I was surprised this morning the moment I checked my Google PageRank. I saw it had increased to 3 from 2. A search engine observer informed me that Google has done a PR update, so I just had a look at my PR. I had a reason to smile then…… :-)

I had received my first PR of 2 four months after starting my blog. Three months later, I received a PR of 3. Some SEO pros had told me Google updates PR records every three months. Its not three months exactly….. but around three months.

The secret is to keep building links if you want a good PR for your site!

If you don’t care about making money online, you should be the last person to give a thought to your PR. Otherwise, if you are a `making money online’ enthusiast, PageRank is one of the most important parameters of your site. PR is entirely based upon the backlinks to your site. Precisely, it depends upon the PR of the pages linking to you and the number of ‘Out bound links’ on the pages linking to you. You can find the detailed PR algorithm at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank.

I received a PR of 2 within 4 months. A non zero PR is a definite plus when it comes to selling links and writing reviews. Also, this will help you in your SEO practices. Following are the simple steps you need to follow:

-> Submit to as many directories as possible.

-> Submit to social bookmarking sites.

-> Buy some high PR links at tnx.net (Cheapest links are available over there)

-> Submit a press release at PRweb.com (This would give you a backlink of at least PR3)

Within a maximum of 4 months, you will achieve a non zero PageRank.

The reasons I could figure out why blogger posts were getting indexed in Google is: Blogger.com is Google’s family member and also, Blogger.com has a pagerank of 8. So, those of you who have a dream of becoming a blogger, get yourself a blog at blogger.com and start posting about the topics you love!

Proxy scripts are mostly coded in PHP; so they are called PHP proxies and freely available on the internet. One of the popular places where you can find is script is: http://www.glype.com and http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-proxy

To monitor proxy sites, there are proxy topsites. These are as good as web-proxy search engines. Submitting a proxy site to around 50 topsites will send you around 300-400 unique visitors. Just imagine what would happen if you had Adsense code on your homepage.

If you would like to  own a proxy, you have to purchase a hosting package. I would recommend you going for http://www.techentrance.com/ as they provide hosting specially for proxies. Then you have to download a proxy script, install it on your server, and you have a proxy site running.

As far as the money making part is concerned, just add your adsense code on the homepage and a CPM based code on proxified pages.

I’ve used a plug-in called All In One SEO Pack which works great for SEOing. To download it, CLICK HERE. This plugin will automatically generate META tags for each of your posts. META tags on a web page are specially used for the purpose of search engines. Most of the search engines, even Google, first reads your META tags(META description atleast) . It also optimizes titles, avoids duplicate content, and much more. It does everything right to make your blog search engine friendly. And you will notice that your pages will be indexed in Google faster.

If you want, you will be able to put custom page title, keywords, description for every post you make as this feature will be provided by the plugin.

The customization options will look like:

Your Alexa rank will come into picture when you are selling links or ad positions or reviews. Advertisers will prefer only those websites with a good Alexa rank.

There are two main ways of improving your Alexa rank:

• Encourage your users to download and install the Alexa Toolbar. Use Alexa redirecting URL instead of your main URL.

• The Alexa redirection URL looks like this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?YOURSITE.COM

To analyze your traffic, you will require some tools. These kind of tools are available in abundance. These will be Java scripts, you will be required to past a code on your site. Every time your site is visited, this code will be triggered and the information about the visitor will be logged.

The following tools I felt are the best for monitoring and analyzing your stats:

Sitemeter

Mywebstats

Google Analytics

Google is providing such a service. It has worked for me in a great fashion.  They have all the tools that are required to analyze your current status in search engines. Some of them are internal & external backlink checker, top search engine queries checker, indexed stats etc.

You are also allowed to submit an XML sitemap. This will enable google to index you pages as fast as possible.

To start log on to: http://www.google.com/webmaters.

Blogrush is a sought of traffic exchange. Not exactly by the definition, but the functionality is similar. Once you sign up to an account, you need to put a small widget on your blog. This widget will syndicate the latest posts of other blogs through a selected category. Everytime the widget is displayed, you earn credits. These credits are then used to syndicate your posts on other blogs belonging to the same category. Also, you earn 100% of the credits of your referral’s traffic. I’ve been using blogrush for quite some time and have got good results from it.

To join, Click Here.

Basic promotion techniques are discussed in the Promotion section, but there are a few more ways of driving traffic. One of them is Social Bookmarking.

Social bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages. In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, but depending on the service’s features, may be saved privately, shared only with specific people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, via a search engine, or even randomly.

Some of the top social bookmarking sites are: Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, del.icio.us, etc.
These are very easy to use and can potentially drive a lot of traffic to your site. When you bookmark your site/post to a certain social bookmarking site, people around you will notice that you have bookmarked and eventually visit your site. If they like it, even they will bookmark, and this will result in more visitors. So, join these sites, create some good quality unique content, and submit it to as many social bookmarking sites as possible. Submitting an article to StumbleUpon will result in atleast 50-100 pageviews. Apart from traffic, these sites will provide you quality backlinks which is a definite plus for SEO.

Use ready made some social bookmarking widgets/plugins/scripts like Addthis, Share This, etc. on your site for the convenience of your visitors to bookmark your site. Just search for social bookmarking tools in any search engine, you’ll find tons of free tools.