How to get a PageRank of 5
For those of you who know nothing at all about PageRanks and Alexa rankings, let me explain that they’re the modern equivenant of a Nielsen ratings for websites.
Alexa measures your website performance by volunteer users, in effect millions of average people agree to allow Alexa to collect statistics about their surfing habits and from that data, Alexa tracks and monitors activity on the Internet. At Halloween this year, Alexa ranked my website at 2,291,883. Today it’s at 231,354 which is a 1790% improvement for spending about 20 minutes a day on my website.
Google on the other hand ranks your website by looking at who your website connects to and in return, who connects to your website. That’s a pretty over simplified way to look at it but it’s also the general gist of the method. It’s a bit like a popularity contest, Google believes that if websites with high page ranks (the system is from 0 to 10) link to you consistently, your content must be of a certain value.
So now that you understand what a PageRank and Alexa ranking mean, here’s how I earned my respectable rankings in both … (drum roll anybody?) … quality content, consistently posted.
I know that you’re all hoping for a much better answer than that but sadly it’s the truth. My very good friend Chris Bavota jumped from a PR0 to a PR4 in just three months, doing exactly the same thing … he posts great articles that people love to read and he makes sure that he does it regularly.
Chris and I followed some easy to understand advice:
- we registered a good domain name that people could remember
- hosted with a reliable hosting company so people could find us
- installed a great software package to help us manage his content
- ensured the code was clean so Google could read it
- built quality content that people wanted to read
Once that was done, both Chris and I did what any self respecting blog owner would do:
- we used deep linking techniques to ensure our readers know about related content on our website
- we posted links to other peoples blogs, helping our readers find similar content
- we let other blog owners know that we had articles of interest for their readers
There are no scams, no black hat SEO techniques, no short cuts and no tricks. Quality rankings on a quality search engine takes nothing more than a little bit of effort, quality content and the determination to contribute something positive to the Internet as a whole.
Thanks for the information dude. Your site’s done really well and the idea of deep back links on pages is a good idea. I really need to up the amount of that I have on my site so google will hit more deep pages. Thanks!
As always quality content rule the world. With it and a little self promotion at the beginning you always have a good chance to make your blog cool.
It’s amazing how you manage to push Alexa from 2 millions to 200K in two months. That’s not an easy feat. Congrats on getting a PR5. It’s well deserved, Chris.
Yan
I was a little stunned by the Alexa results myself but a lot of the credit actually goes to Yan who’s written some great articles on link building. I’m not an SEO expert myself but I find like everything short of brain surgery, as long as you surround yourself with people who know, and share knowledge … almost anything is possible.
Aww chris thanks for answering this myth. Glad you responded to this. PR 5 is rather amazing I must say..
Awesome man; congratulations on both the Alexa and PR boost…Next stop…the world!
Hi Chris, I love reading yourarticle on PR 5, mine is only PR 3 within 4 months, perhaps you can advice me since now I am PR3, I could jump in to PR 6 maybe using the tips given?
Wow PR5 ? Are you serious ? Indeed that is really amazing, you should maybe make a report t about, and explain it in details. Great post.
Cheers,
The Moneyac
One step at the time – that’s the greatest phrase of all times! If you want to achieve something big, start by working out the small ones. Commenting, deep linking, back linking… that’s all it takes, man!
STUMBLED!
I have done these things, have a great readershi, usually 1000+ pageviews per post but still no PR.
Hopefully soon.
I never expected this to happen but finally Sizlopedia has again managed to attain its previous popularity rank in the Google world. Google has restored Sizlopedia with a Google Pagerank 5 and this is more like a miracle.
Thanks for taking the time so share this information.
I will take this into consideration and use it on my projects.
I also bookmarked the site you have listed above. congratulation! on getting rank 5.
Hey Geoserv, I’m stumped too. I took a look at the details for your site and my best guess is that Google hates you. :( No, I’m kidding. I wish I could tell you but unless they’ve blacklisted you I have no idea.
It is always good to read an article like this to remind you that you have to get out there and do it every day. No short cuts, no press this button and own the world. The time most people spend trying to cheat the system and failing could have easily been used to do productive work.
Nice work Christopher – not too shabby. You must have some pretty good backlinks.
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I guess it’s true, content is king. Thanks for showing us all what’s really possible with consistent, daily, honest effort.
Very informative article. Great advices too! Thanks
Congrats Chris. I like that you point out there are no tricks or shortcuts, just a well thought out plan and the discipline to see it through.
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Wow, Great post. I think it’s very important information. Congratulation, Chris!!!!!
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Enjoyed this article Christopher. My wife and I are real estate agents and find it difficult to write compelling content. It seems most of what we would write about has been said already. Having said that, we are starting to write content that is personal in nature. We’re hoping that will draw readers in. Thanks for sharing your success. :)
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Hi Joe, I completely disagree with you … there’s a lot of content out there but not a lot that’s a threat for you. When I search for “washington home sales” I see an article for Obama right on the front page! That tells me immediately that nobody in your market is properly concentrating keywords into effective web content.
Take a few moments and write down 20 keyword combinations that you think people are using to find you, then add the word Washington (or your local market) to the phrase and you’ll quickly see, with a little bit of work you could increase visitors to your site but several hundred per month.
Thanks for the reply Christopher. We do rank for many of the keywords in our area (our cities, real estate, etc.), and do have the traffic. However, I long for the traffic that leaves comments on blogs! We have several blogs (search ‘colleen lane’), but the only blogs that are receiving consistent comments are those within a social network, like ActiveRain, for example. I’m beginning to think the commenting traffic will come from non-real estate related blog entries.
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you are lucky to have a friend share you, for me I’m alone and i try to reach the top .
my alexa is +1 million ( last update )but today it i think it is +600 k so my target is break 500 k , pr +3 now i’m pr1 so let’s see
i do normal seo and wait the results .
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just checked site http://www.eblackpool.com and didnt get pr7 so better try again :(
In the face of the tough competiton, Alexa is coming up with more and more user friendly and unique features. Ability to create own search enginem by giving access to the crawler is quite a novel feature in itself
This is a good article . It will definately boost your PR up.
Hey guys, try to keep in mind that Google’s Pagerank system is about building authority for your blog, getting a good PR takes a lot of time and energy, hard work and determination. It’s nothing something that can come from a single link from here but a link from my website to yours is the first step in climbing a very big hill.
There have been a few comments posted that I must be naive to think this helps, or that my article has a low PR … on the other hand, my site has a PR of 5 and an Alexa score of ~200,000 so assume what you want, the offer is there and it’s free. :)
If you want to make your site pr 5 then you should at least increase your inbound link with same pr which you want but there are still some sites and blogs out there who think that Google is joking around and they have not ceased paid link activities even after all those warnings by Google. Little do they know that the next action by Google would be far more worse and its time to realize and choose the stronger side.
I’m trailing in your path Christopher…but perhaps I may need to look into that code valdator thing you mentioned?
Also, I’m curious to know how your friend went from pr0 to pr4 in 3 months when I thought Google does PR updates onve every four months?
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Is it possible to get PR of 5 in 2 months or less? I managed to get PR 2 for my website in 5-6 months…
It is good to see your website stat have gained rankings very fast. I think you have made more best efforts.
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Е то бива автоматизирани сайтове, ама превеждащ агрегатор – това е просто налудничаво. За случайно попадналите в тоя абсурд, ето ви връзка към сайт с качествена информация за Page rank
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This is a good tutorial but it’s what everyone trying to build up. Quality content and deep link is the key of success or getting higher PR, it might takes you some times to achieve. PR5 equal to the value of your blog, PR5 must be a good 1! My first mission is PR4 for my main blog. :D
Regards,
Lee
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A very nice accomplishment, and you truly deserve the increased traffic. Keep on posting!
I like Alexa tool. Gives some very valuable information and comparison between websites. But, thanks for your article. Simple and to the point.
Me on the way to try then lets see what happed.
I am on the way to try then let’s see what happen.
What a nice and respectable process to get a good ranking. Good comparison of PR and Alexa. I need to send this article to some people who just can’t understand the differenc.e
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we can use this steps as highlines but it need time and time because no one will get pr5 after the first update ” it happen but rare ” i think you can go up step by step from pr0 to pr3 to the targeted pr but i think it isn’t hard ” 20 min daily ” but the content is the way.
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Congratulations Christopher! If I’m only half as successful as you I’ll be happy.
Getting to where you are on the Alexa rank is an achievement in itself well done! your site has inspired me to use wordpress for future websites. thank you!
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You have done well with your website to get to PR5. A friend had a blog website with PR5 and stopped updating and after a while it dropped to PR2.
I still haven’t succeed with getting PR5. PR4 is my maximum.
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Wheres a good place to acquire backlinks that will convert into good pagerank?
-Jack
Great info keep up the good work, PR5 thats amaizing in that time period!
Thanks for the great information..
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Is it just me or does this site have a new layout? Good tips, btw. I guess there’s still hope of getting an increased pagerank for me.
-Jack
In Web2.0, great content is the only way that you get higher PR and quality inbound links. I think list post might be quite popular among all the articles, I saw a lot of “Top Post” in several social bookmarking site such as Digg is list post. I’m going to work harder to achieve PR5 for my blog too, thanks for your tutorial.
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Sorry only read above after post, here it is again :
Great post, i’m workin hard to build PR its like mission impossible!
Thanks for you tut very informative