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5 Steps to Increase your Google Page Rank

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Real Estate Agent with Nationwide Homes

Google Page rank is based on back links. Back links are Links pointing to your website from another website. The more back links you have the higher your PR will be.

1. Join forums, forums are a great way to achieve links to your website. In most forums you are allowed to have a signature and in your signature you can put a link to your website. But another important note to look on is making sure the forum is somewhat related to your website. You will still get credit if it's not, but if it's related to your website than you will be accomplishing two tasks at once.

You will be advertising for your website (bringing in targeted traffic) You will also be building your websites presence.

Your websites presence is very important to your survival. The more people see, or hear about your website the more credibility you will have and this increases your chances of having these visitors come back and possibly become leads.

2. Submit to search engine directories. Search engine directories are a good way to get a free link to your website. They also increase your chances at being listed higher on popular search engines like Google, and overture.

Most search engine directories allow you to submit to their website for free. This will allow you to increase your web presence by being listed on another search engine, and it will also be a free link.

Remember the more links you have the higher your PR will be

3. Using ezine ads (or newsletters). Creating an ezine will probably be the most beneficial step you can take to increasing your web presence. When you create an ezine you will be able to keep visitors coming back to your website for more by using signatures and giving special deals.

Ezine's will also allow you to increase your back links. By creating an ezine you can submit your information about your ezine to an ezine directory. This directory will than link to your website(thus giving you a free link).

4. Creating and publishing articles. Articles are an easy source of generating new traffic. You can include your signature in your article. This will bring in more traffic from article submission directories.

Your signature usually consists of 4 to 8 lines. Usually the first line would be the title of the website that you are trying to advertise. The last line would be the link to the website and the lines in between these would be a sales pitch to draw your viewers into your website.

5. Links from related websites. Gaining links from related websites can be one of the most frustrating tasks you can attempt.

They are very easy to find, but can be somewhat difficult to obtain links from.

To find related websites, all you have to do is go to a search engine... say Google... and type in your subject. Maybe your website is based on ford mustangs.

You go to Google and type in ford mustangs, than you look around for pages that are somewhat related to your website. After you have done this (which should be very easy) you have to contact them in some way to get your link posted on their website. This can be the most difficult task because a lot of webmasters ignore e-mail's from people requesting links because they don't see the importance of it at the time. Some other reasons could be that they are rarely online, or they delete spam mail and sometimes delete their important emails in the process.

Important note: When looking for link partners don't just link with websites that have a page rank of 4 or higher. Link with anyone and everyone you get a chance to. If you link to someone that has a page rank of zero, this will not hurt your page rank. It will only increase it because you are getting a link back to your website. Google doesn't look at your back links page ranks to determine what yours is going to be. It simply looks at how many back links you have.

So if Google one day decided to link to a website that was just created and this website has a page rank of 0 and has a domain that goes something like this: mywebsite.geocities.com it's page rank wouldn't increase even though Google's page rank is 10, it's rank would still be zero because it would only have that one back link.

Tego Venturi
Keller Williams Realty - Rio Rancho, NM
Great advise. Thanks!
Jan 07, 2008 05:56 PM
Jon Zolsky, Daytona Beach, FL
Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408 - Daytona Beach, FL
Buy Daytona condos for heavenly good prices

This is the stuff that depresses me. For me it is like running after the locomotive, when you are always behind.

But I appreciate any info, that eplains the way it works, so that I start thinking that I do understand something... until the locomotives moves ahead and everything changes again.

Thank you for the info.

Jan 07, 2008 06:02 PM
Zina Sohaney
Century 21 All Islands - Kailua, HI
Great info.....thanks for the advise!
Jan 07, 2008 06:07 PM
K. Davis
Davis Enterprises - Sarasota, FL

Great post. I actually just sent it on to my mom to pass to her friends who are learning about seo and blogs (all realtors).

Cheers!

Kae Davis

www.everythingashburn.com

Jan 07, 2008 06:15 PM
Christopher Currins
CBC Home Inspections - Godfrey, IL
Metro East Home Inspector - IL.
All good tips Laura and they all work. If you would like to trade links please contact me.
Jan 07, 2008 06:26 PM
Christina Williams. REALTORĀ® TN property search & local insights
First Realty Company - Crossville, TN
Super, Super advice Laura. We can always use new tips and tools on how to boost our google presence. Thanks
Jan 07, 2008 06:32 PM
Frank Rubi
Frank Rubi Real Estate, LLC - Metairie, LA
FrankRubiRealEstate.com
Laura, thanks for sharing. What about tags with your post for google to pick up on?
Jan 07, 2008 07:05 PM
Julie Chapman
Julie Chapman Broker - Ormond Beach, FL
Daytona Beach Shores, Florida

Laura,

Thanks for sharing these excellent tips...... I have bookmarked this post.......

Jan 07, 2008 07:24 PM
TeamCHI - Complete Home Inspections, Inc.
Complete Home Inspections, Inc. - Brentwood, TN
Home Inspectons - Nashville, TN area - 615.661.029
Laura, thanks for sharing. Good post and good information.  8-)
Jan 07, 2008 07:43 PM
Anonymous
Jaron Veelo

Really appreciate your post. Any tip regarding the improvement of Google PR is always appreciated.

Thanks.

 

Jaron

www.helona.gr 

Jan 07, 2008 08:42 PM
#10
Leslie Don Wilson
281-804-2291 - Houston, TX
REALTOR ABR ALHS CIPS CRS GREEN GRI MCNE SFR SRE

Laura,

Your page http://www.lauratesta.com/ isn't even ranked.  You can check your page rank at http://www.mypagerank.net/service_pagerankbutton_index .   Not only is your page not ranked it forwards to a Point 2 Agent account. 

 why would anyone take advice on page ranking from someone who isn't even ranked.  Google does look at the page rank of the sites linking to you and a site with a page rank of ZERO does you no good.  

For example: Having you link back to my site will do me no good since your page is not ranked. 

Leslie D Wilson

www.lesliedwilson.com

Jan 07, 2008 10:05 PM
Melissa Grant
A Serendipity World - Greenbackville, VA
The Law of Attraction In Life & Business
Wonderful advice ! Thank you for sharing this ! Not many want to share google juice ! High 5 to ya !
Jan 07, 2008 10:10 PM
Joel Bennett
Long & Foster Real Estate Inc. - Columbia, MD
The Joel Bennett Group
Great and timely post.  These are tips that can acted on immediately and the ranking should rise quickly also.
Jan 07, 2008 10:49 PM
Christopher Currins
CBC Home Inspections - Godfrey, IL
Metro East Home Inspector - IL.

Here is another site Leslie......www.websitegrader.com/

Jan 08, 2008 11:04 AM
Leslie Don Wilson
281-804-2291 - Houston, TX
REALTOR ABR ALHS CIPS CRS GREEN GRI MCNE SFR SRE

Christopher,

thank you for your post. I have never heard of www.websitegrader.com but after checking it out I love it.  I built my site myself but i am not a web designer.  This is a great tool to help guide the future direction I go with my website.

 

Leslie D Wilson

www.LeslieDWilson.com

 

Jan 08, 2008 11:38 PM