Google Pagerank was a much talked 1 year back. We used to see paid reviews, link posting, selling and buying links going on all over. But after the stern action by Google, this has come down. Google pagerank has impact on search engine ranking and SERP’s but when we have good and unique content on our blog, we do not really need to bother about pagerank.
Good pagerank and getting your blog pages indexed by the search engines, will surely increase your blog traffic and subsequently your blog earnings. But we should not run to increase our blog pagerank. There are many sites with higher pagerank but earns much lesser than blogs with lower pagerank.
How to increase your blog pagerank?
Pagerank depends on incoming links from pages with better pagerank. Getting links from pages with high pagerank is possible only when you have great content which has the credit to get linked or referred by others. The best way to get backlinks are to write good post which others find interesting.
Earning from your blog
Earnings depend on many factors. If you have a good reader base, RSS feed subscribers, News letter subscribers, you will surely get good traffic. Earnings from Google Adsense depends on the clicks generated and most of the Google Adsense publishers believe that Search engine traffic or a visitor who comes searching from a searching to your page has more chances of clicking on Ads as Google adsense delivers related Ads.
Great bloggers make money by other sources like affiliate programs, selling of ad spaces (Oiopublishers), paid reviews, etc.
To conclude, you should not worry about pagerank or should not go for getting backlinks. I get lots of emails for buying links on my blogs, but I do not for selling links. Selling links could lead to penalizing by search engines which could spoil your search engine ranking. You should follow the Webmasters Guidelines and publish great contents consistently and keep your blog fresh. You should have a good professional theme which one of the important factor. You can use plugins like Maxblogpress to create affiliate links to improve your affiliate sales. You can check this SEO tips for WordPress if you are using WordPress as your blogging tool. You can do some customization of your WordPress installation to tweak it like RSS feeds (Use Feedburner).
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