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How to Improve your Google PageRank.

Before suggesting the steps to Improve your Google PageRank, you must know the fact that no matter what you do you won't see any changes in your PageRank until Google decides to update it.

Last time, PageRank was updated in February 1st week. Going by the last year trend, it would have already been updated in June, but there is no update till now. This simply means, You have some more time on working to Improve your Google PageRank.

One more thing, there is no 'defined ways' of improving your PageRank. Google always keep things secret. However, people have learned from some common practices that really help in boosting your PageRank.

Here are some ways of Improving your PageRank.

▌ Content is the king.

No matter which aspect you discuss about blogging, Content is the king.

Content should be unique.

♦ Post quality content.
♦ Post regularly.
♦ Submit your sitemap to Google so that your articles are indexed.
♦ Keep your content Unique.
♦ If you write an awesome article, certainly people will link to your content.

▌ Get back links from Higher PR.

The best way to increase you PageRank is by getting back links from reputed websites/blogs that have higher page rank than yours. However, keep in mind the following point before getting a back link from any other websites.

Courtesy : Wikipedia.

♦ Always go for a blog with better traffic than yours.
♦ Websites with higher PageRank will help more.
♦ Avoid crappy websites. They might lead to down gradation of your PageRank.

▌ Submit your links to social sites.

Drop your articles links on social media. This will help in Increasing your PageRank. You can use social media like

Social Media marketing

♦ Facebook.
♦ Google+.
♦ LinkedIn.
♦ Twitter.

Submit to Other social bookmarking websites like Delicious, Digg, reddit also.

▌ Directory submission.

Submit your blog to directories. Get listed on Technorati blog media. Work in forums and leave backlinks to your articles. Submit your blog to Yahoo directories.

Advice.

Check the PR of a website on which you leave a comment or get a back link. Always go for a blog/site with higher PR than yours.

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How to set up Google Analytics to your blog.

Google Analytics is a a free service that gives you detailed statistics about your blog. It checks your sales and conversions, number of visitors, traffic sources, and your social media and search engine campaigns. Bloggers use Analytics to watch out their traffic so that they can work in the direction of improving it.

Setting up Google Analytics to your blog.

Setting Google Analytics for your blog.

This post gives you an explanation of how to set up Google Analytics account for your blog.

▌ How to set up Analytics.

♦ Go to Google Analytics website. Sign in with your gmail account. If you don't have one, create a new account.

♦ Go to Admin panel and create a new account.

Select Admin.

Choose +New Account.

♦ Fill out the details under "setting up your web property". Select the website category that best suits your blog. Finally click on the "Get Tracking ID". It will ask you to Agree to terms and conditions.

♦ Now you will be given a tracking ID and tracking code. Analytics will ask you to paste this tracking code in each of your web page that you wanna track. Copy this tracking code.

You tracking code will look something like this.

▌ For Blogger user.

Back-up. It is highly recommended that you back up your blog before trying anything in the edit html section.

♦ Go to your Blogger Dashboard > Templates > Edit HTML.

♦ Search <head> section by pressing ctrl + f and searching for "<head>". Just below the head tag, paste the complete tracking code from Analytics.

♦ Preview the template to see if everything is working fine. Now save your template and exit.

♦ Wait for some hours before Google Analytics detects the tracking codes and start showing reports for your blogs.

Wordpress-users have to do the same of pasting the tracking code into the <head> tag of their html code. The steps may be a little bit different and you may figure it out on your own.

This is just a tutorial of setting up Google Analytics for your blog. Its not tough to understand the working of Analytics. Get familiar with it.

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