SEO is something which you learn with experience and it’s more of trial and error method. Many things which I have learned with time and one of them is long tail keywords work better and more over backlinks created via commenting helps you a lot.
update: Google page rank is gone. Instead look at another factor call domain authority
Here I have played with some new project and wanted to see if I can create page rank for that blog without working much. As a test project I started with creating backlinks just by commenting and nothing else.
The domain which I’m talking about is WPFreeSetup.com which is going to be my next project for some service.
Domain Details:
- Domain bought on: 19/02/2010
- Domain Page rank as of Sep 27th 2010: 3
- Domain name: WPFreesetup.com
- Website Platform: WordPress
- Theme: Genesis WordPress theme
- No. of Posts- 0
So this domain was bought almost 7 months back and at the time of writing it has a page rank of 3 with total no. of posts= 0. I know it sounds really amazing but this Page rank 3 is a result of this SEO test.
The idea is by blog commenting. Blog commenting is one of the best way to drive traffic and build backlinks for your domain. In this case I commented on many High PR blogs and especially one using top commentator or recent commentator WordPress plugin. This resulted to drive backlinks from some High PR sites and within a month (last PR update), that new domain Page rank increased to 3 from 0.
Page Rank and Traffic:
This is most common myth that page rank helps you to drive traffic and this is not true. Imagine the above-mentioned blog have PR 3 and you must be expecting at least 100-1000 visits a day. But the fact is at this moment this new domain doesn’t have even 50 traffic/month.
Other Steps which I followed:
- Used SEO optimized WordPress theme
- Created Sitemap for Blog
- Submitted Sitemap to Google, Bing, Yahoo
- Added Meta tags, meta keywords
- Onsite SEO optimization of WordPress
Conclusion:
Commenting helps you a lot in gaining Page rank and building backlinks. If you build high-quality backlinks, chances are high to get a page rank within next PR update.
I also recommend checking SEO checklist .
If I understand it correctly, most blogs have a no-follow tag in their comments section, then how does commenting help in creating backlinks ? Does Google even look at no-follow links for calculating backlinks and page rank ?
Sharinder Many blogs have dofollow commenting system and also many blogs are using top commentator widget which also gives a dofollow backlink….
Oh, so for this case study, you only used blogs that gave some link juice back. Cool. I should try this 🙂
Harsh , one more question , is the “nofollow” tag matter to the comments according your case?
I commented on Nofollow and Dofollow blogs…But commenting on Dofollow blogs are more effective than nofollow blogs…
@Harsh i agree but most of the site i mean 99.99% sites are nofollow. So how do you comment on dofollow blog? I mean how do you fined them?
Really great case study!!
So it’s time to get backlinks , I begin this from your blog ,haha .Many people may put more time to comment after reading this post.
Nice job!
Hi..
The link SEO checklist did not work for me.. Receive
The Page you requested is somewhere here.
Regards
SiRu
Thanks Siru
Fixed it!
https://www.shoutmeloud.com/seo-checklist-every-blogger-should-follow.html
I have also such type of an experience. My personal domain sujith.co.in is with PR -1 (It’s around 1.5 yrs old). No contents and no back links. Don’t know from where the PR came. My main site is with PR-6 and not expecting more.
Now i realised i wasnt wrong having bit wrong perception about Google Page rank !
WISH soemday or otherz my dreams to get a good PR turn true !
Interesting case study. PR is not an accurate measurement of site creditability/traffic. On this issue I have written a lot in my blogs too. PR is now creating ambiguity among users and also gives a wrong perception about the site.
Hope an accurate measurement of PR would be possible in near future.
That is interesting, Harsh – I did this 2 years ago (2 years this month – woot!) on my other blog and made PR 4 in about 5 months, but I thought it was much harder to do, now, with some changes that Google made last year. Evidently, that is not the case! Good info – thanks.
Roy I will call it as pure luck as PR 3 is something which I never expected..I thought of getting PR 1 but somehow google showered with me love of Pr3.
And PR4 in 5 month is a great achievement… 🙂
I’ve got a domain that sat for almost ten years with no content and managed to have a PR of 2. I’m kind of looking forward to the next PR update now that I’m actually using the domain for stuff.
yes commenting really increases the pagerank, as i am a new blogger, and my alexa rank has increases only through commenting on blogs.
Hey Harsh, excellent information that I thank you for my friend. Can you help me find the SEO checklist you linked to at the end of the post. That one didn’t work.
I know you are great with SEO but do you do all of your own artwork too? I think that when people see that lovely page, they know that something really good is coming. I love the wizard cause he’s got that whole Harry Potter thing going on. Thanks for sharing this experiment.
Hey Ileane
Thanks for dropping by and for your comment. No I don’t do those artwork..I have a team who take care of such things.. 🙂
I also fixed the link to SEO checklist:
https://www.shoutmeloud.com/seo-checklist-every-blogger-should-follow.html
Great thanks for the link. Does your graphic art team do work for other’s? How can I contact them?
i too had a blank site with page rank 2. but when i submited the site in google webmaster… the page rank was lost….
Submitting website to Google webmaster tool and losing PR doesn’t make any connection to me….
To be honest, I stopped building backlink for that site via Commenting, so by next PR update, I’m expecting it’s PR to go back to 1 or 0.
I would like to say only one word for this “awesome”. Have you moved to linode vps?? Yours blog is now faster, or disabled some plugins??
@a_usman
Yes we are in Linode VPS now..!!
this is awesome man…Blog commenting is the best way to get backlinks on Google. It has presence for long time which cannot be compared with other SEO submissions…
This clearly shows how lame this Google PR thingy is. But for satisfying advertisers high PR is required. Hope they read this post 😉
hey Harsh Agrawal tell me buddy is it OK to submit your sites link on social bookmarking sites i mean daily 5-10 on differ sites 😛 i just wana ask ‘how much is too much’
thanks
Hey Johnblo
If you submitting your site links to popular social bookmarking sites it;s quite natural and there is nothing spammy..but many social bookmarking are spammy in way..So avoid that…and apart from that link building via Social bookmarking sites are really helpful…
This is quite possible as i have seen many coming soon page of website getting pagerank as high as 5, pagerank does not depend on content is just depends on quality backlink
This is Awesome Harsh. These testings of your makes us more aware of new things. Thanks for doing such new innovative things and making us more aware. 🙂
Hmm!
i have above 500 visitors a day, and this update brought pr 2 to 0.
Now also listed in DMOZ, Guess sm problem with pagerank.
in last 2 months i had 10K daily pageviews 🙁
Shekhar PR depends on various factors along with the traffic you get. Try interlinking posts, reduce ur site load, link your blog with high PR sites. So the PR juice is shared with your site. Also as harsh has written in the case study : Blog Commenting is very important. Try it & u’ll notice a change.
Nice case study. Now a days blogs with CommentLuv & KeywordLuv also help you to increase your PR. I’m seriously waiting for the PR update which seems like it’s never gonna happen 😛
I agree on that Mani….Even I’m waiting for next Pr update.. As expecting to see some nice PR for @thesisservice @wphostingdiscount and an update on @callingallgeeks PR.
Not expecting any update for @shoutmeloud as already passed on lots of Link juice to my other domains.. 🙂
this is tricky, those who are struggling to get PR for their established blogs stuffed with various posts must learn a lesson above. Its a HECK.