These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/

If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/

Here are 25 basic steps to take to increase traffic to your blog:
1. Structure a reader and search engine blog;
2. In blogging content is king create unique, high quality content so publish fresh content frequently;
3. Learn basic SEO so you can use keywords effectively and apply basic SEO to your headlines, blog and posts;
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.
4. Make your blog posts look professional;
5. Create at least 4-6 pillar posts and continue to create pillar posts;
Pillar posts are also referred to as flagship content. Pillar posts are comprehensive posts that offer great value to readers as the contents are timeless in nature. They define you as having authority in the niche you blog in.
6. Select and link to appropriate anchor text;
7. Leave meaningful comments on related blogs and encourage comments on your own blog;
8. Develop relationships with other bloggers so you can build a blog readers’ community around your own blog;
9. Support the blog centered communities on related blogs by commenting on them and promoting posts from them;
10. Link to authoritative sources in your posts;
11. Deep link to your earlier related posts in your new posts;
12. Assign appropriate categories and tag your posts with care;
13. Link to related authoritative blogs in your blogroll;
14. Provide RSS feeds for subscribers;
RSS (Rich Site Summary or really simple syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
15. Having a well designed theme is important, evaluate your theme for effectiveness, and if required, create a new header, make improvements or replace your theme and reduce page loading time;
16. Avoid cluttering your blog with widgets that lack reader value and slow page loading time;
17. Buy your own domain and domain mapping;
18. Verify your blog with the three big search engines.
19. Get organized, use an online to do list by developing a blogging workflow;
20. Join social networks and social media sites like Facebook and use Twitter, Friendfeed and other Free RSS directories to promote your blog posts;
21. Promote your blog through social networks, online groups, and selected directories;
22. Develop a social media time management strategy and stick to it;
23. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival;
24. Become a guest blogger on sites with higher page rank than your own site.
25. Create newsletters and/or ebooks for your subscribers.

This forum is only for providing support for issues with software and learning how to use it. These 5 videos introduce how Google discovers, crawls, indexes your site’s pages, and how Google displays them in search results. It also touches lightly upon challenges webmasters and search engines face, such as duplicate content http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/22/5google-webmasters-video-tutorials/

If you are using a WordPress.com theme good SEO is a given. However, going beyond the theme what the blogger has done within that structure is worth evaluating. Whether you write informative, persuasive or controversial content learning how search engines work, and how to apply basic SEO to you content will benefit your blog as it will increase traffic from targeted readers. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/10/21/two-seo-videos-for-bloggers/

Here are 25 basic steps to take to increase traffic to your blog:
1. Structure a reader and search engine blog;
2. In blogging content is king create unique, high quality content so publish fresh content frequently;
3. Learn basic SEO so you can use keywords effectively and apply basic SEO to your headlines, blog and posts;
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.
4. Make your blog posts look professional;
5. Create at least 4-6 pillar posts and continue to create pillar posts;
Pillar posts are also referred to as flagship content. Pillar posts are comprehensive posts that offer great value to readers as the contents are timeless in nature. They define you as having authority in the niche you blog in.
6. Select and link to appropriate anchor text;
7. Leave meaningful comments on related blogs and encourage comments on your own blog;
8. Develop relationships with other bloggers so you can build a blog readers’ community around your own blog;
9. Support the blog centered communities on related blogs by commenting on them and promoting posts from them;
10. Link to authoritative sources in your posts;
11. Deep link to your earlier related posts in your new posts;
12. Assign appropriate categories and tag your posts with care;
13. Link to related authoritative blogs in your blogroll;
14. Provide RSS feeds for subscribers;
RSS (Rich Site Summary or really simple syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
15. Having a well designed theme is important, evaluate your theme for effectiveness, and if required, create a new header, make improvements or replace your theme and reduce page loading time;
16. Avoid cluttering your blog with widgets that lack reader value and slow page loading time;
17. Buy your own domain and domain mapping;
18. Verify your blog with the three big search engines.
19. Get organized, use an online to do list by developing a blogging workflow;
20. Join social networks and social media sites like Facebook and use Twitter, Friendfeed and other Free RSS directories to promote your blog posts;
21. Promote your blog through social networks, online groups, and selected directories;
22. Develop a social media time management strategy and stick to it;
23. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival;
24. Become a guest blogger on sites with higher page rank than your own site.
25. Create newsletters and/or ebooks for your subscribers.

This forum is only for providing support for issues with software and learning how to use it. If you would like to evaluate your own blog see: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/01/28/12-step-blog-evaluation/

I have had a page rank of 3 for ages and no matter what I do, it never improves.

Does anyone have a better Page Rank ?

What do I need to do to improve my Page Rank ?

If someone can take a look at my Blog, that would be really great!

Cheers
Mihir

Once you're ready, I can transfer the subscribers for you.

Unfortunately, stats cannot be transferred.

Mistake one, as you can see, is my URL...it takes time to go from absolute beginner to understanding that an appropriate URL is magic.

So I got another site - http:shortpoetry.wordpress.com

I know...fabulous for me eh!

Now, I want to migrate but I did it before and had some disasterous consequences!

PLEASE ALL THE ADVICE - HAPPINESS ENGINEERS!

Things like moving all my subscribers. Possible?
How best to protect my carefully nurtured stats!?
What else can I do to preserve all that was going on with the last site and just transfer these to my new one?

All those directory listings...my body shudders!

Any and all advice most welcome. Thank you - I might even just write a poem for you!
http://kolembo.wordpress.com

I was just so curious about this "thing" everyone was mentioning that I couldn't see any more. I'm going to check your URL above out of curiosity!

Thanks for your patience!

Google has removed the page rank that used to be stated in our webmasters accounts and has downplayed the value of pagerank. This is because people have become obsessive about it and even hire others to attempt to game search engine results. Last year there were over 500 changes made to how Google operates.

My advice is to forget about pagerank for 6 months and focus on creating content, creating relationships, and hopefully getting backlinks to your blog's front page and/or to individual posts in your blog from other bloggers in posts they publish on the same subject.

I feel I've accidently put you to all that work, I hope others find it useful. You see, I think I led you astray with the word "definition". I searched and read, even found the formula: my problem was I didn't know where to actually find this mythical PageRank. I've now discovered, of course, one must actually have the Google toolbar installed because that is where you see this mythical thing! There may be other places to see it, I don't know!

Everyone was talking about this PageRank, I could find out what it was, how it was calculated - everything EXCEPT where to actually SEE it! I even hunted in the Google Webmaster tools to no avail (why isn't it there, actually?).

Was this a secret society I was not a member of, I wondered?

That is why I was laughing and thought you old hats would find it amusing that I had being trying to find this magical display!

There are many factors that go into Page Rank calculations. The most persuasive factor is backlinks to your posts, especially those from high authority blogs. These are some of the main the positive factors that Google’s algorithm takes into consideration when determining PageRank:
1. Keyword use in title tag
2. Global link popularity of the site (how many backlinks from other sites and how many are from high authority sites)
3. Anchor text of incoming links
4. Link popularity within the site

How is PageRank Calculated?
The full PageRank algorithm was created by Larry Page at Stanford and is as follows:
PR = 0.15 + 0.85 ( PR(Backlink 1)/TotalLinks(Backlink 1) + PR(Backlink

April 2011
2)/TotalLinks(Backlink 2) + … + PR(Backlink X)/TotalLinks(Backlink X) ) SEO Consult Report Google Page Rank Update For April 3rd, 2010
http://www.seoconsult.co.uk/SEOBlog/google-pr-update/seo-consult-report-google-page-rank-update-for-april-3rd-2010.html

Now that I have given you all your Easter Sunday laugh at my expense, I'll shrink back into the corner and ponder whether it is worse to have a PageRank of 0/10 or "Google has not ranked this page" - hehehehe - I think the 0/10 is better - Google knows you exist, at least!

Static Pages sit outside the blog structure. Static pages cannot have Categories and Tags assigned to them. Pages do not appear in our RSS feeds. Most Pages do not have date stamps in their URLs. They have very little “google juice” Other bloggers rarely if ever backlink to static Pages in their published posts. Consequently, Page structured blogs have a very difficult time:
1. securing traffic;
2. securing comments;
3. securing backlinks;
4. achieving authority in their niche;
5. achieving Google PageRank.
Read more here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/05/12/better-blogging-at-wordpress-com-pages-and-posts/

Pages and sub-pages can be used very effectively for several purposes on a blog but choosing to create a static front page, rather than having posts displaying on your front page is a traffic quenching choice, that has a negative impact on discover-ability, as well as holding reader attention. Read more here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/12/29/static-front-blog-page-yay-or-nay/

The simple fact dat my ranking in Yahoo search is 2nd and in Google 66th

Doesn´t that in the least surprise you?

These are the positive factors that Google’s algorithm takes into consideration. These are the negative factors that Google’s algorithm takes into consideration. There are Google Optimization – Key Factors. Read what they are here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/03/17/improving-your-google-page-rank/

Also note that achieving pagerank takes time and backlinks from other bloggers to your posts are of key importance.

I followed your advice on more posts, but somehow I don´t think it is going to work.

However, some of these top 20 results in google for ´santa fe panama´ are websites/blogs that only have a single post about this subject. Strange.

You can have all the static pages you want, but it won't matter. Search engines are interested in POSTS, not Pages. Additionally, to gain standing in search engines, you need links to your blog. If you don't link to other blogs and websites, you will never get incoming links.

I know I sound like a broken record, but there are THOUSANDS of tips in the forum about these issues. Read them. Things haven't changed.

A blog is not a one way noticeboard. A blog is set up for discussion. Unless or until you actually begin to publish fresh content ie. relevant articles regularly your site will not attract interest from other bloggers and will not attract backlinks. And unless or until other bloggers choose to backlink to your posts your blog cannot achieve a pagerank.

Create content - lots of relevant content that's specifically aimed at initiating discussion. Create and publish link bait posts.

Like most of you, I would like to have a higher google page rank for certain search engine terms. My website: santafepanama.info is about my hostel in Santa Fe, Panama, over a year old. Santa Fé is not a well known tourist destination, so most people looking for information will use the terms ´santa fe panama´. Since that is the name of my website, which I have included in the tagline, optimized with google webmaster, pinggoat, and as a regularly returning tag in pages and posts, I would expect to be at least included in the top 20 pages in google. However, I am not even in the top 50!

What can I do about it?

Thanks for any useful suggestions!