I post my advice here for her and for others….

PR is complicated, sure time is a factor, but so are a number of other things. You’re best off looking at analytics and looking at individual hits for the time being (next 6 months).

You need to start looking at the traffic in more detail, did you ever install any analytics? Like we suggested…

To make you feel better: PickupPal.com has a page rank of 5 (very high) and that took 8 months and a lot of hard work and budget. Skyrocket has a lower PR, but we still get a considerable amount of traffic.

There is a lot more you can do; should be doing; and paying us to help you do. The following is listed in order of priority:

1. Install and use analytics (WordPress Stats, Google Analytics or NetInsight)
2. Be more open with your company’s content (you haven’t really done this yet…)
3. Add something to the Blogosphere that isn’t already out their
4. Give something valuable away for free
5. Write posts every single day
6. Your WordPress account could do with being tuned and a number of plugins need to be installed that will help the user experience and your SEO ranking (we can help with this)
7. Design a WordPress theme that is in tune with your companies brand (we can help with that)
8. There are many styles of post that can be more attractive to readers. A classic one is the list post, or “10 best ways to get a job”.  Something about a numbered bullet list of advice stuff seems to work. You’ve probably seen similar posts on other blogs: “10 best Firefox plugins”, “100 best WordPress themes”. These types of posts do perform better than the average.

Does that help, Emma?

Post from: Sky Rocket

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