Back in the 80′s and 90′s when gadgets and tech stuff are few and far between, having a pager or an analog cellphone can already make you look geeky. But in these days of dual-core smartphones, 4G/LTE, tablets, in-flight WiFi, etc there are still some old technology I kinda missed.
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EasyCall announced the other day that it was able to get an NTC license to use the 15MHz of spectrum within the 3.4GHz range. This allows the company to offer wireless broadband services.
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Nah, I don’t believe it. Google is against paid reviews, right? Shoemoney got an emailing that Google is doing a beta test for paid reviews via AdSense.
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Loren Baker says Google is Watching Paid Review Blogs that Pass PageRank and while we know about that already, Google Search Quality Engineer Matt Cutts explains why these paid posts should have a disclosure.
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Ok, all this issue about paid links, paid posts, PageRank penalties, SERPs demotion and the twisting of moral compass in advertising is giving me nose bleed. And yes, a lot of blog networks that have heavily relied on the TLA factor for their revenue model are in for a huge business dilemma. But what does that got to do with buying a PageRank 7 link from Google.com for $5 a day?
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Google has finally put things into print (err, HTML). The recent PageRank slap for link selling is just the beginning. Now, they’re going to gun your blog down from the SERPs.
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The Search Engine Roundtable blog confirms that the recent PR adjustments where targeting raw paid links. An email response from Google Search Quality Engineer Matt Cutts puts all speculations to rest.
But the question remains…
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Two of the most recent blog ideas pitched to me have become an almost instant hit in the local webosphere. When the authors of these blogs came up to me and pitched the proposal, I knew right then it would be a success. I’d like to share their stories here so to inspire others.
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Been receiving emails in the last 24 hours about the recent and radical changes in Google PageRank. The growing trend is downhill, especially for popular and highly trusted sites. Despite all these, the question remains — does it really matter?
Let me answer several of the more important questions thrown at me.
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As in it’s all over the blogosphere now. A lot of popular sites have been slapped with PageRank penalties, some scrambling for their lives. And some though it was just this blog.
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I’ve been asked by several bloggers before whether a lifetime ad placement offer is a good deal. Most of the time, publishers would bite on the offer especially when advertising inquiries are scarce.
I haven’t really thought about it much until I was offered the same recently. Took me a week to decide and here’s my basic rule of thumb when faced with a similar offer:
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It’s been a month since I switched to the new theme here at YugaTech. Aside from the wonderful comments and suggestion fro improvements, there are several things at the back-end which I later had to deal with and should have given more focus during the design conception.
Here are some lessons I learned during the upgrade to the new theme:
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As my way of thanking all my readers who signed up under my TLA Referral account, I’d like to share these 5 tips on how to get the most out of your Text Link Ads. These tips are more focused to those who have not had a single TLA ad placement since they signed up. There could be several reasons why no one has ordered a link ad on your site/blog so we’ll try to tackle all of them here.
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Last month, Text Links Ads announced the TLA Post Level. By now, it should have been activated already and I see several local blogs already running it.
This is not a first for TLA as I heard campaigns like BlogstoProfit or V7N Contextual Links also do the same. The prices for each blog entry link is much lower but it allows for more ad inventory on your blog (which is always good IMO).
P.S.
So, what’s keeping Matt Cutts (of Google) from harvesting all those publisher URLs and spanking them with some PageRank penalties?
We were having dessert at Cafe Breton in GB3 a while ago with the rest of the BoB thinking when we could record our next episode when our discussion rolled over to those ancient Nokia cellphones and the pager or beeper.
Aren’t they dead yet? At least, here in the Philippines. Easy Call used to be one of these paging companies but has now evolved into a call center (with clients like Wendy’s). Are there any other companies still into this?
Just curious.
If Isaac Newton were still alive and he took his Ph.D. in Stanford University along with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, he could have been the 3rd co-founder of Google and made some Mathematical contributions to the search algorithm especially the design of the PageRank.
PageRank is a link analysis algorithm which assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E). {source: wikipedia}
Evil Matt Cutts blogs and asks “Where does PageRank come from?“.
… assuming you must have PageRank to give it, where does the original first page rank come from? Does every site start out with a basic miniscule amount of page rank contributing to the entire Internet sum of PageRank?
Newton could have answered that with his 4th Law of Finite PageRank and it would have been stated this way:
“PageRank is neither created nor destroyed. It is only transfered from one web page to another, either given freely, traded or bought. PageRank is finite and it does not increase as the total volume of indexable pages grow.”
There’s a finite sum of PageRank, otherwise with the constant growth of the world wide web would spread the PR too thin. If every new site or webpage created had an initial non-zero PageRank value, one can artificially amass PageRank by registering new domains or generating more webpages.
But what about the theory of the Alpha Page Rank Site?
Check out this nice little tool, popuri.us.
It’s tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more.
Most of you already know these figures but its nice to see them all in one ajaxy page altogether, right?
This one is specific to Google Blog Search which is a separate one from the main Google Web Search. Via Steve Rubel, Google Operating System writes an explanation on how a blog post or blog entry is ranked:
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Sometimes, whatever you do and however you follow the webmaster guidelines, you just don’t understand the outcome from Google.
I just discovered that my blog has turned PR6. But it’s not the URL that I’ve always been using — i.e. http://www.yugatech.com/blog — that one is still PR5.
So which one is it? Check out the PR6 results for http://yugatech.com/blog/ here. All the rest — http://yugatech.com/blog and http://www.yugatech.com/blog/ remains at PR5 (mind the leading slashes). Now, how did that happen when is something I can’t understand myself.
So I say forget about PR.
A regular reader came to me asking for help a few days ago. Apparently, she lost a lot of traffic from Google. I checked the site and it’s not banned. All pages are still being indexed and it’s an old domain with a fair amount of backlinks.
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