP. Still trying to figure out how a new competitor’s site with considerably less content, far fewer backlinks, no blog, etc ever gets ahead of me.
Thank You for advices.We will try it opn our web page in order to get ranking higher..
Hi Sean,
Thanks for sharing such a valuable information. My new blog already got PR 1 this month. Will try to improve it in the future.
Thanks for the arricle. I am pretty sure what to do next. I am starting to improve PR on my site planer-vjencanja.com. I see just now how it will be difficult to that.
I dont know why, in my case it didnt work right. I have toms of backlinks and high page rank, still in last Google page rank update, i slipped from PR4 to PR3. Any suggestions??
My site is in greek language and i was wondering if all this points are aplicable to non-english sites. Does really google understand what my site is for? http://www.3nk.gr if anyone would like to check.
Sean,
thank you for the tips.
One question though, how long before PR can recover from a hacking attack where the site was taken over for a few days and used in a phishing attack?
From what I’ve noticed over time Pagerank really only matters in the event that you are selling links to people who care about pagerank
I have had pr2 websites outrank pr6 sites for several high traffic keywords on google, I have also had new (2-3 month old) sites with 4 or 5 backlinks outrank established sites with hundreds of backlinks.
SEAN I have some confusion in one of your mentioned point. You said that if two sites are selling same product and are trying to achieve same rank for same keyword, then Google will display the site with Higher PR. It is very OK and conceptually it is right. But in some cases I have also seen that lower page rank sites or the pages having no page rank are appearing on first position ahead of pages having higher PR. So anyone can tell me what could be other factors which Google will include in its algorithm.
very good ideas. Thank you.
good article. thanks for the information
Well its a very nice article, i had a zero page rank but now its 2, one thing that i have learnt is, that you should have better quality site, if its pagerank is high or low it doesn’t matter, what matters is the customer going to return or not even if the google sent him to you, will you be able to get a hold of him or will he run away and never come back.
At the end i would say work on site to make it more easier for people and leave the rest, everything will get okay.