Directories are a Good Source for Backlinks
What are backlinks?
According to Wikipedia:
Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page. In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node (Björneborn and Ingwersen, 2004). Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.
What are the benefits of backlinks?
The two key benefits of backlinks are Traffic and Google PageRank. If you use backlinks correctly you should see some quality traffic coming to your site. I mean the link should be placed on a related and popular website and visiable to all. You can either buy a text link( anti Google PageRank) or you can also participate in Web2.0 to make your links visible.
Page Rank and Backlinks movements… Is it Coming earlier than excepted?
We waited months and months for a PageRank update now it seems it could be the 2nd in 3 months which will of catch everyone off guard, but there’s nothing confirmed yet but Problogger and Dailyblogtips have mentioned it, with Dailyblogtips seeing his other website DailyBits jumping from a PR2 to PR 4.
9 Blog Rankings and How to Manipulate-Part Two
This is the part 2 of the series, where we look into blog rankings and how to manipulate them. so far we have looked at BlogCatalog, Alexa, Technorati Favorites and our traffic statistics and we found that generally these are easy to manipulate, but todays list are much harder and need more work. Read more
9 Blog Rankings and How to Manipulate-Part One
We know in the Blogosphere there’s many ways to rank a website and we see their authority according to this ranking system, but if you look at the many types of ranking tools out there most of them can be manipulated in some way, so which one’s can be trusted?
Is PageRank coming? And who cares?
That’s the million dollar question… since I wrote about PageRank back on 25th July and my prediction the PageRank will be around end July to early August 2007 which was based on the 2 years worth of data from Google. But at that time the days went by then became weeks until I forgot about the latest update…. But we all agree its clearly long over due.
Then suddenly Bryan Clark of onemansgoal mentioned he got his first PageRank (Rank 5) which appeared then disappeared as fast, I was excited again to search to see if the PageRank machine was calculating again. So I went though my 70 or so blogs that I regularly follow to see if any other bloggers had any surges in there PageRank as Bryan had.
Increase your Reader participation add the Do-follow
With the introduction of the “nofollow “ by Google in 2005, Most popular blog platforms have added it to its comments and reader submitted links which in turn has affected the participation of many bloggers to leave comments on other peoples blogs. Many bloggers believe in the removal of this “nofollow” rule.
What is “Nofollow”?
As mentioned, Google started this in 2005 to reduce the effectiveness of spam, therefore improving quality of search engine results and overall reduction of spam. It was designed by Blogger.com and basically it removed the value of Page rank from the link.
Google PageRank Coming Soon!
I hope you’ve already started thinking about the next Google PageRank update! At its very near, there is no exact date but though history its any time now, but we can get an estimated date by using the history of the last few updates, you can see typically its every 2.5 to 3 months as shown below:
• April 27, 2007
• January 25, 2007
• January 10, 2007
• September 28, 2006
• July 13, 2006
• April 4, 2006
• February 18, 2006
• December 19, 2005
• October 19, 2005
• July 14, 2005
For the newbies or experienced webmasters around lets begin with the basics.
What is PageRank?
Page rank was born in 1997 by two people attending Stanford University named Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. The formula to calculating what a PageRank is derived from the following:
• The number of pages linking to the page in question
• The PageRank of the pages linking to the page in question
• The Number of links going out from the pages that are linking to the page in question
Now after understanding more about PageRank let’s look into how to be prepared for the day to come.
How to prepare for the PageRank update?
One of the first things that you can do is use the D-list, this is a list of blogs that have the “do follow” plug-in installed, that means simply leaving a comment on the site will count to google, so don’t forget to add your URL to the comment. This is one of the easiest ways and will get you started on the PageRank climb.
This DoFollow Blog list is courtesy of Courtney Tuttle and was created originally by Coleen as the D-List.
Another way would be submitting your site/blog to site directories and there are thousands out there, most are free so stick with the free ones as paying is not worth it. You will not get into every single directory but if you get into half you should be able to increase your PageRank as some Directories are PR 5 or more.
Try addURL they have around 1000 directories to pick from.
Index every page of your homepage and where possible add more pages to your site as typically Google will give different PageRank to different pages within your website. As all pages do have some amount of PageRank , using these will add to your homepage overall ranking.
Backlinks will help to increase the PageRank too, for this check out 102 ways to make your site a backlink superstar, or how to get back links there really not much else I can add to these two articles.
Conclusion
Are you ready?
Some of the suggestions I have given can’t be done in a day or two and as the next PageRank exercise is coming soon, you may only be able to do a few, so start to prepare for the next PageRank in 3months time.
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