I keep reading all posts from all these people who went from pr0 - pr3 in a month or so. But I cant find anywhere explaining how they did it! What's the real key to boosting pagerank? Also, I keep seeing tons of ads for "submit to 10k directories for $10". Do you think that this will build pagerank? Is it worth it?
Good backlinks, which you get by creating good content. When other sites link to your articles, that adds power to your PR.
Google PageRank is based on the number & quality of your backlinks. So getting quality links from established sites will improve your PR. Read more about the PageRank here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
Don't focus on your PageRank - it is a pretty useless measure of true success. Instead, pick the keywords for which you want to rank, and work on ranking better for them in the search engine results. After all, that is the purpose of SEO to begin with.
If you have a pr 0 site to improve your page rank you must get backlinks from other sites with higher page ranks, the higher the page rank the better.
>> Also, I keep seeing tons of ads for "submit to 10k directories for $10". Do you think that this will build pagerank? Is it worth it? No Its of no use !! Have a look at this article How to get good pagerank this will help you in Improving Your PR !!
"Also, I keep seeing tons of ads for "submit to 10k directories for $10". Do you think that this will build pagerank? Is it worth it?" I suggest to manually submit to only high PR directories. To improve page rank, get back links from high PR pages.
Its easy - buy as many domains as you possibly can afford but register them with different names to avoid domain farm detection. Google Search 'seo specialist' or 'laptops for students' and we will always be number 1
Get quality back links. I started off with buying links for my site and now I just do link exchanges.
Well, although the PR is not really important, but some of the peoples still assume, that a good PR will affect the site reputation and visitors...
Setting aside the "PR is awesome ... PR is meaningless" debate, in addition to getting good quality backlinks, you can also use a wise internal linking strategy to focus PR on one specific page. For example, let's use a really simplified illustration of a hypothetical website with 105 total pages, broken down as follows: • Your home page • Three main category pages • 100 more inner pages total • Your sitemap (the visible .html one) To prioritize the PR onto the home page, here's what I would do: • From the home page, link out only to the sitemap and the three main category pages, and those three main category pages will in turn link out to their various inner pages. • But link back to the home page from every page on the website. This is an ultra-simplified example. But it gets the main point across. To focus PR on, say, your home page, limit the links out from the home page, but be sure to have all your other pages linking back to your home page. That will tend to channel the PR 'juice' towards your home page. Edit: P.S. Be sure not to leave any page "orphaned" out there without a link to it.
To achieve the structure you mentioned, is it possible to use nofollow in internal links so that the link juice can be channelled more easily to the home page?
leony, my internal links are all do-follow. In the example I gave, that would allow the multiple iterations of the PR calculations to build kind of a momentum funneling the PR to the main page. My own website, while certainly more complex, is structured per the example. The results are: PR5 on the home page, PR4 on most main pages, and PR3 on most of the rest. Again, all those links are do-follow.