Oct 27, 2007

Google Page Rank Dance

I think google is now dancing on page rank platform. Page rank is going up and down for few days. A new post on andybeard.eu is clearly describing this google pr dance. If you check PR on different data centre you will find different Page Ranks for each site approx.

To check PR on different data centre you can use Smart Page Rank checker tool.

Domain | Starting PR | First PR Update | Second PR Update | Today's PR
www.autoblog.com | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 or 6
www.engadget.com | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 or 7
www.problogger.net | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6
www.copyblogger.com | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 or 7
www.joystiq.com | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 or 6
www.tuaw.com | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 or 6
www.searchengineguide.com | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 or 5
www.searchenginejournal.com | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 or 6
www.johnchow.com | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 or 5
www.quickonlinetips.com | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 or 5
www.seroundtable.com | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 or 6
weblogtoolscollection.com | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 or 6
andybeard.eu | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 4 or 5
www.blogherald.com | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 or 6
www.Forbes.com | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 5 or 6
www.sfgate.com | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 or 7
www.washingtonpost.com | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 or 7
www.technosailor.com | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 or 5
www.9rules.com | 8 | 8 | 5 | 4 5 or 6
blog.nafurai.com | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 or 2
courtneytuttle.com | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 2 3 or 4
www.SunTimes.com | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 or 7
TheGadgetBlog.com | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 or 5
Space.com/ | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 7 or 8
OneMansBlog.com | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 4 or 6
entrepreneurs-journey.com | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 or 5

The following are site updates which were not hit by a penalty previously for comparison purposes

www.hobo-web.co.uk | 7 | 5
www.doshdosh.com | 4 | 6
www.searchengineland.com | 7 | 7
www.seomoz.org/blog | 5 | 6
www.connectedinternet.co.uk | 6 | 3

More news and updates available from source Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

Oct 25, 2007

Google reduces page rank of sites that sells links

Are you selling links on your site. If yes than alert, otherwise not to worry. Because selling paid links can hurt your PageRank or rankings on Google based on a feedback he got from Google.


Google reduced page rank of many site. In recent post at dailyblogtips.com and andybeard.eu described the latest change the reducing value of PR of many big sites and blogs like:

Problogger (from 6 to 4)
Copyblogger (from 6 to 4)
Search Engine Journal (from 7 to 4)
Quick Online Tips (from 6 to 3)
Search Engine Roundtable (from 7 to 4)
Washingtonpost.com - from 7 to 5
Statcounter.com - from 10 to 8 (and 6 in some other Google data centers)

It is seem that Google has chosen to penalize websites selling links and text link ads. A deep description SellingText Links Ads And Google Penalization is available at masternewmedia.org

If you are not much aware from the Page Rank for its algorithm, you can get more info on Page Rank by Matt Cutts.

Oct 22, 2007

Personalized iGoogle is available in your own language

Customized your personalized iGoogle in your own language. Now iGoogle is supporting 42 languages. iGoogle launched new 13 language.

  1. Arabic
  2. Bulgarian
  3. Catalan
  4. Croatian
  5. Icelandic
  6. Indonesian
  7. Latvian
  8. Lithuanian
  9. Malay
  10. Serbian
  11. Slovak
  12. Slovenian
  13. Tagalog


As you know the personalized iGoogle helps you to save your time by downloading, visiting or using any services by web pages. It helps to make available the features on your personalized home page where you can easy surf the web pages and using the supported services.

To know about the other supported languages by iGoogle, visit http://www.google.com/apis/gadgets/i18n.html#Supported

Oct 16, 2007

PPC -Pay Per Click- An Overview

Pay Per click (PPC) is an advertising form used on search engines, ad networks and website. When users click on an ad and visit the website thorugh ad, then advertiser's have to pay fixed amount to the ad networks . Each click generates traffic for advertisers and ad charges for networks.


Generally advertisers bid on keywords to generate traffic and conversion through targeted similar market. PPC ads appears on content network websites e.g. search engine result pages . Your ad campaign is dependent on targeted keywords. You can search keywords by Google Adwords keyword suggestion tool. It can provide you certain essential key words based on your web address.

There is very important factor that is needed to care when you optimize your ad that is landing page. If you have a unique landing page to others and with providing related information and product details instead of using a mirror site for your Google campaigns. Then you can attract the visitors and market into your website or business.

The most popular ad networks are:

  • Google AdWords
  • Yahoo! Search Marketing (Overture)
  • MSN adCenter
  • Adbrite
  • Ask
  • Miva
  • Searchfeed
  • Kanoodle
  • Enhance
  • Looksmart
  • Search123
  • Yandex
  • Baidu

Benefits of PPC search engine advertising:
  • It generates leads
  • It generates conversion
  • It Qualified traffic
  • Helps to make a Brand

Essential factors involved in PPC search engine advertising:
  • Constant monitoring
  • Response analysis
  • Refinement

Another concept "Click Fraud" is related to PPC, some times known as internet click crime. Generally it is occurred when a person automated script, or computer program imitates generates clicks on the ads without having actual interest in the target of the ad's link.

Some the click fraud sources are:
  • Competitors of advertisers
  • Competitors of publishers
  • Unwanted "friends" of the publisher