May
30
PR is Dead, PR is Back . What is happening?
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It was a busy weekend for SEO consultants, and SEO forums. Friday (27th of May) I have read the thread “There is not a PR update going on” at DigitalPoint Forums and found out that many sites started showing grey on the Google Toolbar PR check.
There were very early comments with the shock of the news by several forum members. One DP member joeychgo has stated “This is the end of Google Pagerank as we know it”, and many others agreed. I think it was an early assumption to make.
PR was not a major impact on my websites, but it was still an important indicator for many webmasters. As myself having a few web directories, I have understood that many webmasters still care about visual PR more than other factors.
I didn’t give it a deep thought, and I started checking by Google. I haven’t seen any official announcements nor press releases about the PR topic. Then I have started checking authority sites in SEO business, and could not find any proof that announced the end of visual Google PR.
Then I have answered the thread at DigitalPoint Forums by this sentence:
I don’t care about the future of PR but I’d hesitate before making certain assumptions without a scientific proof or actual announcement from google.
PR migt be gone for good, but I don’t like it when people make certain assumptions without any proof. It might even be a temporary glitch.
I had a chance to write about the updates here at the topic “Is Google Toolbar PR History?” . It is not a big deal at all, but I have received a few emails saying I was the first (maybe one of the first) blogger who wrote about it, and a few sites mentioned Daily-SEO about this blog entry such as this one .
As predicted by many Google PR was back and I have blogged “Google Visual Page Rank is Back” today.
Everything seems calmed down for now, we will wait and see if Google will have new surprises about the Toolbar PR.
Is toolbar PR important or not? Many webmasters discuss this question. I will write a detailed article about this topic this week.
This was a short summary of what happened with Google Toolbar PR this weekend.
May
30
Google Visual Page Rank is Back
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I have read DP topic Google PR is back and went to check the visual page rank.
Yes, Google Page Rank is back. Maybe it was a glitch, maybe maintenance. But it is back right now.
May
27
Movement in different Google data centers were the reasons of many discussions during last couple of days. Now all the data centers show 0/10 PR for websites, and Google Toolbar is grey.
At first many thought it was a Google PR update after a Google backlink update, but then some started mentioning a rollback at google data centers, and now many think Google Toolbar PR is a history.
There’s a discussion at DigitalPoint about the end of Google Toolbar PR .
It is still early to comment on the situation certainly, but I am sure Google will come up with an announcement or the time will show if today is the end of Google PR.
May
27
I have never replied to a spam email in my life, and I have never sent any kind of spam from any of my sites. Lately, I have been receiving hundreds of link exchange requests from webmasters.
With the help of link building softwares out there, it is becoming annoying.
Here’s my advice to webmasters who spend hours spamming other webmasters for link exchange:
Quit spamming, and spend your time working on your site. People will link to you without the need of spamming.
May
26
Reprise Media Search Engine Marketing Company
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Reprise Media, New York based Search Engine Marketing Company, is ranked 30th Fastest Growing New Business by Entrepreneur Magazine.
From their New York City loft location, Peter Hershberg and Joshua Stylman remember thinking that their internet search engine marketing company might eventually grow large enough to have 10 employees or so. “We’ve grown to about three dozen employees in two years,” says Hershberg, 32. “[It’s] a lot faster than we anticipated.”
Co-founding Reprise Media in February of 2003, this entrepreneurial pair had a wealth of experience within the internet marketing business. When their first internet marketing company was acquired by Ask Jeeves in 1999, the pair joined Ask Jeeves’ executive management team before striking out on their own again three years later. Believing that media planners didn’t yet have an optimally effective way to sell internet marketing, the pair saw a niche in creating viable search engine marketing plans for clients–consulting with them to choose keywords, bid on them, and then place ads to show up on the results page when someone does a search on Google, Yahoo!, and the like. “We’re sort of like an ‘ad agency meets a consulting firm’ with a specific concentration on [search engine marketing],” says Stylman, 31. Read more
May
20
Google’s New Personalized Homepage
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Google has released its new personalized homepage service yesterday.
It allows you to arrange your Gmail, Google News, Google Maps driving directions, weather and a few select news services (including Slashdot) on a single page. Future plans include Universal RSS support.
Yahoo has a similar service called My Yahoo and with the new personalized home page service, many webmasters started to discuss if google’s direction is to become a web portal instead of a search engine.
May
17
Daily SEO New Design
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We have a new design !
I have updated to Wordpress 1.5.1 and our template “Green Marinee” is designed by Ian Main for WordPress 1.5 Theme Competition.
I have used couple of hacks and plugins on WordPress Theme, and they were very easy to implement. Here are the modifications made to Daily SEO theme.
New Wordpress is way better than I have expected. I’d highly recommend it to bloggers. With a few template tweaking, you can have a search engine optimized, great blog software.