Link popularity You are familiar with the term Page Rank; it’s a Google parameter that measures your link popularity. Some webmasters think mistakenly that this PR is affected only by the number and quality of back links to your pages, but the truth is you can get a sup page of your site to rank as PR1 or higher without any back links to that page. However you need to have higher PR to your home page and link from it to that sup page. And here are some ways to do so: If you give your page a unique title, a unique in demand keyword phrase will index your page high in the search engine results pages (SERPs) and if that key phrase has a demand and people use it as a search term it will provide traffic to that page and as a result of that traffic Google will give that page a higher PR. Which mean that real traffic can cause higher PR. Another way is plog posts with high commenting rate. If you have a high traffic blog with high number of readers, and they post comment on your posts, each post can get high PR in it’s permanent link page, without any back links to that page. That fact made some famous Bloggers such as Jiff Jonson talk about paying for people to comment on your blog posts. So in fact there are more parameters that make Google rank your pages and the most important are: Back links, it keeps the number one element of PR. Traffic the more traffic the higher the PR and vice versa. Time spent on page, the more time people spend on the page the higher the rank of that page, (videos can do it perfectly). Updated content and the increase of the website, the more content you add the more important your site will be in the eye of the search engine. The more bloggers talk about your site the better. How to measure PR. No one other than Google team knows exactly how to do it, but there is a fact that says: Each rank worth 8 times the rank came behind. That mean a PR5 is worth 8 times PR4 when measuring the quality of back links to your site; in other words 1 back link from PR5 page is worth 8 back links from PR4 pages. And with the same page the first link is higher in value than the one came after (SE crawlers read the page from left to right from the top downward) Those two facts need to change the way you are building back links to your site, how you ask! When you are exchanging links the old fashion way in 99% of the cases your link is added to a PR0 page (directory or sup directory page), even if the home page of that site is PR9. So if you want to use your time effectively, it’s better to search for 10 link exchange partners who will submit your link in a high PR page (or home page) in exchange of you adding their link in your home page. (you have probably came across some free services that will give you the free service only if you linked to them from your home page), such 10 partners are better than 1000 regular exchange partners. Forums back links, instead of only replying to other posts and have your links on the signature, you better think of starting a new very important thread, a thread that you can make the forum members reply, the more replies the higher the thread page rank will be and the higher your back link value will be, in this way also those who reply to your thread with their links are benefiting from the increase of the popularity of the thread, together you can make that page rank high and supply you with high value back links. Blog commenting, the higher the blog PR with more readers the better to comment on (consider only dofollow blogs). Check for past posts, if the blog posts are getting high comment it means it has more readers, and each post will reach high PR fast. But also remember you need to be one of the first to comment, if the post get more than 200 comment and your comment is the last one your back link has no value, but if it is the first your back link will get the value of the page PR. In some cases low PR blogs can give you more value in the comment than high PR blogs. Try to exchange articles with bloggers than submitting your articles to article directories. Submitting articles to small article directories with your own unique title is better than submitting to the big article directories that probably already have an article with your title. Some of this information I learned from someone on the stompernet team and I tried it myself to find it valuable and effective. But one can never stop learning and find out that he was wrong in a few cases; so please if you have any information that can help, correct or support please share it with us.
One question i have beed asked "I have more than 500 back links to my blog but still have PR1 and i know i have some links from high PR blogs, why my PR is not rising?" my answer is I don't know how you know the number of back links, the only way i know of is using the Google webmasters tools, go their and see exactly how many back links you have and try to visit each link to see the PR" other way to see it is from http://seopro.com.au/free-seo-tools/link-checker/