PageRank

There’s an old saying; “Absolute power corrupts absolutely”. It seems that the saying holds true today, especially in the form of Google’s PageRank system. If you thought that the days of the Google Smack-down were over, think again. The boys and girls at the bog G are still fully engaged in the tactic of penalizing [...]

I hear it all the time.  People who are otherwise very successful bloggers saying that they can’t make any real money with sponsored posts.  I hear cries of “there aren’t enough high paying posts” or “None of the opportunities fits my niche, there’s just nothing there for me.”
If I hear you say any of the [...]

Google’s PageRank smackdown has left a lot of bloggers bemoaning the loss of traffic and prestige their blogs recieve, but does having your Google PR wiped out or lowered really affect how many visitors you will get on a daily basis?
From my experience, the answer is a resounding “NO”.
The first of my blogs to get [...]

I think Andy Beard may just be a genius. At the very least he’s got a very analytical mind and he’s put it to use in the ongoing situation of Google Page Rank Slapping. Andy came up with a method to block Paid Reviews from Google’s Spiders using Robots.txt, and now he’s filed [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts over the past few days. I’ve been dead in the middle of a site redesign that I want to have finished by Christmas if possible, and all my time has been spent up to my ears in PHP code and CSS tweaks. This doesn’t mean that I [...]