I own a site launched in 1999 that has been totally ignored yet still has a solid PR6 rank and comes up #1 on some basic keywords. The site was built to promote a book and now that the book is out of print, we have begun updating the site with actual content from the book. It has been PR6 for years -- what's the quickest method to boost it to 7? I know there is a ton of advice on sites and in books out there but I'm interested in site owners' actual experiences. Thanks in advance...
The quickest way would be to buy a sitewide link from a pr7 or pr8 site that doesn't have many other links on each page. If some of the subpages are pr7, you should also get pr7.
keep increasing the content too, as you say your releasing parts of the book a good idea would be to release a chapter each week (depending on how long it is). Google will like the fresh content and more importantly if new stuff is being released each week you should get lots of returning visiters.
Why do you need a PR7 ? I mean , like what would a PR7 do to your site that PR6 is not enough/not good enough ?
I think the point here is that Fork_Media would like to improve his site in order to move it a PR7. If my site had been stuck at PR6 since 1999, so would I!
It is much much harder to get PR7 than to get PR6. You need ~5 good PR7 links , or ~40 good PR6 links or ~300 good PR5 links...
How did you figure those calculations? The reason I want to move up to PR7 is exactly what Seiya wrote - to sell links, ads, etc. The price differential from PR6 to PR7 appears to be substantial.
I dont think PR is as valuable as you think it is. PR7 is certainly a big deal too, but also very expensive and difficult to achieve. Hire some employees and do articles, directory listing, and media buying. Dan
The potential buyers I have had for links are all interested in one thing first: PageRank. The price people are willing to pay seems tied to it. What do you think is more valuable in selling ads, links, etc.?
I think that increasing a site's PageRank above 6 takes time, much time. But...I see that your domain/website is pretty aged, so the only thing I'm guessing that is keeping it at its current PageRank is the amount of one-way links and backlinks pointing towards your site. Do everything you can to grow traffic, popularity, and links to your site. Post up some Digg articles and such for new service announcements, etc. Get that backlink count up.
Thats nothing, the problem comes at higher PR levels PR5->Pr6->PR7 ... dont even mention PR8, thats insane. Anyawy theres an answer to your question fork but it involves either a lot of boring work that you wouldnt wanna do, or paying someone to do it. So either al ot of time or money GL.
Well, basically PR is logaritmic scale. So, for PR7 you need lets say 7x more backlinks score than for PR6 (or something like that, it is maybe 2x , or it is maybe 20x)...
Pretty right. Why the hack do you want to increase your fair 6 PR to little more fair 7 (I mean no one´s browsing with GPR forced apart from me!?) Just a personal ambition?
I'd still like to know where you got the earlier info about the calculations. Was it a guess or verifiable? The quote from your most recent post is actually more vague.
As I stated earlier in this thread, advertisers and other incoming producing links seek higher pageranks--at least they pay more for them. If I can get PR6 with an old stale site, surely it would be easy to push it up to a PR7.
i'd say gradually step up whatever link building pattern you had before. However you were attracting links before continue to do it and add say 5% more per month. So if you were attracting 1000 links last month, you should get 1050 this month. Continue trying to get good quality links of course dont use spammy methods. Build more quality content, and do some link baiting. I'm trying to come out with one large link bait every 4 months which has a whole package of features including "easy linkability" "press releases" "new content - usually in the form of articles". Quite often im creating tools that people can put on their site for a backlink.
I love that term--"link baiting." When you say "tools"that people can put on their site do you mean software tools or something else? What kind of tools?
I'm working on various calculators. Also I'm working on several projects to help people organize things. Two of which will be weight loss, and work out. These are large projects and a take a lot of time. Link bait is often slow hard work, but it should have a large impact in the end. My workout organizer will be a fairly simplified section that includes a wizard for creating a workout plan tailored for each person, and automatic emailing to users (if they dont login) asking if they've trained etc. It will have a nutricion guide built in, along with full export capabilities. You can imagine that there is a ton of content that I could create which can compliment this. On a smaller scale is smoking calculator that calculates several things each second. Worldwide deaths from smoking, deaths from second hand smoking, money by tobacco companies, and ciggerettes smoked. This is calculated day to day, so you see how many cigs were smoked since the start of the day. Though the information is fairly sickening I'm fairly sure that once everything is operation we'll be able to mount a fair PR campaign that will bring traffic and backlinks to the site. By making it easily portable to their sites I'll hopefully entice anti-smoking groups to make it available on their sites, (along with a small link back to mine). some sites that have link baiting ideas: http://www.jimwestergren.com/link-bait/ http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-linkbait-and-linkbaiting/ http://www.seobook.com/archives/001848.shtml Some companies offering link baiting services http://www.seomoz.org/linkbait.php http://www.andyhagans.com/link-baiting.php