5 tips to increase Google Pagerank

Pagerank is no doubt one of the most important measure of a webpage's ratings. It is very essential for SEO experts as it helps determine the effectiveness of their work in improving the ranking of their pages, partially by increasing pagerank. Here are 5 tips to help you increase the pagerank of a webpage and improve its search engine ranking.

What is Pagerank?

Google Pagerank (PR) is a measure of the popularity of a web page among the billions of other web pages in the universe of the web. It signifies the importance of a page, measured by the amount of links it receives from the other pages. On the basis of those links, it determines the reputation of the page, with what we know as Pagerank, or the Page's Rank. Pagerank is measured on a scale of 0-10, 10 being the most popular page.

How is Pagerank determined?

Pagerank is a link analysis algorithm invented by Larry Page when he was in Stanford. This Wiki Page provides a brief description on the working of the Pagerank Algorithm. In an oversimplified sense, the pagerank works as follows:

Assuming our page is A and rest pages are B, C and so forth.

• It depends on the outbound links from other web pages to A
• Every page gives a weightage of its pagerank to the pages it links to, which is equally divided by the total number of outbound links. Therefore A gets PR(B)/(total outbound links on B)
• The more high quality links are recieved by A, the higher its pagerank becomes

How to check pagerank?

You can check the Pagerank of any web page with the help of the Webpage Statistics Tool on our home page or with help of Google toolbar by installing it on your browser. Please note that Google Toolbar is only available for Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Tips to increase pagerank

Here are 5 useful tips to help you increase your pagerank of a specified webpage:

1. Get backlinks from quality pages with a good pagerank. It should not be a nofollow link. The higher the pagerank of the page giving you backlink, the higher weightage of the pagerank your desired page will get. Also, you must ensure that the page giving the back link should not have many outbound links as it will reduce the weightage of the backlink you get.
   You should not hesitate to put your link on any website(even with no pagerank) that allows you to put your link. Having your link on these will not deter your pagerank but eventually will increase the number of backlinks to your page
2. Submit your webpage to most of the social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit. These websites will help you reach audience related to your niche. The more popular your website becomes on these social bookmarking sites, the more chances your have that your audience or readers will put up your link on the webpage as a relevant link and thus increasing your social traffic as well. Be sure to tag your submission with relevant keywords
3. Link Exchange also proves to be a reliable method to increase pagerank of your webpage. Through means of reciprocal links, you can exchange links with sites that are relevant to your page. This helps in mutual growth of both the pages
4. Forums can prove to be a great source making your pages known to the world. Forums allow you to put up signatures below your post/comment in which you can put up the link to your webpage. This will increase your web presence and would help you bring more traffic to your site. Also, performing this task on web forums related to your niche will help in advertising your webpage for free. You will also be building your websites presence. 2. Update your website every day by adding more and more unique content. If you provide good information to your visitor then the visitor will come again for sure
5. Inbound linking to your sites can also help in increasing your sites pagerank. By this, you can assign the PR weightage of one page of your site to the other pages. Using inbound linking also helps a lot increasing your cummulative pageviews as more readers gets options to visit your other pages