For almost two years, my oldest blog lost its PR4. I tried everything I can to bring back the page rank of my blog to its former glory but it seems everything I have done was to no avail. Until early last year that I have decided to do something out of the ordinary and then before the year ended, I was able to regain a Page Rank of 3!! Yay!!
Now I am sure the question you have in your mind, what did I do to gain back my PR? Is there a secret?
The answer is NO, there are no secrets! I just did the basics and some investments that paid off in the long run… what are these? Just read on and hope it will help you regain your page rank too!
= Page rank is all about links. To get a sensible page rank, you must have a considerable amount links pointing at you. One way links, the better!! So, how do you get one way links or links for that matter? Aside from exchanging links, I invested time, money and effort. I launched several blog contests in a year and even sponsored contests too! Yes… what is the better way to get a lot of (one way) links is from contests!! To get this, you must be willing to invest money!
= The next big thing I did with my blog was change my post permalinks, from the old permalinks I got from blogger which was /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html to the new permalink /%postname%/. Then I installed Google XML Sitemap and Permalink Finder plugins to inform Google about my new permalinks so that my blog will be indexed again to the new ones. (I will have another post on how to configure this.)
= And the last but not the least, I installed Broken Link Checker to unlink all dead links because I once read from another blog before that having too many dead links on your blog can hurt your page rank in some way too. And guess what? I found hundreds of them!! Hundreds that sometimes my blog hangs because of the checking procedures, as you can see, I have thousands of posts to check!!
So now that you know, why not try it for yourself and probably you might regain the page rank you lost just like what I did with my oldest blog!
NOTE: This is applicable to self-hosted WordPress blogs only.
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additional knowledge for my data base, thanks Mommy Rubz! More Power!
@Joy:
Thanks Mommy. Hope this helps.
will do all of the above! thanks for this mommy rubz!
@Pinx:
You are welcome. Thanks for visiting!!
great info mommy rubz!!! thanks!!!
@Gagay:
Salamat po.
ako pud MOmmy helpful kaayo ng google sitemap katong akong consumer mom talks… 7 palang ka post pr 0 dayon hahaah.. I will try the broken link checker.. thank you..
@Vernz:
Sitemap is definitely one of the greatest things that happened to my blogs! And also the broken link checker!;)
i have already started on some of the things u taught me mommy that is why i also have a contest now. and well, i hope that in a few i do get a pagerank. but i gotta check that broken links checker coz that might be the culprit
ha! te i found broken links mommy! thanks for sharing this nice plugin!
@Mama:
Glad that you are happy with its benefits!
Wow thanks for sharing the tips mommy…
@Gengen:
You are so welcome Marz! Thank you for visiting too!!
Super helpful information! Thanks Marz for sharing this! You are awesome help to bloggers everywhere.
@May:
Thanks Marz. Glad you like my post.
Thanks for this post, Mommy Rubz! I’ll definitely add those plug-ins. Although I’m still concentrating on writing better posts than increasing page rank at this moment.
@Olga:
Writing better posts are definitely much better! But doing it right as early as possible with your blog together with great posts are even better. Kaya mo yan Mommy! Go! Go! Go lang!
Thanks for sharing this Mommy Rubz. I’ll definitely wait for your post about how to configure the Redirection plug-in.
is there anyway to do this in blogspot hosted blogs?