Tag:Google, pagerank, text links

Text link and PageRank are making headlines recently.

Many established sites have noticed that their PageRank were downgraded by Google recently. Many speculated that they were penalized by Google for selling text links. It may just be true after all Matt Cutts, the head of Google webspam team has mentioned in his blog that Google is against those who buy text links to improve their PageRank.

Links are used to determine a site’s reputation and they are votes by choice and link-based analysis has helped to improve the search quality. Selling and buying links will affect the web searches and make it difficult for search engines to produce relevant results. Google is trying to prevent their search results from being manipulated and that’s why they are against selling and buying of text links.

I do agree with this as this will help small sites owner in their fight for PageRank. Big corporations can easily buy their way to the top of PageRank whereas the little guys fight with their contents. With this control the little guys can compete with the big corporations in the same level field that is contents.

But on the other hand, buying text links is legitimate advertisement to get visitors to your sites. It was already there since internet advertising was introduced. There are many sites mainly selling text links as their main business. Will Google penalize them for doing what they do best legitimately? How about Google Adwords? Aren’t they text links as well? Will Google drop their Adwords?

Google has created PageRank as a standard to measure the relevance or importance of a page using text links as one of the factors to determine PageRank. But now it looks like Google is to kill its own idea. If Google is worried that buying text links will affect their search results, then they may want to come up with a solution in determining the PageRank rather than penalize sites owner

Tag:Google, pagerank, relevance score, search engines

Of all the search engines on the web, the online search engine that was used the most is Google. For you to make your online

presence noticeable, it is vital that your site is findable in Google. You should also make your site part of Yahoo!, MSN Search and so on but the secret is, if your site rank well in Google, it will be well-ranked in other search engines too. Google has changed the internet searches by using a system where the search results are not just based on the page content but also the popularity of the pages indicated by the number of links the pages have. All other search engines not wanting to lose out in the competition, use more or less similar ways of search.

So it is a good to understand how Google works if you want to be successful online. But how Google works is Google’s best kept secret and we can only assume how it works. No matter what, the basic concept of PageRank and Relevance Score used will guide you to increase your findability.

PageRank is a measure of how popular your site is. If you have more inbounds links to your site, you will gain PageRank but it will also depends on how important are the sites that link to yours. The more pages linking to yours, the better will be your PageRank. PageRank value is given from 1 to 10. The higher the value, the greater is the PageRank. PageRank of zero value means that the page is not in Google database. PageRank of 10 are the tops sites on the internet.

Relevance Score is another secret of Google and nobody knows how it is calculated. Based on analysis, we can assume that the key factors of Relevance Score are :

Inbound links – sites that have more inbound links match better for a given search compared to those with fewer links.

Link Text – A link from one or more words ie words that are made clickable is more important than graphical link.

Content and Layout of the web page – the more frequently a word or a phrase is used on a web page, the higher is the Relevance Score.

These assumptions may not be true, but if you follow these steps, your site may have better ranking not just in Google but other search engines as well.

Tag:blogs, ideas, mental block, writers block

This is the most dreaded disease faced by most bloggers especially the newbies. There are times when we just seem to have

nothing to write about. Our mind are just blank. We struggle but nothing comes to mind. A lot of people give up blogging because of this and find that writing is just not their cup of tea. Some resorted to use copyright free articles for their blogs or use content generator software. But having these duplicate or automated contents may not do good to your blog in terms of page ranking among search engines. Search engines prefer original contents with regular updates.

There are a few things that you can do to avoid writer’s mental block.

1. Always have a pen and paper within reach. Whenever an idea strikes, jot it down on the paper in notes form. This can be a starting point of an article for you to write about later. If you don’t jot it down, it may slip your mind and you may not be able to recall the idea later on.

2. Visit other peoples blogs and see what they write about. You may be able to get some ideas of what to write.

3. Blog about something you are passionate about. If your favourite pass time is fishing, you can blog about anything that is related to fishing. You will definitely have a lot of ideas because writing about something you like comes very naturally.

4. Read books regarding a topic that you are currently doing research on and write about it.

5. When you have a mental block, just write the first sentence that comes to your mind. You will find that your mind will open up and words will flow more easily and build up the sentence that you have written. An article is built one sentence at a time.

6. Listen to some soft music to relax. A relax mind tends to be more creative.

7. Use simple language. Trying to figure out what fantastic words to use may just prevent your thought flow and you may get distracted trying to think of the word to use.

These are just some tips that works for me. You may want to try them out or you may have your own ways. Whichever ways, do continue to write and it will get easier as you go.

Tag:findability, online business, search engines, traffic, visitors

When I first came across this word, I thought that I have read it wrongly or maybe there is a spelling mistake or somewhat.

Then when I read the full article, I realised how important this word is. Be it in the brick and mortar business world or in the internet cyberspace, findability is necessary for the business to survive, not to mention successful.

When you start a traditional business for example a franchise business, the first thing that you need to consider is the location. A good location with lots of traffic ( when I mention traffic, I mean customers or potential customers) will determine whether your franchise business will be successful or not. A florist who leases a lot adjacent to a large hospital will most likely to have good business. A fast food chain restaurant built nearby a high school with lots of teenagers students will see high sales volume. These are the example of good location.

If you start a business in a not so good location, you can still manage but you may have to incur lots of expenses in advertisements or awareness creation projects. Whether a business owner opted to pay higher premium to be located in a good location or has chosen to be located in a not so established spot and spend the savings on more marketing and awareness activities, the one thing they have in common is visibility.

So now that we know how important visibility is to a traditional business, the same apply to the internet business. Instead of visibility we called it findability. A strange word it seems. I have tried to find it in my Webster dictionary, but it was not listed. Whatever it is, it is an important word for any internet business. Can people find you or your products in this cyberworld? And just as important, can customers communicate effectively with you so that you can maximise customers retention? Companies with high findability will do well. When people search for your products or services, will they find you or your competitors?

So if your findabililty is poor, you need to step up in more awareness creating activities or else survival in this competitive cyberworld is tough.

Tag:affiliates, blogs, Solobis, wordpress

So you have found out what a blog is and you wanted to join the blogosphere community but you have a problem. You are heading straight to a wall and not going anywhere. You can’t see the direction in front and the wall was preventing you from moving forward in your blogging dream. You banged hard against the wall but it was just to thick to give way and you ended up wounded and beaten. You wanted to give up because you can see any diversion from the blockage. You were hoping that if you can just see a small and narrow path that can lead you and shed some light, you would be too happy to follow.

If you have followed my blog, I have posted articles about Wordpress Adsense System. But if you still find that Wordpress Adsense System is not what you want because you do not want anything to do with the technicality of setting up your own blog, then maybe Solobis Blog Plan is the light at the end of your blogging tunnel.

The Solobis Blog Plan is a Wordpress Blog enhanced and made better using some of the most incredible business concepts and software which help to turn your blog into cash generating machine.

If you faced challenges as listed below:-

1. Do not know how to set up your own blog and do not like the technical part of it.

2. Spending  too much time maintining your blog and making little or no money

3. Can’t seem to get new visitors to your blog or they don’t come back again

4. You struggle to write your posts and wonder how other people are doing it

5. Your visitors just don’t click on your Google ads.

…… Solobis Blog Plan will take care of it. Solobis Fast Track Team consists of professionals who will take care of all your technical issues and help to set up your blog and to keep it running properly. So you can just focus on your content and marketing of your blog and more importantly – making money from you blog.

Tag:credit card, debit card, funds transfer, online business, Paypal

It is just too good to be true. For those internet marketers in countries of which PayPal has imposed some limitations on withdrawal of funds, this is definitely a dream comes true.

PayPal has announced a new feature of funds withdrawal. The new withdrawal feature allows you to withdraw funds from your PayPal account into your Visa credit card or debit card.  This new feature will enable you to transfer your funds conveniently and is available in 26 countires including Malaysia, India, Indonesia and the Philippines.

With this news, more internet entrepreneurs will be encouraged and a surge in making money online in countries where restriction was once imposed will definitely see more internet marketers coming online.

Here is how you can tranfer your funds into your Visa credit card or debit card.

1. Log into your Paypal.

2. Click on the “withdraw” tab

3. Click “Transfer funds to your card”

4. Fill in the required information and click “continue”

The funds will appear in your credit card statement or account statement. You can choose to use the funds to offset your credit card balance or to withdraw the funds if your bank allows you to do so.

If you transfer to debit card.  the funds will appear in your bank account and you can withdraw them from ATM.

Now there is no more reason for you not to get involved in internet business. Thanks to PayPal for this new feature.  

Tag:backlinks, blog directories, blogs, ping, RSS Feeds, trackbacks, traffic, visitors

If you are new to blogging, and you have your brand new blog published, I understand the great feeling of achievement. You may even visit your blog again and again to admire your masterpiece. But it does no good if you are the only visitor to your blog. Without traffic flowing to your blog, your masterpiece will just remain an ordinary blog and will not generate any income for you if money making is your main intention when you set up your blog. To monetize your blog, you have to spread the word around and make your presence felt in the blogosphere.

Here are a few things that you can do to generate traffic to your blog.

1. Blog directories

You can submit your blog to the many blog directories in the internet, Many readers or smaller publishers look for RSS feeds in these directories. If your blog contents have good quality articles, many will be led to your blog through these directories.

Different blog directories have their own requirements for submitting. Some need more details such as your name, email, blog URL, password, blog description and categories.

To save time, Wordpress Adsense System has listed 176 blog directories that you can submit to. So instead of looking around in the internet searching for blog directories, the Wordpress Adsense System list will save you a lot of your precious time.

2. RSS Announcer

This is a software that you can use to submit your RSS feeds to a list of  Feed Directories with just the click of a mouse. It is so simple to use. Once installed in your PC, you can easily submit you RSS feeds to make your blog presence felt. The benefit of submitting your RSS feeds is that other blog publisher will pick up your feed and use them as additional content on the website or blog. Since they will link back to you, you automatically get backlink to your site and this will drive traffic to your blog.

This software is included free of charge in the Wordpress Adsense System. Again this will save you a lot of your  precious time.

3. Ping

To “Ping” a site is to let them know that you have posted a new post.  When you “Ping” a site, a summary of your post will appear on the ping site. The search engine spiders will search the site and follow the links to your blog and starts to index them. There are many site that accept ping as part of their services to categorize blogging topics. This will help to drive traffic to your blog.

4. Backlinks

The advantage of blogging compared to a website is that it is easier to get a backlink from another blog due to the comment features in a blog. If you actively visit other blogs which is related or which has a blog topic similar to yours, you might want to leave a comment and it will create a backlink from that blog to yours. Backlinks are good for your blogs as more backlinks will help you in your page rank.

5. Trackbacks

Trackback is a mechanism for the communication between blogs. If a blogger writes or commenting or referring to a post on another blog, and both blogs support Trackback protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the owner of the other blog with a Trackback Ping. The receiving blog will display a summary and links of the commenting entries below the original entry.  These links make it easier for the readers to follow. Most bloggers choose to manually approve their Trackback links. So make sure that your comment is relevant to their post.

6. Good contents

You can do all the above but if your blog has no good contents, readers may not come back again. To keep your readers coming back, you must ensure that your contents are up-to-date an interesting.