Recently I have been contacted by a few people who asked questions about how long it took me to get PageRank love from Google. These people were curious about when I started this site because of an article I wrote about the PageRank love Google gave PureBlogic.com during their updates earlier in January 2008. I received a PageRank of 2 out of 10.  A lot of people put a lot of time and energy into telling you that purchasing new domains is going to put you into some magic Google secret place that you won’t be able to get out of for some time and so on and so on. People, please listen to me. Just because you read it in more than one place doesn’t make it so.

While 2 isn’t a huge number, since more than one person asked me after the PageRank update about when I started my blog, I decided to write a post about this to dispel myths and let people know that getting “sandboxed” by Google just because you have a new site may be more about the sites that you used to establish link love for your new site and your optimization techniques and less about how old your new domain is. Here is a timeline of what I did.

1. First off, I purchased PureBlogic.com on November 4th of 2007. I decided on a Wordpress format for my blog, however, I didn‘t add anything to the site until November 28th.
2. Between November 5th and the 28th I decided on exactly what I was going to right about for the first 10 days. I wrote my articles in MS Word but I didn’t put them into WordPress yet.
3. On November 29th, 2007, I loaded my first article and scheduled the rest of them.
4. I joined MyBlogLog on December 4th, 2007.
5. I joined StumbleUpon on December 5th, 2007.
6. I joined Delicious and started bookmarking my posts.
7. I wrote two articles about two people who were creating things for WordPress. Darren Hoyt is a designer who has created a great theme called Mimbo for WordPress. Lester Chan is a student who has created fantastic plugins for Wordpress. Both Darren & Lester linked to my article. Darren’s girlfriend, who was also mentioned in the article because she is on his front page, also wrote an article and linked to my article.
8. I added Google Adsense, Commission Junction, Kontera & TextLinkAds to PureBlogic.com. (I stopped using the last two after I changed from WordPress to Joomla.)
9. I set up my RSS feed with Feed Burner - http://feeds.feedburner.com/pureblogic .
10. I scheduled my articles to roll out every single day. On the days when I had nothing scheduled, I wrote the article offline and put it into Wordpress manually.
11. I submitted each post to Digg and I used a WordPress plug-in that automatically sent out pings to notify search engines and other sites every time I made a new post - which was everyday.
12. I Stumbled the site.
13. During the first week of January, I received a PageRank of 2 from Google.

Now the interesting thing is that I ranked in the search engines for Darren Hoyt right away. Darren is quite popular due to his Mimbo theme and other design work. I ranked in the search terms as soon as Google was notified via my ping that I had an update that included the article about him.

That’s it people. There were no magic potions. I didn’t have to bribe anyone at Google. I wasn’t sandboxed, sandwiched or packaged! (That was a small joke!) The time it took from my first post to getting PageRank was only 44 days! Don’t let people scare you into thinking that you can’t get a new domain indexed or you can’t get PageRank quickly or that you are automatically sandboxed because your site is new. It just isn’t true. Google calculates PageRank on a regular basis. They don’t publish the rankings for everyone to see on a regular basis. Instead, they tend to publish the snapshot they have in their system quarterly. Understand that. Google calculates PageRank very regularly. What you are seeing when you actually notice a change in your Google Toolbar is the snapshot Google is providing to you for that point in time.

You need to create backlinks to your site from sites with good PageRank (feel free to use my list of 122 bookmarking sites),  you need to write fresh content daily and you need to use plug-ins to ping every service out there when you have an update. If you do those things, when Google gives out PageRank love, you will be on the receiving end. Try it out for yourself. Follow the steps I have listed above and you will see the same results, if not better, when Google gives out its next round of PageRank updates. People please don’t make it harder for yourself than it has to be. Building backlinks, PageRank & link love is very, very easy.


Posted By Kila Morton.

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