ith your brand new,
professional looking Why Does a PR of 0 Matter?
website up and ready for
the masses, using link exchanges One aspect of backlinking to
can be a powerful way to drive websites that greatly affects
high quality traffic to your your PR is the quality of the
website and provide useful pages you are linked to. For
content for your readers. instance: linking your car parts
Unfortunately, having a newly website to ten dog grooming
built website creates a number of websites will not give your PR
hurdles you must cross before much of a boost due to lack of
reciprocal linking becomes an relevance, but if you link to
easier process. Learn to spot several websites that are also
these roadblocks up front and you automobile related, it will send
will break through the PR 0 your PR in the right direction.
barriers.
Many webmasters look at the
Why do I have a PR of 0? requesting website’s PR before
they will complete a link
Google Page Rank (PR) is given to exchange fearing that a low PR
websites approximately once every will bring their website page
quarter to determine their level rank down. Though this is not
of importance on a scale of 1-10. really the case, it is a hurdle
Many factors determine PR, most you must cross.
of which Google keeps very
secret. It is during this time What to do about it?
when Google has yet to rank your
website that you will show a PR Unfortunately, the PR of 0 will
of 0 in the Foxfire Google not change until Google updates
toolbar. their page ranks, but you can
push through the next few months willing to help out if they know
by doing the following: the quality of the site.
1. Run the numbers. There 3. Build one-way links by
are several tools available to sending out articles, posting in
help lessen the burden of newsgroups or by building a
manually searching for link profile on high traffic sites
partners. I suggest using one of such as MySpace. Commenting in
these to help find a large pool newsgroups or on high traffic
to start from. Set a goal to send sites and adding a comment about
a determined number of link your website in your signature
requests each day. I generally file (making sure the link is
look for 50 matches, sort quickly active) gives you backlinks to
by web title for relevance and your website from those pages.
apply to the link exchange forms
that match my content. Even if Having an initial PR of 0 is a
you only get one response a day, reality all new webmasters must
you are still building quality face, but if you forge ahead,
reciprocal links. building a high quality link
exchange network, you will be
Note: If you see they have pleasantly surprised when Google
a PR restriction, honor it and makes it’s page rank updates.
put them in a category for the Don’t be discouraged and don’t
future. give up. Soon you will be in a
position to easily gain
2. Build relationships. If reciprocal links to other
you know a Webmaster with a site websites with content your
relevant to yours, send a readers will value. This will
personal note requesting a link give you both a steady stream of
exchange. Many website owners are targeted traffic from your
partner sites, and a high well.
quality, content rich website as
About the Author:
Tracy Weber, owner of the eProZone Internet Article Directory, has written unbiased reviews of link exchange tools to make the process run more smoothly.
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