Google PR, LinkBait and other stuff
Hey everyone – just a quick wrap up about a couple of things making me grumpy today:
Google PR:
After Nicks previous Google bitch slap incident, I had vague hopes that Internet Babel may start getting some of its PR back this time around. No such luck, and even Jim at The Net Fool confirmed my lowly ranking ;-( It doesn’t really matter of course, PR ain’t that big a deal and I’ve just got to carry on with building the quality content and link building/SEO stuff.
Link-Lies/Link-Fraud:
The term ‘linkbait’ can cover a number of practices – WikiPedia breaks linkbait down into a number of distinct types, but something that really bugs me is the trend towards totally manufactured stories.
Of course, this kind of rubbish has been going on in the mainstream media for a while, and I guess there’s no real reason to assume it wouldn’t take off on the Web as well, but it annoys me when you see some of the people doing this stuff actually being proud of the crap they put out and getting some level of ‘respect’ from other people for it. It’s not as if fabricating a ‘sexy’ story and touting it to a gullible press is so difficult, it’s just that not all of us want to stoop that low.
More to the point is that the big G will start to look at ways of punishing fraudulent link-bait and people using legitimate teasers/bait/promotion methods may get caught up in the crossfire and get dragged down as well. There’s nothing wrong with building and promoting traffic and links but doing it with stuff that has absolutely no basis in truth (while trying to pass itself off as a legitimate ‘news’ piece on a respected site) is just plain wrong. A great short term result for the guy who placed it, probably not so good in the long run for everyone else.
Adsense:
This last few days, Adsense (on my other sites) has been performing like an arthritic, three-legged nag. Very sad.
Waiting for people:
I put a bid in for some sweet domain names a few days back and the clown isn’t responding. It is annoying.
On the brighter side, I’ve got some nice ideas for upcoming posts about SEO, WP, domain speculation and parking etc – plus I have some Domain name giveaways coming up soon AND a neat little SEO project that I hope to start and that I will update about on this Blog.
On the even brighter side, I’m about to go and sink a few well-earned beers 
All will be well soon and I hope your day is going better than mine.
I’m still PR zero.
too sad.
Sorry if I “rubbed it in” at all… I am just trying to be objective and I think that the way the metrics play out, you generally would have gotten a 0 in most cases. A lot of this is because the blog has been dead for so long. If you can find a way to get back on track and start posting longer, better, daily content… you’ll see at LEAST a pr 2 the next time around.
No worries Jim, I understand – I’ll just aim for a high “Net Fool True Value Rank” in future rather than that rubbishy old PR stuff
I think I’ve got some nice stuff coming up, covering a few different areas.
Thanks for sharing. Search engine optimization is indeed one of the most crucial areas in Internet marketing, it is a perfect bridge between technology and business.
Man,just think about PR.. there are some people with PR 4 and makes hardly 100$ per month…
Just concentrate on content + marketing + seo.If you blog more then you can expect more
Have a great day!