18 Steps you should consider to get a higher page rank for your blog this update
The last Google Page Rank update just got over almost two months ago (September end). For all those who weren’t able to get a better jump in Page Rank and who fell back, the upcoming update could be positive if you start gearing up right now.
We are unable to determine when the page rank update will be, but my guess is that it might be sometime soon around December –Jan mid. Even if it is delayed, the point is that the time is right for us to do the necessary steps to gear up towards the next page rank update.
If we can pull up our socks and do a crash course, it might be well worth the effort.
Meanwhile, let me also tell you that Page Rank is not as significant it used to be for getting higher ranks, but if you want to get in to the “authority club”, this is the time.
So what is it that you can do now ?
- Write an extra ordinary social media targeted “list article” and promote it yourself or by hiring a power user. The idea is to get maximum backlinks.
- Find out all the broken links on your site using the webmasters tool and fix them.
- Find out all those unnecessary links and get rid of them
- Blog consistently during this time
- Create a good XML sitemap
- Get some one way incoming links
- Clean up your backend code and tighten up the loose ends
- Make all the page titles unique and add relevant meta info, get rid of all the spam.
- Try to interlink as many stories as possible with relevant keywords
- Use Noindex, Nofollow tags to disallow crawling of tag pages and duplicate entries
- Shorten up all the articles on the homepage with excerpts
- Add relevant ALT tags and rename the files if possible with relevant keywords (never spam)
- Consider adding title attributes to all on page links is possible. At least pages and articles.
- Email your link partners/providers and ask them to tweak the anchor text to something more relevant.
- Make sure each incoming link anchor text is not based on a pattern and there is clear difference in them
- Ask people linking to you to use proper title attributes to your links, if possible the keyword you are targeting.
- Contact high authority blogs in your niche and request for guest blogging with high quality articles. In return request them backlinks to your blog with proper anchor texts.
- Find some non-spammy dofollow comment blogs and start commenting regularly and meaning fully (means no funny usernames and one-word/smiley comments).
Well, I think the idea is very evident. To gather as many quality backlinks as possible, well in advance before the update. And also, tweak and clean up all the mess on the site right now, like broken links and indexing issues.
Start working today, and while the next update is on, hopefully, you’ll see some positive updates.
Nice..
I started it from last week.
Let us see, how it goes tis time.
Bcoz, few pages of our site have already last PR and some pages gained PR during last week. I don’t think tat is PR update, but it happened…
I thought, PR were not equal on all the data centers, tats y i lost and gained PR’s during last week..
Whether there might be other reasons behind it or have u noticed it somewhere else recently?
thanks, interesting, but some of them are “inachievable”
Mani,
I remember you telling me at BCK that one good back-link can do the job. Do you still think that one Good Back-link is enough to score a good page rank..? Or should we look for more backlinks.?
Also, does the no. of outgoing links affect the page rank..? Page rank is based on the no. of incoming links, right..?
Yes Arun, one good backlink can do the job. but its not easy sourcing one. The social media stunt should help get a few good ones.
No. The no: of outgoing links wont affect your page rank, however the number and quality of incoming links will.
Awesome list. So the next round should be December ish?
I believe so. Dec, end or before Jan mid.
And not writing sponsored posts/infomercials should be another…
No. You should nofollow those sponsored links out. Nothing wrong in writing sponsored posts – its a good revenue source for many bloggers.
OK. Thanks
Wonderful list!
Can you give me advance tips for seo?
All of the above are valid SEO tips. I didn’t quite get what’s “advanced tips” ? Advanced by level or advance by time?
Well i think that most ppl think that getting the page rank is a big trade secret.. But the more i have read, the more i realise that it is about playing the game correctly, fairly. The thing you deserve is what you will get. There are just a few extra good things to keep in mind..
This particular post helped a lot.. i will try to get my (site) (not a blog) fixed for all the errors!
I din know that having invalid pages decreases page rank :O
The most advanced tip wud probably be : “Do the basics right”
Or have i dont got it yet? (Pls mani reply to this one!)
Good tips. One question, has anybody found a dofollow blog?
If you know any dofollow blog, please let me know.
Thanks
Myclickworld, check out dofollowblogs.com
Thanks for that very valuable information. I need it myself, because my PR drastically dropped from PR4 to PR4.
Great post, mate!
Nice tips.How many back links are safe to get in a day?
Well, there’s no formula you can follow here. Neither no safe numbers. It’s about whether you are overdoing it or not.
thanks for the tips.
Great tip dude and luckily it helped me to get PR of 3 from 0!
Thanks!
cool ok
smile
When you think would be the next refresh from Google ?
Considering the last one was on Jan, next one should be around April.
Awesome tips! Thanks for the valuable information!
this very useful blog.
That’s the perfect inigsht in a thread like this.
Great post
I interest SEO
Very helpful stuff here, im certainly going to have to make a few tweaks here and there, thank you for such an informative article.
Rob Alexander.
this really helped a lot in awakening me that what i did with my blog was wrong. thanks so much.
Hi ManiKarthik,
Saw this post now only. It has helped me a lot in gaining momentum for my blog to be recognized as one of the useful website in the world of Internet. Thanks for you valuable suggestions.
Ajay
this is a great simple guide.
Say I have another website and I put a link to my other site on it. Thats considered a one way incoming link right?
Right, make sure your own sites are not on the same ips and dont exchange links though.
Mani, thank you for the tips. I recently have attempted to increase site loading speed as well on my WordPress site by using W3 cache, and cloudfare. Do you know if this helps with rankings?
Find a nice non-spammy blog they said,
Comment regularly they said,
Maybe I’ll start here.
Yes, there is good strategy.