A surefire way to help increase your Google PageRank is to attract links from high-pagerank blogs and websites. 

As you know, Google’s PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weight to a website and its internal pages.  It uses a website’s link structure to determine how valuable a given page is.  Each link for a website is like vote.  Google also determines the importance of that vote.  A linke (or “vote”) from a new website doesn’t mean as much as a link from a high-trafficked, established website.  A site’s PageRank results from this ballot-like process, and that rank represents the popularity and importance of your website.

But how many links do you need?  For example, how many links from high-PageRank sites will get you a PR 1 or a PR 2? 

I stumbled upon the following interesting chart a couple of months ago that provides some answers to these questions:

How To Increase Your Google PageRank

This chart supposedly illustrates–approximately–how much the PageRank of your blog or website depends on the PageRank and quantity of pages that link to your site.  It also shows the equivalence of a different number of pages with different PageRanks. 

So, for example, if you want your site to have a PageRank of 4, you need at least 3 links from a site with a PageRank of 5 or, alternatively, 18 links from a site with a PageRank of 4.  And if you want your site to have a PageRank of 6, you need at least 3 links from a site with a PageRank of 7 or, alternatively, 18 links from a site with a PageRank of 6.

This is obviously not THE dispositive way for you to increase your Google PageRank.  There are other factors to which you need to pay attention, like the quality of your content, the age of your site, the anchor text of the links to your site, the number of external links on linked pages, etc.  But this chart is a good start, and it’s informative.  I’ve tried the strategy above (i.e., getting links from PR 4 and PR 5 sites) to a limited extent, and if I see any significant results the next time Google updates its PageRanks, I will report back. 

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