I was at home on Sunday, just relaxing and decided to check my inbox and saw this email from a fellow blogger:
“Please can you tell me the secret of your Google page rank and natural traffic. Thanks“
I’ve been asked countless times how my blog attained a Google page rank of 5/10 in less than a year (My web forum that is less than four months old also has a pagerank of 6/10). My former blog (www.capriofiles.com) was started in 2009 and this very one you’re reading is just a year old. I could attain a page rank of 5/10 and alexa global traffic rank of about 150,000 in less than a year because of the little experience I had with my first blog. I had to delete that blog and focus solely on this because I realized I could do much better with just a blog. Anyway, I replied the email as follows:
“The major secret is original contents coupled with one way backlinks plus right use of keywords. When I started out, I registered in lots of forums (that allow URLs in profile) and commented on lots of blogs with higher page rank. That, combined with original and well researched contents improves page rank and search engine traffic and increases your alexa global traffic rank in the process. It might take months or even a year before you see a tangible effect, but just keep building your backlinks (one way backlinks) and be sure to emphasize on the keywords you think people would type in google search when writing your blog posts.
http://www.doncaprio.com/2011/
You can check out that post. Everything there practically works for me.
Assuming you’re writing a post on “How to rob a bank,” you must let that phrase or similar ones like “how to steal in a bank” appear in your article as many times as you can, perhaps five to ten times or so because that is just what anyone would type into google search box.
If only I had been writing my blog posts the way I do now right from the start, I would have had much more traffic and a higher alexa traffic rank. But remember, it’s always original content, right choice of keywords and one-way backlinks that increases your google pagerank, search engine traffic and eventually, a better alexa trafic rank“
Yes, those are the three most important things to put in mind when thinking of increasing your blog’s google page rank and alexa global traffic rank but for the purpose of clarification, I’ll explain each of these one after the other.
1. Original, Quality and Well Researched Contents
I’m sure you might have heard this before but do you actually know what it means? I’ve seen a lot of new bloggers use articles on other blogs word for word, thinking its a cheap way to get traffic but hurting their very own pagerank in the process. Google has a way of differentiating between original content from copied one and you’ll definitely sink lower in search engine result page if you’re the type that relies on contents from other blogs. The last Google panda update 2.5 focused heavily on plagiarism, poor contents, black hat SEO and lots of big sites with high page rank sank.
A friend using autoblogging software disappeared from SERP and so many others got affected. There was some kind of general fluctuation in traffic but I’ve noticed an increase in traffic since. When google realizes your site content is copied from somewhere else, you lose relevance in search engine result page and start missing out on search engine traffic. So, the bottom line is writing original and well research content that gives you not only a higher page rank, but also gains you credibility with your readers.
I should also add this: you don’t expect to come up in google search result with a blog post of just one hundred words. Your post must be long enough to be called a real article. Writing short contents won’t increase your page rank or drive in any meaningful traffic form search engines.
2. Choice of Keywords and Moderate Use
Apart from writing original contents, it’s also important to know the right keywords to use that’s going to drive in traffic from search engines. Like I said earlier, if you’re going to write a blog post on how to rob a bank, you must be sure to include that phrase in your article and similar ones such as ‘how to steal in a bank’ and so on. You should let this appear in your article as many times as possible but it seems google now has a way of punishing excessive use of keywords. You must be moderate about it but you also must be sure you pick the right keywords to use in each article.
A few weeks back, I wrote a post that went viral and drove in lots of traffic, with almost 600 facebook likes in just a couple of weeks, and I took time to study how I wrote that blog post and realized what made it go viral was the proper use of keywords that drove in mad search engine traffic which will definitely have a huge impact on my alexa global ranking in about a month or so. The phrases used in that blog post was exactly what people were searching for on google.
Using Google analytics will give you a better insight on keywords and I suggest you start using this if you haven’t.
3. Building Quality Backlinks
I won’t talk much about this because I have an article that already covers it. Building quality backlinks is an efficient search engine optimization method that’s definitely fool proof. It’s an important way to increase your page rank and one of the algorithms google considers in SERP. For more info on this, please read this post.
One important this you must know in order to increase your traffic, google page rank and alexa traffic rank is that although these things are different from one another, they are still interrelated one way or the other. Focus on improving your blog by writing quality and original content with good choice of keywords and you’ll realize your google page rank drives more search engine traffic which in turn increases your alexa traffic rank. Happy blogging!
Wooow, doncaprio i must confess i love what you just explained here, i really appreciate it but its this all to how you got ur high pagerank? Please be sincere
You are just one in a million boss
@Glo. unless I omitted some trivial things, I wrote the post with all sincerity. that's all
@Okaztle. you're welcome
Don't Mention, You're More Than A Million Beings
Great Tips! Thanks
i'm a newbie blogger. i wrote quality, original contents, but unfortunately… my blog was removed from backlinks genius. i even complied writing articles which backlinks genius suggested on their most wanted keywords..
to grow your blog,please posting article everyday,,jiah..sok inggris gua.
Thank you for the insights. I started a year ago with my 1st post on 11/28/2010. I had no idea how to measure results, how to effectively run my blog. I did research but eventually it was info overload. About a month ago, it all seem to resonate for me. I decided to give myself a challenge to see if I really understood what my tiny audience wants to receive from me. The 1st 30 days ended just today with success in my mind. My tiny traffic doubled to small. This month I hope small increases to medium. My Alexa went from 1.4 mil to 592k. PR went from 0 to 1. I enjoy my topic and seek to find others who share my interests. Your insights are very helpful and I hope to continue my climb. Cheers to you.
@Shonda. I'm glad the post was of help to you. Wishing you all the best
@Jen. You're very welcom
@Simmons. You can always build your backlink through some other means
@Baphomet. You're very right. Consistency also matters a lot.
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Awesome advice. Bit of off topic query but wondering how you can get traffic from a certain area? Why I ask is because even though gametrender.net is mildly succesful I have no traffic from Africa! I'm originally South African now living in London and it irritates me a bit that my home continent just doesn't read me! USA; UK even obscure countries like Malaysia , but not one African reader! Gametrender is all about smartphones-and I know I haven't been home in 10 years but you can't tell me that no-one from the Rainbow nation owns an Iphone or Android!
Of course they do. I, for example, am a Nigrian and use a Symbian smartphone. Perhaps it because you've been away for almost a decade like you pointed out….Nigerians are more in love with Blackberry and Symbian smartphones than Android and maybe it's the same in South Africa but I'm only speculating though.
nice tips, thanks for sharing
Very informative, this will definitely help lot of people like me. Thanks…..
I got what you convey, thanks for swing up. Woh I am willing to find this website finished google. Thanks For Share How To Increase Your Blog’s Google Page Rank And Alexa Global Rank | The 9ja Geek's Journal.
Interesting post : There are many techniques include on page and off page which you can use to improve for your web page ranking, on page SEO activities like, meta tags, title tags, description and off page activities like directory submission, blog commenting, Article posing, forum posing etc . You can also improve ranking by using social media, popular social media like face book, twitter, LinkedIn. By using social media you can perform these activities like book marking, link sharing. By using these all techniques, you can improve your web page ranking. thank’s Mr.DON CAPRIO
Thanks for that highly informative comment
Hello!
Thanks so much for writing this article. I’m in the process of trying to figure out how to better my blog and get a better ranking. It takes a lot of time to post in forums, so generally I do blog post commenting, but not spamming. I need to understand more about the back linking and keywords. I have google analytics, but there’s a lot of information there. Do you have any tips on the keyword portion of that site?
I’m more used to the old google analytics interface. From overview > top content > entrance keywords. you should find it there
Hi Don,
Interesting post! Noticed you did not mention Facebook or Twitter to get your rank which are hugely popularly promoted to increase ranking.
Yes, thanks for the addition, Sooreneccs. Google +1 too can never be left out as social media is even becoming more relevant to increasing page rank.
I’m in the process of trying to figure out how to better my blog and get a better rankings!
This is a list of blogs accepting guest posts arranged according to their PageRanks. These blogs are related to the Blogging Tips, SEO, WordPress etc. niche. These high PageRank blogs accept guest posts. So if you are interested in contributing guest posts to blogs then you will find this list to be useful.
Thank you. nicely explained.
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thanx again for your very important post
Nice tips bOss…i really need to spend time here.
Thank you so much for sharing those informations. I will give a try and see what will happen. Cheers…
Hey DON i wanna know that my website ranked PR2 1 month before but i do not see any changes now.
What i should i do.
btw nice post i must say!
Thanks
You’re welcome
PR may remain constant for a long time or even drop due to certain changes in Google’s algorithm. I even experienced a drop from 5 to 4 recently.
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An easy way to improve traffic which I hardly see is submitting your feed url to a news aggregation website. This site gets the title of your stories and sometimes summary and then link back to you to get the full story.
I average 500 views per story on my blog http://www.arsenaleffect.com just from arsenalnews.net.
For those that run football blogs, check http://www.kicknews.net. There is also http://www.naijasites.com.ng which is for strictly Nigerian sites and blogs. Then if you can get on http://www.newsnow.co.uk, you are game.
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nice post, i’ll try. Thanks.
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Nice post Don.
I have found an interesting tool to check PR, backlinks etc, http://www.pagerank.eu.com/
Thanks pak..very useful tips
Great post sir
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Thanks for the tips . . .
Whenever i check my page rank it shows 0/10 plz help me on how to get higher page rank
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If your blog is new, it may take sometime before it gets a pagerank.
Hey Thank You for sharing such informative post. I think its the best one for newbies an pro bloggers to improve their alexa and page rank. Good One keep going. Thumbs Up.
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The pleasure’s mine, Noman. Thanks for dropping by.
Oh thank you kindly for that. I am trying hard to increase the visibility of my blog…A few months ago I even reached over 1000 visits a day but Google Panda threw me way back and really discouraged me. Kisses and txs.
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Panda hurt me too but Penguin was a nice little animal. You have have to keep it right. Thanks as well for dropping by.
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Nice post. The one thing to keep in mind while building link from any site is that how many links are going out to from that site to other site or blogs. Because if the quantity of outgoing links are more from where you making link for your site will be not as good as if you are making a link from site which have very few outgoing links.
That’s a very important point that also needs to be considered seriously. Thanks, Rohit.
Greate pieces. Keep writing such kind of information on your page.
Im really impressed by your blog.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts about seo tips.
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i know i am late for this information, but must admit it that never late to learn, thank you for the knowledge, just newbie in how to increasing my page rank
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Thanks for your advices. I will try it, and I hope I can get a better ALEXA Rank as soon as possible. Have a nice days… ^_^
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Important post!Many good points raised especially writing original content
Google is now paying a lot of attention to social bookmark sites and links since the Panda updates
So it is important to make each post go viral as such.The more social links the higher and quicker the page rank
Thanks and hoping this helps newer bloggers
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Very Informative tips. Thanks a lot for this post!
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Thanks for the tips. I will try to my blog.
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Keep enlightening us new bloggers !
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Nice explanation,
I tried to make backlinks from pagerank 2 sites but, Alexa not showing that site, I think thats because I have not installed Their toolbar or not showing their widget. So their algorithm not catching that backlinks.
Can you give the free high PR forum names as you mantioned where we can put our backlinks. ?
Thanks
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It takes a while before they detect your backlinks, it may take some months.
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Yes, that’s exactly the point.