One of the most talked about phrases with regards to websites is ‘PageRank’. PageRank is Google’s little green score between 0 and 10, showing how important or powerful a website really is.
Now before we go on we should explain that PageRank isn’t important. It’s not the size of your PageRank that is important, it’s what you do with it (kinda catchy that!). How green your bar is has little reflection on your website’s rankings within search engines, yet so many people are still obsessed by it. They want a bigger PageRank, certainly bigger than their competitors’ PR.
You should also realise that there is a difference between your Toolbar PR and your REAL PageRank. The PageRank shown in the Toolbar is just a snapshot in time of what your PageRank was. Google updates this very rarely, sometimes just a few times per year, so don’t expect to see your Toolbar PR increase overnight – it will take months (unless of Google updates it tomorrow, depends when you’re reading this really).
So, how do you increase your PageRank? Here are some tips to do just that.
- Links – PageRank is all about links to your website, and pages on your website. The more links you have, the better. These links should be (more…)