What are the 5 most important things that a novice blogger can do to improve Moz Rank

[amit.ganguly]

I have been blogging for sometime now.Around 50 days to be specific.

The best part is in these 50 days is I have been able to Monitor and improve my Alexa rank for above 19 million to below 400 thousand now and its still improving.More so,my country rank has improved quite drastically,its now among the first 20 thousand websites in India.

However,I have noticed these things in particular -

1.Mozrank has been constant at 1.5, all this while.

2.The Root domain authority improved by just 1 point to 96,as I am using blogger platform.

3.The mozTrust has been 0 all this while too.

I don't understand how to tackle these issues.As I am already featured in couple of websites among the top ranked blogs from India.I have kept my eye on the moz Rank now for quite sometime.

Hence this obvious question.In my situation what are the 5 most important things a blogger can do to improve the ranking. I am targeting the bracket of 2-3 for the coming month ranking.

Thank you beforehand.

Much Regards

Amit Ganguly

Promote Green .. Promote Sustainability ..

[DougRoberts]

Of course the most important thing to a new blogger is getting some traffic. There's little point writing articles unless people are reading them.

Work on getting some backlinks to your blog. At the moment Open Site Explorer is only showing links from 4 domains and pretty much all of these links are no-follow (no-follow links are not seen as an endorsement and pass little authority to your site.)

I'd look at making some connections with other bloggers out there and see if you can do some guest posts. This is a great way to get backlinks and also get your content/name in front of people. You want to target blogs that cover related subject matter and have a good number of subscribers.

Hope this helps!

[amit.ganguly]

I have this one question.

Alexa also has a section called as Reputation.There it shows links to all the websites there either I have commented or people have arrived at my website through some search engines.

There the inbound links is 120 already and counting.

So what is the difference between those links and the links which Moz rank tool bar is counting ?

Thank you beforehand.

Much Regards

Amit Ganguly

Promote Green ... Promote Sustainability ..

[DougRoberts]

The mozrank on the SEOmoz tool bar is coming from SEOmoz's linkscape index.

Different services will use different methods to discover links so you'll find that Alexa, MajesticSEO, SEOmoz etc can show some significant differences in the data they collect.

I wouldn't worry so much about what your scores are, just what you can do to improve them. After all the only real thing that matters here is getting the right traffic and improving engagement once they get to your blog.

If you're commenting on blogs in order to get links then note that these links are usually no-follow links and may not be doing very much to improve your reputation - you don't want to be seen as a comment-spammer.

Your time may be better used by finding higher quality ways to get backlinks. See my previous comment about guest posting.

If you've not already done so I'd recommend reading the SEOmoz beginners guide to SEO and SEOmoz's Professional Link Buidling Guide

[amit.ganguly]

Thank you so much. I will focus on quality link building now.

This is one aspect which I haven't understood much.But after reading these guides I try to do my best.

Meanwhile I will focus on the content more and more.

Thank you once again.

Much Regards

Amit Ganguly