Everybody, me included, wants to increase their blog ranking from RSS readers, search engine results, traffic rank, page rank etc…
So just how do you do it? Some of you may know this already some of you may not. I will share with you 5 ways that have helped me increase my blog ranking a little bit more than it used to be.
1. RSS - While customizing your blog template have your RSS subscriber buttons right at the very top. If you want sign up with a RSS tracker like feedburner, feedblitz or feedzilla to track how many readers you have and you can even show them on your blog which encourages other people to sign up.
2. Commenting - Comment on other blogs that you visit in your area of interest. Don’t just go spamming yourself across every blog out there. I’ve deleted comments on my blog that people leave just for a link to their site in the hope of getting a click. Write comments that the blog owners will themselves like and appreciate, when others read it they might click through to your blog and even become an RSS subscriber or like something you wrote and link back to you (+ for linkbacks and eventually SEO and PR)
3. Write about people/things - If there are any new web services or apps/blogs/sites that you have reviewed let the owner of the website know so they can include it in their press section of their website with a link back to you. Most new websites have this feature and it’s a great way to get free linkbacks and if it’s a popular service you might even get quite a few hits from it. (if they have a rel=”nofollow” policy don’t bother, but write anyway people like to read)
4. Page Rank - If you’re setting up a new blog then there are high chances that your first pagerank will come within 2 - 3 months and it will most probably end up being from 1 - 3. There are very few that get a 4 - 5 in their first shot itself.
But now you can tag, bookmark, digg, socialize, contribute to wikis, spread your blog widgets etc…etc… about your blog among the literally hundreds of social community sites out there to get more linkbacks to your site and potential new visitors. Forums and wikis allow you to leave a link behind, although most of them are applying a rel=”nofollow” attribute - wikipedia being the most popular to do that recently.
5. Traffic Ranking - If you are looking to attract advertisers to your blog then they will no doubt look into Alexa, Comscore and now even Compete traffic rankings. Sadly most of them only track either U.S based traffic or statistics gathered through toolbars. Which is really quite stupid as I’ve lived on three continents and still bought online no matter where I was, most web stores have international shipping you know. Plus Firefox which has a 31% share of the browser market as of writing doesn’t have any toolbar that gathers web surfing information for 3rd party services like Alexa (and I don’t want it either!).
You will notice the top sites are Yahoo and Google which offer CPC advertising, among other CPC advertising services. So set a marketing budget for yourself every month say like $20 - $40 if you plan on making a few hundred, and more if you want to make a few thousand then advertise yourself via CPC programs.
You will see a lot of very popular blogs that also use CPC advertising even though they don’t need it, why? To get more traffic and also potentially more advertisers.
So how does this affect your traffic ranking. Well if people like Yahoo and Google are at the top of the charts and they send traffic to you from their search results you also get a part of the statistics that keep them at the top of the charts. You gotta lose something to gain something.
Currently I spend around $20 - $40 to increase my exposure in the traffic rankings while making a few hundred per month, hopefully I’ll be spending more to make a thousand (to start with) per month.
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About the author
Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.
Chris on February 8th, 2007
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Thanks for the article (and posting it in the thread) It helped me get a better idea on where to start when it comes to forming a good strategy. Thanks!
Malcolm Lambe on February 8th, 2007
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Mate, you can do all that and still not get much of an increase in the rankings. It’s a lot of work. A full-time job even. But I think the important thing is you need to have a niche or be an authority on something (I’m neither). I mostly just trawl the net all day looking for things that I think people might be interested in. And I chuck in a bit of my warped sense of humour. But it’s disappointing really. The worst part is that very few people bother to leave a comment - so you don’t know if you’re on track or not half the time. On the other hand, if I just did porn the Traffic would be there. When I blogged about TammyNYP I was getting up to 50,000 Uniques a day. And I still get 50-100 perverts coming to get the downloads (which I’ve just re-posted - Traffic is Traffic).
Stephanie on February 8th, 2007
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Good tips. It may seem easier to just post on your own blog, but interacting with other bloggers really does help. I have a few blogs and I’m still figuring out the best mix of working on my own blogs versus commenting on others.
Ali on February 8th, 2007
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Of course these are not just the only tips out there but some that have helped me grow by blog.
Glad you guys like it.
Malcolm you’re right traffic is traffic, and yes it can be a full time job. It’s 2am right now here.
Nuker on February 17th, 2007
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Interesting article, especially for the people who are new to weblogging. This really gives you something to hold on to.
Nico on March 7th, 2007
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Good tips, I recommend you read these reviews to know the best directories to submit your blog: http://blog-dir.blogspot.com/
Many Blog Directories will link back to your blogs but others are only trying to increase their own PR (page rank)by requesting inbound links and they don’t link back!
Nichole on March 10th, 2007
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would you all say that
24 hour unique traffic hits
is a good way to boost PR and Sales
Mephala on March 17th, 2007
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Thanks for the advice. I just signed up with Feedburner and hope it’ll help (along with the rest of the advice) increase my PR0 blog to 1-3 soon. It has been three months…
Billy Mac on March 23rd, 2007
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I started a blog last year in relation to linking to other blogs and he;p to increaseother blogs traffic. The blogger sends me his or her blog link and I read and review his blog on mine. Along with the review I put a link right at the top of my post in blog letters for others who like the reveiw can go and check out that blog. It has been a good success and has helped alot of bloggers gain readership.
sasha on March 30th, 2007
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Thank you so much to this site, I learned a lot from this one
I will post this page in my site if it’s ok with you. I will wait for your confirmation first before I post. If you don’t want me to do it, just holler!
Thanks a lot!
Ali on March 30th, 2007
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sure, sasha. go ahead!
Ravi RAWAT on June 1st, 2007
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Thanx Buddy
rajey on June 7th, 2007
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nice tips. can u plaz tell me in how many days or month google updates page rank.
constructicle on June 19th, 2007
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this strategy does really work for me.i have jumped from an initial 6 million+ alexa ranking to 3 million+ within a week.i hope to hit the below 1 million by next week
Ipod shuffle contest on June 21st, 2007
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I don’t know if RSS really helps or not. I mean the readers would either like or dislike your site. I dont think the RSS button makes them decide.
storagetrendz on October 18th, 2007
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Am quite new Blogger, i am stuck at first Tip itself.
i signed up to feedblitz but now am confused how it is going to help my blog?.
after singing up i dont know what else i need to do in order to link my blog http:\\storagetrendz.blogspot.com
to the feedblitz.
if anyone like to explain me, what else i need to do after signing up to feedblitz, it will be great help to me.
Bruce Cat on January 18th, 2008
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Great tips…my blog is quite new and i’m trying to find a way to give it more exposure. I think paid for review on popular blogs also help and start a cool contest too. Just as Winning the Web did, the prize was a free paid review on John Chow blog. That got them a few more RSS subscribers
Kenny on February 25th, 2008
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Great article except that parts of it didn’t apply to a political blog. I just started my blog 2 days ago, I always had the blog up but never advertised it or ever really posted anything on it. I checked today and my page rank was 0, so I rank across this site. I have been these things for the last 2 days, but now I am happy to find out that I must wait a 1-3 months for the page ranks to change, otherwise I would probably kept thinking I was doing something wrong lol. Thanks again
Blake on February 25th, 2008
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I have been working on my blog on and off for over three months now. I have been trying to increase my PR, but it is a difficult process. I have tried linking my social profiles and have posted on other blogs a little bit, with not much luck. I am still learning and information like this is very helpful. Thanks.
Gio Suryo on March 18th, 2008
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Thanks for the tips! It is indeed reassuring to know that we have to wait 2 - 3 months before our site actually got Ranked by Google. And it is also good to know what Rank to expect. Great article, and thanks again!
Andrias Adi on March 19th, 2008
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Hy..
Great Tip for beginner blogger like me, thanks for your tips, by the way could you mind, check my blog http://learning-review.blogspot.com.
what wrong with my blog, and maybe you can tell me about my blog.
great design, and nice to look
thanks
Andre
Roxiticus DH on March 25th, 2008
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Thanks for the tips. One question that will reveal me as a real newbie: how do RSS subscriptions figure into page rank? I have a couple of different ways of looking at RSS feeds (Google sidebar and via Microsoft Outlook), neither of which require me to actually visit the sites to see the complete post. So how do the sites I subscribe to get credit for my reading?
Also, I’d appreciate some tips on avoiding Google PageRank declines. I started PPP and Smorty and watched my PR2 go to a big fat zero in just two weeks. Apologies if you’ve already covered this topic…just got here via PPP forum and started to browse around your various posts.
All the best,
Roxiticus Desperate Housewives
Jimmy on March 30th, 2008
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I like your tips, I’ve been going around the net looking for helpful blog entries regarding increasing blog rankings and I thought the comment idea was great. In fact, I’m clicking through other people’s blogs through your page. Thanks.
NaijaEcash on March 31st, 2008
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This is quite helpful. I have put some of the ideas into practice and I can say that it works. My blog which is less than 1month as at today is having a good Alexa rank at 522,239. I got this rank simply by following basic tips from older bloggers. I shared the tips in my post http://naijaecash.com/2008/03/27/5-tips-for-increasing-your-alexa-rank-without-cheating/ you can check it out.
I quite agree with Nico on the issue of some sites only wanting to increase their backlinks without given anything in return. Thanks for sharing your thought on this issue. Cheers.
kakithon on May 1st, 2008
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happen to be accidentally come to ur site,and i wonder why after i had set up my blog for around 2-3 months ,that my page rank in google still N/A?is it anything wrong doing of mine when setting up anything else?Thnks.
janese on May 10th, 2008
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I am thankful to read this tips to increase my pagerank.Infact i had my pagerank before and it was pr 3 but it is suddenly back to 0.Please could anybody can help what is the reason behind of this rank issue?I could stop thinking that perhaps there is something wrong because a friend of mine also lost her pr but just after 2 month she had it back but mine it is almost 5 months but still 0.Please send me advice and i am thankful to this site.Realy interesting.http://janeser28.blogspot.com
Grace on May 28th, 2008
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Now I understand fully how it works. Thanks for this post. It was well explained. Cheers!
Sathish Kumar on July 24th, 2008
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Hi,
I created a blog mycodings.blogspot.com and also added feeders like yahoo,google,aol etc. Is there anything else needed to add for good page ranking without spending money in CPC ads