Well, several bloggers and webmasters are reporting to have observed a Pagerank update on their blog/website. This is probably another one of those official Google Pagerank updates that takes place usually after every 3-4 months. Most bloggers seem to be happy with the new Pagerank update and apparently it looks like Google is no more interested in cutting down the Pagerank of blogs that sell paid links.
Since Google started penalizing publishers and advertisers for manipulating their technology, Google Pagerank seems to have lost its importance as a vital topic of discussion and interest.
Now most bloggers and webmasters don’t really seem to care about Pagerank and discussions about Google Pagerank are nowhere to be seen anymore. However this does not mean that Google Pagerank has no importance at all. It is still used by Google as a tool to mark the popularity of your blog and give you a search engine ranking position (SERP) accordingly.
Tips to Increase your Google Pagerank
Here are some random short-tips to help your increase your blog/website Pagerank
- Build a lot of backlinks
- Use very less outbound links on your posts/web pages
- Use the rel=”nofollow” tag with every outbound link
- Have a W3C Markup validated code
Currently I have taken some strict measures to keep my blog high on Google SERPs and it is paying quite well so far. I have not seen any increase in the Google Pagerank and it is still at 5 but as long as I am high on Google SERPs, the Google Pagerank is not such a big thing to worry about.
“It is still used by Google as a tool to mark the popularity of your blog and give you a search engine ranking position (SERP) accordingly”
Google does not use PR for its SERPs, but some algorithms similar to the ones used for PR is part of SERPs.
“Use the rel=”nofollow” tag with every outbound link”
Then others will do the same, and guess what happens? This goes wrong:
“Build a lot of backlinks”
Thanks for the information update, great to know!
@Sumesh
1. Actually there is no way in which you can say with 100% confidence that Google uses Pagerank for SERPs or an algorithm that is similar to Pagerank.
As we are not aware of that “algorithm similar to Pagerank” so we say that its indeed the Pagerank thats affecting the SERPs
2. Well, I know if everyone starts linking sites with rel=”nofollow” tag that will make a no-backlinks situation on the Internet. But for the bloggers concerned about their blog SEO it is definitely a good tip.
When you say, “Use very less outbound links on your posts/web pages”, do you mean all those archive and category links on the front page of most blogs are a bad thing? And how about filter blogs like Instapundit, Kottke, etc. that do mostly external linking?
@DJ: I have heard Matt Cuts saying that Page rank is not that important for SERP. Probably thats the reason Even though I lost my Pagerank 5 I did not lost my traffic.
Tipping with adding rel=nofollow is pretty bad idea. If you would say reduce it I can agree in order to maintain more of internal juice than external. If you give vote to something good Google should be happy about it.
There is a saying in selling. Tell more to sell more. If you give more you will get it back. I guess thats one more reason Darren gets so many links and he never stops if he doesn’t get it also.
I really want my 3 to become a 4 but don’t think it will happen.
Will Google let us know when the official roll out is finished?
@Patrix
Archives and Categories are local links so they do not count for outbound links
@Ashish
I must say you have cleared things up quite well. Thanks for sharing the information. Thanks!
@Forest Parks
Google never officially announces about a Pagerank update.
My blog increased to a Pagerank of 5. It was 0 previously. Hehe
@Fahad
Congrats! a high pagerank is always a step towards success.
It is March 14th and I’m starting to see some different numbers on page rank checker at iweb. Is the update still happening? I’m not sure how long an update takes.