Getting Started
What are the requirements for a website to join VoltRank network?
Minimum requirements:
Your website server must support PHP. Your website might be using HTML code but your web host will need to have PHP set up on their server as VoltRank uses PHP scripts.
The website must be indexed in Google Cache.
VoltRank do not accept porn, warez, gambling and pharmacy content.
Our moderators might reject websites that have:
- unoriginal content
- little content on the subpages
- a lot of outgoing links – link farms
Why doesn’t my website display other VoltRank members’ ads?
It may take quite some time before they appear on your site. VoltRank’s capacity is quite big and the ads that are being published only use a fraction of available slots. This, however, does not affect you in any way so do not be alarmed if several days from now your website will still not show any links. We award Volts based on the space you share and not on what is actually used by other members.
How does VoltRank work?
VoltRank is based on exchange of ads on our members’ websites. You share advertising space on your website and publish your ads on other websites. This helps to increase Google rankings of both parties.
What do I get points for?
The amount of Volts you get depends on the quality of your website and the number of subpages that you share with VoltRank. The higher the PageRank your pages have the more Volts you get. The points you receive are used to publish your ads on other websites. Your ads will be published permanently. If someone takes the page off or it is rejected by our moderator, you get the Volts back and can use them again on other sites.
Please take note that you do not get any Volts for pages that are not indexed in Google Cache. For any page you can query Google by typing “info:URL” and check if it knows the page and has it in its cache.
Also, if your pages are to be disclosed to VoltRank, someone or something needs to visit them after you install VoltRank script on your website. If you’re not in a hurry just wait for Google to index those pages, but you can also crawl them yourself by using http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
Why should I choose VoltRank over other similar services?
We are growing fast and are highly motivated. We have decided that our company culture is going to be user-centered which is not common in this industry. We actively listen to users, collect feedback and lay out the roadmap according to their needs. We are constantly developing many new features. Some of them are at the very core of the system and others mean that our members will have the highest user experience possible. Quality is what we always have in mind.
Each website and ad that our members add to VoltRank is checked by a human moderator. We have a zero-tolerance policy towards adult, gambling, pharmacy and warez websites. All the other websites are also individually approved only after we make sure their content is not obscene or offensive.
All websites and each one of their subpages are checked in Google. We explicitly check if they are present in Google Cache and not just being indexed by Google.
In the future we are going to offer Premium Accounts that will give our power users more features and greater flexibility.
How long do I have to wait for results?
Building your website’s PageRank is a long-term process and depends on many factors: what keywords you are positioning on, how big the competition for those keywords is, how quickly Google counts links to your website etc. Results are not instantaneous and they should not be. In fact, growing links too quickly may do more harm than good. That is why we recommend setting daily and monthly limits. The whole process should be continuous but balanced. If you are patient and work on gaining new links to your website, you should see the results in a few months.
What should I do first?
For your links to get published, first add your website to VoltRank and share advertising space which we’ll use to publish other people’s links. Then prepare some ads that will be published on high quality sites within the VoltRank network. You get points for sharing slots on your website and the system uses those points to distribute your links.
