Tag: Page Rank

The amount of blogs online grows by thousands every day. There is no way we can read, or even find them all, but we try. Over the past year, I’ve read hundreds of blog posts (possibly thousands). There’s some good stuff out there. In the beginning, I remember reading posts… read more Blogging – Year One – Lesson Eleven

Photo Credit junkmonkey’s photos Several comments to my last post, “Comment Luv – Linky Love – NoNoFollow” inspired me to dig deeper into the subject of blog spam (also referred to as comment spam). I wanted to know why blogs get spammed, and what we can do to prevent it…. read more Spammers Hit The Jackpot

Photo Credit nukeit1’s photos Words gets a lot of politicians in trouble, with some believing politicians are just blowing smoke. Words are easy to say or write. The question becomes, do you stand behind your words? Do you walk your talk? Whether you are in business or blogging, your words… read more Do You Walk Your Talk Or Are You Just Blowing Smoke

Photo Credit i_yudai’s photos It’s Tuesday, and time to announce my “New Blog Of The Week” In the past, I did not dedicate a full post to my new blogger, but today is different. This blogger does not have a flashy blog. In fact, if you were to land on… read more Honorable Mention For A Mom Who Blogs

Photo Credit john_a_ward’s photos As bloggers, we often take time to study about SEO ( search engine optimization), Google’s page rank, and keywords, in order to get our posts ranking high in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). Today’s Lesson Sometimes I try to use keywords in my posts, but… read more How Keywords Attract A Larger Audience

Google’s page rank is an issue that eludes/frustrates most bloggers and webmasters. How it’s calculated, is treated like a “secret sauce” recipe. A few of the ingredients are known, but no one (except Google), knows all of the ingredients. Anyone who could get their hands on the “recipe”, could potentially… read more What if Google Added “This” To Determine Page Rank

It wasn’t until I started blogging that I read about “Google’s Sandbox”. Apparently, the terminology was given to some blogs that may be on a “probationary period” with Google. These are blogs that Google is “watching” to see how internet users react to them. Google may be looking to see… read more Google Kicked Me Out Of The Sandbox

It is often written, “Do not try to reinvent the wheel”. In blogging, some will say, find a popular blog, and copy what they are doing, and you have a better chance of becoming successful. Is that true? Or, is there a better way? If you look at inventions, often… read more Copy Successful Blogs/Websites – Or Not

For some time now, there has been a debate going on about Google decreasing the page rank of a website or blog, if it has “paid links”. Today’s Lesson So, what are paid links? Not knowing for sure which links Google considers as “paid links”, I decided to go right… read more What Are Paid Links

Today’s Lesson Two months ago, I started an experiment with Google AdSense, “ads for content”, ads. As I stated in that post, From this site, I have removed my Google Ads for Content, (which I had in the sidebar). Months ago, I read ( and I don’t know if this… read more Google AdSense Ads – Do Less Mean More

Oftentimes, bloggers don’t link to other sites, as they fear their readers may like the “other” site better, and they may lose a regular reader. Some bloggers won’t link to other sites, due to page rank…but that’s another story……. Today’s Lesson When I first started blogging, my second post was… read more Are You Avoiding Linking To Other Sites

If you have been blogging for any length of time, you know about “Google page rank”. Today’s Lesson There is also an Alexa ranking. With Alexa, the lower the number, the better. It is written, that your Alexa rankings are looked at by services such as Text Link Ads. The… read more Alexa Ranking – Is It Important To You

Links to and from other sites, are great for increasing the popularity of your blog. When I first started this blog, I decided to provide a link to all individuals (who had blogs or websites) who commented on, or linked to my blogs. That is when my “Blogging Buddies” page… read more My “Blogging Buddies” Update

Leaving a comment on another blog, can spark many things. One comment can create a rush of traffic to your blog. A meaningful comment can also bring you many loyal visitors. Keep in mind, “comment traffic” can be “spikey” traffic, i.e. you could see an immediate spike in your traffic… read more Write Traffic Building Comments

Apparently, Google cares about page rank. And, so do the other search engines. A lot of bloggers care, too. I don’t. Maybe, I should… Today’s Lesson What is page rank? According to Wikipedia, PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked… read more Page Rank – Who Cares?

Google AdSense is a common way for bloggers, to try and generate income for their sites. If you sign into your Google account, you may see that you also have a choice for Google “referral” ads. Don’t yet have an AdSense account, you can click on the following link, and… read more Google Referral Ads vs Ads For Content

Learning all there is to know about keywords, keyword density, or keyword phrases, could take months. But, it is a known fact, using keyword density, may get your blog found, and drive more traffic to your site. This is what I have learned about keywords, keyword density and keyword phrases…. read more How To Use Keywords or Keyword Phrases

Unless you are keeping a personal, shopping, or photo blog, most visitors are on your site for one reason. Think about this……… A visitor really doesn’t care about the “name” of your blog. Visitors to your site, don’t care if your “theme” reflects your message. Most visitors don’t care if… read more Without _____,Your Blog Is Nothing!

With blogging, the language is: CSS, HTML; XHTML, links, pings, trackbacks, URL’s, posting, stats, addons, widgets, plugins, SEO, page rank, RSS, and much more When I was “blogging without a blog”, a month or more before I actually had a blog, the language of blogging, made my head spin. To… read more Oh, That Blogging Language – Part 1

Sitemeter is one of many statistical data reporting services for bloggers and webmasters. When one of my “Blogging Buddies”, mentioned they were using Sitemeter, I decided to give it a try. I was pleasently surprised at the detailed information Sitemeter provides. Sitemeter contains: 1) Updated stats which shows “who’s on”… read more Review – Sitemeter Statistical Data

Google Page Rank. If you blog, and have done any research on linking, you’ve probably read that you want incoming links to your pages from sites that have a ranking of 4 or above. This apparently, will help your Google Page Rank., which, in turn, increases your position in the… read more Google Page Rank – Chasing That Elusive Dream

Lately I’ve been researching and reading a lot about blogging. I read about SEO (Search Engine Optimization), page rank, rating of pages, crawlers, spiders, robots, pinging, trackbacks, mega tags, links, stats, traffic, etc…..the list goes on. As a novice blogger, this information can get to be overwhelming. Should I be… read more The Crawlers, Spiders & Robots Are Coming – Start Posting