There is no rhyme or reason to the methods Google uses to determine their rankings and which sites get listed highest in their search engine. If you been watching the PR numbers to your website and hoping they would start climbing, make sure you’re doing your part to help. The first thing all webmasters should be doing is driving as much traffic to their website as possible. There is a such thing as “good” traffic and “bad” traffic, but all new website owners don’t need to concern their self with this right now. Traffic is king and you just want all traffic good or bad coming to your site now. You can go back later and tweak things up, so you can find a better source of quality traffic to drive to your site, but any traffic will do right now.

Finding new content daily or often is a key to getting those valuable Google PR numbers. You want to add new content to your website as much as possible. Also, make sure the content is related to your overall theme or the niche you have created for your website. A lot of webmasters add tons of new content when they first start their site. It’s the days, weeks, and months after that most will fail to update or bring in new content. A website that gets updated often will look better to the bots Google will send in to crawl your website. New content shows that you’re keeping up with your website and maintaining it for the World Wide Web.

The number of links leading to your website is very important too. Once you have a lot of good and unique content and a lot of daily traffic coming in, you can then begin working on those links; which will lead visitors to your website. You can trade with other webmasters and get some extra links that way. Just make sure the person you’re trading links with, does offer some content on their site that is similar to the content you have on yours. This is important for those that are seeking to get a better page rank or PR with the guys from Google.

It’s a competitive world out there in the game for PR and search engine rankings. Don’t worry about the other guys and just focus on your own website. The more you can do each day to make your site look good with fresh content, traffic, and links; the more happier you will be when Google has their paydays for paying out PR awards. Don’t give up if you don’t show signs of life with Google. It can take several months before you even make a dent to their data bases. Then it can take years to become a force in the PR numbers. Don’t expect miracles over night and work hard daily and one day you will be rewarded for all of your hard work.