If you’ve just started your own website in order to make money from home, it takes awhile before your Page Rank begins to climb. Page Rank is important, because the more popular your site becomes, the higher the page rank. If you are ever interested in sellling your website, the higher the page rank, the higher the value you can place on the site.
When it comes to selling advertising on your website, page rank is important. The higher the page rank, the more money you can charge for ad space. Here’s a link to a Google Page Rank Checker, where you can plug in your website URL and find out your page rank.
So, how to get your page rank to go up? Well, there are lots of things you can do, but remember, it takes time. Using a list such as the one below can be a help to you. Every day, do SOMETHING to try to get your website name out there.
A few options:
Comment on other websites and blogs – Try to concentrate first on sites that are within the same niche (topic) as your own site. Go over and read the site, then leave a comment on the article. Make sure that your comment actually has something to contribute to the article, this is very important.
Don’t leave spammy comments! This will do two things:
First, the likelihood of even getting your comment published is low. It will get published automatically if the website owner has their settings set to allow ALL comments to get posted. However, it’s been my experience that most credible website owners moderate their comments, if only to stop these spammy comments from getting through.
Second, who will even be interested in visiting YOUR site via a spammy comment on another site? Think about it – only other spammers will visit you site. That will be so they can leave a spammy comment on your site!
If you have a website that is getting hit by spammers, go into the settings and block their IP address. If you go to the trouble of doing it for every spammer, yes it will take time, but they will not be able to post on your site ever again.
It is a chore to have to moderate every comment, however, in the end, I believe you will have a higher page rank if you do take the time to be sure all comments are on topic with the article topic.
Another way to build quality backlinks is to become involved in forums. Most forums allow you to have a signature line with every post you make. This is a FREE way to promote your own site. Again, make sure what you are contributing to the post applies. When people read your on topic, intelligent post, they are more likely to click on your signature link and visit your site.
Want to find forums related to your website niche? Do a Google search for the list. For example, if you have a jewelry website, search on Google for:
jewelry forums do follow list
This will bring up all the forums in your niche that have “Do follow”s. You want do follows, not no follows.
Another way is to exchange links with other sites within your niche. However, if you have a page rank of 4, why would you exchange links with a site that has a page rank of 2?
You should be reaching out to those websites that have equal or a higher page rank than your own. Of course, you may need to contribute something more to the other website, in order to make your offer attractive to that webmaster. Maybe you could write a post for their site? If they agree, don’t load up your post with even more links to your site. One is enough and you don’t want to upset the other webmaster.
You could also pay for a link on someone’s site. How much this would cost depends on the page rank of the other site. You could try it out for a limited time, say one or two months. Then, figure out (using Google Analytics) how much extra traffic you have received from the other site. That way, you will know whether it is worth it or not to continue paying for a link on a monthly basis.
Another way to promote your site is to buy a signature. What this means is that you can pay a poster for use of his/her signature line. If this person has a lot of posts in a particular forum and is a trustworthy member of the forum, you could reach out to see if they would be willing to have YOUR website link in THEIR signature line. You will have to pay for it, but it can be a great way of promoting your site.
So, there are just a few ways that you can build your own quality backlinks to your website. Try and take advantage of any free way to promote your site.
If you have other ways to build quality backlinks, please leave a comment. And yes, spammy comments are being deleted here on a daily basis, so knock it off! Leave a worthwhile comment and you will see it published!
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