Increase your Page Rank gradually - Tip 1

The weeks ahead, I’ll be following a series of tips on increasing the page rank for your blogs. Here is the first one.

Yea, I agree Page Rank is not considered important these days in SEO, and it only will help you probably in selling off your site.
(Beginner’s tip - Having a  higher Page Rank will not help you in anyway to rank higher than your competitor on Google search results.)

Yet, there are lot of bloggers who take pride in showing off their Google PR to their visitors. They can’t be blamed. After all, Google Page rank does give you some kind of authority, and it’s glorifying to see the green bar fill up for your site. Isn’t it?
So if you are one of them, here is a tip for today.

Step 1
If you have a blog roll/ Sites I visit/ My friends list on your side panels, take a real good look at them.

Step 2
Count the number of links there. If you have lot of friends, probably you are linking to all of them. I’ve seen guys having like 40 plus outgoing links(links to other sites).

Step 3
See how many incoming links you have on Google and Google Blog search. (Worry not! Here’s how you do it)
- Go to www.google.com and search with this query link:www.yourblog.com,
It will show you the number of incoming links you have.
- Go to http://blogsearch.google.com and search with the same query.
It will return the number of blogs linking to you.
Now, take a combine number of both this and note the number.

Step 4
Now compare the number of incoming links you have to the number of outgoing links(in the blogroll) by dividing using this formula.

Link Juice = Number of incoming links/ Number of outgoing links

Step 5
If your link juice is less than 1, you are in a bad position.
If your link juice is more than 1, you are okay. Actually if it is a higher number, the better.

So if you have your “Link juice” less than 1, then cut down the number of outgoing links from your blogroll to make the ratio(Link Juice) more than 1.

The whole idea is to keep your outgoing links number lower than your incoming links. While it’s alright to have outgoing links to relevant resources (like the Wikipedia) in your posts, posting links in your template (blogroll) can drastically reduce your link juice.

So that’s the first step to increasing your page rank. Watch out for step 2.

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