Google Pagerank Update is on
April 30, 2008
I saw some threads on Google pagerank update, but could not find any change on any of my websites. I found a thread on DP on this. Its sure that the pagerank update is on. I used the pagerank checking tool for checking my websites and my money making blog just 2 months old has got PR 2 from PR 0, that’s good and I have seen some changes in the search engine ranking for this blog.
Other important thing I have noticed this Johnchow who had lost his PR in the last update has gone from PR 3 to PR 4, I don’t think he has stopped paid links or paid reviews.
Quality of Social Networking Traffic
April 20, 2008
I was doing some research on Social Networking Traffic like from Stumbleupon or Digg. Couple of my pages were submitted to Stumbleupon and my traffic really boomed up unexpectedly. I was going through the Google Analytics reports and studying the quality of the Traffic.
What does quality of the traffic means?
Suppose I get a visitor from SU (StumbleUpon) or digg, I found that the visitor hardly spent less than a minute on my website and hardly visited 2-3 pages of my blog. But when I look into a visitor who has come directly to my blog spends 20 minutes and visits about 10-20 pages. I did some googling on this subject and found lots of interesting articles by experts.
Some say even the traffic from search engines are of low quality as they just come to your page and see if they get what they want or just continue with other search results. Looking into this opinion I would like to say is if you have good quality content, the visitor may get impressed and go through other pages and even subscribe to your blog feeds. I usually do this.
My opinion for getting loyal visitors for you blog is to create content which will be useful for your readers and they bookmark your site or link to your posts. I do always link to posts and blogs I like and give the credit to the author. I was reading a post at SEOBOOK which gives some very useful information about the quality of Social Network Traffic
In a post at RandomJabber, the author has described why the social networking traffic sucks. He also feels that the quality of the traffic is very low and of no use for the blog rather than wasting the bandwidth.
One more thing I noticed with Social Networking traffic is the ups and downs in my traffic graph. One fine day, my traffic grows more than 500% and the very next day, it comes back to the same old position. If you do not have a dedicated server, you will even get notice from your hosting company as you may exceed the bandwidth limit. Some sites are down due to such traffic. I would like to recommend this post to be read which is about the results of digging an article called the digg effect
How can a Social Networking Traffic be useful?
If you are selling ads on the basis of impressions then such traffic can be useful for you. Social Networking sites gives you lots of hits, but the conversion or the quality will not be good as I mentioned above. You can sell ads on your blog on the basis of impressions and show your stats to your visitors. My concern about the advertisers is, if they are not happy with the results of the ad campaigns will they renew the purchase? If they are not happy with the CTR or CPA, then they may not be renewing the advertising campaigns. Again the other possibility is that you may get new advertisers who may want to try your advertising program without knowing the results and may use for a month and again they may not be happy with your advertising programs.
My Opinion
- Concentrate of creating good content
- Try to best to provide what your visitors expect from your blog
- Don’t take Social networking traffic as a good growth.
- Track your growth using Google Analytics which will clearly explain you the quality of your traffic
Google Pagerank Update - Confirmed Feb 2008
February 29, 2008
I can confirm that Google has updated the pagerank on the Google Toolbar. Again this time, sites selling links and paid reviews are penalized. I see Johnchow.Com again falling from PR4 to PR3. In the previous update, he was penalized from PR6 to PR4. I have not got much information about other sites right now. I will keep this post updated. I have some of my blogs PR going up and some going down. I think the update was a slow process this time. The fluctuation in PR was there for the last one week as I had done in my earlier post. I have do not have any changes on the main page of this blog, but I have got some sub pages PR growth. Will this PR update effect top bloggers. Problogger has PR6 when I checked last and its the same.
Is a Pagerank Update On? Feb 2008
February 27, 2008
I have noticed some changes in the Google pagerank on some of my web pages nothing much on the main website. Has anybody noticed this? The last pagerank update was just about a month before. Has Google started updating the toolbar on a monthly basis? May be this is some minor updates. I have not read much about this other than the seochat forum
Do you happen to notice anything like this?
Analysis of Google Search results with top keywords - SERPs
February 25, 2008
I have been working with search engine optimization for a few years now and I was really inspired by the Google algorithm to output the search results. The SERPs of Google are really interesting and most of the webmasters and SEO experts try the best to reach the top ranking in Google as Google is the most used search engine on the World Wide Web. Google can grow a site without limits and give traffic to websites which rank on top on high traffic generating keywords.
How can a website or a web page get into the top rankings in the SERPs?
SEO For Wordpress
February 22, 2008
Wordpress is the most popular and widely used CMS for blogging. Wordpress is free and anyone can use it who has server which can run PHP and MySQL. Its very easy to install and most of the servers with Fantastico can install it a few clicks. There are tons of free Templates and plugins available and if you have some knowledge in php coding you can customize the installation too. I have been using Wordpress for more than 3 years now and I really love it. Creating new posts are very easy. You can even do posts with Microsoft word 2007. You can use the Windows live writer to post blogs on Wordpress which is a very efficient tool.
rel=nofollow tag explained
January 1, 2008
You might have experienced the job of spammers, commenting with links to their sites if you have a blog or any user interactive website. Google spider (GoogleBot) crawls from one link to other. Suppose you do a post and have users commenting to your post, you will find that you get lots of comments which are really not relevant, but just to create links to some spam websites. Google gives some credit to such links and improves the position in search result ranking. This really spoils Google’s Search results with spammy sites. To avoid this Google introduces this tag rel=nofollow in Jan-2005.
Matt Cutts - Google Web Spam Head
October 27, 2007
MattCutts is working for Google since Jan 2000 and leads the Web Spam Team. A tough person, also known as Google cop,
