How can I increase PR?

**mixke** · 16 January, 2009, 16:58 PM

Originally Posted by Ash

PR is just an imaginary number - all you have to do is get a link from a PR 4 page to get a PR 3 - so, you should not be worried too much about it

Sorry but it doesn't work that way.

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

Inbound links are the only way to gain PageRank.

Theoritically, Yes. But, I'd have to disagree on this. I've seen other factors, I never verified them but they are also important. Inbound links are probably most important ones but I'm sure they are not the only ones to be considered while assigning PR to a page.

**Will.Spencer** · 16 January, 2009, 17:23 PM

Originally Posted by mixke

Theoritically, Yes. But, I'd have to disagree on this. I've seen other factors, I never verified them but they are also important. Inbound links are probably most important ones but I'm sure they are not the only ones to be considered while assigning PR to a page.

Seriously, this is documented in The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page -- it really is only inbound links.

The exception is when Google gives you a manual PR penalty.

**mixke** · 16 January, 2009, 18:18 PM

Then how come some pages with internal links get PR whereas many others don't? Assume same linking page(s).

That's a long page to read, will check it tomorrow

And that page looks aged.

**Charles** · 16 January, 2009, 20:30 PM

Originally Posted by mixke

Then how come some pages with internal links get PR whereas many others don't?

That's something that's stopping you from getting PR, not something else that is helping you get PR -- therefore leaving Will's statement proven true. It's probably because "some" pages don't have very many internal links, whereas "others" do.

**mixke** · 17 January, 2009, 04:43 AM

Originally Posted by Charles

That's something that's stopping you from getting PR, not something else that is helping you get PR -- therefore leaving Will's statement proven true. It's probably because "some" pages don't have very many internal links, whereas "others" do.

Please read the line after '?' - Assume same linking page(s).

**Will.Spencer** · 17 January, 2009, 06:36 AM

Originally Posted by mixke

Then how come some pages with internal links get PR whereas many others don't? Assume same linking page(s).

It could be that some of those links made it into the toolbar pagerank (TBPR) update, while others missed the update.

Or, it could be that the domain in question is suffering from a pagerank penalty. Have you ever sold a link from that domain?

Originally Posted by mixke

And that page looks aged.

It should, it's the original design document for Google.

**MH Vishal** · 29 April, 2009, 11:11 AM

Google Page Rank is based on back links. Back link are links pointing to your website from another website. More back links you have the higher PR will be.

There are many ways to improve your link popularity among them some of are as follows:

1) Writing and distributing Articles.
2) submitting your website to Link Directories.
3) Posting on forums that allow a signature containing a link
4) Commenting on other people websites and blogs
5) Social Bookmarking.