Entries for July, 2008

Google Page Rank (PR) is one of the foremost indicators about the popularity of a blog, website or a single web page. In fact, many advertisers or ad networks use the PR as the primary criterion along with traffic ranks to accept or reject publisher or blogger accounts while signing up. Due to the same reason, bloggers usually go gaga over the same in an attempt to maintain or increase their blogs’ PR status.

How many backlinks will it take?

It is a known fact that more backlinks from high PR pages will eventually result in an increase of your blog’s PR. But how many backlinks will it take for a blog to receive a particular Page Rank? The following table will give you some idea.

The table below (courtesy: TNX.Net) essentially have the public PR numbered from 1 to 10 along X and Y axes. The Y axis shows the page rank that you desire for and the X axis shows the number of backlinks it will take from pages with a particular PR (column header) in order to obtain your desired PR. For example, for your blog to receive a page rank of 5, you need just three backlinks from pages of PR 6 or have 101 backlinks from pages with PR 4 instead.
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In the past, I have reviewed products like Comment Kahuna and Fast Blog Finder on this blog. These are commenting software that helps you to search for blogs of your choice - in terms of subject, page rank, backlink properties etc - and comment on them to improve your blog’s backlinks.

Of late, I have been seeing several Google custom search engines and directories dedicated to DoFollow pages. DoFollo.com is such a search engine using which you can search for pages that actually ‘follows’ the links appear on them.

How to create backlinks using DoFollo?

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With blogs getting funkier and monetary aspects taking precendence (more greed = more ads) many blogs these days are suffering from performance and user experience issues. A recent survey showed that only 55% of the US households have broadband connectivity as others are more or less happy to live in the dial-up world! The situation in developing nations is even worse. So when you design your blog and its theme you could still keep 56K modem users’ interests (sounding outdated?) in mind to come up with the fastest loading blog.

Recently I read an excellent post on Wordpress platform based blog performance. You may read that post to get some
insights into MySQL Server and PHP performance tweaking. I will be talking about much simpler things here.

Performance of your blog’s theme

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For the past 10 days or so, I have been playing around with some of my old posts on this blog. As a matter of fact, some good old articles from the initial days have not been read by many. The original idea was to repackage them well there by improving the visibility. But I was taken by surprise that in addition to improved clicks from linked pages, I was getting some search engine traffic as well!

In this post, I will talk about the methods I used to market my old posts and how I improved the blog’s overall search visibility as well (See the Google Analytics screenshot below)

How did I link old posts?

Method #1: The first method of linking to older articles is from within the content of your new posts. This is by far the most popular method used by most bloggers. If used effectively this will not only add an internal link but also a trackback by Wordpress. In this approach, the old post should be linked in such a way that it does not affect the logical flow of the newer post.
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