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First off, congrats, you are probably one of a handful of people who enjoyed the recent update.
I think commenting on other blogs is probably good, but from first hand experience, it hasn't helped me AT ALL.
I have commented on so many blogs its ridiculous. I'm guessing thousands over the past year all using the URL of my main blog and guess what, my blog went from PR3 6 months ago to a PR0 for the last 2 updates.
I enjoy blog commenting so it hasn't stopped me from doing it but it definitely hasn't help me in the least with my blog.
I have resigned to the fact that I will no longer check my PageRank and have uninstalled the Google toolbar from my Firefox.
I just wrote a post about my experience at http://www.pliggs.com/wheres-my-pagerank/
@Geoserv - Sorry to hear about your PR going to 0. I guess it is time to analyze the things you do and see what you are doing wrong so hopefully your PR will increase next time.
@Rowell Dionicio - Not much. I have been creating websites since late 1990's and had started working with blogs around 2006. It is all self-thought through experimenting, trying, failing.
@ezg - I appreciate your opinion. This post is kind of a summary post (I also link to all the detailed information that I wrote about before) and was written because of this Google PageRank jump to show my readers that some of these things I write actually do work as this blog is work in progress and I try to write as much as possible about how I do it here.
@Session Magazine - Nice one! I am sure many would love to hear those secrets... what about a guest post? hehehe
Thanks!
In the past week or so, you have made some valuable commentary on how to use Twitter to grow traffic to your blog as well this posting helpfull too. As a new blogger on the block it has been very insightful and helpful. I am stating the obvious here but I have to say that as a blogger one should bring value to the table and fill a void out there. That would be the only way you get repeat traffic. Twitter and Google page ranks can help draw attention of the potential audience out there. But what will keep them coming back is true value. Thank you for sharing your wisdom on promoting the blog.
Roshan
http://roshanthomas.blogspot.com/
It's enough for me to hear this 1-2, not more 3 times, but then you are always saying just these things you lose my respect.. Sorry.
TLR
Congrats!
Improving page rankings is something I started to look into a few months back.
Having said that, I've been reading loads and it seems that a Google ranking is becoming somewhat redundant - with social tools such as StumbleUpon/Twitter becoming the predominant place for internet users to find new and interesting sites. Would you agree that this statement is acurate? Personally, I still think that Google will always have a strong position on the world wide web.
I'm currently only with StumbleUpon, but I am considering joining Twitter... do you think it's best to be a part of both networks? Do you have any thoughts on each, and what is better?
I just looked at my stats from October 25th until today and only 1.11% of my traffic is from search engines! StumbleUpon and Twitter stand for most of my traffic. StumbleUpon sent me more traffic until now but Twitter sent me better quality traffic (I am still collecting data, but I Twitter stats post is coming up soon). I would recommend being active on both, as I find them working good together (for example posting same links on both). I have already written some articles on both so I would recommend you to check them out.
Your stats are just as I expected... but I suppose, the Google ranking is a good indicator on how all other efforts (blog commenting, link backs, stumbleupon, etc) are helping your website/blogspot.
I'll be going through all of your blog archives over the next few days!!
All the best for 2009 - you'll have a page ranking of 8 before you know it ;)
That's impressive.
I got my brand new domain to PR3 in less than two months... and I didn't even try that hard.
It's just a matter of doing the right things.
Wouldn't you agree?
@Jim Gaudet - I think me having a link to my first guest post in my second guest post helped getting a better PR. It also got some attention online and some good links. Check some of my older posts on how I got the guest spot at ProBlogger and how much traffic it brought me.
Links are so important, but relevant links are more important. Plus, make sure your link is coming from a DOMAIN that has a great PR and Alexa rank.
Your first post has a PR5, NICE!!! the second has no PR, as of now..
I think you probably have a lot of great comments on nofollow blogs or you have a great link building scheme.
I need to read how you guest posted, I think that will help me a lot. Although for me, I do not want too many people on my blog since I do not write enough posts. But a PR is great for the future when I have the time.
Your guest posts on Problogger obviously did you well as they enjoy a PR 7 and have obviously sent you some serious link love.
You also implement many good practices both in the stucture of your URL (no numbers in URL) and your use of "nofollow" in many of your links.
Cheers,
Santosh
"I think me having a link to my first guest post in my second guest post helped getting a better PR."
That's a good point. I don't think many people realise having internal links, of linking one post to another on the same site, is counted towards PR.
I got my site from a pr0 last month to a pr4 but getting lots of high quality links to the URL. Thats what it is all about- quality links.
@Session Magazine - I am looking into the CommentLuv plugin at the moment. Will include it soon if I find a good way to incorporate it.
Maybe u shouldn't use nofollow for comments. It is nice when blogers stick together. "U comment I follow" policy.
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The fourth testimonial on that page is a guy called Jim Straw who has built up businesses worth hundreds of millions.
You can check out his interview here: http://imsecretsrevealed.com/2008/08/29/jim-str...
We're in the process of doing part 2 of that interview.
He's also one of the top guys on my emailing list.
Hope you like it.
your blog is really good,almost same was happened to me my blog jump from PR0 to PR4 in 1 month and 2 days,and now after this update its still PR4...
I was work really a lot on blog and I was sharing my posts on social sites,I was many times on front page of stumbleuopn and few times on reddit after that many other sites posts things from my site on their sites and put link to mine there are people who was not put link back to me but ok hehe,Marko once again thanks a lot your blog is really good I learned new things here.Sorry for me English.
Thanks for all the good tid-bits.
I'm passing them on.
Just dropped by to let you know I haven't ignored the last email.
It's just been hectic.
I'll get in touch soon.
Rezbi
shall start working on your idea from your blog itself ;)
Vicky
www.vickyadvani.blog.co.in
you for sharing this valuable information.
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How can i increase my inbound links
If this makes you feel better: I'm stuck at Technorati authority 26. I'm getting a fair amount of links from high profile German blogs, but for the last six weeks or so none of them have shown up in my ”blog reactions". So they won't count towards a better Technorati authority and I have decided to ignore Technorati altogether. About Google PR: Isn't it the case that the more you ”tweak your SEO practices" the more Google notices? I've done fine with just letting things happen naturally.
That is the first I've heard of that, but it certainly makes sense. I'll definately be looking into it, thanks for the tip.
I've seen the same frustration with Technorati. They don't follow all blogs so they will always miss some of your links. However, this is a statistic that can't be ingnored should ever attempt to monetize your blog.
I do believe that "Content is king", but without networking, it is hard to get the words out about your blog. For those who are struggling with PR 0, do not be discouraged even if you have been stuck with PR 0 for over a year. These people need to accept constructive criticism from other bloggers.
I don't believe that PR can increase out of thin air. If that is true, nobody would be searching on Google about "How to increase pageranks". It takes work, and Google will not do the work for you.
Thanks for the various advices for making my blog populor.
Anw, this site uses Thesis right?! Nice :) Thanks for your straight forward tutorial.
thanks for this excellent post and all the comments out here ...which actually helped me increase my page rank...
vicky
-GatorWade
work to do, but over time it is well worth it and i also agree that
understanding pagerank and how it does work can be quite tedious
sometimes when going to different sites because they can vary, and
i agree when finding the right tool that works, a person should
stick with using it.
I've been struggling to get some good PR for some of my blogs, so now I have some ideas of what to do to boost their ranks.
Thanks again.
Roger Mayne
@xaer8 - I have a more in-depth post about traffic from StumbleUpon. Check out How I Got 2000+ StumbleUpon Visitors Using My 10 Step Strategy.