Four Methods of Increasing Your Blog's PageRank

All of us want our blog to be number one on the Google search result pages, but not many of us get there. Your main concern for your site, if you are concentrating on receiving a good Google rank, is to increase your blog's PageRank. To help you do just that, here are four ways to develop your rank:

1. High PR back links. Google just adores back links, and it really likes back links that are topic relevant and have a high Google PageRank also. This tells Google that your site is good, because a site that they index high is linking to it. Try to get links from other websites that have a PR of at least 3, and have dofollow links. Dofollow means that they count towards your search engine rank; otherwise they do not improve your PageRank. To get an indication of what web sites you need to seek out, use an online back link analyzer to study what sites link to a rival of yours. Then aim to get links on the same websites for your own site.

2. Create a Sitemap and Robots.txt file for your site, and submit them and your blog to Google Webmaster Tools. A sitemap shows Google what pages are on your blog, and it makes it real easy for the spider to index and find them all. Also, the robots.txt file will tell the spiders what parts of your site that you want indexed or not. Use this to block Google from indexing your scripts directories, document directories, password protected directories, directories that hold any eBooks you are selling. Having this stuff in order tells Google that you are legitimate, thus giving your blog juice over others that aren't.

3. Complete the internal linking structure within your blog. You want to make sure that every page of your site can be reached from any page. This creates a complete linking path that the spiders can follow when checking for updates on your site, or even indexing it. The easiest way to do this is to create a sitemap that includes every page of your site, then when you are done you just link to the sitemap from a small link at the bottom of every page, and that's it!!

4. Create an RSS feed, submit it to all of the RSS directories, update your site at least 3 times a week (more if possible) and after you do this make sure you ping all of the ping services with your blog info. If you have Wordpress then it can do this automatically for you, but make sure you only do it once. So if you use Feedburner, be certain that PingShot is off if your blog host pings for you. If your software does this for you, make sure that you have a long list of all possible ping services. You can get this from doing a web search for it. Usually the default list is very short. You want to get your ping out to as many as possible. Frequent pings of updated content definitely scores points for your PageRank.

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