Sick of hearing about Pagerank yet? Me too. The good news is you won’t hear about Pagerank much anymore unless something major happens that affects News Notion. The bad news? You have to read about it one more time. But don’t worry, this is helpful information.
Most of us are familiar with what Pagerank is and how it works. There are little quirks and things that make up the Pagerank of your site or blog but we all know the two main things that affect your Pagerank: Receiving incoming links and putting paid links on your blog. One provides a positive impact, while the other damages your Pagerank.
You may think in order to get a good Pagerank, you just have to write good content and cross your fingers and hope other sites will link to you. That’s not quite it. Here are some things YOU can do do help increase your blog’s Pagerank.
Create Some Linkbait
It’s true. Having good content will make people link to it. What will make more people link to it though is if it’s a list or extra creative, usually comparing what you are talking about to another topic, like real life.
Good examples of linkbait:
The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores
What Paris Hilton Can Teach You About Making Money
Hold a Contest
This one is pretty easy. Throw some money down, or a really cool prize, and request something as measly as a link back to your site, or a small review. People WILL enter if the price is right. Be careful though, too many incoming link’s at once could get Google mad at you.
Sponsor a Contest
You still have to give money or a prize, but instead you’re doing it for someone else. You’ll receive a few links to your site on that person’s blog, instead of having a bunch of lower PR blogs link to you. For example, Problogger’s $54,000 giveaway involved tons of sponsors. They got a whole post dedicated to them, and also when it was their turn to give something away during the few days of the contests. $100 for two or three PR6 links? I think it’s worth it.
Guest Blog
Almost all blogs allow people to come in and guest blog. Write a good post, contact a blogger, and let them use it. They usually let you link back to your site at least once in the introduction or at the end.
Write a Really Good Review
If you can manage to write a kick ass review on a popular blog, not only will you wind up with a link on their site, but a bunch of traffic as well.
An example? Cash Quest’s review of John Chow. After that one, CQ got a PR5 link and TONS of traffic, for free.
Link to Related Posts
This is easy to do and how I got a bunch of posts to be PR3’s. Regularly link to older posts that you have written that relate to what you’re talking about. I do it all the time. You don’t have to rely on anyone else but you.
Link to Related Pages and Categories
This is similar to above. If you are selling advertisements on your blog and they have to contact you, link to the contact page. (And the advertise page!) I don’t do this one as much but I still do it when appropriate.
Participate in a Group Writing Project
I participated in my first Group Writing Project a little too late for incoming links to affect my Pagerank for this update, but next time, it will have definitely helped. Group Writing Projects are projects held by bloggers where other bloggers choose a topic either from a list or based around a certain general topic, publish it before the deadline, and than they all get linked to as a bundle of useful, relevant information. I participated in Court’s Group Writing Project with a series of three posts, and got links to each of them. Three backlinks in one! But the awesome thing is, your post(s) will get linked to from a bunch of other blogs as well! The project was a few weeks ago and I still am receiving links.
Offer a Service or Tool
Warning: This could make your blog really popular. If you get queezy at sudden large increases of traffic and links, don’t do this. If you want to remain a small blog, definitely don’t do this. If you don’t like helping people, stay away.
If you have the knowledge to create and develop a really useful (or even somewhat useful… or even just cool and not useful) tool, than do it! Even if it’s as simple as a plugin. If it catches onto the right blogs, your tool could become extremely popular. Creating a plugin or tool would generate TONS of links and traffic- it might make you sick to your stomach.
The same thing goes with offering a service. Design services, SEO services, blog consulting. Whatever you are good at, turn it into money and traffic.
An excellent example of a blog that rose to fame through offering neat tools is 45n5. You can get traffic or find recent Make Money Online posts with Money Links, and who hasn’t heard about the Top 100 Make Money Online blogs?
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As I do for many of my tips on blogging posts, this one is also coming from experience. I found that by just linking to related posts within posts, you can give your posts a PR as well. It’s probably the easiest thing to do.
Concluding the PR talk on this blog, I want to bring one final question about PR. When do you think the next update is going to be? 
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