Improving your blog’s position in search engines

If you’ve had even one conversation with someone who is into Search Engine Optimization (SEO), then you’ve probably heard the term Page Rank. A site’s Page Rank is a number between 0 and 10, and basically denotes how much time Google is willing to spend in indexing your site, and whether or not it will favor it when displaying results for particular searches that are present on your site.

Page Rank is actually named after Larry Page, one of the two people that initially started Google. And Pager Rank is not only the name of the number, but also the algorithm Google utilizes to check the worthiness of sites. The reasons why you would want to improve your page rank number are obvious, however the ways to do it are not. Basically, to increase your page rank, you should try to get people to link back to your site. Page Rank increases with the number of quality backlinks you have to your site. So we’ll try to explain them in this article.

Ways to increase page rank

• Write great content. By managing to write content that others would link to link to , you’ll be able to let them give you the backlinks you need. Basically the idea is that you should post tutorials, white pages and other helpful information that people will link to, wanting to share it with others.

• Participate in forums – forums are a great way to get backlinks for your site. You can include a signature for your profile containing links to your site, and thus acquiring lots of backlinks simply by posting in the forum. Try to be original and to contribute to the forum. This way , you’ll not only get a higher Page Rank, but also drive traffic to your blog.

• Write and post articles- there are many article directories that will accept your article, along with 1 – 2 links attached to it. This is a convenient way to acquire links without any problems. Just acquire the articles, and post them with the links included.

• Participate in guest blogging – write high quality content for blogs, and offer to give it to the bloggers in exchange for a link within the post. This will probably get you a higher variety of backlinks which will favor increasing your Page Rank.

• Procure links from sites in your niche – this one may be the most difficult and expensive of them all, but definitely the best working. Convince sites of higher quality and higher PR to link to you.

These are the essentials behind having a higher Page Rank. Use them to get your site to the top of Google’s search pages.