Create Profiles To Increase Page Rank

Besides using blog comments and social bookmark sites to get backlinks you may also create fake profiles on social network sites. Why would it increase your page rank and your serps?

* Free Backlink to increase PR

Most social sites give a profile page to their members where one can put a link.

If link aren't clickable it is still worth to put a link, hard links do have a value. Example:

Clickable: Increase Page Rank

Non Clickable: http://increase-pr.blogspot.com/
The non-clickable link won't be lost: Google bots will pick it up!

* How to maximize the Google juice passed on by a profile

Getting a backlink, that's good, but it's even better if the backlink comes from a page filled with keywords related to your niche.
So when you create a profile, select a relevant nickname: if your site is about PR then, chose the nickname Pagerank if available, or try a variation on the theme. Some sitesuse your nickname to build your profile URL: jackpot! That's the best scenario: if the keyword is in the URL too besides being on the page then the backlink from this page will be really worth for your ranking.

An example of profile created for SEO purpose:

WhereIstand - IncreasePageRank Profile
So look for social sites and go create optimized profiles in order to increase your Google page rank and to get better SERPs!
:)

Check your page ranking in Google Search

If you want to know if all your SEO efforts have been worth, you have to check your ranking in Google Search for the keywords you're competing on.

This task may become boring if you have more than one website and if you don't rank in the ten first pages of results.

There are already some commercial solutions available but they are too expensive.
So I just developed a small VBA application under Excel to make it easier.

Let's try it:

Google-Ranking-Checker-v1.xls

The file is quite easy to use. So I won't write too much about it.
Just remember to lower the securiy level for macros in Excel if you want to try this application or you will have a security alert when opening the xls file.

I think I'm going to improve this application in the near future. So stay tuned ! ;-)

Trackers can increase your PR

Getting backlinks (links to your site from others) is necessary to increase your Page Rank in the long term.

Google bots are quite busy. So it is useful to have a page listing all your backlinks to tell them what pages they should analyse. That's why I recommend to dedicate one page of your site to list the pages linking to your page - I say page and not website in purpose-.

But if you're using spamming on blogs, forums and other websites to get backlinks, it would be better to keep track of those backlinks elsewhere than on your website.
Because if your website is linking to too many sites that are not related you may suffer from a downgrade backlash from Google.

So the best tool to keep track of those backlinks (the referrers) to my viewpoint is

Have a look to the tracker created for this blog: My Tracker

All my referrers are listed. When Google bots analyse this page they collect the links. And when they crawl (analyse) them later, they will find links to my blog. For a website it would be better to have a tracker for every page, but for a blog it's easier with only one.

NB: not many backlinks on my tracker because I'm not actively promoting my blog, this blog is indeed a kind of non-lucrative initiative. ;-p

Extreme Tracking has some credit with Google bots, because it's an old domain (the older your domain the better). So the tracker you set up may get a good PR with time (so put the keywords you are competing in the tracker's name when you create it !).

Other aspects of trackers:

Trackers also allow a better understanding of your visitors: you may know the referring link, the keyword used in the search engine and much more.
Data-mining may help to improve your website.

To keep track of your visitors, here below a list of free trackers (but not for SEO):

StatCounter Invisible, no Ads :-)

Activemeter Invisible, no Ads :-)

Motigo Webstats Logo + PopUnder Ads :-(

I strongly recommend the invisible counters. Unfortunately even if Motigo is user-friendly it cannot compete because of those 'damned shit' PopUnder ads.

Get backlinks by using Social bookmarking

Social bookmark websites are an easy way to get backlinks that will increase your PR.
It's especially true with some sites like Netvouz or Mister-Wong. You can almost be sure that the links you add to those two bookmarking sites will be noticed by Google. :)
I definitely advise to open an account with them as it's free. So you may get easy backlinks!

List of Social Bookmark sites (by decreasing effectiveness for SEO):

Mixx

Propeller

digg

LeftHit

Netvouz

Mister Wong

Stumble Upon

BlueDot

Blogmark

del.icio.us

ma.gno.lia

LinkArena