Race for Rank is coming to an end with all my goals completed. Let’s sum it all up now with things that did and did not work for me, how you can improve your own ranks across the board, and discuss what could have done differently to achieve greater success.

With no update in March, it was time that Google perform a PageRank update. And from what I’m seeing and by my account, they’re working on an update now. Check out all the ranks I have discovered. Vital for the Race for Rank series to come to a complete close, a great update in perfect time!

Perhaps you have read just as many posts as I have about finding your niche competitors. There are many tips out there to find your competitors and how to use that information to leverage your blog.
However, few of those posts actually tell you to make friends with your competitors. Why not?
It’s initially obvious that you’re [...]

Through recent emails with a few I’m Blogging That visitors I realized that not everyone gets use out of the all too popular Technorati website.
I first became familiar with Technorati when the WordPress admin panel displayed “blog reactions” from Technorati instead of back links from Google’s Blog Search.
To be honest, I preferred the reactions from [...]

Since starting my Race for Rank series, I have received a lot of questions about my motive for such a series and why I feel it’s important to address a blog’s rank.
I can sum up this answer quickly. However it wouldn’t be the most affective answer in the world. When we’re talking about something that [...]

Let’s face it, we’re not all cut out to be SEO (search engine optimization) masterminds. But there are plenty of tools out there to help those of us who are a little challenged in this area.
With my Race for Rank series, I’ve been encouraging myself to take a look at these tools. Even if I [...]

Ask any blogger what their strategy is for networking and you’ll get one of two answers:
I don’t have a strategy but they’ll still go into detail of the many things that they do. Or they’ll give you their tried and true strategy of how they accomplish specific goals.
The truth is that all bloggers have a [...]

In the Race to Rank series I reported last week that my Alexa rank was at 168,322.
My goal is to reach 100,000 by April 2008. At the rate I have watched my Alexa rank decrease (remember, lower is better), I figured that this type of goal was not only obtainable but I could easily do [...]