Are you ready for the PageRank (PR) update of 2009? Or you may ask, will there be any PageRank Update this last quarter of 2008? I saw in the feedjit of my other blog that a lot of people came there searching about page rank updates. Maybe the questions they have in mind revolve around one thing: How to Improve Page Rank.
PageRank
If we are following the trend of these PR updates, we should expect a toolbar update late next month or early next year. Google does it more or less once every three months. The previous update was at the end of September wherein this site got ranked. Yeah, a mere PR1!
If they’ll have another round of update in 2008, then the 2009 round will be towards the end of the first quarter. You may also try predicting you future pagerank. Go to pagerankprediction.com and check your URL. I cannot vouch for its accuracy though because it shows different results for www., http://www., and http://. Even my other blog shows a not so good and inconsistent prediction. And from that prediction (even how inaccurate it is), develop your strategy to improve your page rank.
Given more or less 45 days to improve your PR, what should you do? Two things actually: Gain Backlinks and Save PR juice.
Gain Backlinks
1. Create High Quality Content – When readers talk about the information you give, they usually link you back, and share that useful information to others.
2. Submit your site to web directories – There are free web directories out there. Though they may not be a good source of traffic, the high PR ones can at least give you the backlink you need.
3. Ask friends to link your site in theirs – Ah, this is easy! But they might feel bad if you won’t link theirs.
4. Put a link to your site as a signature in the forums you joined – This is applicable when they allow html in the signature portion. If not, put the link directly in your post, when necessary. But avoid spamming or you’ll get banned.
5. Reward readers to link to you – Did I write bribe? Make a contest and ask participants to link to you. A lot of people are doing this. Participants won’t really care about your ulterior motive as long as you have attractive prizes.
6. Comment on sites with Dofollow – The original intention of this is to reward commenters with a link juice. Take advantage of this, but leave well-thought-of comments. Don’t spam.
7. Persuade sites with high PR to link to you – The persuasion is up to you. Go back to no. 1.
8. Too much link in such a short period of time can backfire – Search engines reward hard work and punish the crafty evildoer. As much as possible, gain natural/organic backlinks.
Save PR Juice
1. Avoid too many outbound links – Google doesn’t want you to give out too many links, lest they suspect your site to be a link farm. If you doubt the site you linked to, add the rel=”nofollow” to your html tag.
2. Don’t link to banned sites – You should know what these banned sites are. Check also the footer of your free themes, as they may contain links to a banned site.
3. Avoid linking to unrelated sites – This could get you banned. Now, I have to think what is an unrelated site to a general blog like this one. If you’ve done paid posts in the past and got spanked, maybe it’s now time to restructure your blog in time for the next page rank update.
It is easy to achieve a PR3 in less than 90 days. I’ve done it twice, but not for this Busby SEO Test site. I got a few people linking to me since I joined the 2nd Busby World Cup, so there is a chance that I’ll get a better page rank come update time.
On the other hand, be careful that your site is up and running when the robot from Mountain View, California visits your site. You might not get an update despite the hard work you’ve put up.
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Thanks for the information. I just tested my site and it says I’m looking at a PR4 I guess going up a number is good?
I wasn’t sure what a PR 3 meant.
Good article. This is definately the biggest area where I hope to improve and drive more traffic to my site in 2009. Social bookmarking helps periodically but if you want sustainable traffic you need to drive organic results and imrpoving PageRank is the one surefire way to do it.
Great article by the way.
thanks for this info it as came in very handy
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Hi,
I’ve come to the conclusion that quality content and regular updates, namely writing about subjects that are not writen by many competitors but yet people read about, is the stable way to grow.
About the directories: indeed one can avoid link farms and try to get listed on the good ones, such as DMOZ. Now, one thing must be observed : the main page of that directory may have a pagerank 5, but the links page where your domain is placed may have a 2 or even N/A.
To all of you I wish a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year
Kind regards,
José
Trying to beat the PageRank game is silly, create good content, quality links via relevant content on related sites (repeat). Eventually there will be a big change in the Google formula and those with real human quality content will soar. Make sure you’re prepared.
why is good off page optimization ?
When is the next pagerank update?
The next pagerank update should be in the beginning of April, but doesn’t the robot start visiting sites several weeks prior? I notice the pagerank bar goes nutty for all sites a couple of weeks before the final adjustment. I launched my new site in Sept, missed that update but in Dec. gained 42 points site wide. Expecting another 25-32 points this next time around.
I do not know if Google updates the pagerank, but I already has over 1 years with a PR4, every time Google does not put it more difficult to attract visitors to our site, Google wants all the web traffic for them, is not just be left to compete and I am trying to get by with Google Adsense.Pero really earn a pittance if you have it 5 to attract more visitors.
Greetings.
Nice tips… If next update is in April we still have some time to get ready…
Concerning Save PR Juice 1.) I dont think many outgoing links are bad for you, they just mean that the outgoing links will have less juice, but it wont harm your own site.
The next pagerank update should be in the end of March or the beginning of April as my recorded. Balancing is good to maintain, but to increase PR, we need to increase more incoming and reduce the outgoing. Of course we are talking about dofollow links.
I just given PR2 in the last update
But now when I check it on some PR checker site it shows 0
Anybody knows what’s going on??
I think google has changing its algorithms..
Good information here…
I wanted to know that when will be the next PR update??
Great info. Does anyone no when the next update is
Never thought it was this complicated. Thanks for sharing this post, Novs. I’ll be returning to this post when I need reference.
ya, good info, better if you get backlink form blog which has high pagerank,its easy and free, how? You can see at my blog
http://bloggebo.com/how-to-get-pr-7-backlinks/
I think pageprediction has some problem..
Even I use alexa there’s PR 0 on their predict..
Waiting patiently for the next PR update. Article directories are harder to rank due to the dupe content issue, but we’ll see.
For those looking for some PR love, try Article Marketing which can provide some tremendous traffic and backlinks. Post an article or press release at my article directory. You can also post a free ad on my do follow advertising blog! Enjoy your day!
I have no idea about Google’s page rank.
Hi,
It is a very useful article,already i have some idea about seo,those you mention that info i know,but i want to know when google pagerank going to be update in 2009.I have used all above techniques in htttp://www.chennaimoms.com,this is a online moms blog.i have done seo for this site. ..but i dont know when pagerank going to update..do you have any idea..i am eager to wait….
nothing as of yet, ill keep you all posted.
Nice article on page rank, the page rank is an important factor in SEO and there are several method to build back links for a site like link exchange, social bookmarking etc..
nice tips. I love it. thank you so much.
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I got a PR 4 after 5 months not bad
Last Google PageRank update was done in October 2009.Some relatively new websites have achieved much higher rank after this update.The next PageRank update will be scheduled by Google somewhere between December-January (2010),as update is displayed for public viewing every 4 months by Google but Google also has a habit of displaying fresh PageRank on or around New Year.In case of any early updates by Google ,readers will be notified.
google page ranks sucks and not reliable you could can get dropped like a hot potato