25 Ways To Increase Your Blog’s PageRank

One way to increase traffic to your blog, while at the same time adding a bit of SEO, is to make sure it has a High PageRank.

What is PageRank, you ask? 

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page, and is used by the Google Internet search engine to assign a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" the Web page's relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. 

So what does that all mean? 

It means that Google, and other search engines, use a mathematical algorithm(PageRank) to calculate how relevant your Web page is to the content it is presenting. You do not have to know how, exactly, PageRank is calculated, just how to work with it. 

There are numerous methods and techniques for improving PageRank. The following list comprises of 25 ways that anyone owning a Web page, or Web site, can accomplish to raise their PageRank and well as optimizing it for SEO too.

25 Ways To Increase Your Blog's PageRank:

1. Make a habit of posting to your blog on a regular basis.
2. Choose a proper theme for your blog. Make sure your theme works with your content, do not pick a theme for a news site if you are operating an ecommerce site selling jewelry. 
3. Select a topic for posting, then write it in a several parts.  Release each part on a timed basis to keep the interested readers returning for more.
4. Optimize your blog so that it loads faster.  Use a theme testing Web site to make sure your theme is running optimally, use only the necessary plugins, delete any inactive plugins, and use a database optimizing plugin to keep your database running smoothly. Visitors will become annoyed, sitting idle, while your blog page loads.
5. Blog about out breaking news as soon as it happens. People rather get their news from one place, instead of hunting and pecking for it all over the Web. If you become their news source, they will return again, and again.
6. Make sure to use pertinent keywords in the body of your content. Placing keywords strategically in your articles will increase the chance that your content is retrieved when a search is made.
7. Encourage commenting on your blog. Highlight the most relevant comments, and commenters, on your blog and give them a prominent position on your post pages. It is important to manage your comments as they are posted, do not delay.
8. Submit your blog to the appropriate announcement services.  This can be accomplished automatically with each post by configuring your blog's settings or using a plugin.
9. Enable your RSS feed.  This is easily done within the blog's settings.
10. One popular service for announcing your blog posts, is the Ping-O-Matic service. There are many similar type services available, so select one that makes sense to you. Ping-O-Matic type services update different search engines each time your blog is updated.
11. Include an email subscription button and form. Allowing visitors to receive email alerts on a regular basis, or as your blog is updated will definitely increase activity.
12. Create a signature/profile you can use, like gravatar or facebook for example, and comment on other blogs. This will introduce your blog in the blogger community. Use the same profile each time you make a comment anywhere on the Web, and make sure to keep your profile updated.
13. Write reviews about other successful blogs, and link to them in your post. This is part of making your blog an authority on the subject matter you chose.
14. Make sure to include your blog’s URL as part of your email signature, and for any social networking profiles you might have. Any place that makes sense for you to include the URL of your blog, do it.
15. Include a way for users to easily add your blog posts to their social networking Web sites, bookmarks and other shared content. A referral from a known source, such as a friend, goes a long way when it comes to driving traffic.
16. Have an opinion when you write your blog posts. Nobody wants to read about someone who always takes the middle road, that is just boring.
17. Promote the topmost posts in the your blog. Choose them on the basis of post views, ratings, amount of comments, etc. There is a reason these posts were popular, so use them to your advantage.
18. Upgrade your blog's “previous” and “next” post buttons with a more robust navigation system.  Use a plugin that adds a paginated navigation system. This will help users to quickly, and easily, navigate through your blog.
19. Build up as many inbound links in your blog as possible. These are called backlinks. These backlinks help Web visitors easily find your blog and increase your PageRank.
20. Install a statistic tracking software like Google Analytics, or something similar to keep statistics on your visitors, incoming searches, links to your blog and more. There are many plugins that will connect just about any major statistic tracking software to a blog, and most of them are free.
21. Use images in your posts. People love images, and they can add to the effectiveness of your blog posts. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words!
22. Add a translation widget to your blog so that visitors from all over the world may read your posts, and become a part of your blog's community.
23. When you are not blogging, keep on the lookout for things to blog about. Things your read about, conversations you have, the things you think about all have the potential to become great blogs posts. Always stay in the game.
24. Spelling and grammatical errors are a no no. You will lose a lot of readers if you don't use the spell check.(As I point this out, I am sure this post will be scrutinized for spelling errors. LOL)
25. Keep your blog description and keywords up to date.  A minimum monthly review of these items is mandatory.

While this is not a complete list of methods for acquiring a high PageRank, it is a great start.  Once you have each of the 25 list items completed, you'll have been exposed to the process and many other methods for improving your PageRank will become apparent. If you have any other, easy to accomplish techniques for increasing PageRank, please comment below.

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