Increase Page Rank For Dummies

How and why should I want to increase page rank?

How To Improve Page Rank

Page rank is just a number ranking that’s assigned by Google and represents the
relative importance of the web page. It is a number between 0 and 10. The higher
the number that Google gives, the more important that page is (according to Google).

How do I check my page rank?

There are some tools that show you Google’s page rank quite easily. The one I
recommend is SEO Tools for Firefox.
You can get that tool here: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo‐for‐firefox.html

Why should I care about the page rank?

There are numerous reasons why Internet Marketers care so much about the page rank
of their sites (or actually the pages within their sites…remember that page rank is
assigned to each and every page on a site). It is in your best interests to improve page rank.

• Search Engine Rankings – All other things being equal (over simplification
ahead!), the higher the page rank the higher the search engine rankings will
be for a particular page. Obviously, this means more traffic!

• Pay Per Click Advertising – Although Google will deny this, our studies have
shown that the higher the page rank, the lower your costs will be for
adwords pay per click advertising.

• Link Juice – This is perhaps the most important. The higher the page rank
of a page that you own and control, the more “link juice” you can pass on to
your other sites. We all know that search engine rankings are mostly
influenced by links. The more links you have, the higher you’ll rank (a bit of
an oversimplification again, but generally true). In addition, the “quality” of
the links plays a major part. The higher the page rank of the linking page, the
higher the quality of the link. So that, for example, one link from a Page Rank
4 page could be worth 500 links from a Page Rank 1 site.

Our study:
We all know that links are the main driver behind Google’s page rank algorithms,
but are they the only factor?

There are many rumors floating around about content and what variables may
impact page rank. Because it’s so critical to our marketing efforts, we wanted to
ensure that we were doing all we could to take advantage of the factors that have an
impact. For example, one common thought is that updated or fresh content has an
impact on page rank. Google likes to see content that is attempting to remain
“current”.

The theory says that sites with content that’s routinely updated will be
rewarded with a higher page rank. It’s a lot of work to keep a site fresh, so they
question is…is it worth the effort? Google, of course, won’t answer that. So, the only
way to figure it out is to test.

This study included approximately 200 domains and has been going on for 1 year
(although a couple domains have been evaluated over the past 3 years!). We have
had 2 employees working full time on this, and we’re going to share the results with
you for free!

One word of caution…we are going to make statements of fact such as “Google
doesn’t care about…” etc. These statements are based on the VAST majority of the
domains that we tested, NOT 100% of them. So, PLEASE…do not email me or write
comments saying that your one domain acted differently. In drawing our
conclusions, we saw that 80‐90% of the domains followed the pattern, not 100%.
There will be exceptions to the rules, but these statements will hold true for most
domains.

Our conclusions:
There were MANY things that people have theorized that Google actually cared
about when evaluating page rank, all of which we found out were completely
irrelevant.
• Google Doesn’t Care About The “Freshness” Of Your Content – Updating the
content every day, once a week, once a month, or not at all had NO impact on
Page Rank. The extreme example of this are three home pages (PR3‐4)
where the content hasn’t changed at ALL in 3 years, and the PR has not gone
lower. It has gone up down over time, but never statistically lower than
where it started. We also saw this in our test group over 9‐12 months.

• Google Doesn’t Care About The “Quality” Of Your Content – The content
amount, and quality of the content has no impact on Page Rank. The extreme
example of this, is comparing a squeeze page opt in with a content rich home
page of a blog. We looked at examples all along the continuum of quality and
amount of content, and it didn’t make a bit of difference. A crumby, poorly
designed squeeze page with zero content had just as much PR potential as a
content rich blog home page.

• Google Doesn’t Care if you Change the Contents of a Page – For example,
let’s say we have a page with a PR of 3. We can go in and COMPLETELY wipe
out and change out the content, and it will have no lasting impact on that
page rank. Typically, we saw a drop in 1‐2 levels of PR and then saw it come
right back up to the old rank within 60‐90 days or so.

• Google Doesn’t Care About Duplicate Content ‐ At least when evaluating
page rank, Google doesn’t care if the content on the page is unique.

• Google Doesn’t Care if you Change Registrars and or owners of a domain
– This has some interesting implications that you can probably figure out! In
these examples, PR dropped and was then regained just as it was when the
content was completely changed.

• Google Doesn’t Care if you Change Hosting Providers and/or servers –
Similar to changing registrars, PR dropped and was then regained.
What does Google care about then? Simple…links and ONLY links
Absolutely the only thing that had an impact on page rank in our study for the
majority of domains was back links. The more back links and the higher the quality
of those back links, the higher the page rank of the page that was being linked to.

To increase page rank, get more higher quality, high page rank back links.

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