I’ve got some sites that contain nothing but reprint articles. I used to fill them up with those free articles where you have to link back to someone’s size, but recently I’ve started replacing all those with PLR articles. They aren’t unique, but they’re better articles (mostly – you still have to watch them). It’s [...]
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I wonder exactly how much bandwidth will be taken up by the gazillion trillion “rel=no-follow” code bits Google’s recent link crap has spawned? Talk about the mountain coming to Mohammed.
Now back to our regularly scheduled ban on Google chatter.
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I don’t think I know how to monetize a site. Most of my sites are low traffic – ranging from several hundred to 5,000 uniques (by AwStats) per month, so it’s not surprising each site doesn’t make much. But I’m starting to think that these small sites collectively ought to be making $200/month or more. [...]
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I have several sites that are zeroed out at the moment in terms of pagerank. Most of them I’m leaving alone to see how long it takes advertisers to go away (so far, they’re staying, which would seem to indicate either they’re not just buying pagerank when they buy links, or they never check their [...]
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I finally realized this week why text link ads suck: because a certain search engine trashed them.
Once upon a time, before anything like the search engines we know now existed, text links were how you let people know of other relevant sites. It was a system that kind of policed itself: you put up a [...]
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I’m mulling over what might happen if I banned the Googlebot from indexing some of my sites (via robots.txt), including one that might marginally be considered an “authority site”. Why?
I was reading Mark’s recent post on not letting yourself become dependent on Google (or any other single traffic source). This is the lesson we should [...]
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Once I got done reading about the sites that lost pagerank because of link selling, I started taking a look around and noticing the ones that didn’t lose pagerank, or even gained pagerank, despite prominently selling links.
That’s all I’m going to say on that – you can look around for yourself and notice that Google [...]
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Other blogs have covered how Google’s lowering pagerank on some very popular blogs that don’t sell text links. I’m going to cover this:
People, get a clue.
Why is anyone even paying attention to pagerank? It updates maybe twice a year. It’s really just an internal Google thing that they make public just to freak you out. [...]
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And I thought I was having a bad week, net-wise.
Google accidentally deletes own blog as spam
Not surprisingly, the news comes from Yahoo. Let’s all join them in pointing, laughing and enjoying a sense of momentary superiority!
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Yesterday was a nightmare.
Most of my blogs were working just fine. This one and B-2 worked fine for users – the problem was I couldn’t log into the Wordpress admin at all (strangely, the subdomain blogs on B-2 would still let me log in). I did lots of things to try to fix it, from [...]
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