 It was a merry day indeed some time back when I discovered that this blog finally got a Google PageRank. To all the non-bloggers reading this, getting a PageRank is important because it kind of denotes how important you are to Google (and by comparison to other search engines). The higher the PageRank, the higher you go in the search results. Those with a PageRank of 10 are internet Gods. So if you have the Google toolbar, don't be so quick to disregard the PageRank function. It is actually quite useful in filtering the worthwhile sites from the not-so-worthwhile ones.
Advertisers also seem to take notice of PageRanks - the higher the PageRank, the more chance there is that an advertiser will want to do business with you. So how do you make your PageRank higher? Well, writing lots of good relevant content on your site is always a good start. Keep updating your content and tweak your meta-tags. But I was speaking to someone online the other day who advocated getting a list of the sites with a PageRank of either 10 or 9 and link to them by leaving comments on these sites' blogs, forums and so on. That then creates a trackback so you will end up having a link to a PageRank 10/9 site. That apparently pushes up your PageRank finally. I'm not sure of the ethics of doing this (in fact my gut tells me it is not allowed). Can anyone clarify the rules on this? Is it ethical / allowed to try to link to a high PageRank site in order to boost your own site's PageRank? But just out of pure interest, I Googled to see if anyone had posted a list of websites with a PageRank of 9 or 10. Lo and behold! We have results! Labels: google, pagerank, SEO |
