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A PR5 ranking by Google is pretty good. I did it with very little effort and here’s how.

  1. I started blogging. I went to WordPress and got myself a blog.
  2. I had something to blog about. I started the blog to tell the story about my (now defunct) adventure with Shopster. I found that there were a lot of people who wanted information on what works and what doesn’t.
  3. I built incoming links. Well I didn’t build them, they came to me. Others in Shopster had blogs and so we added each other to our blogrolls. The more I blogged them more incoming links I receive.
  4. Squidoo. I built a Squidoo lens with a link to my blog.
  5. I posted two or three times a day.
  6. Tags and categories. Tags are what make a blog successful. By using the right tags you get found. I made sure to use Google in tags as much as possible. They really like reading about themselves.
  7. I answered the comments to my posts. Even if it was only a thank you for commenting.
  8. I helped others. If you’ll notice my blogroll you’ll see Shopster sites listed even though they are not blogs. By giving them a link from a PR5 site they were helped and in return they helped me by reading the blog and giving me a link.
  9. I kept focused. I focused on ecommerce, Shopster, and ways to make an ecommerce site successful.Well

Well that’s about it. You know, once I closed my Shopster site I really didn’t think much about this blog. Then, months after my last post, I got a comment from someone who found the site. I came back, checked the stats, and to my amazement found that site was still receiving hits. So, I am once again blogging and trying to give information that people are looking for. I like doing it so it’s a win-win.

How I lost it…I quit posting!

I have noticed that there are a lot of bloggers (20 or so over the past few months) and website owners who use my posts on their site. I really don’t mind, it sort of strokes the ego. What I need to try and understand is just how this helps me. I know that I have received hits to this site from their sites and so that’s a plus. About a month after I started this blog I built it into a PR5 ranked site. Then, I quit blogging after I quit Shopster and it dropped to a current PR3. However, I have a PR3 ranked site without any updates. Could this be from the links? Probably. Anyway, anyone who wants to use my posts may do it. My next post will detail how I got a PR5 ranking.

Well since I’m here front and center in front of millions of faithful bloggers and blog fans I guess I should take this opportunity to do something worthwhile. Maybe plug a “save the whales” site or something like that. Actually I would like to take this opportunity to thank WordPress.com for the best blog experience in the universe and also to push Mozilla FoxFire. You can download it here http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox.

Please note that I do not get paid for the plugs. It’s from the heart, honestly!

Foxfire is the absolute fastest, easiest, and safest browser on the net. Tons of plugins. Hey you can even use it to post to your WordPress.com blog right from you browser and even subscribe to my feeds.

Hey what do you know, we made blog of the minute here at WordPress! It’s cool to log on to wordpress.com and see your blog at the top of the page. Don’t really know how or why but I’m interested in seeing if I get many hits from it. I’ll let you know.

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