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7 Google Alternatives: Things to Do While Google Ranks Your Page

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Alternatives to Waiting for Google

 

You know the Google Search Engine can take a while to increase the PageRank of your webpage. Many people get a little frustrated while waiting for something to happen. To be fair though, the folks at Google have a lot of websites to look at. Was it 1.5 billion at the last count? That's a lot of pages! Google has to work out the PageRank for each one.

Don't lose heart though. There are a lot of things you can do to make this process a little less painful. And they don't all involve setting your goal and then sitting back and meditating!

So read on...

Instead of Sitting Around Waiting for Google... 

Try these alternative suggestions while your PageRank gets processed

1. Obsessively check your website stats


2. Book a round-the-world-tour


3. Go on your round-the-world-tour


4. Set up an AdWords campaign


5. Obsessively check your AdWords clicks and costs


6. Keep chasing links to your site


7. Watch an entire season of American Idol

But Seriously, Where SHOULD You Focus? 

Of course it's no good sitting back and waiting for your PageRank to go up if you haven't already done your home work on your site.

The main things you need to do are:

1. Collect plenty of good quality links to your pages.

2. Build lots of relevant, interesting content

You've probably heard these before but they are true. Apply your focus to these two principles and you'll be heading in the right direction!

So how do you get started building some great content for your website? Sign up for my guide Squeeze More Results From Your Website to find out!

So How Does It Work? 

It's useful to look at how the PageRank process works

Why? Because if you understand the various steps involved then you will also understand why the process can take a while. (Oh, and it's also gives you some shorter term goals to aim for, which is good too)

1. Google indexes your pages

It can take a while for Google to find and index the pages of your site. Often this can be fairly quick, and it helps here if you have other sites linking to yours.

Another way to look at it is this - if you don't have any external links to your site it can take a long time for Google to find you (possibly never). Of course you can help this by submitting your site, maybe with a sitemap. This doesn't seem to be as useful as it used to be, so long as you have links to your site

2. Google spiders the links to your site

Once you have your external links in place Google will spider through all of these and work out which pages link to your site. This can take a while too.

One problem here is that Google doesn't report many of the links that it finds. It might list some of the high value ones, but it's hard to know exactly why it chooses to show some, but not others. This makes it hard to track how your links are building.

3. Google increases its internal "score"

Once your links get to a certain threshold Google will start to rank your site higher in the search results. You'll start to see a little more traffic to your site from organic Google search.

Again, it can take a while to get to this stage. This doesn't always coincide with an increase in your PageRank though. It often takes longer still to get to this stage.

4. Google changes your PageRank

Hopefully it went up!

So What's Your Favorite Google Alternative? 

What do you do while waiting for your PageRank?

Add your thoughts here. You can vote for others too!

Check your website stats

Where are my visitors coming from?2 points

Shout "Why isn't my PageRank going up?!"...

...while banging the desk. Repeat 4 times a day2 points

Work on your internal links

The black art of optimising your PR across your si more...1 point

Sit back and do some meditation

I favor the traditional approach1 point

Book a round-the-world-tour

You know you always wanted to see the pyramids0 points

Go on your round-the-world tour

Arrive home, check the mail, check your PageRank ( more...0 points

Get going with AdWords

Start spreading the message0 points

Check your AdWords clicks and costs

Wow - I'm spending how much?0 points

Chase some more links to your site

If your PR hasn't gone up, how do you know which o more...0 points

Watch an entire season of American Idol

I preferred the other David0 points

Add some more content to your site

Just one more page...0 points

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OK. How Do I Get Started on Improving My Google Position? 

I thought you might ask

I've done this successfully on all of my websites and written my favorite tips in my free guide Squeeze More Results From Your Website. It's free, and you can sign up for a copy here. Just click on the Orange.

Let me know if you like it!!

The Most Important Thing to Remember

Getting a good PageRank can take a while. While you're waiting for yours you should focus on building more content and links to your site. Keep going - you'll get there!!

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enslavedbyfaeries

Thanks for the great tips! 5*

Posted October 12, 2008

Jenysie

Thanks for this!! It was so nice of you to write your own helpful ebook for others on improving their google pagerank...and it's free! That's awesome!!
XD
Keep Up the great work!!

Posted October 01, 2008

somala

Hi,
your lens is very use full for lal the people.
it is very necessory to do all this for getting good pagerank from the google.
Thanks
somala

Posted August 27, 2008

JoshGates

The lens should be rated higher! I had to click thru about 10 garbage lenses before getting to yours!

I'm trying to get my website/blog onto first page results, but I am battling a minor celebrity for my name.

Check out my Search Engine Challenge lens at: http://www.squidoo.com/THE_Josh_Gates

I would love some feedback. Thanks

Posted July 11, 2008

ThomasC

This is a very good lens! Thanks for the information! Starred and a fav! Great Job!
ThomasC

Posted July 02, 2008

 
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