How My Blog Jumped From PR0 To PR3 IN JUST 7 Months (Infographic)

7 months seem like a lifetime?

I know many blogs , live since God-knows-when, are still PR1 or PR2.

I used to drool over PR3 blogs when mine was PR N/A and it stayed there for about seven months – but I didn’t quit, didn’t lose hope.

The infographic below tells my story how I did it it came about:

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Summary:

(How to increase page rank)

You can draw any conclusion since SEO and PageRank are mysterious creatures.

Here’s what I perceive from it:

• After Google’s recent updates, I stopped paying too much attention to SEO (backlinking in particular)
• Focusing on high-quality, media-rich and longer content with quality outbound links was (allegedly) the most helpful factor
• Guest posting and social sharing helped improve my PR plus drew in a lot of traffic
• Commenting on RELEVANT blogs also sent considerable traffic – many topnotch bloggers would come back to drop a comment or share my post
• I spammed by commenting on irrelevant blogs. Once I realized it’s unethical (and a sheer waste of time), ditched it then and there
•  Web 2.0 sites and article directories never sent much traffic, so I dumped them too
• Forum posting (along with blog commenting) was annoying and timewasting – flirted with it for just a couple of weeks or so. Some people, however, claim to have benefited from it

Other things I tried recently:

• Lesser internal links in the posts (after Google’s over optimization penalty)
• Google Ads are now lower down the text because (just like humans) Google also hates ads above the fold
• Naturally occurring text instead of keywords for anchor text
• Footer, with lots of internal links, was removed

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