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Joining Google’s PageRank N/A Club

Extreme Information — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:58:20 +0000

I wasn’t going to post about Google’s recent toolbar pagerank update because there are about a million other posts about it already. But I just noticed that while all of my pages, other than the index page, went to a N/A, the about page on DennisEdell.com has a Google page rank of three. Don’t misunderstand, I’m not jealous, I just want more Pagerank than Dennis.

Seriously, I need to get those pages back up and the way I see it I have about 45 days before the next update. I think I’m going to make another test of it because that’s what us geeks do. I’m going to use blog commenting to bring my Friend’s Page up and other link strategies to bring up the page rank on our photo gallery. I’m not sure about the other pages yet. Now I’m talking about pages her, no blog posts. Any ideas?

I left over thirty blog comments so far today using http://extremeezine.com/friends/ as the URL. The first blogs I commented on was everyone on that page. Are you listed there? See Are You A Blogging Friend To The Extreme Ezine? Get On The List!

Any suggestions other than the linking that I’m already doing to get out of the nasty Google PageRank n/a club?

One more thing that has bothered me for a while. Sheryl from the Blog Co-Op brought it to my attention. My pages and older posts, INCLUDING my index page are not cached by Google. I have no idea why, how to fix it or if it’s even important. Do you?

Speaking about the Blog Co-op they also joined the n/a club. Brad and Sheryl are the very best of people and they go WAY out of their way to help others. I’m going to link to their forum, The Internet Marketers Guild, and the Blog Co-op from my front page and it would be great if some of you would too. The entire reason for the Co-op is to help bloggers like us. I think giving back a little is the least we can do.

Google Page Rank Update: April 2010 (shoutmeloud.com)
Why Alexa Is More Important To Me Than Google Page Rank (wassupblog.com)
Increase Your Google Page Rank (lazerpromotions.com)

Google Alert Shows Blog Comments Are Indexed

Extreme Information — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:14:19 +0000

The do-follow issue has been discussed to death lately. It also seems to be driving a wedge between a few bloggers in our community. And the fact is: We are all just guessing unless we are on Google’s payroll. Even so, bloggers can be a passionate group and we can get pretty vocal. Because of this, I am reluctant to post this but, in the traditional blogger way, I can’t help myself.

So here we go… For what it’s worth, I’m going to prove that Google does index some blog comments. It doesn’t show that any weight or authority is being attributed to blog comments but they are often indexed. I suspect many of you, if not most of you, already know this but it seems to be a recent debate. This doesn’t show that any weight or authority is attributed to the content or links attached.

My scientific experiment is flawless and precise NOT. I have a Google alert setup for my name, of course, and I see my comments showing up in the alerts all of the time. Yesterday I commented on John Sullivan’s blog. Below you can see a print screen of the Google alert from my comment on his post My Real Agenda.

Now lets take a unique string from that Google Alert and blog comment:
“The funnest statement I’ve heard in a long time:”

I also used that exact sentence when I Tweeted the post and sent it to Facebook. If you take that sentence, put it in “quotes” and Google it, you get one result (at the time of this post). Can you guess what Google indexed? Facebook, Twitter or my comment on John’s Blog?

I thought it interesting enough to share. Now let me have it. I’m a big boy, I can take it lol I wonder if this post will eventually come up in that same search? Fingers are crossed.

Making Your Google Alerts Smarter (ducttapemarketing.com)
Use Google Alerts For Breaking News (ricksrss.com)

Flickr Follows

Extreme Information — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:45:01 +0000

I was working on my personal photo blog recently and I decided to start copying photos over to my Flickr account. I setup a separate set (group) called ‘Passionate Photo‘ hoping to drive a little Flicker traffic to the site. I made sure I had a good title, description and tags. I also added the following terms in the description of each photo:

“Feel free to use this photo for your website or blog as long as the complete watermark stays visible and readable. If you need to crop out the watermark or it becomes unreadable please link to http://passionatephoto.com/ with photo credit.“

I was pleasantly surprised to see that my blog URLs on the main pages does not have the rel="nofollow" tag included. I noticed this when I received a Google Alert and clicked the link. (I use the SeoQuake Firefox plugin that helps me quickly see the do-follow links.)

Flickr.com has a Google PageRank of 09/10 and is rated 32 by Alexa.

Clearing Up SEO Lies

Extreme Information — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:18:45 +0000

What does the term Search Engine Optimization (SEO) mean to you? More importantly, what does the term do to you? If it makes you uneasy and just a little confused you are not alone. Between Google’s obsession with secrecy and extremely unqualified marketers pretending to be SEO experts saying whatever it takes to turn a profit it’s a wonder that anyone has a clue about real search engine optimization. Apparently Justin Brooke, author of SEO Lies, managed to sort through all the lies and BS and write an ebook to help clear things up a little. I just finished the thirty five page .pdf ebook and I’m very impressed.

SEO Lies begins by clearing up five common lies and moves on to what is important from there. We’re long overdue for an ebook like this and you can get your own copy for just one dollar. That’s right, for $1 USD you can download a personal copy of SEO Lies for yourself. You will also be able to resell the e-book for one dollar yourself with the built-in affiliate program.

Best of all you get to pay me the dollar – just joking. You will be paying me via PayPal but, trust me, I would give it away free if I could but one dollar is a small price to pay for the truth.

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Recommended reading: Want more? Check out Lynn Terry’s Keyword Placement: Page Optimization Basics. It won’t even cost you a dollar.

Free Online ‘Do Follow’ Blog Search Engine

Extreme Information — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:41:32 +0000

I was just reading another great post from one of my new friends, Peter Lee, called How Blog Commenting Got Me 1200 Backlinks in 5 Days

In his post Peter included a valuable free online resource that I wanted to share with our subscribers and visitors. It’s a simple online search engine that finds Do-Follow blogs called LINK REMOVED [Oops, That link is now bad. Try this one instead http://www.inlineseo.com/dofollowdiver/ or this http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=013390256337737331053:jq3m6dxkyts]This speeds up the time it takes to find blogs that reward quality comments with search engine friendly backlinks. As you know, these back-links are needed to improve your SEO (search engine optimization).

NOTE: I noticed that I only get the first ten results while using Firefox/3.0.3 In Internet Explorer 7 you get the ‘next page‘ links at the bottom of the page. I don’t know why Firefox cuts that part off but to build backlinks that count it’s worth opening up Microsoft’s browser.

One Way Back Links From eBay

Extreme Information — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:18:55 +0000

Here’s a very quick and simple tip to getting quality link backs from one of the biggest sites on the planet – eBay! Best of all it’s free and all you need is an eBay account to create the links.

Everyone knows that as an eBay member you get a profile page. Your profile is a nice way to increase your eBay credibility but it doesn’t get anyone to your other sites and doesn’t allow link backs. The same with your own eBay Blog.

Here’s where the link juice is…

Your eBay About Me page. You can basically build your own About Me page using HTML complete with clickable links without violating any eBay terms. Be sure you read eBay’s About Me Guidelines. There are certain links you can not have but you may be surprised at just how relaxed eBay is with their terms.