Getting Good PageRank Quickly

While there is ongoing disagreement about the specific importance of PageRank, it certainly is important if you decide to sell, or "flip" your site. And in general, the higher your PR, the easier it is to get into a top SERPs position.

As an affiliate marketer, I rely a lot on natural search traffic, and so PR is important.

Here is something I had written a while ago on how to get good PageRank pretty quickly and without too much fuss.

I was responding to a thread about article marketing, and got to thinking about how it fits into my strategy as a simple "formula" for reaching a Pagerank 3 pretty quickly.

This is something I've done at least a dozen times, and achieved similar results at least 9 or 10 out of 12 times:

I create a new niche site (I use Xsitepro which automates most of the important basic SEO, but you can achieve the same optimization manually just by picking a keyword-centric domain name, including your primary keyword phrase in your homepage title tag and H1 tag, and doing the same for each subsequent page).

Once I've uploaded the site - generally 5-10 page minisites - I submit a sitemap to Google.

Then I create 3 free blogs, 2 on Blogger, and 1 on Wordpress.com.

Now I begin my article marketing, the main, and sometimes only thrust in marketing the site. I write 1 well SEO-structured article per day for each site and submit it to Ezinearticles.

For each article, I take the summary and first paragraph of each article, and re-write it slightly as a blog post on each blog. Whatever keyword phrase that article is targeted towards, that becomes the anchor text for a single link on each blog back to the minisite.

In effect I've created a small 3-blog network, which combined with a single article each day, links back to the minisite.

Depending on where I started in the Pagerank update cycle, I will almost always get a PR3 either the next update, or the following one.