October 12, 2008 By

GobalaKrishnan.com Goes to PageRank 0 – But Who Gives A ****?

image Google updates PageRank – and GobalaKrishnan.com gets the big zero. For the past three years this blog has started from zero, to PR3 and even PR5 and now it’s back to square one. But how important is PageRank when advertising or selling text links is not your main profit source?

How much does PageRank effect traffic?

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My Awstats shows a traffic increase from September 2006 to September 2007, traffic was doubled. But September 2008 (last month), my traffic didn’t change quite much at all. The reduction was probably due to the fact that I hardly posted anything in this blog.

PageRank for me isn’t that important, since I mostly make money from affiliate marketing, selling my own products and from email marketing, all of which do not depend on Google’s unpredictable rankings.

However, I do agree that SEO is important. If you’re using WordPress then it’s a little bit easier as the default installation of WordPress is already quite search engine friendly. You can increase the effectiveness of it by reading up on some practical SEO tips for WordPress.

At the end of the day though, what is really important are the royal readers of this blog, my customers, and all my subscribers. To you guys, thanks for reading GobalaKrishnan.com and coming back to see what’s new even though I’ve had some sort of writer’s block recently. I feel much better now!

Google on the other hand, can **** off.

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February 28, 2008 By

Silent Google Page Rank Update – Did it Really Happen?

Yesterday I had a rather pleasant surprise. While navigating around my blog to check out my latest readers from MyBlogLog I noticed that my page rank bar looked rather fat. I did a double take and sure enough I had been upgraded from the almighty to a page rank 4.

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While it isn’t really that important to even bother about page rank, it sure as hell is for credibility amongst other bloggers.

I’m not sure what you guys do when browsing blogs. But when I check out what’s happening in the blogosphere I normally always glimpse in that toolbar to see where they stand in terms of page rank.

When I see a decent enough figure it tells me that this person is credible enough and obviously has a decent blog with decent traffic. Do you do this too, or do you focus more on the content of the blog itself without bothering to look at the little bar (come on, be honest here).

I know it is probably silly, but I have always done that, ever since I learned about page rank and how Google rules the Internet.

This doesn’t mean that I won’t read a blog that hasn’t got any page rank, or even think that they are not worth anything. Far from it actually.

But this little green bar just has that special attention grabbing effect, that coupled with a great headline will make me read on for more.

I wonder whether anybody else has experienced the same on their own blogs?

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October 27, 2007 By

It is Official Google Has Updated Page Rank

Google PR Updated! We can all put our speculative minds to rest, as of today Google has updated Page Rank. My blog went from a 0 – 3 and my brand new JV blog who is barely 1 month old went straight to a 2.

I bet this update will make many bloggers very happy indeed, as a lot of newer blogs are particularly favored compared to the older ones.

Don’t ask me why, as nobody except Google can answer this question and they won’t either. But not all bigger blogs have suffered. Some actually went up and increased their rankings. So finally after many month of guessing and at some stage heavy discussions we can now relax and get back to blogging, etc. with a leveled out playing field. In my eyes this is great as it makes for a more interesting playing field. Don’t you agree?

Getting a Page Rank is simply a great bonus for me personally, but it won’t stop me from doing what I do anyhow, trying to write good and related content. Meanwhile I will put my head down to think up some creative ideas on non PR related promotions.

Anyway, I congratulate those that managed to grab some PR and for all the others I’d say it is “business as usual”.

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