Just like the words of a Realtor location... location ...location... page rank for your blog or website is one of the most highly sought after things.Now we all know that a page rank can help you place higher in the search engines , but what else does page rank do for your blog or website? Well for me since I write for Pay Per Post also ,I want a higher page rank because I can actually get more posts that Pay Higher...lol. now a site with 10,000 visitors daily doesn't mean that they will have a higher page rank . your site could be getting only a 1000 visitors a day but have a much higher page rank then the one getting 10,000 visitors a day. So traffic doesn't play into the factor of page rank at all.
Getting good higher quality links to your blog is one best way to get a higher page rank. Google frowns on these so called link exchange sites so I suggest that you don't try those.Go to other bloggers blogs and read them if they have a good page rank and their blog has something in common with yours try linking to their blog and adding a quote from their blog. Go and leave them a comment telling them that you did so and ask if that was ok ... be nice and do not try to brown nose them.
I would love for anyone with a page rank of 2 or more to ask to link to my blog and I of course would be more then happy to link to yours as well as write a post about your blog. So leave your blog link and I will take a look at your blog too ...
I have 3 blogs that I write and maintain so feel free to check out all of my blogs to see which one you can link to.

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