I created my photographic website http://black2colour.weebly.com this Spring and my website got PR1 2 days ago. I think it is pretty successful in such a short time. I used all preferable by SEO methods and techniques: 1) Good and clear content with keywords included. I often updated some part of the content. 2) I have filled all meta sections, included keywords and title 3) I used keywords in heading H1 and H2 4) Majority vast of pictures (those I was able to do that) have alt attributes filled I have never used any illegal methods for SEO purpose like black hat techniques. Maybe they are good for short time but not for long perspective of your website and I don't recommend to practise them at all. I could make my website better but it was created on weebly I could not avoid using tables for layout of pages because they were part of weebly tools I used. That's why I am going to build an alternative website just from scratch and then caring about html and css very much.
Maybe my website is not so successful comparing to the website I saw yesterday. It was 3 months old and it got PR3 straight way from PR0, skipping PR1 and PR2. It was game website and so simple, almost without content, just some simple graphics and I can not understand how it has gained so high ranking in so short time.
I am expecting to get PR2 in couples of months and PR3 in the beginning next year. I am insistently working on methods how to increase page rank in the quickest possible way but without using any illegal techniques.
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