My Weekend Journal

Increasing your page rank is very important especially when you are monetizing your blog. The higher the PR, the higher the pay. :) In addition to adding content to your blog, the best way to increase your page rank is by building solid links that point to your website. The following are quick tips for getting backlinks that point to your blog: Links from other blogs with PR ratings. As much as possible, try to get links from other blogs with PR3 and higher. Links from select social networks. Just set up a profile and add your links in your profile. Also, you can do the same by checking the fan pages of all your favorite bands, musicians and artists. Many have online communities, where you can create a profile and build links pointing to your blog. Submit articles. Many free sites accept article submission. Submitting articles is also a great way of free advertising for your website. Just like the author of Active Directory Tutorial did. You should include a resource box or au...

My Google page rank has increased from 0 to 1! It may not be a great figure compared to those who have page rank 10 but at least I have seen some improvement on my personal blog. ;) As you can very well see, my blog is already 27 months old yet I only have page rank 1. From October 2007, you might observe that I only had some serious number of posts starting October 2009. To give you an honest answer, I was not serious about blogging that time because its significance was yet unknown to me and it took me two years to realize it. I don't even know what page rank and search engine rankings mean and how it affects a blog, not until I've seen a friend's blog and discovered how she earns from it. As a newbie in this vast virtual world called blogosphere, I crave for things unknown to me. To fill my hunger for knowledge, I read articles about blogging, search engine optimization, and how to increase page rank and earning money online; and applied those I think would help improv...

Entrecard is a free blogging network that helps you increase web traffic, get more readers, and network with other bloggers. After signing up, you place a 125×125 widget on your blog. Other members will visit your site and click the "drop" button on your widget. This is how they network with you. Start networking with other sites as well. Visit other members' sites and click the "drop" button on their widget. The more sites you visit, the more likely they will visit you back. However, there is no assurance that every site you visit will visit you in return. Nevertheless, don't be discouraged with this, the best thing you can do with each visit is to read an article of your interest and share your quality thoughts through their comments box. Be sure to link your name to your site, as this will create a backlink to your site. ;) Another thing you can get from this network is Entrecard Credits ("EC credits"). You earn EC credits when you visit othe...