Page Rank Checker

Unless you are brand new to the Internet or been living under a rock you have most certainly heard of the ranking system started by the search engine Google called Page Rank. Well before we get to in-depth of exactly what it is and how you go about increasing your Google page rank you must know where your site stands in this system. With our simple Google page rank checker simply enter your websites URL (without the http://) and click on the check button. This will give you the current PageRank for your website.

Now that you know the page rank of your website how do you go about Increasing Your Google Page Rank? Well first understand the actual page rank = PR of a website is a trade secret that only a handful of Google employees know the actual formula to. The system was named after Google cofounder Larry Page and is designed to equalize and determine the authority of websites with a mathematical system that gives more weight to sites Google determines are more important than other sites.

It therefore goes with out saying a site such as DMOZ, Yahoo, Technorati are given high page ranks in the upper end of the scale of 0 to 10. These are some well-known high page rank sites as where your site might be not so important in the eyes of the Google bot and only garnish a zero, one, or two. There are several factors that work into figuring out a sites PR, content originality, number of indexed pages and the main factors the number and quality of back links pointing to a site.

The last one being the hardest for new sites to score high for unless you are starting with a domain that has some carry over PR from one of its previous lives you’ll be starting out with a n/a or 0. There are many ways to help your page rank but they all boil down to back links and more importantly high quality back links, which will increase your sites, link popularity which is the main factor to your site’s PR.

A word to the would be site owner that just wants to go out and get tons of page rank 7, 8 and 9 sites to his PR0 site. Google loves it natural and hates artificially boosted site rankings. They want to see it in a way that would happen by people linking to your site because of high quality unique content. This is actually what I would consider job one. Load your site regularly with new well-written unique content and go about your link building in a progressive manner.

It is ok to start out with just a few links a week. Also, vary up the PR of these links. Don’t go after all Pr 6+ sites to your PR0 site get links from a wide range of sites with PR1 to 6 and maybe a PR 6+ once in awhile. Remember today’s PR0 is tomorrow’s PR4 and just as hopefully your PR goes up so will theirs giving you more value as your domains age.

For some helpful tips on link building see, our article below titled Link building and Link Popularity.

Chose the graphic you like best to show your page rank on your website to your visitors and follow the instructions under the code box below. You are free to use the code on your site as long as you follow our terms. (The quick version use the code as is without modifing it)

Left click on the white box above so your curser is in the box. Next push Ctrl+A; next push Ctrl+C to copy this code to your clipboard. Next, locate the section of your websites html code where you want the graphic to appear and push Ctrl+V to paste the "RankTrek" code into your webpage. Save this page to your hard drive and then ftp this new page to your web server. The RankTrek PR Graphic will now show your website page rank when someone views it. If you like our service and site please be kind and take a minute to use the AddThis button and add us to your favorite social bookmarking service we appreciate your time and vote.

I know you thought your job was over when you designed and built the perfect site. Welcome to SEO reality. The long and short of it is SEO is fairly easy if you follow the steps there are many good SEO tutorials and guides on the net so I’m not going to bore you with one now. By far the best we have found for the money that teaches solid White Hat SEO is Lucid SEO.

With that said "You" need to go about building back links to your site and over time the more the merrier. A large part of SEO in today’s day and age is off page SEO in other words your link popularity. That all sounds good but many new webmasters have not a clue as to how to go about building high quality back links. Two of my favorite, well three now are Forum Post, Social Media and Blog Posting (ethical real post never Spam your post to anyone) it is a formula for shear disaster and will be totally counter productive to your efforts.

It is not how many at once but rather how often and how religiously you do it. Find a couple forums in your niche and post and join in on the discussion regularly. Always be polite and respect that others may have a differing of opinions. Read and make posts that add value to the discussion. This goes with blog posting always read and make intelligent well thought out post that lend value to the blog owners site after all you are getting something valuable in return. Moreover, the same can be said for social media its like blogging on steroids. Add to these some regular directory submissions and you are well on your way to a rising PR and increased search traffic also.