tips on improving my pagerank?

can anyone give me any suggestions of without spending money increasing my hits and page rank to my music sites?

www.scottishhardcore.co.uk
www.twistedandbrainfire.com

Get as many sites to link you as possible, most importantly those that are highly popular, for starters.

By the way, do you realize that, on twistedandbrainfire.com, your first six articles repeat two more times after each other? They look really well done, though; keep good content on them, of course, or you'll lose popularity.

I'm sure others can help you more with this, since it's not my area of expertise, but as I understand, to get high in Google's rankings, the number of links you get from other sites helps.

Jen
http://www.SassyDevil.com/

Read this thread:
http://discussion.dreamhost.com/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=forum_promotion&Number=13075

Make your sig' have complete links:

www.scottishhardcore.co.uk
www.twistedandbrainfire.com

Read and follow Google's own webmaster advice.

Post relevant, insightful, interesting... good stuff in all sorts of places, with subtle links in a sig', where permitted.

Music site? Free mp3s.

alt's and titles for images, better keywords and descriptions.

Good luck,

BobS

i hadnt noticed.

cheers, should be fixed now:-)

yeah noted all, and am trying all.
cheers

I don't know if this will help a whole lot, but if you cannot afford static advertisement on high PR sites, you may wish to look into AdWords's content ads (display on publisher sites). AdWords from Google costs fairly little to start ($5 activation fee, and then you set your own CPC and budgets), and you can even get AdWords vouchers to make the costs even lower. Google some times crawls big sites with the ads parsed for whatever reason (my suspection is the big sites are using the special integration code that they generate via xml feed or what not), and so you can get link backs from them without even realizing :)

I noticed my site on youtube, ign, and a few other big sites, and my URL is listed too (though, not a link). These entries are also in the google cache, so they may also temporarly improve your PR a bit.

Andy Huang
http://www.wiigamingtalk.com/ - Nintendo Wii gaming discussion board

I would loose the enter page you have for your first page. Robots might not crawl if they think that is all you have.

I would put your link in the sig of any forum that you are a member of and lets you. That should help, although I have done so and still am not indexed by google...