How to Get Page Rank: Every Page Counts!
When you are looking at ranking your site for competitive keywords, like “running shoes” or “women’s handbags” for instance, keep in mind that your page rank is integral to even be considered to be ranked in the top 1,000 sites. If you are running with the big dogs and want to get your site noticed above all the other options out there, then you must focus on adding pages to your site.
Every brand new page has a minimal amount of page rank, and as your additional pages all link back to your home page it’ll help you rank your site. Internal links using the proper anchor text are just as important as backlinks with the proper anchor text. So how do you begin to go about that arduous task? Well, luckily, it is not as hard as it looks, and I’m going to give you a few tips to rank your page higher- and fast.
First, look to including a blog on your site because this is one of the best ways to increase your page rank quickly. Each blog post will be it’s own page on your site and you can create internal links from within your paragraphs highlighting the proper anchor text to help you rank for your target keywords. So if you begin blogging daily about the newest styles of running shoes, or even creating a blog about fitness for runners, you’ll provide keyword related content and create internal links for seo.
The more related content you provide for site the better keyword density you establish for your target keyword. So if your target keyword is “link building” you want to mention that throughout your site content and build interlinks as well as backlinks using your target keyword. When you create a hyperlink using your target anchor text you increase your link building to build pagerank and increase your ranking for keywords on search engines.
A similar way to make multiple pages to increase your page rank would be setting up a forum on your site. These discussion forums are gaining popularity with forums like phpBB, where you are in essence designing a discussion board for your users to come and talk about various topics that relate to your business and site. This is prime for two reasons. The first being return traffic to your site, as we discussed in previous posts. The second reason this is so helpful to you is because every topic that is discussed will become another page, thus linking back to your home page and giving you more- you guessed it- PAGE RANK!
Are you catching a trend yet? So if you are peddling women’s handbags and you want to beat out your competition, the best thing for you to do would be to start a forum on your site where women (and men) can come and ask question, discuss, and relate about what are the latest fads in designer women’s handbags today. Brilliant!
Again, these are both wonderful ways to give you more pages on your site to increase your page rank, as well as the added bonus of solidifying you as an expert and authority in your field or subject. If you become the expert on running shoes and running gear, then where do you think that many of the people online will begin to look when they want quality running shoes and need questions answered? You will be able to not only provide the best products out there in your category, but also the expertise and experience that will set you apart as a trusted vendor. Food for thought.
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Building pages on your site is exactly what I’m doing with my new blog.
I am building niche blogs but want each one to be a valuable resource for visitors. What better way to get a return readership to your site by offering your readers a lot to read about or have sources for them as a offline publication would.
Linking the pages for better rank only makes sense and keeps your readers at your site longer and creates new memberships.
A very well thought article. Great work Bethany. This was exactly the article I was looking for a long time.
It has given me some very good ideas. As I am in a position where I need to optimize site for some generic keywords.
And it should be stated, for the record, that PAGE RANK IS IRRELEVANT TO SERP… one of my competitors has a PR of “0″ yet he is always at the top of the non-sponsored results just like me! Also, the recent TBPR Update had no effect on my site’s SE ranking.
That is not true. I actually saw some increases in SERP activity on a few of my sites recently right after the Page Rank toolbar update.
Your own site’s page rank has very little effect (but still some effect) on your search engine rankings (definitely a lot less than it did even a a year ago). But, page rank does effect search engine placement. The page rank of the pages that your links are on can drastically effect your search engine placement.
The techniques used to increase page rank are the same techniques used to increase your search engine rankings. So while the Page Rank number doesn’t have much effect in the search engine rankings algorithm, what it takes to get higher page rank will help you to get higher search engine rankings.
Just like running laps and doing drills doesn’t win a football game for a team. But, that conditioning and practice are essential to win the football game. One doesn’t cause the other, but you need one to get the other (and sometimes luck plays a part too… finding a brand new niche can help a lot.)
Please don’t just spout off stuff and make general incorrect statements. What works for your niche, your specific keywords, and your specific website, may or may not work for everyone else’s site. I have created enough sites to see that not every method works for every site. From what I’ve seen, you pretty much focus mainly on your one site, which is fine for you, but using what works and doesn’t work as generalizations for everyone isn’t helpful at all to this community of webmasters. If I could work and tweak everyone’s websites personally I would, but I can’t. So, we give general concepts that pretty much work across the board, and people need to take them and try them, and if it’s not working for them, then don’t use it.
The person I learned link building from, and niche marketing from, some of his information (such as minimum number of pages a niche blog needs to rank well) i found out is complete bull. But other tips I learned from him have been worth over $20,000 to me so far in the past 12 months. I took what worked from his site, read elsewhere and took what worked from me there, and developed my own system.
If you’re really trying to help this community (which is beginning to feel as if you’re attacking every single post because you’ve had a negative reply or a corrective statement which contained not truthful information) then please realize that your limited experience doing SEO for one site is exactly that, limited, and therefore everything that has worked for you may not work for everyone else, and just because something didn’t work for you, doesn’t mean it won’t work for everyone else also.
In no way do I consider myself the expert on niche marketing and seo and link building, but at the same time, I’ve had experience with a myriad of sites. Niche sites, and blogs with hundreds of subscribers, and seeing how they are treated in the search engines has given me valuable experience that we are passing onto others.
The keyword density in content is an important factor to rank high and backlinks are also a tool to rank high.So get more backlinks for your site you will rank high.Thanks a lot for providing the very useful information.
Great article. Internal links are often neglected. A blog is the perfect way to get both inner links and backlinks. Don’t forget to use wide variety of keywords in order to get a top long-tail!
I have a blog with pagerank 0 (was once 4 but Google stripped it) that consistently ranks first page for new blog post…. I can only imagine how well it would dominate if it had it’s old page rank back!
So many business owners really don’t know the basics of ranking their pages. So thanks for putting up this article. We’re changing a page on our site that was fairly generic in choosing an apartment. Our target is local but it had no local content. So now we’re changing that and we expect to have much stronger results.