So I was slightly miffed that Google penalised some blog sites with PR bitch slaps, and left mine alone? I should have kept my big mouth shut for now I have been slapped a PR smackdown. I’ve dropped from a 5 to a 4.
Worse still many of my network sites have also been knocked down, and they don’t sell links so that can’t be the reason. Also the theory that removing Adsense could be a reason has been blown out of the water. I couldn’t get more Adsense into some of my sites if I tried. Some of my sites are on the same IP address and are interlinked, so maybe that’s the real issue here. Google doesn’t like website incest in this way it seems.
Still, so long as traffic and affiliate earnings are unaffected I’m happy with it. The green bar means little, the green backs mean more 😉
As the SEO Ninjas reported yesterday Google have been penalising websites all over the Internet in terms of their visible PageRank. Some sites have been hit as hard as dropping from a PR10 to a PR6. Perennial Google victim John Chow, who due to a previous Google punishment doesn’t even rank for his own name, has dropped from a PR6 to a PR4.
The popular theories for these punishments range from selling paid links to simply removing Google’s Adsense (not much chance of me doing that ;)). It must be said though that even with PageRank penalties such as these it shouldn’t effect your SERPs at all.
The fact that MrDaz.com is unaffected is actually slightly offensive. Why haven’t I been penalised? Ah well, never mind.
Google are making changes to their Adsense in the next few weeks to allow you to update ad styles from within the management console. This means you’ll no longer have to open up Dreamweaver, notepad or remote directly into a server to edit the code. This is great because it means the Adsense ads will be as easy to update as Affiliate Window’s widgets and CJ’s pools, giving more control from a single place.
I’m looking forward to this. I need to change all of my ads to incorporate full custom channel reporting so I’ll wait for this new system to roll out first.
Finally I have a data pack with my phone! This means at long last I can access my email wherever I am, and more importantly I can access Google from anywhere. What does this mean? It means I can cheat my tits off in pub quizzes, and how.
As a test last night during a quiz I wasn’t playing in I accessed the big G just to check an answer to a question. Sure enough, in less than 20 seconds I had the answer on my HP Smartphone. Awesome.
I shall be putting the plan into operation this week sometime and will let you know how it turns out. Go go Team Internet!
I’m going to be posting a video about this in coming few days as part of Google’s Adsense contest, but I wanted to mention it now as it’s got me really excited. Last week I switched on my computer for the first time in a few days to see I’d had my best ever day on Wednesday for Adsense earnings, then again Saturday I had my second best ever day.
The reason for this sudden and welcome increase in earnings? Well, there’s two reasons. Firstly I changed one of websites last week to go from using ASP to WordPress, meaning it was faster and all of the pages were search engine friendly. The main reason though was I changed my highest traffic website from having a dynamic ASP front page to being a static HTML page that I update every few days with the latest content.
This means that the page loads far quicker, increasing page views, ad views, clicks and of course earnings.
That’s one of the things I like about Adsense, as I’ll talk about in the video this coming week, you can increase your earnings dramatically with minor tweaks to your websites.
Less that 48 hours ago I put a new Transformers website live (www.thetransformers.net) as I finally made the switch from ASP to WordPress. This meant changing the hosting from 1and1 Internet, who are located in Germany to the new host United Hosting, who are located in the UK.
The change went smoothly, and the new site has already been indexed. What is incredible though is that the new UK hosted site has immediately shown up #1 in Google.co.uk for sites located in the UK under the keyword ‘Transformers’.
Previously being hosted in Germany with a .Net extension had excluded it from UK only searches, and it is ranked 1st page for ‘Transformers’ in a non country specific search, but now it has a UK home it’s #1.
Google maps have been updated with new satellite images, showing my stolen BMW Z3 outside my frikin’ house.
You can see it there in the middle of the photo, the red BMW Z3 with the black roof. If only Direct Line Insurance were as efficient as Google, I might have actually got the damn thing back on the road 15 months later… and still counting.
In case you’d thought I’d gone quiet on the efforts to rank MrDaz.com #1 in Google for the name of the MD of Direct Line Insurance, Chris Moat, here’s an update. We’re still hovering around the #2/#3 mark in Google, but we’ve hit the top spot in Yahoo!
It’s not that clever really, Yahoo! has always been the easier of the 3 search engines within which to gain rankings, so ranking #1 in Yahoo! for Chris Moat isn’t something I’m shouting about too much. But of course, by making this post about Chris Moat of Direct Line Insurance we’re giving that little bit extra boost to our content for the Google rankings, which after all, are the main event.
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