Blog Clean Up, PageRank Lottery, New Focus
Hello Readers,
There are some changes on SEO 2.0 to announce:
- Blog clean up
- PageRank lottery
- New focus
On Saturdays there always was clean up day in my family when I was a kid. So I cleaned up my blog or uncluttered it like Skellie would say. I dropped the useless affiliate ads that made no money at all. Moreover I dropped elements that were superfluous, e.g.:
- The huge RSS icon, which was annoying after a while
- The Netscape bookmark icon, as Propeller is even more useless than Netscape was...
I won a 5 in the Google PageRank lottery today and do you know why? Because I commented three times on Remarkablogger and he's got a 7.
There will be a new focus on SEO 2.0 - I will practice what I preach and concentrate more on socializing and the tools that facilitate that.
Therefore I not only added the CLIQ widget where the marvellous Blah, Blah! Technology blog joined me, I also will try out the Blogcatalog community (I'm still "pending") which does not look as crappy as the more popular MyBlogBlog.
I won't add the widget but instead the "Rate my blog" dropdown (see at the right below) which ads a little value at least.
I'm still looking for a Sphinn add on that does not look wacky...
Also I added bookmark buttons for DZone (developer "Reddit") and Wykop (Polish "Digg") as those two are my target audiences in some ways. I'm a web developer born in Poland originally.
As soon the head aches go away I probably will write something more useful again and add links to this post (done) ;-)
I don’t like your search box :(.
ja pierd*** – just lowering the tone ready for Wykop visitors.
You could always do some Salesletter 2.0 sliding Divs for the RSS stuff.
You know Remarkablogger changed domain on the 10th – the PR data Google are playing with must be fairly fresh.
Looking good, Tad :). What about a smaller RSS button, though?
Congrats on getting PR5 Tad. Though I feel it does not mean much to you since you get most of your traffic from stumble upon.
Tad,
I just rated your blog and clicked on go, but it takes me to an empty page?
Oh man, I’ve been staring at the screen too long today — I could have just sworn your hat was scintillating or something. (Or maybe someone slipped acid in my drink.)
(Now Mexicans are dancing around your head…)
Damn Adam! You hate my serach box? You’re right, it looks cramped and clumsy… I’ll change that next Saturday…
Andy, in Poland we have the intellectuals who never swear, like me, damn! and the bloody scum sons of ###…
For RSS I guess I’ll have to submit to Google’s power and use Feddburner sooner or later…
Skellie, I hoped you say it’s not necessary…
david: It never matched traffic ;-) I tested my Blog and submitted it to SU and it worked…
Which URL did you use?
Lewis: It’s Saturday night fever!
Right now I’m just forwarding remarkablogger.com to michaelmartine.com. Soon it will change over and the 301 madness will begin.
PageRank is bullshit. I went from a 6 to a 7 in the recent change. I think of Darren Rowse and his new PR… oh, he’s a 6, now. I thought he got dropped lower than that. Anyways, it’s completely absurd that I have a 7.
Blog’s lookin’ good, Tad. I kind of liked the RSS icon. Maybe if it had been a little bigger…
Good call with the clean up Tad, I too think the rss icon needed to be just a little larger though :p Well done on the PR 5, I got my first PR of a 3, who knows how they work out these things, but considering I hardly have time for one or two posts a week at the mo, PR3 is ok with me :)
“What URL did you use?”
I’m not sure I understand the question. The PR5 i see is on http://seo2.0.onreact.com
Your stumbleupon home page http://onreact-com.stumbleupon.com/ also has a PR5 btw.
Hi Tad, there’s a lot to be said about a good tidy up.
Running a ‘blog is much like marketing — experiment, test, measure, refine.
And thanks for the mention…
Thank you for this – i found this one of the best articles and most helpful I have ever read. You are a star!
Yeah Wayne: Triall and error.
Are you sure Viv? This one here? This is just a truly unimportant post.
To make sure you’re not a bot I will remove your homepage link.
Come back if you’re human and don’t flatter me too much.
[...] When I read on, I realized what the problem is. Half a year ago the client’s PageRank was at 5, then it fell to 4 some months ago and finally in January it got a 3 in the PageRank lottery. [...]
I really don’t care about PR … but I managed to get a PR3 for 2 of my websites and a PR2 for another,
I was glad I had Page Rank for my websites … but this doesn’t change things at all … like traffic, earnings and so on.
It might affect search engine rankings … but now much.
I’ve seen websites with PR 0 being on 1st place for different keywords in google