how do i get a high page ranking on google?

craftycash · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 26

hey i have the site named CraftyCash and my page ranking is a 4. how does it get higher? ( actually how did i make it a 4 ? )

Corey Bryant · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:53 am

You might check out Search Engine Optimization for Site Owners and Small Businesses for starters.

Having quality content is a good start - and fresh content. Some also say having compliant code is another option as well. And some say don't use spam words - like free, mortage, viagra, etc. Any words like that will make some SEs take a second look at your site

Matt Cutt's Blog is another good blog.

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craftycash · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 26

so if i have a site like craftycash.net how would i not use the word free?

Corey Bryant · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:39 pm

Use it - but don't over-use it.

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rajweb · Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 14

Very few topics have inspired as many tangents, as much false information . . . incurred as much abuse as search engine optimization. With the few shreds of information search engines reveal about their actual methodologies, optimizers struggle to get that extra edge over the competition, armed with esoteric theories of keyword density, precise meta-tag length, optimal internal linking, and just about any other detail that a search engine might happen to factor into its rankings. Before you find yourself scrambling to create ten more content-less pages to avert that worst than death curse of decreased PageRank, try to take a look at the big picture. Barring design factors that may not be search engine friendly, a strong foundation based on four factors will give your site good success. These factors are the holy grail of optimization:

1. Get relevant links to your site anchored to keyword rich text.
2. Write focused body text that targets specific keyphrases or that is focused on a specific topic (This occurs naturally when someone is communicating useful information. This can be a problem because a lot of businesses donâ€™t have anything useful to say. Be detailed. Be helpful. This can naturally accomplish what automatic text generators try to accomplish through keyword density and keyword proximity calculations).
3. Write concise titles focused on useful keyphrases.
4. Be patient. You may not be using the best strategies, but youâ€™re using strategies that work over time. Continue to get links and create more content.

Find the Words

Before you can write good, keyphrase-focused body text or titles, you need to find the phrases users search. For good keyword suggestion tools, search Google with (surprise, surprise) â€œkeyword suggestion tool.â€ Digitalpoint.com has an excellent tool that compares Wordtracker and Overture keyword results. Judge from the search volume how competitive each word is (not even close to the best method, but itâ€™ll have to due). Be specific. Pick words with large search volume and search with geographic terms if you serve only a specific area. From the list of keyphrases, start thinking about the topics youâ€™ll want to target. Find a few phrases for each page in your site. Remember to focus on phrases and not separate words â€“ make sure these phrases appear in your body text.

Web Site Titles

HTML titles go between the title tags in your siteâ€™s code. Write short titles that use one or two keyphrases. Donâ€™t use the name of your company unless you are trying to brand the name. Include location if you target certain areas, and make sure your pages repeat this location information in the text. Your body text should be written to fit the phrases in your title.

Body Text and Navigation

Be specific about what you are talking about. In your navigation donâ€™t use generic linking text like â€œhomeâ€ or â€œabout us.â€ Use specific phrases. Instead of â€œhomeâ€ use the name or category of your main service/product, and make it obvious from the context that this is your main page. Instead of â€œabout usâ€ use a phrase like â€œA (main product/service) Company.â€ This communicates more information to the user and includes a keyphrase. Where appropriate, make the same type of substitutions in the body text. Use variations of nouns and verbs, including plurals and different conjugations.
If you can, use the heading tags (h1, h2, etc.) to write text titles. Try to communicate as much as you can in text â€“ search engines donâ€™t see the text in images, or fancy media like Flash. Alt tags are useful, but search engines donâ€™t put as much weight on them as visible text. In general, whatever has a greater chance to be seen by the user is going to get greater weight from the search engines (Except for those things produced by JavaScript, or Flash, or written into an image â€“ use common sense).

Build Links

It is remarkably easy to get your site indexed by the search engines â€“ just submit to some of the many free directories. To find some of these directories search for â€œfree directory listâ€ in Google. Be careful to read submission guidelines, and be very careful about what you submit to large directories like DMOZ. Generally, titles should not be a list of keywords. Most directories only want your homepage and the â€œofficial titleâ€ (somewhat ambiguous term) of your site with a short description. Descriptions should be factual, and they should be written in complete sentences or meaningful phrases. Some optimization companies will rip you off by charging you money to submit your site to the major search engines â€“ this is a waste of time. Start building links, and the search engines will find your site naturally, submitting makes no difference in your rankings.

It is important to get links from sites that are related to yours. Write webmasters requesting a link, find niche sites that offer free submissions, write articles for sites that allow you to put down a signature link, or post comments in forums that allow you to put down your signature.

If you exchange links, be careful who you trade with. Get listed wherever you want without fear of penalty from the search engines, but be careful who you link to.

It Never Ends

Expand your site and continue to tell people about its content. Itâ€™s an ongoing process. The older your site gets, the more credibility it can gain with the search engines. Keep your content fresh. Check the search engines to see what they have indexed (search site:www.domain.com). Be patient and keep up with search engine changes
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mrLenin · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 25

One of the most important factors that influence the search engine ranking of your site is the number of backlinks you have. Almost every search engine takes the number of backlinks into account while evaluating and ranking your site in the SERPs. The number of backlinks is the most important factor for ranking well in Google. Have doubts? Just type the key phrase â€œclick hereâ€ in Google and check the first site that shows up in the search results. It does not have the keyword â€œclick hereâ€ in its title, nor in its description, its meta keywords and most surprisingly not even in the body of the content. Then why does it rank number one in Google out of 1,190,000,000 webpages that are there in the competition ? This is because at the time of writing this article, that very webpage has 1,150,000 backlinks pointing to it and all the links have the word â€œclick hereâ€ as its anchor text.
Ways to create backlinks:

Blogs â€“ One of the best ways of creating one-way links for your site is through the posting of comments in blogs. Just include the URL of your site while posting comments in blogs and soon you will build a good many number of one-way links for your site.

Forums â€“ Posting in forums is also an excellent way for building backlinks. But don't post your URL directly in the discussion boards or else the spam busters would get you banned and removed from the forum. The best way to do it is through your signature. Include the URL of your site in your signature and then whenever you post a comment in the forum you will be leaving behind a link to your site along with your name.

Social Networks â€“ Since the evolution of WEB2.0 social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, Tagworld etc are the hottest zones on the Internet today. Millions of people visit these sites daily for making friends or for promoting their products or services. You may also register at such sites and post links to your site along with the comments that you make at your friend's profile. In this way you may create large number of backlinks for your site.

Social Bookmarking â€“ Social bookmarking is another area where you could create one-way links to your site. Just bookmark your sites in social bookmarking sites like Delicious and if your site is interesting enough, others will add your site to their list of bookmarked sites and soon you will garner a large number of one-way links for your site.

Articlesâ€“ You may write articles on various topics and post them in article sites such as this one and include the URL of your site in the resource box or in the author's bio section. There are many sites which frequently publish articles from various such article sites and along with the article they also publish the author's bio which contains the link to your site. If your article is informative and intriguing, then it will soon be published in many other sites and newsletters. This way you will have a large number of backlinks pointing to your site.

Press Releaseâ€“ As soon as you some up with a new feature on your website, do a press release on it. Press releases are very efficient for website promotion and also for creating oodles of one-way links. Write a press release about any unique feature of your site and submit the release in various press release sites. Press release sites regularly syndicate their content through RSS and Atom feeds and many leading news sites fetch their content from all these press release sites. So you may expect a very good response from doing a single press release.

Directories â€“ Submit you website in as many web directories as you can. These web directories attract a large number of visitors daily and so you may get a good number of visitors from such directories. Submission in directories also helps in building quality backlinks for your website. Consider submitting your website in leading web directories such as Dmoz.org

Link exchange â€“ Though it is a very old method for building traffic and backlinks, link exchange still works. Exchange links with quality and relevant sites for building backlinks.

Always try to use your targeted keywords in the anchor text of your backlinks as search engines lay much emphasis on the anchor text of links pointing to your site.

The above mentioned methods will help you build umpteen number of backlinks for your site. But always remember that the content of your site is what really matters. Concentrate on making exceptionally good content and others will voluntarily link to your site.

samoliver · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 1

Google Page rank is based on back links. Back links are Links pointing to your website from another website. The more back links you have the higher your PR will be.

1. Join forums, forums are a great way to achieve links to your website. In most forums you are allowed to have a signature and in your signature you can put a link to your website. But another important note to look on is making sure the forum is somewhat related to your website. You will still get credit if it's not, but if it's related to your website than you will be accomplishing two tasks at once.

You will be advertising for your website (bringing in targeted traffic) You will also be building your websites presence.

Your websites presence is very important to your survival. The more people see, or hear about your website the more credibility you will have and this increases your chances of having these visitors come back and possibly become leads.

2. Submit to search engine directories. Search engine directories are a good way to get a free link to your website. They also increase your chances at being listed higher on popular search engines like Google, and overture.

Most search engine directories allow you to submit to their website for free. This will allow you to increase your web presence by being listed on another search engine, and it will also be a free link.

Remember the more links you have the higher your PR will be

3. Using ezine ads (or newsletters). Creating an ezine will probably be the most beneficial step you can take to increasing your web presence. When you create an ezine you will be able to keep visitors coming back to your website for more by using signatures and giving special deals.

Ezine's will also allow you to increase your back links. By creating an ezine you can submit your information about your ezine to an ezine directory. This directory will than link to your website(thus giving you a free link).

4. Creating and publishing articles. Articles are an easy source of generating new traffic. You can include your signature in your article. This will bring in more traffic from article submission directories.

Your signature usually consists of 4 to 8 lines. Usually the first line would be the title of the website that you are trying to advertise. The last line would be the link to the website and the lines in between these would be a sales pitch to draw your viewers into your website.

5. Links from related websites. Gaining links from related websites can be one of the most frustrating tasks you can attempt.

Tom Andersen · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 20

Setup accounts with social media site and submit your blog posts to them. StumbleUpon, Twitter, MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, Technorati, LinkedIn, Digg, Multiply, Squidoo, Hubpages to name just a few.

Google following terms:
Blog submit
Social media marketing
blog marketing

Done well a social media campaign can result in increased brand exposure, thousands of new website visitors and natural links to your site. In turn this will increase those all important search engine rankings for your target keywords, not to mention yoru PageRank.

aiyna · Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 1

The minimum requirement is to make sure that each page has plenty of useful, unique content that is relevant to the category are submitting to. It might also pay off to keep a brief cooling off period in between submissions. Never, ever even attempt to get all of the pages on 00-page site into ODP.

coolvats · Joined: 18 Jan 2009 Posts: 16

Vats thakur says: This is because of your content and may be of your domain seniority.

RunnerRob · Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Posts: 12

if you got to PR 4 without even trying i can tell you there are a lot of webmasters out here who would like to get a PR of 4! that's really not bad at all.

ganeshseg · Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 2

Your Site is PR 4, if you increase your site page rank to post good contents and trying to get more back links its more help's to increasing your page rank.

stevie teever · Joined: 12 Jun 2009 Posts: 2

Your Site is PR 4, if you increase your site page rank to post good contents and trying to get more back links its more help's to increasing your page rank.[/quote]
i agree with this..
but i want to add something in this that to inc. page rank back links should be from relevant category effect more in as compare to other category...

colleentyler · Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 5

I think you should follow seo on page and off page work,It works get more back links and good page ranking...

giorgioanne · Joined: 20 Jun 2009 Posts: 3