Comments on: Simple Steps to Increase Blog Traffic and Pagerank http://www.scottfillmer.com/2007/10/04/steps-increase-blog-traffic/ Life in Faith & Photos Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:05:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hans http://www.scottfillmer.com/2007/10/04/steps-increase-blog-traffic/#comment-3089 Hans Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:22:44 +0000 http://scott.islandzephyr.com/?p=113#comment-3089 Hi Scott, Nice post. SEO is something you can do yourself, for the most part anyway. I have some remarks though. Point 5, writing a comment on another blog, is useful when you want to make people curious about your own blog. It doesn't generate a higher PR. Almost all blog software I know of, adds the "rel=nofollow" tag to all URLs in an comment, instructing the Google bot to ignore it. Only when your content is worth it, other website/blog owners might add a permanent link to your blog. From that moment on, you start to accumulate "PR points". Content is the key. BTW, Google isn't feeding live PR values to its toolbar anymore for quite some time. As far as I know, PR values haven't been updated for months. It's their way of saying "don't focus on PR so much". Your screendump of Alexa puzzles me a bit. Alexa only counts visitors who, maybe by accident, installed their toolbar. Hardly of any (statistical) importance. Besides, their toolbar is considered to be spyware. Best regards, Hans Hi Scott,

Nice post. SEO is something you can do yourself, for the most part anyway. I have some remarks though.

Point 5, writing a comment on another blog, is useful when you want to make people curious about your own blog. It doesn’t generate a higher PR. Almost all blog software I know of, adds the “rel=nofollow” tag to all URLs in an comment, instructing the Google bot to ignore it.

Only when your content is worth it, other website/blog owners might add a permanent link to your blog. From that moment on, you start to accumulate “PR points”. Content is the key.

BTW, Google isn’t feeding live PR values to its toolbar anymore for quite some time. As far as I know, PR values haven’t been updated for months. It’s their way of saying “don’t focus on PR so much”.

Your screendump of Alexa puzzles me a bit. Alexa only counts visitors who, maybe by accident, installed their toolbar. Hardly of any (statistical) importance. Besides, their toolbar is considered to be spyware.

Best regards,

Hans

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