How do I increase my websites page rank? It's currently ranked as a 1. What am I doing wrong and how can I increase my page rank?
but have only been using it for 6 months and really didn't know anything until I started doing research a month ago
Any websites can rank number 1 on google. The question is, on what keyword are your ranking high. I suggest you build quality links pointing to your page from high pr sites.
High quality backlinks is the most important factor in increasing a website's page rank. I have a friend and he show me how his new blog gain PR4 one month before the PR update. He told me that he post his links on PR3 above websites.
To answer your question: Build more inbound links which have editorial value Hot tip: Search the forum and you will come up with plenty of answers
I have a few blogs for a couple of years, and iv only now atarted to get good PR after a lot of link building and good quality origional content, one of my blogs is no 1 on goole for its key word, but it too a good 2 years of consistent good content and links to get there, the site is now PR4.
Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's PageRank is calculated. So, it sounds like it doesn't matter the topics of the linked pages, just how 'popular' the linked pages are (defined as how many other pages they are linked to and their links are linked to).
Linking are the best way to increase PR, but it is more important that what kind of sites you are choosing or getting for linking. It is really important to link with only relevant sites otherwise it will be never usefully for your site.