Category: Google

• Paid Post

  12.03.07 |Google| Permalink | 2 Comments

  Thanks to Google, I have been seeing lots less paid post or blog posts in many blogs. Will this be for long or not? It seems that Google has penalized a lot of bloggers for doing paid post. However there are some who escape from it. I wonder how? Maybe Google cannot really tell whether a link is paid or not if blogger does not specify it.

  Sorry to say that Google has made a lot of bloggers unhappy because these bloggers made a lot less. Oh well, lets hope a competition will arise to save these bloggers.

• Google PR is back

  11.20.07 |Google| Permalink | Comments Off on Google PR is back

  Last week, my Google PR was down to 0. Many suspected it was due paid links. I am not too sure myself. It was also indicated in Google web guidelines that paid links, linking scheme and hidden links to boost PR is not allowed.

  Today my Firefox toolbar show PR 4 on mybabybay site and PR 3 on Gbay. I was really surprised that it is back to normal. I checked some of my fellow bloggers, some were back to normal and some still 0. Let’s hope everyone will recover from this glitch.

• Google Rank Made Simple

  10.28.07 |Google, PR| Permalink | 9 Comments

  Lately lots of major website was faced with page rank drop. Not to mention it affected the blogs network too. Some reduce from 5 -> 3, 4->2..etc. Now how does Google calculate and rank your website. I must say it is a complicated algorithm or formula. However, I bet there are human intervention too because there are sneaky and smart people who find ways to abuse the system.

  Let me make it simple for you especially for those who do not have any clue about page ranking.

  Google page ranking is dependant on a few factors like content, traffic, back links, outgoing links and other stuff put together. Content is basically what you write. If you write good content, people will link to you and by linking to you, other visitors may drop into your site to read your content. If you have many people visiting your site, that is call traffic. Traffic produces good ranks but this is not just it.

  When other site link to you, it is call back links. Back links are very important to increase your ranks. Example if your site has lots of rank 4 sites linking to you, your site will eventually be rank 4. If you have lots of rank 3 sites linking to you, most likely you will be rank 3.

  Outgoing links are the links you create on your site. The more link you have, the rank will be affected greatly. Therefore, link smartly. Links include paid links and other links too. You do want to link to other sites so that you can share with others your rank. By the way, I found that there is couple of bloggers who removed their links or blog roll which makes me think that they do not want to share ranks with others.

  By the way, page rank is tie to the page and not entire domain. Some pages you get rank and some you don’t. If a blogger link to you using his/her PR 0 page, it means he/she is sharing PR 0 with you. Be smart.

  There are things you should avoid doing and it is a BIG NO NO that Google will penalize you big time for it. Do not participate in any linking activities such as link farm or tags of linking to a whole bunch of people you do not know. I saw a lot of those kinds of tags and it does not help with your PR. Do not create post with bogus keywords or have hidden texts or links.

  Lastly, do housekeep your sites with links and link smartly. Hope you have a good rank!