7 Google Alternatives

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

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!

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!

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!!