I'm rather new to affiliate marketing(I've been doing this since the end of November) & I finally created my first review site a few days ago. I checked my Google page rank & it's on the 13th page for my top keyword(I know it's bad). I've heard of some methods such as linking articles in my site and adding it to new directories so here are my questions: 1.) I have about 7 live articles(Ezines) with more on the way regarding the product. Should I add them as a new page on my site?? How can I use this to maximize targeted traffic?? Will this improve my page rank?? 2.) Will adding my site to small website directories help my page rank, amount of visitors?? 3.) So far I've just been marketing using forums & receiving around 100-140hops/day, will this help my page rank?? Any help is really appreciated, thanks in advance!!
1. If your website has less than 10 pages of content, it is better to add the articles to your website. Then you should start posting articles to article directories such as ezinearticles.com, articlecube.com etc. It will give you additional links pointing to your website as well as traffic from the articles. The more quality links you have, the higher your search engine positions are. 2. Personally, I always submit my websites to directories and yes, this will increase your positions in search engines. 3. If you left links on those forums and they were dofollow they will help.
Thanks for all the info, I know this is another newbie question but what's a dofollow link? I did leave my links on the forums but I'm not sure if it was a dofollow I just thought a link is a link.
A dofollow link is a link without the rel="nofollow" attribute attached to it. You'll need to leanr some HTML to knkow more about this. For now don't worry about it. For questions on PR and SERPs, post in the Google sub forum of DP. Don't confuse Page Rank with SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).
I suggest completely forgetting that PageRank even exists. All that really matters as far as SEO is where your pages rank for important keyword searches. (ie keyword searches that lead to sales.)
I agree, if your website has a high PR, it does not mean that it will rank well. Some of my websites with PR4 have lower positions in SERPs then PR1 websites.
bookmark you site on digg, mixx, propeller, furl, folkd etc and set up squidoo pages funnelling traffic to your site. hubpages etc are good for links and traffic too. as said before, PR and SERPS are different, do not get too hung up on either.