Money Makers
Another Google PR update
Looks like Google is giving an early toolbar PageRank update of the year 2008. In fact, I noticed the data center was reset to zero while I was doing a random check yesterday. I thought it was a system glitch or something, so I didn’t pay much attention to it until I realised today that one of my blogs read a PR of 5 (from PR4) on the Google PageRank extension in my Firefox. I’m not sure if the toolbar PageRank update is confirmed, but there are certainly several reports across webmaster forums about the update.
I then did a PR check on all my blogs, and very much to my surprise that WiseBlogging was also updated to PR4 from PR3, although not much of linking work was done. Whereas, the other two blogs of mine remained at PR4. In conclusion, I’m now having a blog with a more respectable PR5 and 3 blogs with PR4, not a bad start for the year 2008. This early PR update allows me to reorganise my editorial calendar and restrategize to maximize the earning of my blogs.
PageRank update, October 2007
Google has finally decided to update the long-waited PageRank after some rumors about Google’s possible move to abandon PageRank mechanism. The last update was back in Apr’2007, and it took Google almost 6 months to update this time. I wondered why, but I really don’t care much about PageRank anymore. I’m already sick and tired of PageRank update, after months of fruitless waiting and checking.
This latest update has, in fact, stunned many of us as hundreds of established blogs like Problogger.net and JohnChow.com have been penalised for selling text links on their sites. Their PageRank have significantly been reduced from PR6 to a mere PR4. What a pity! However, PageRank isn’t really that important after all, if you know how to monetise your blogs. There are many other monetisation methods that don’t really even look at PageRank.
Should you use www. or without www.?
Your blog can be accessed either through www.yourblog.com or yourblog.com, how convenient it is! However, it also means that your blog has two different PageRanks. Go to SmartPageRank.com and see it for yourself. Google and other search engines often regard www.yourblog.com and yourblog.com as two different blogs, and therefore, some of the inbound links may point to www.yourblog.com and others to yourblog.com.
Example:
Sick and tired of monitoring your PageRank?
PageRank effects:
- Getting sick and tired of checking and monitoring your blog’s PageRank when the PageRank update is around the corner but always popping up late?
- Can’t wait to be the first person to know the latest PageRank of your blog when it gets updated?
- Waiting for the next PageRank update so that you can start your next move?
- Getting irritated by PageRank false alarms?
Let’s face it, Google’s PageRank has become the determining factor of a ’successful’ blog. Who doesn’t look at PageRank before paying you for an advertisement or a text link on your blog? However, checking and monitoring your PageRank can be an irritating and tiring job at all time. I used to check and monitor my PageRank whenever the PageRank update was near, but I finally crumbled. I hated PageRank for making me to check up on it more often than my bank account balance. If you are like me, Smart PageRank has the solution for you, you can finally stop monitoring for PageRank update every now and then. Thanks to Smart PageRank, now you can get notified the moment your blog’s PageRank changes.
