Blog Changes-Pagerank, Alexa, Etc

Or the Rise and Fall of If You Write It. My random thoughts blog about trendy things has lost its small amount of Pagerank, which was 3 until fairly recently, and is now 0. This is not a great tragedy, except for my small trickle of income from paid posts that wanted a blog with a Pagerank of at least 3. Of course, it is entirely possible that writing paid posts is what cost me the Pagerank in the first place. Kind of funny that. Alexa has also lost interest in If You Write It, my high spot on Alexa,…

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Google Pagerank and the Odd Blogger

I mean odd as in random, but well, also as in strange. My latest timesink has been a site called Blogcatalog, which is a place for bloggers with nothing better to do to hang out and talk about life, the universe, and everything. Here are bloggers that blog for the love of writing, bloggers that want to get rich with Adsense, bloggers that saw the word blog somewhere and thought, hey, I wanna do that! Pagerank is how Google keeps score of the internet. Their page on Pagerank has a PR of 7 out of 10. Adobe has a pagerank…

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EntreCard-Link Love or Link Farm?

Sam Freedom’s blog is one of the Big Dogs on EntreCard. I am not sure how you become one of the Big Dogs, but there are a handful of blogs that show up in the Most Popular and Most Recommended sections everyday. Sam is usually at the top of these EntreCard lists. His blog can be interesting and he has a way of talking that gets people’s attention. Sam recently wrote a post about Entrecard Link Love. He’s for it, so long as you do it his way. Ok, a small digression. What is link love? Old style link love…

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