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When is the next Google Pagerank update?

For the longest time, there has been no adrenalin rush of a Google smackdown or Google pagerank increase.

So, yeah, many may scoff at the mere mention of pagerank and brushed it off as something noobs look for. Well, I think those are just sour-grapes griping because pagerank does matter. The higher your pagerank, the better you are in the SERPs. A site cannot just depend on a few keywords boosted by softwares to fake the backlinking. A good site has natural backlinks from reliable sites and pwnd in many, many keywords.

If my observation is right, let’s say a keyword like ‘Google pagerank’ and two sites are side by side in the SERP. The site with the higher PR will be ahead of the one lower. I have stalked some ‘peer blogs’ in certain niches and those of us with PR 4/10 definitely are placed higher than those with PR 3/10.

Therefore, whether you care about PR or not, I do. And I am just counting the days to the next PR update. The last time Google updated the pageranks was on April 30 or May 1st (depending on which side the sun shines first). So, shall we bet that we shall be seeing many Chicken Little screaming, “The sky is falling, I lost my PR!!!” by early August 2008. That is just a couple of weeks away.

Woohoo! Exciting. I hope I don’t lost PR again. As for increase PR, I have no more hope. Google seems very stingy with pagerank increase nowadays. Having a PR4/10 is like very high standard already. Only my personal blog has that flicker of hope due to the high traffic and backlinks.

I better start praying to my cyber-Google god now and hope to be blessed with suprised pageranks increase like the last update.

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. 23 Jul 08 | pagerank | Comments (3)

Matt Cutts of Google says SocialSpark is good?

I have refrained from writing paid posts from SocialSpark on my blogs with pageranks because I am paranoid of getting my pageranks demoted to forever zero. I was so afraid of being penalised, I even took off all the SocialSpark - Izea codes from my main blogs with pageranks. My earlier fears was - You never know how Google is going to treat paid posts with no-follows. They can change their minds anytime and we can get penalised for writing paid posts with no-follow links as well.

However, this recent interview seems to say that Matt Cutts finds SocialSpark within the ‘law of Google’ and it gives me a bit of security that it is ok to do that occasional paid posts from SocialSpark which uses no-follow links.

(newbies, please do not ask me the same questions over and over again on ‘what is no-follow?’ Please take your own time and initiative to read up on my older posts why I am always talking about pageranks and no-follow)

Here is something I took from Izea’ blog on the interview with Matt Cutts :

Matt Cutts: Yes. And, whenever I see progress I want to call it out and give props where it’s deserved. And so, I think SocialSpark has definitely progressed compared to PayPerPost. Google continues its policy on paid links in general, so just yesterday we put out a new call for any paid link spam reports, and we continue to act on this. We are willing to act not only manually, but also algorithmically. So, if people know of other networks that are not disclosing, we would be interested in hearing about that. But, I thought it was good to see that SocialSpark was using NoFollow.

However, note what Matt Cutts said about paid posts which are not disclosed and how they will act on them? So, be careful if you are making money online writing paid posts. There are penalties. Some of my blogs never gain their pageranks, ever. When you do not have pageranks, your traffic drops, your rankings in search results disappeared and you are forever doom. Trust me, I have both sides of the extremes, I know. I am a repented soul, where this is concerned.

. 17 Jun 08 | PayPerPost, pagerank | Comments (4)

Google is human (that freaky pagerank thingie)

Eversince the first PR smackdown, I have developed obsession over my pageranks.

Last night, I discovered something even freakier. Google is human. Google sees with human eyes. Google punishes with human mind.

I lost the pagerank on my main page (because I did something notty) but my internal pageranks remain because I didn’t do anything ‘notty’ there.

You see, I thought if I put a no-follow tag on my blog, I am safe to sell text links. And if the textlink plugin is in javascripts, then it is even safer. Moreover, I am very selective and those links are really related to my blog niche.

But nope, Google has eyes. Google is human. Now, I hope Google has a human heart and will listen to me.

So, folks, if you sell textlinks, no matter how well you cover it, Google knows and Google will take away your PR. Maybe Google knows I yelp louder than others so they decided to smack me but leave others alone?

No matter what others said about ‘pagerank is irrelevant’, it is relevant to me.

. 02 May 08 | pagerank | Comments (5)

Freddie Kruger aka Google Pagerank at the door?

Just last night, while I was pasting on the privacy policy required for Google Adsense for all my sites, I notice the pageranks of a few blogs that I hardly touched. Some of those are not blogs but rather, static website that used to be hosted on Dreamweaver. Some pageranks were gone, probably due to neglect and lack of traffic and some has a miserly PR2/10. (hey! that site shows a PR 3/10 now?)

It is only recently that I started to take an interest in those sites by adding sitemaps, added them to Google Webmaster Central for better tracking and review some of the broken links. Those are not sites to make money but rather, dissemination of useful information that I gathered. At some point in my life, I decided to step away from these issues like bereavement and pre-mature babies and hence, the neglect.

While I was doing all those, I realized that Google has been awfully quiet lately. I haven’t heard of shrieks of ‘I lost my PR!’ for a while already. But as usual, I think another bout of smackdown is due in the near future.

Few days ago, something Matt Cutts wrote gives me chills. He said Google knows a lot about spam. And Google’s definitions of spam is not the kind of spam we know but they have a higher standard than that. Paid posts are deemed spam by Google, if they think it is. We have no say in it, as what can be seen from the last pagerank smackdown.

Now, this latest video from Problogger, Darren is rather timely to remind us that the only way to remain ‘respectable’ is to build a better blog with good contents.

Like many of us, Darren too had his share of Google pagerank dropping and climbing back. We may want to forget about Google pagerank but the fact it, that darn green juice really affects my livelihood so I will not ignore it but rather, work damn hard to hang on to it. *touch wood* I hope at the end of this round, I still have some green juice left. Otherwise, I will pretend the green banner I have on top is the green juice.

Can you hear the screeching sound of Freddy Kruger in the background? (actually I am too chicken shit to watch Nightmare on Elm street except what I hear bits of it when hubby was watching)

Scary times and worrying days ahead….Until the next pagerank…which is forever

. 30 Apr 08 | pagerank | Comments (12)

Are your blogs income picking up again?

Last year, bloggers have a very good income from blogging. They earn from several ways like Google Adsense, TextLinkAds, doing paid reviews and also selling banner ads.

However, Google put its foot down and almost every blogger’s income was affected. My own income drop from USD5K per month to an all time low of USD1,500.

Well, I didn’t depend on my blog income as survival and hence, it wasn’t that scary to me. That’s why I have the calmness to take stock, make amends with Google, find new revenues and re-invent my blogging strategies.

It also cause me to work harder, improve my blogs, spend more time analysing and basically, plod on with the hope of going back to the glory of making a five digit income (in RM) again.

I did turn to God when things were crashing down. PR disappeared. Traffic dropped. Getting de-indexed. Rankings on the search results folded to nowhere. I fixate my focus that the Lord will provide as and when I need them. True enough, the faith I profess, “Give us our daily bread” stands firm.

So, yes, my blog income has picked up since the Google smackdown. It is not yet at its peak but I am seeing brighter days now.

What about you? Have you recovered from the last Google smackdown? Or do you totally dropped all your blogs and leave them to get mouldy and rotten? I have seen many a good bloggers who made the mistake of giving up too fast. They threw away their blog persona to eke out a few bucks. They lost faith. They lost direction. It is very sad to see people giving up hope so fast.

Remember my advice - Tend to your blog like your garden. It will bloom again.

For me, I am now focussed on ‘If I can earn another few more dollars, I can add them up to my four son’s college and university education. The more I earn, the better college we can afford.’ That gives me the motivation to actually work and not just treat the dollars and cents I made as mere numbers.

. 23 Apr 08 | Income report, pagerank | Comments (9)

Google gives, Google takes

About a week ago, many bloggers reported that their blogs suddenly gain pagerank again. They lost their pagerank due to paid posts. Then, out of the blue, several get a pagerank. I am not one of the lucky one though.

Well, I even submitted one of my static site to Google to request for reconsideration but I have yet to see any pagerank eventhough my pagerank reconsideration was submitted more than a month ago. I am not going to ask anymore as I am tired of seeing this ‘PR, no PR, PR, no PR’.

It is a clearly a case of Google gives and Google takes.

The other thing that I noticed yesterday is the mysterious disappearance of my #1 page position in the SERPs for a keyword. It is not something that I target for adsense but rather, just a hobby of mine to be the leader in that area. I was there on the first page for several days and suddenly, I realized that I don’t get any traffic for that keyword. Upon checking with Google analytics, Nuffnang analytics and sitemeter stats (LOL, yeah, I am very thorough), it is really a case of ‘now you see it, now you don’t’.

Now, I cannot even find my blog on the first ten pages. I cannot figure out how I can disappeared so suddenly because that page is really an information filled page and not just any random quote. In fact, the page was circulated as email forwards as they shared the information that I had compiled.

I guess Google noticed that I am hot and so they make sure I am not, anymore. Freaky, isn’t it? If I were to rely on earning Adsense from my site, I will be dead. You can be here today, gone tomorrow, just like that.

Lesson for today - Never take Google for granted. Google is like a menopausal grandma who changes her mind all the time. Sorry, no offence to grandmas but I cannot think of a more fitting description of a matriarch who smacks you for no apparent reason and yet, you cannot shout back.

. 27 Mar 08 | Google Adsense, pagerank | Comments (7)

Ouchie..John Chow lost pagerank again

The pagerank hasn’t been stable and last night, after hearing that Johnchow dot com has a PR 3 from his PR 4, I went to check and found that John Chow still hold on to his PR 4/10.

But today, I saw that John Chow now really carries PR 3/10 on his johnchow.com blog. Of course, you may be aware that John Chow’s site has been deindexed for the name John Chow or even johnchow.com. You cannot find him when you make a Google search. It is buried deep down.

Of course, that doesn’t stop him from making lots of money. But remember boys and girls, we are not John Chow and we cannot do what he does. John Chow can afford to lose a -1 pagerank and he can still increase his paid post rate to USD500 per piece from the usual USD400.

All of us will get smacked with a PR 0 if we write the amount of paid posts like what John Chow did. The world is not fair. Live with it. :P

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. 28 Feb 08 | pagerank | Comments (10)
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