A straightforward question: How do you increase your PR

[RoniShwartz]

My content-rich-travel-related website has been around for almost four years, and I keep on updating it...

It boasts thousands of indexed pages with good, original content

The domain has been PR4 for God knows how long, while the main subdomains are 'stuck' on PR1 or, maximum, PR2

What are the MOST imporant points to take care of, if you want your PR to get higher (or a certain page's PR) and is it really that important ???

Cheers, Roni

[paulgl]

Internal linking will boost the PR of inner pages.
That and the same higher PR links that one normally gets.

But you mention subdomains. Do you really mean subdomain?

If you really mean subdomains, then subdomains are treated
as separate and not-equal domains. You can get
some benefit by inter linking the main domain, but IMHO,
not as much as internal linking inner pages.

That's why most of the time it's not good to use subdomains, but
just sub-pages.

Since they are looked upon as separate websites, you in effect
must do all SEO you would normally do to any domain. Twice the
effort, so to speak. You must get some great external backlinks.

PR is all about backlinks. I have raised many internal pages just by
internal linking. The authority passes as well, which is why wikipedia,
amazon, etc. can get #1 without any PR or backlinks.

Paul

[alantay]

true, internal linking is important especially with the anchor text. If that particular page is very important, you can interlink it in every page.

[ichl13]

Basically the more quality backlinks you have pointing to your website the higher the PR is. Your homepage is a higher PR because I presume you backlink primarily to your homepage.

There was a chart somewhere I saw that gave you an estimate of how many PR links you need to make your website a certain PR. I'll try and find it for you

And I agree with the other guys, good internal linking will help pass around the link juice

[lalitbansal004]

For On page Optimization it is Good If your Site have no Broken Links.

And Quality Content is Best Method.

[RoniShwartz]

Originally Posted by paulgl

... But you mention subdomains. Do you really mean subdomain?

If you really mean subdomains, then subdomains are treated
as separate and not-equal domains. You can get
some benefit by inter linking the main domain, but IMHO,
not as much as internal linking inner pages.

That's why most of the time it's not good to use subdomains, but
just sub-pages.

Thank you for your detailed anwer Paul and, to be honest, I'm not sure I know what is the difference between subdomains and sub-pages...

To make things clearer : Let's assume my Asia-travel-website is www travelasia.com, than what I refer to as "subdomains" are : www travelasia.com/China OR www travelasia.com/India and so on... and than, underneath those "so called subdomains" there are more sub-pages, like:
www travelasia.com/China/hotels OR www travelasia.com/China/restaurants ....

Did I make myself clear ? What do you reckon ? Is internal-linking the right way for me ?

Many thanks, Roni

[RoniShwartz]

Originally Posted by ichl13

There was a chart somewhere I saw that gave you an estimate of how many PR links you need to make your website a certain PR. I'll try and find it for you

Thanks... I'll really appreciate it if you can find this chart and shre it with me (and with the rest of the members), or at least if you remember how to describe it, so I can look for it in Google

Cheers, Roni

[Carl Brown]

www.travelasia.com is actually a subdomain of travelasia.com

china.travelasia.com would be another subdomain so is japan.travelasia.com They are all subdomains of travelasia.com and treated as distinct websites

To make things clearer : Let's assume my Asia-travel-website is www travelasia.com, than what I refer to as "subdomains" are : www travelasia.com/China OR www travelasia.com/India and so on... and than, underneath those "so called subdomains" there are more sub-pages, like:
www travelasia.com/China/hotels OR www travelasia.com/China/restaurants ....

These are actually different catagories

[RoniShwartz]

Originally Posted by lalitbansal004

For On page Optimization it is Good If your Site have no Broken Links.

And Quality Content is Best Method.

I have no broken lings and I have tons of quality content... Unfortunately, seems like it is not enough...

[raxe]

Hi All,

I just wanted to clarify some thoughts, as they can be misleading for other readers.

Originally Posted by ichl13

There was a chart somewhere I saw that gave you an estimate of how many PR links you need to make your website a certain PR. I'll try and find it for you

Originally Posted by RoniShwartz

Thanks... I'll really appreciate it if you can find this chart and shre it with me (and with the rest of the members), or at least if you remember how to describe it, so I can look for it in Google
Cheers, Roni

First of all, even if you found such chart, you cannot rely on it as it will be based on particular website's case. The reason is that it is not just the number of links that counts, but most importantly the quality of sites and their relevancy to your site (proper use of keywords in anchor text).

In other words it will be better to have 100 links from PR5+ pages with relevant content than 1000 links from low ranked sites, poor web directories and auto approve blogs.

As for the URL issue that was mentioned, look into URL canonicalization. It is a way of choosing a preferred URL address (www or non-www). Usually it will require you to set 301 redirect, couple of minutes and your PR juice instead of being split between two domains now goes to one!

Your main index page will have the highest PR 99.9% of the time. Your sub pages will usually be couple of points back. Hope it helps!

[ibnujusup]

how to increase your PR....?

for me , comment on high PR blog that have top commenter plugin... ( it really help)

is it important?
yes, because the higher PR of your inner page or main page , make it easier to rank your new info on new subdomain... ( based on my experience), so the higher traffic, and money....

[Marx Vergel Melencio]

Hi Roni,

Originally Posted by RoniShwartz

What are the MOST imporant points to take care of, if you want your PR to get higher (or a certain page's PR) and is it really that important ???

A good combination of onsite SEO, internal linking included, and offsite SEO, contextual high PR dofollow backlinks with relevant content, have resulted to PR page improvement for our clients, especially since we regularly update their site content and build diverse, contextual high PR dofollow backlinks for them as well as nofollow backlinks on contextual sites, more so social networks, with top Google rankings for their target keywords, so purely for traffic generation through traffic funneling...

Google PR is important if you're planning to sell your website, or if you're trying to get top Google rankings for your pages and target keywords. Also important in terms of selling websites, improving page Google PR and Google page rankings are the amount of content on your website, site content diversity and site content update frequency...

[Mike Anthony]

straightforward answer - by getting links from pages that actually have PR

[horowitzz]

Why don't you try submission to the high PR directory or backlinking?

[UMS]

The other thing to remember about PR is that while it can be relatively easy to get a PR4, once you start going higher than that, it gets harder and harder and harder.

When you start getting in the PR7-PR10 range, it's pretty much only authority sites you'll find and they have gazillions of links.

Google.com and Facebook are both PR10, which is what you'd expect.

[Jessicalohan21]

Optimize your website in a proper way. Do proper on-page and off-page optimization. Updated unique and fresh content regularly on your site. Increase your website good quality backlinks. Do Directory submission, RSS submission, Article submission, Guest posting, doffollow blog commenting, Social Bookmaring. After done this your targeting keywords will be getting ranking in google. Once your keywords come in good ranking in Google, then your website's visitors definitely increased. And after all these process whenever Google doing updation of PR, Google definitely increase your PR.