If web traffic or monetization of your blog is not important to you, you can stop reading now and move on to the next website in your surfing routine. If it IS important to you, please read on because I have an offer you just can't refuse.

According to a lot of blogs I just recently read, the next Google PageRank update is predicted to start on July 28th. It might or it might not start on that date. Anyway, right now is the time to get your link baiting tactics together and get as many high ranking links pointed to your blog as possible — or is it?

Are high ranking links that important? Links, backlinks, and all that stuff don't just disappear (except after six months on Technorati). A link for a PR3 blog could turn into a link from a PR5 blog (or higher) after an update. So what if it takes another three months to have an effect on your site? The point is that it will, if you have enough links like that.

I've checked a few page rank prediction sites and my blog has been predicted to be either a PR4 (the same as it is now) or a PR6 after this update. While I don't care what it will be at the end of this update, I would like it to be at least a PR5 by the end of the next one in three to four months.

Here's an interesting "fact" that may or may not be true. According to some experts, the page rank for a particular page is not worth much to other sites if there are too many links on it. I don't know about that because I'm no expert. I do know that my pages that have a big zero for the page rank have no links TO them. Those PR0 pages count against my blog's overall page rank and I have a lot of pages like that.

Here's my offer:

Browse through my posts and look for some without any links in the post (or only one or two) and then look for pingbacks and trackbacks in the comment section. They'll be clearly marked and at the beginning of the comments. If you find one (the older the post, the better), formulate a sentence on your own site (blog or otherwise) that points to that post's URL and publish it. The sentence should be relevant to the post and you can do it for more than one post if you like.

What do you get in return?

1. A pingback in the comment section of that post. It counts as a valid link to your site. If the pingback doesn't appear (give it at least two hours), I'll turn it into a link at the bottom of that particular post if I spot it on your site (via Technorati or Google) or if you tell me about it — provided it's a valid link on your site.
2. I will add a contextual link (two if the pingback doesn't happen) to the bottom of that post. Google crawls my site frequently, so the link(s) should appear via a Google search within a couple of weeks. The link will point to the page you used to link to my blog. Of course, if your site is so enabled, I'll get a new pingback as well.

Doing it this way is much more effective than a traditional link exchange (like on a blogroll) in improving the page ranks of both sites at the same time, if the links on both sites are contextual, having relevance to each other.

I don't expect a lot of people will take me up on this (or any). After all, I only have a PR4 blog right now. I don't intend to publicize this offer anywhere else. (Update: Except BlogCatalog!)

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An example:

Everyday Weekender is a fun site that talks about everything from life in a cottage to all kinds of food. If you write a short blog review, he’ll link to it and help increase your page rank! (He has a PR5 blog.)

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