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 .
I don’t understand what you were trying to figure out. There is nothing surprising here Harsh.
Page rank has nothing to do with content. It is solely based on backlinks and pr of those backlink pages. So you can get a site with 0 content PR of 10 if you can get enough number of pr 10, 9, 8 and so on.
I love your blog and now I’m totally addicted to your blog. Could you please write a post for N/A page rank.
I want to ask – Depending upon present SEO & Google, does Blog Commenting still pays a role?
Thanks for sharing your case study.
I prefer to read something like this as this is real life experience. In other words, if you apply the same strategy, more or less you’ll get the same result.
Your tips for making your website ranking with comments is really helpful Harsh. But what about Panda and Penguin? Is it harmful for our website by this update?
It is really useful tips Harsh, Yes, High PR websites comments will create good backlinks for our blog. I have also tried and got lots of benefits in SERP.
Yeah, I have also achieved PR2 by just commenting and nothing else. I am also ranking due to that pagerank in Google.
I know many things about seo but one thing always hits me back is theme, can you suggest a free quality theme Harsh, or if I go for a paid option how much will it cost ? (Low on cash these days)
Will try commenting more and more.. but no follow links are also a factor. And please tell me if your blog has a DOFOLLOW site list?
But where do you scrounge for the high pr places to put your links on?
That means you are saying that we can get page without content.
but i heard that google pagerank plays a important role in every aspect in the eye of google.
how many high prlinks are needed to get page rank of at-least 1
I heard people said High PR site link to new site will have negative effect for seo, is it true?
Hi Harsh i have a problem if you can help me with : i bought a pr3 domain from godaddy action before i buy it i check the backlinks the history the pr show it was original but after i bought it after i instal wordpress and try to get it back to life , over night i lose the page rank get down from pr3 to pr 0 …. verry frustrating.. what was the reason the page rank will get back dont know can you help me with some informations pls? the site is : coachfactorysonline.com
Thanks Harsh for sharing this important post. I am currently having 0 PR. Now i can guess what mistakes i have made their.
Thank you bro. keep it up.
Wow great. This thing also happened with one other person. I am jealous, that you people got good PR without a content. Hahahah :).
Actually you done quite efforts to get PR, as google is not so generous to allot PR without good amount of efforts. Agarwal, can you tell me that how commenting on blog having top commentor or recent commentor results in quality backlinks???
Thank
Thanks, this tactic worked well for me, though I’m stumbling onto PR3 sites that have no backlinks according to those tools – content must be king!
That’s crazy what you were able to achieve simply by commenting. I’m a graphic designer and notice for certain design related terms, one designer shows very high in search results, yet his website consists only of a landing page with his name, contact email, and a couple links to social media sites like twitter, facebook, and dribbble I believe. This is very strange to me and I’m assuming that the only way he is able to achieve this is through site age and commenting. I can’t see anyone voluntarily linking to his site which contains nothing.
In regards to the commenter who mentioned “comment luv” being helpful for PR, I figured it would at least bring me more comments when I installed the plugin on my graphic design website a month or so ago. Strangely I have yet to see a jump in blog comments to my site. I guess if you are reading this now, and would like a little “link luv”, you know where to go 🙂
You’re right, i also have 1 blog with PR 2 and more than 70 posts but daily traffic of that blog is below 100 pageviews which clearly indicate that PR is not at all related with traffic. PR is all about your trust rank and authority score.
do i really need to have thesis theme?
I think that It is a good tips to increase website page rank. I also want to something about this.There’s many different ways of increasing your website ranking or Page Rank – a Google term for website popularity. However Page Rank is determined on the quality of the back link (among other factors) and so getting a back link from a high Page Rank blog is hugely beneficial to the Page Rank of your website.
thanks