How to achieve higher PR for your domain name / website, TechFilipino is now PR 3

I’ve been blogging since January 1, 2009 as I thought I wanted to write about my web 2.0 interests, as well as, other things that interested me online. It was a tough 7 months of writing and learning about my interests. TechFilipino has now achieved Google PageRank (PR) 3 and I’ve seen more traffic flow into this blog. Here’s how I achieved a higher PR ranking:

Update Regularly

– A Post a Day … –

One thing that I did was to update my blog on a daily basis (12 noon), well except one time that wordpress missed its schedule, but I did double post the next day. Many SEO experts debate about updating it all at one go or to update it daily, I believe in daily updating. Not only do search engines appreciate fresh content on a daily basis, but your readers as well. They would know when exactly to come visit for new content and it’s one post a day which is a lighter read.

Keyword Targetting

– Hit 1 to 2 main keywords for your website / domain name –

At the beginning, I thought that I have so many topics that I wanted to write about (hence the long category bar on top). I’ve achieved PR 1 after 4 months which took a while, As I narrowed down my topics it got me to PR 2 in another 2 months. But the best was when I started focusing on website reviews and domain names, that I was able to increase my PR to 3 in less than 1 month. I recommend to research about the keywords that you are writing about and target the right keywords with the least competitors.

Label your images

– Name your Images with the target keyword –

This is what I believe most website and blog owners miss out, they would just upload pictures directly from their cameras. I suggest that every picture you upload you add the keyword (by renaming) from your post. I’ve received tons of traffic from people searching for pictures, and I guess that’s another thing why my PR increased.

Submit your website / domain name to other websites

– Submit your website to related websites or directories –

Try to submit your website to as many “related” websites that you can find that allows submission. I’ve interacted in blogs, forums, submitted to directories, added links to social websites. What I suggest is go to Google and type the keyword that you’re after and submit your website or blog to all the resulting pages.