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Amazingly, I have found the topic of SEO to be quite popular. However, day in and day out, I see post after post and blog after blog on this topic. Furthermore, I see countless questions (including my own) on how to rank your site at the top. So the question is, “How do you get your Google Pagerank number greater than zero?” After much research, here is what I came up with.

Popularity. Popularity seems to be the keyword when it comes to SEO and page ranking. The one thing I notice the most in any blog, article, or website I have read in the past regarding this topic (success stories mind you) they seem to come down to “one way links”. Basically, this means that your website is linked from someone else’s website who already has a good page ranking. But, the key isn’t getting your site linked by just one site. You need to have it linked by 500 or 1000 before Google may recognize you as a serious player in the optimization field.

The key, as I stated before, is links. Getting hundreds of links from well ranked page will up your ranking in a heartbeat. Google feels that if your good enough to be linked from a page that is well ranked, then you are good enough to be well ranked. Unfortunately in today’s “Google algorithm”, page ranking isn’t necessarily the key to being on top, but it surely doesn’t hurt.

So what’s the best way to get linked? It surely isn’t asking a thousand websites to put your link somewhere on their page. The key is to write articles. Articles with good content (hopefully like this one) that people want to read will get the attention of other bloggers and readers. Thus, they will begin feeding your site via RSS or a straight post onto their site with your content and your site attached to it. They key is that you need to continuously post genuine articles that catch the attention of others getting webmasters to post your stuff. But you ask, “Why don’t most articles contain links?” Good question. The answer: From a webmaster standpoint, you better have a good article. But from a Google page ranking standpoint, the footer box is the key. Putting your link in your post (be it blog or article listing) is just going to piss people off. Make sure you write a great but small bio of you and your site and why you feel you are eligible to write what you are writing. That footer box at the bottom of any article or blog you write will carry with your posts, and allow the link back from there. Basically, you get the best of both worlds.

Make sure you love what you are writing about, because you are going to have to write a lot about it. Be sure not to get to wordy where you bore your readers, but be sure to write enough content to make your readers bookmark, or better yet post your article onto their site.

In conclusion, let it be known that any Tom, Dick, and Harry can link to you. Plus, any one way links you have from sites that also have a zero page rank from Google means squat for your ranking.