I know Google Page Rank is no longer a true barometer of how your blog is “performing” in the blogosphere. Google have said themselves that we should not use Page Rank to measure our blog’s performance.
Very true.
There is nothing else I can use to check metrics aside from hits and pageviews.
Nonetheless, I look at Page Rank as a way to check how my SEO efforts are affecting my blog technically.
In just one short month, I was able raise my blog’s Page Rank from PR0 to PR3 (Check | Verify). Usually, it would take a couple of months to reach that level but I did it in one month after registering the domain and building the blog from the ground up.
This only shows you don’t need to resort to blackhat SEO or buy expensive SEO tools to rank your blog higher.
Domain: marlonribunal.com
Domain/Blog Age: 36 days
Alexa Rank: 600K+ (from 3M+)
RSS Subscriber: 45
Blogging Frequency: Once a Week
Here are the components of my blog:
1. Running on the WordPress platform
2. Using clean and responsive template based on Twitter Bootstrap
3. Utilizing the following SEO related plugins
- 404 Redirection
- Akismet
- All in One SEO Pack
- Better WordPress Minify
- Disqus Comment System
- FeedBurner FeedSmith
- Google XML Sitemaps
- WP Smush.it
- WP Super Cache
4. Increased paragraph spacing and font height for improved readability
5. Implemented Rich Snippets
6. Content – Content, content, content.
If you think Page Rank has some values you could use and want me to help you rank higher, let me know.
Everyone says you need backlinks to increase your PR. But I think you are right. Content is king and as long as you publish great content your rank will increase. It was very helpful to see what you are doing and what the result are. Thanks for sharing.
hey Thank You for sharing this post but i like to know about how to generate genuine backlinks. Can you help me? I have created a blog just a month before and you can check my alexa ranking, I think its best for me but no backlink data. So would really appreciate some of your tips to generate genuine backlinks. Thank You.
Hey Marlon,
Page Rank is mostly about backlinks isn’t it? At least that’s what I’ve always heard. I’ve heard you can have content up the ying yang, but if you don’t have backlinks and higher PR sites linking to you then content alone won’t boost your PR. Is that not true? Did you do any kind of backlinking to get to PR3 so fast?
Great work! This just goes to prove that creating and submitting quality content will reward you in the end. It would be interesting to know how much this has effected traffic into your website, getting more search queries, higher ranking, referring website, I can imagine with you being active in the blogosphere these will increase greatly.