Again Google has had a pagerank update, some guessed it should have fallen in September but it got a little delay till end of October. Now HaveYourBusinessOnline has been given a page rank 2 from nothing. So it’s a good news.
Btw, does PageRank matter? Yes Pagerank does matter!!! When you have higher pagerank, your blog posts or articles tend to get into Google index faster and rank pretty high, normally on the first page of the search results. So Pagerank also means better traffic to your blog or website. Of course, you will need better contents and continue to add more contents to keep more traffic or visitors coming. Now you have higher pagerank, it’s so much easier for your articles or blog posts to be indexed by Google faster and they will appeared on the search results much faster.
But once you’ve gained certain pagerank value, avoid doing the followings:
1. Do NOT sell text links. Something like TextLinkAds is very attractive lets say you have a pagerank 5 and above which you’ll lots of buyers of text links and place on your blog or website homepage. If you do not know textlinks, they are simply hyperlink with the anchor text to certain keywords that the advertisers wish to rank in search engines. By selling text links, you’ll then be de-ranked by Google or may finally get penalized down to pagerank zero!
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2. Do NOT exchange links excessively Don’t exchange links. The old time’s of exchanging links is over. Google no more values reciprocal link exchanges. If you have more links carried on your homepage or the blog roll in your homepage, you’ll be considered as link farm, or spam link farm, which Google will finally lower your pagerank. When you lose your pagerank, you’ll also lose your organic traffic that brings you sales and income.
But you’ll need to have more incoming links to maintain or go for higher pagerank, how to do that? Submit more articles to article directories, embed a hyperlink back to your website or your blog with the anchor text you want. If you operate a website, selling interesting products such as gadgets, do consider ask some bloggers to blog about your products by sending tips to them. They’re hungry for contents!