You have probably visited many seo and design forums where “experts” in seo claim that PageRank is not important anymore. The problem with that is that it is false. The higher the PageRank you will notice a higher amount of traffic to your website. Our website right now is a PR2 and gets a LOT of traffic. Now imagine if we had a PR8…
The best way of gaining that PR is actually a mix of methods. One of them includes building one-way links from directories. Directories do help you regardless what anyone says. Obviously you will benefit from direct traffic that comes from those directories, but you also get credit for the link. Get about 20 of those links and BAM you have a PageRank of 2 on a new website.
Then put out articles with a link credit on them and publish them on free websites. Webmasters use your articles and are required to link back.
If you are a web design or seo company you have the right to place a link credit on the client’s website footer which helps build your PR. But you can also release free templates and themes requiring a link back and call it a Creative Commons License. This will generate lots of links to you quickly because there is a large number of people who download free templates. It is easy to publish them because there are websites dedicated to publishing them.
You can put out monthly press releases with link credits which is good because they are provided as RSS Feeds. Websites out there are automated to republish rss feeds, and in turn your link gets placed with your press item. You may also get traffic from the release by someone searching the release website or googling specific keywords that brought your release to the top 10 results.
In addition, you can use Digg, Twitter, and other social networks to generate inbound linksĀ & massive amounts of traffic.
You can search for blogs that do not have the nofollow attribute on them and comment on them. Make sure you comment appropriately and not just to get a link. If you respect other webmasters they will respect you. And you can ensure your comment will not be marked as spam. Do not post a link directly in your comment though unless it is relevant as a resource for the posts question or another comments question. You can post your link in the space provided which many blogs allow. You would also benefit from traffic on blogs that do use the nofollow attribute because you posted a quality comment and the person reading it wants to know more about you.