I am using Google analytics and webmaster tools to track my websites and I have been using it for about a month. The problem that I’m having is that my page rank is still at 0. That’s not helping me at all. I posted a question on Twitter this morning -
“I just cannot get my page rank up, what’s with me. It’s taking forever.”
@yuyudin responded to me with some really helpful tips on trying to get my page rank up. She mentioned at one point that page rank was overrated but still helped me out anyway. Here are some of the tips she gave me about this site.
Increasing Your Google Page rank Tips
- If you are using WordPress to host your blog make sure you create different more specific link categories. Which I implemented. She mentioned to split it into categories like SEO Tips and so forth. You can see how I did it on the right hand side of this site.
- If you have articles on your website or blog posts, you should like to other posts in your blog or website that are relevant. So for instance on SwimUniversity.com I have a blog post about Killing Swimming Pool Algae. In that post I mention that one way of killing algae is by using pool shock. I have another article called The Right Way To Shock Your Pool. So anytime I see pool shock in the Algae Article, I like that Pool Shock word in the Algae Article to the Shock Article. Because when Google scans your website it picks up links faster than all other text.
- The quickest way to get inbound links to your website is by signing up for Social Media sites and using links to that site to your site.
What next?
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Google giveth and google taketh away. I think something is going on with google right now.
Did you see my article today? Not pretty – a sudden 3 point drop for no reason at all.
Yeah I did see that, that really sucks. It would drive me nuts. Did you figure out why that happened yet?
Nope – I don’t know if I ever will. I’m just hoping it goes back up.
dont worry to much about PR if your content is good your PR will be to!
I don’t have many articles…but the ones I have worked on and tried to make useful all have PR (or hopefully will once the update hits).
Write for the people and google will follow the people and reward
PR is really cosmetic at best. Personally, the only thing I use PR for is to make sure I am sculpting my best pages for pagerank (authority)