Drawing Visitors To Your Site By Improving Your Page Rank

Many people who are using websites to promote their business are searching for the fastest way to get the highest page rank possible. In some ways it's a distant and nearly unobtainable goal for internet marketers. Maybe you already know this, but Google assigns a page rank number to a web page that indicates how high that page will be placed in search results. The algorithm is secret. But it's important to understand that the page rank number is not the only factor in ranking search results.

Some people think that viewing a Google page rank can tell them the value of a web site. Actually, the Google rank can be as much as several months out of date. Many things may have changed since that number was recorded. In addition, you have to use a special type of browser to be able to see the ranking number, or go to a special web site that keeps track of these things by url. In summary, the site's page ranking is probably not a very accurate reflection of the value of a web page.

Despite these problems, page rank is the most visible aspect we have to understand how Google ranks pages in the search results. Please note I said ranks pages, not sites! Each page stands on it's own to a great extent, though there is some belief that it may be considered in the context of the reputation of the whole site. At the least the page rank of any page can be affected by the page rank of other pages on that site which link to it.

Page ranking is a popular way of comparing one web site to another. It is based on the number of people who have put a link to your web site on their web site. If you have a lot of people linking to your site, then your page rank is supposed to be higher. And if those people have high page ranks, this is also supposed to give you a higher number. Page ranking seems to be simply an indication of how many people you can get to link to your site, and not any indicator of the value of your site.

So here is the answer to how to increase page rank rapidly. You have to get as many good quality links to your page that are relevant to the content of your page as you can. It is just that simple. There are many ways to get links including, reciprocal linking with other sites, posting on blogs and forums, article marketing, and press releases just to name a few.

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