How to Increase Pagerank
Posted on 02. Jan, 2010 by Isaac Yassar in Uncategorized
Truly a classic question, right mate?
As you might already know, this New Year 2010 Google gave us a present: global pagerank update. Alright! I am happy to receive a slight increase of 1 PR, from PR 4 to PR 5.
Actually PR is not a big concern for me, and I don’t think I’ve done much to increase it. However, I will try to give additional points to the classic discussion in this post, based on my PR 5 experience.
Let’s start, shall we?
This is certainly not a conventional guide my friend, and not for newbies either. While there are plenty of things out there that can potentially increase your PR, here, I will only explain two simple things that I believe to be the direct reasons of my PR 5.
Here they go:
1. My Secret Method
I believe this unique method of mine gave me a PR 4 in the past. Well, it’s not that secret any longer because I have written it on a post. Check it out here.
2. Joining Blog Engage
I believe this method is the reason of my PR increase, from 4 to 5. Blog Engage is a dofollow social community. The more you submit your articles there, the more PR juice you can garner. I had been quite active there when I got the PR increase. Check it out here.
That’s it. As far as I can remember, I only did those two things.
However, don’t forget to build good content base because pagerank is originally meant to measure value. The more value your content has, the more PR it should have. Though sometimes it’s not very accurate 
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About Isaac Yassar
I am a part-time blogger who really loves blogging and WordPress.
I always want to be a better blogger and this blog is a journal for it. Read more on my about page.
Dana @ Blogging Update
02. Jan, 2010
Congrats friend, it seems your blog getting better form time to time.
Isaac Yassar
02. Jan, 2010
Thanks Dana. I do try hard to make it better from time to time. I hope someday I can be a full time professional blogger
satrap
02. Jan, 2010
Congrats on getting pr5. I think you deserve it Isaac. You write quality and useful content. Although i don’t have the time to read all of your content (too busy having a day job and running a couple of blogs and cpa …), but anytime i do i enjoy it while i learn something new as well. Thanks
Isaac Yassar
02. Jan, 2010
Thanks satrap. I appreciate it. You are always welcomed here my friend. Feel free to hang around anytime
Telugu movie blog
02. Jan, 2010
By writting unique content and commenting on others blogs will help us in increasing page rank.
i got PR to my blog by doing the same,My blog’s age is 28 days
Isaac Yassar
02. Jan, 2010
If the comment section is dofollow, then it can flow PR juice to increase PR. But most comment sections are usually nofollow by default. They can do no good for PR.
Sushant @ techooze
02. Jan, 2010
congrats now goblogger is a pagerank 5 blog. Mine too got pr1 recently
Isaac Yassar
02. Jan, 2010
Thanks my friend. Congrats for you too
S.Pradeep Kumar
02. Jan, 2010
Yes. I agree with all the points, especially that included “Blog Engage”. Am really addicted to it. Found many people and bloggers of my blog’s niche.. cheers!
Isaac Yassar
02. Jan, 2010
Hi buddy. Yeah, me too. Plenty of lovely folks right there. Good place to hang out.
Nick
03. Jan, 2010
Congrats friend, I agree with the point of Joining to Blog Engage. However, commenting on others blogs will always the best way to increasing page rank.
Isaac Yassar
03. Jan, 2010
Thanks buddy. Do you know that most comment sections are nofollow and nofollow means flowing no PR juice and won’t increase your PR?
Sunil Jain
03. Jan, 2010
Hi Isaac
Congrats for PR5
Being active in any dofollow forum will give you some nice back links , in your case it is WP Forum
I had also liked Blogengage , in fact while i was in my class ,i was just thinking of it and drew a logo for it , meanwhile will work on it and will share with everyone
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Isaac Yassar
03. Jan, 2010
Thanks Sunil. Happy New Year for you too. Good luck!
Ricky
03. Jan, 2010
BE is really helpful to drive quality traffic. I am a big fan of BE
Isaac Yassar
03. Jan, 2010
Yeah, pagerank juice + traffic = a great social community.
Gabe | freebloghelp.com
03. Jan, 2010
Any progression in PR is good news for bloggers. Congrats!
Isaac Yassar
03. Jan, 2010
Thanks Gabe. I appreciate it. I think Google did the update close to New Year in purpose
MrCyberSmart
03. Jan, 2010
Going from a 4 to a 5 is actually a good accomplishment. It seems to me that things get stuck at 4 and Google does not move everyone past that.
The next jump big jump is moving to a 7. Not many of those around.
I was shocked to get a 2 being only a month old. I was not expecting to get anything until next round.
Not an easy task isaac! Grate job and i wish you continued success. “-)
Isaac Yassar
03. Jan, 2010
Thank you my friend. Well, that 7 is quite tough for bloggers, because problogger.net and copyblogger.com are only PR 6. Got to better than those two to earn a 7, say as good as mashable.com
Rose
03. Jan, 2010
Pagerank is irrelevant anymore. What’s Google take on Pagerank? Quoting from the Google FAQ page:
“Don’t worry. In fact, don’t bother thinking about it.”
Isaac Yassar
03. Jan, 2010
Irrelevant for who? For us, probably yes. For Google, I dunno. They told us not to think about it but they still maintain and update it. It sounds fishy to me
Blogging Tips
03. Jan, 2010
Congrats Isaac ! After reading your thanks giving post I too joined Blog Engage.Its a Awesome social community.
Isaac Yassar
03. Jan, 2010
Thanks buddy! That’s a good news. I will see you there soon
element321
03. Jan, 2010
Congrats Issaac!. That’s a great accomplishment!
Isaac Yassar
03. Jan, 2010
Thank you my friend element321. I appreciate it
Tinh
03. Jan, 2010
I got PR4 and PR2 for both blogs I owns. Blogengage is the place I have just joined and hope to get more link juice there, congrats buddy!
Isaac Yassar
03. Jan, 2010
Thanks Tinh. Congrats for you too my friend. Happy joining Blog Engage. It’s a fun place for sure
Ileane @Blogging
03. Jan, 2010
Way to go Isaac! You have a great blog and I enjoy visiting. Blog Engage has been a fantastic way for us to make a connection. I voted for this.
@Ileane
Isaac Yassar
03. Jan, 2010
Thanks Ileane. I really appreciate it. Yeah, I met many new friends via Blog Engage. Truly a wonderful community.
blinkky
04. Jan, 2010
That’s for the tips…My Page Rank didn’t change at all…
Isaac Yassar
04. Jan, 2010
It’s my pleasure blinkky. It’s OK, at least you didn’t get yours reduced. Some people did get their PR reduced, you know.
Keith
04. Jan, 2010
My sites haven’t shown any increase or decrease on this update yet, but I would echo what Rose said, it really doesn’t matter, traffic and community is what matters.
Isaac Yassar
04. Jan, 2010
Well, to be objective, PR probably still matters in some ways (not necessarily for us bloggers). I mean why would Google maintain and update it if it really doesn’t matter any longer? Could they have so much to waste on something irrelevant?
Keith
04. Jan, 2010
It doesn’t matter unless all you have to do is sit around looking at a toolbar.
Seriously, PR exists only so “we” will obsess over getting more of it!
So, since your PR increase, have you seen an abnormal increase in Google search traffic? I would be willing to bet, that the Google search traffic you are getting has an actual pattern, and increases on that pattern. That is because “true” PR (as opposed to the toolbar PR) changes constantly and WE don’t know what it actually is! Why else could your SERP rankings increase in between PR updates?
Isaac Yassar
04. Jan, 2010
I think you forgot the “who” Keith. Doesn’t matter for whom? For you, probably yes. For me? For Google?
Come on buddy, you seriously think PR exists only to obsess people? So Google created PR only to obsess people? I dunno
I believe none should be obsessed with anything. If some people get obsessed with PR, that’s their own fault. Google has nothing to do with it. Neither do I
Rose
04. Jan, 2010
I keep saying it, but none of the newbies are comprehending it.
Read: “High Google PageRank does not guarantee good search engine placement. Pagerank is not used by Google to determine your rankings for keywords.”
You said the more value your content has, the more PR it should have.
This isn’t true at all.
PR use to hold lots of weight, but Google has pretty much done away with it. It is just 1 of 200 Metrics used!
Google updates PR long before it is visible in the toolbar. Therefore the PR you see in the toolbar is out of date by the time it is published.
Matt Cutts of Google, has wanted Google to remove PageRank from the toolbar for a while now. I seriously wish they would.
Google has already dropped their PageRank values from the Crawl stats section in Google Webmaster Tools.
Isaac Yassar
04. Jan, 2010
It can be true Rose. Here is the analogy: a person makes great content. Lots of people like the content and link to his content with dofollow links. Then the person gets better PR. Makes sense, right?
And I say “should”, so it is not always like that. I also said sometimes it’s not accurate.
Rose, you can 100% say that PR doesn’t matter to you, but you cannot 100% say it doesn’t matter for other people. Everyone has a right to decide for himself / herself whether it matters or not based on the perspective chosen. Not everyone takes it from traffic-based or make-money-based perspective, you know
Ricky
04. Jan, 2010
I still wonder that dont you target dofollow blogs? Anyway i come here to ask you for ur interview. Drop me a comment with your primary email address if u r interested.
Isaac Yassar
04. Jan, 2010
Nope, I don’t target dofollow blogs. Those two above are a forum and a social community. Forums and social communities usually have higher PR than regular blogs. Their chance of delivering stronger PR vote is better. For PR juice, I’ll go to the two. For fun, I go everywhere.
About the interview, sure, I will email you soon
Rose
04. Jan, 2010
Are you having a hard time comprehending what I’m saying, because my guess is that you are?
PR is irrelevant to traffic, and ranking. PageRank is only concerned with the incoming links, not with the content.
Another thing: PageRank (PR) is specific to Google. It isn’t specific to any other search engine, so it can not be used to determine the value of content on a blog.
If I write a post on say maxi pads and a number of bloggers like to that post on maxi pads does it now make me an expert on maxi pads?
Again. The value of your content isn’t a factor on the Pagerank. Just because you have great content doesn’t mean you’ll have a high PR.
Also- PageRank is specific to a web page, not to the website.
It’s just not me who is saying PR isn’t important. Google has told webmasters to quit fussing over it.
There are over 200 factors that Google considers when ranking a page. PageRank is only one measure of a page’s worth. ( 1)
The green bar is not an important factor.
Why is Pagerank important to you?
Isaac Yassar
04. Jan, 2010
PR matters to me as far as 1 reason only: I like it. What I like matters for me. It usually confuses me if some one try to say what I like doesn’t matter for me
I’ve told you, plenty of perspectives out there to choose. I am sure you are a wise person who will respect my perspective that I use for myself
Rose
04. Jan, 2010
Forums and social communities usually have higher PR than regular blogs.
( Not true!) Where do you people get your information from?
Isaac Yassar
04. Jan, 2010
I checked their PR. WP Forum is 8. Blog Engage is 5. What I meant by the plural form is the similar types of similar levels. Or did I make a mistake, and blogs usually has higher numbers?
Rose
04. Jan, 2010
Correction the Blogengage forum is a 3. There main page is a 5
Probloggernet is a 5. Your blog is a 5, so how do you come to the conclusion that forums and communities get a higher PR?
Isaac Yassar
04. Jan, 2010
I referred BE as an example of social community, with voting stuff, like Digg. BE forum is not a functional forum yet, I think. It needs some more time to grow into a lively one with lots of users and discussions.
Rose
04. Jan, 2010
“It usually confuses me if some one try to say what I like doesn’t matter for me
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Hu? If PR is so important to you then by all means please consider obsessing over it.
Isaac Yassar
04. Jan, 2010
No thanks. I like many things (offline and online) in my life, all of them matters to me. But becoming obsessed with them is not a wise move for me, it won’t make me any better person
chandan
04. Jan, 2010
I do not think that the increase of your blog PR is the only two reason that you mentioned above. There are so many factors come, well I think your content help you get such a good PR.
Isaac Yassar
04. Jan, 2010
Probably yes my friend. But what I mentioned above is what I can directly control. Other factors, like when people link to me, are not under my direct control
EarningStep
06. Jan, 2010
so you are sharing your second secret here . i thought you got the page rank just from wordpress forum .
Isaac Yassar
09. Jan, 2010
Yeah buddy. It’s another source for my dofollow backlinks. Feel free to get one too.
Blaine
14. Jan, 2010
Hey Isaac,
Awesome that you went upto a PR5. My blog increased by 1 PR too, up to a PR3 though. I’ll be checking out your secret method too
Isaac Yassar
15. Jan, 2010
Thanks Blaine. Feel free to try it
mk akan
23. Jan, 2010
blog engage is a great community..i just joined and is getting traffic as well…hope my PR will jump to 5 with the blink of an eye…
Mahanah
29. Apr, 2010
Congrats Issaac for the success. I will try blog engage…
angela
18. May, 2010
awesome information.very informative. Thank u very much for the post
Web Your Name®
26. May, 2010
Interesting. Congrats on PageRank 5. I believe PageRank is a huge factor if you are competing for major single word keywords, but other than that for searches like “laptop” or “computer” or “houses” then PageRank has a much more limited role. Regardless, good article!
Masry
11. Jun, 2010
Thanks m8 look a traditional methods but no probs
Nunung
15. Jul, 2010
Simple but powerful, that is your article.
I concerns to pagerank because I will join to paid to review. But until now, my biggest pagerank of my blog is only PR1. So, I buy PR3 domain and join to paid review broker, but sad for me, one month after that my PR is drop become PR0. Rollroom is my drop pagerank blog. I glad when I read your article, that is very simple way to increase pagerank. NIce to meet you