First i want to thank everyone that has offered me advice on how to market and promote my website. This forum has been really helpful because of all of your input. How can i improve my page rank? It just seems impossible. Maybe i'm not doing the right thing. Can anyone offer any advice on how to improve your page rank? Sari www.CoconutzHomeAndGarden.com
1. You have no pages - build a site with good content + navigation. 2. Get websites to link to your homepage (read about link popularity). Did that page really really take you 2 years ?
try submitting your site to alot of free dirs you can find a good list here - http://info.vilesilencer.com
You need a website to build PageRank. To be honest, you should forget about PageRank just now and concentrate on creating the site. You need to, as Rounde has already said, add content and then get some inbound links -- in that order. To get PR, you need to have a site that is linked to by other pages with PR of their own and at the moment, with no content, it is unlikely anyone will actually link to you. You can of course, submit to directories but most directories have some kind of human editors in place who would take one look at the site and reject it because it is a) not finished and b) has no content The third option is to search out sites which let you add your link automatically in a link exchange but in order to do that, you would need a links section of your own to place the reciprocal link on. At any rate, getting links this way is a slow process and not really worth the trouble. The time it would take you would be far better spent adding decent content instead. The cliche is, "Content is King", meaning the more good content your site has, the better.
PR is dependant on links. Basically, you need as many links as possible. There's a ton of ways of getting links and boosting PR. Ask for links, publish quality content people will link to, add your site to directories, submit to DMOZ. The goal is to ultimately have a ton of links.
WebJunkie - thanks for the great advice!! I just went to this page and submitted both my sites to the entire list - http://info.vilesilencer.com. Fantastic! www.20roundmag.com www.screaming-cheetah.com
I'll tell you why once customer annoyed me and like called every damn day he said "i want my website a PR6 I dont care how, Or I want my money back" trying to explain to him that it will cost him alot more, and he does not need a pr6 for his keywords and the PR updates. Anyways the point of the story is PR just reflect backlinks even if the toobar shows more GREEN I have sites that are pr6 and a PR4 is on top of them, the PR is not so importent, whats more importent is setting relevent backlinks with good anchor text rotate betwin keywords, and good content. I believe good update its PR every month, and every 3 month it updates the googletoolbar for users, I also give your an example from the past a site that ranked in the first page #6 before receiving even a PR. All i am saying people are giving PR too much attention.
I have a question do you really believe in this link exchange programs, It seems people forget the relevent of linking and just place a link anywhere they can. eatch user there has 239839 links on his sponsors page. do you think the link is worth somthing?
I think any inbound link is better than no inbound links. As to the value of them, well, it really depends ... The reason I suggested that this particular website used those automated add url scripts is because there is almost no content to speak of which means there is not really any other way to get inbound links for the site, even from a directory. This is because Sari's site, CoconutzHomeAndGarden.com, is also unfinished. No content and unfinished sites do not get added to directories by directory editors because they don't meet the minimum standards for the directory. Without inbound links there can be no PageRank since the whole PageRank formula is based on the site 'popularity' and that is measured in links into the site. Speaking generally, those types of link have very limited value but they do have some worth, however small. A thousand limited value links will count, perhaps not very much, but they do count and they are better than none at all. Personally, I don't like to see those type of link pages on sites where zillions of links are just slapped onto a page in no particular order. I think if you are building a links section it should at least be structured in some way.
Sari, your website needs work. As has already been pointed out, if your aim is to build PR then you need links. If you presented your site as it is today and asked me for links, I would probably turn it down for lack of content. Build it for the user not for PR or serps is cliche now but I think there is a certain truth to it. -Akeel.
You want to get your PR up, so to do this you want to go out and find link partners to link to your site. Eventually you will get a better PR which will bring more visitors to your page.
I guess you will not see a PR increase in the toolbar until google revises it's index to show this. It may be 4 months or 6 months or ...
Yeah, dont worry about the actual PR thats visible. I tend to use the term PR for the 'strength' of the site - PR will give you an idea of how many (or how strong) links to your site are..
I would suggest you do some keyword research Links are OK - but you can get plenty of them writing up some articles for the articles directories and posting up a few blogs on blogger However the most important thing is to research the keywords and keyword phrases that people are typing in when searching for the products/theme of your niche Remember that people search against keywords/keyword phrases - if you have pages optimized for those keywords/phrases then your site might get a good ranking even if you had few links It all depends on the number of people that are searching for that keyword/phrase and the number of sites that are in the databse for the keyword/phrase. For some more carefully niched keywords there wont be many sites, so it will be easier to get a top ranking The other thing I would say is dont just rely on search engines - they are fine for what they do - but there is alot more to marketing your site than scratching your head and trying to find your site in the search results I would suggest you use what I call "keyword" blogs - where you just keep posting and pinging articles written to different keyword/phrase(s), related to the "name" of the blog. Keep each post as a seperate page i.e. achive each post - then put links to your individual blog posts from your site. Once you list your blog feed on MyYahoo etc you are creating a loop, which will force the search engines to index your blog posts and your site and in the process bring extra free traffic to your site The other thing you must have is an email list system. Get people to signup for your newsletter and link it to an autoresponder, so that people get a message every week niched to the content of your site - with a link to your site, to build more traffic and sales. You will get far more traffic from an email list than you will from a search engine
My advice is submit to all the directories on below link.Believe me i started a technology article directory site 3 months before computingarena.com and now it has pagerank 3.i cant belive and i checked my pagerank on google tools and its 3.so submitting to all directories will give some boost. you can find a good list here - http://info.vilesilencer.com
There are a lot of things you could do quite honestly. You should check out my blog, I think you would find a lot of things there to help you out. Especially my new article directed specifically to communities such as yours. http://www.danielfischer.com <--- there.
Create a valuable content and place it on your web site. If it’s have a really value for webmasters they’ll link to your site for free.