When looking at the title of this post one may think that I was sleepless during the last 16 months just because my blog’s PageRank was 0. Frankly speaking I really don’t care about Google PageRank. Because I still made significant money despite my blog’s PR was 0 during that time. However, it is quite obvious that most of my readers and potential advertisers still care about PageRank more than I can ever dream of. Therefore I am happy that yesterday Google kissed my blog and blessed it with a PR3.

This post is written for the bloggers who are in a very similar situation. If I can recover back after 16 months of struggling, you can also make it. Here comes the secret formula.

Did you know that the next Google PageRank update will be in March 2009? Be proactive, and prepare your blog the next round. Here are a few easy techniques you can apply during March to get the highest Google PageRank:

• Add a Google Sitemap to your blog if you haven’t done before
• Do Offsite and Onsite SEO For your blog
• Join as many blog carnivals as possible
• If you have a custom blog design, learn How To Promote Your Custom Blog Design through CSS galleries. You will get some good quality backlinks.
• Learn The 5 Basic Steps Of SEO For Your Blog
• Download Google’s SEO Starter Guide
• Learn How To Track Your Keywords with HitTail
• Get Blog Buzz software and explore WordPress blogs with the ‘nofollow’ tag in the comments field. It will save your time and effort from searching for blogs manually to build backlinks by leaving comments on.
• Benefit from the free seo tools provided by the SEO Tools Shop.

Have your say, and tell me what else can be done to get the highest Google PageRank in the next round?

As I mentioned on my previous post About The Next Google PageRank Update, with a few days delay Google completed the last PageRank update for 2008. The next one will probably be in March 2009. It is like a never ending game.

My blog’s PR was 0 for the last few updates. So early in December, I took some serious action. Even though I do believe that PageRank has nothing to do with good quality and reliable content, most of the first time readers and sponsors still take PR into consideration at first look.

So what did I try to get my PR back?

I have a great news to share with you. My SEO team advised that the next Google PageRank update will be completed before the Christmas day (25th of December) Within the next 2 weeks, your blog will get a new Google PageRank. If you want to get a better PageRank you need to ensure that:

• You don’t have backlinks from linkfarms. Linkfarms are cheap link directories where you get many  hundreds of poor quality links for 50$-100$. Even though you experience a quick increase in traffic, there is a possibility of losing all your search engine traffic due to Google ban.