Comments on: October 2007 Blog Stats for ClickNewz

By: November 2007 ClickNewz Blog Stats

November 2007 ClickNewz Blog Stats — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:34:19 +0000

[...] was down slightly during November, but only by less than 200 unique visitors from the October [...]

By: Google PageRank: Tool or Marketing Gimmick?

Google PageRank: Tool or Marketing Gimmick? — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:28:16 +0000

[...] In closing, and to return back to the original question – Tool or Marketing Gimmick? – this recent panic attack PageRank Update seems to have no affect on actual search engine rankings. It is also not an indication of site popularity or related in any way to your site traffic… [...]

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Best internet marketing affiliate programs — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:53:31 +0000

Hmmm … this is food for thought!

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:35:45 +0000

I have no doubt that it was likely a combination of PayPerPost + Text Link Ads – both of which are online advertising brokers for paid links.

Google dislikes paid links. We all know that.

I’m not so sure how I feel about that, or whether my personal feelings on that really need to be aired publicly. Perhaps a good topic for a blog post – I’ll consider it.

But I’ll say this – I’ve been online more than a decade, and online advertising has *always* been a big part of the internet. All the way back to paid listings in Yahoo’s directory (before it was a search engine) and before…

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Business internet marketing opportunity — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:16:53 +0000

Hello Lynn,

Could be that Google dropped your blog from PR5 to PR4 because of participating in ”pay per post’ you once talked so much about on your forum?

See this post by Neil Shearing: http://www.neilshearing.com/2007/11/07/the-truth-behind-the-big-pagerank-slap/

By: redspace

redspace — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:34:10 +0000

Thanks for sharing your stats. at least i know what kind of traffic should i expect to measure success. i believe tracking our site’s stat and do some analysis on it would give us invaluable feedback. at least we know which traffic should we focus more. so i’m looking forward for your traffic journal.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:20:52 +0000

You really only have to worry about all that stuff if you are doing questionable marketing methods or trying to manipulate the search results. Otherwise, write good content and link appropriately and promote your website…

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Best affiliate program online — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:06:45 +0000

Well this post proves anotehr thing to me: Simply go ahead promoting your site(s) hte best you can without taking any heed about those Google games such as high/low PR, backlink appeating on Google search or not etc.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:50:46 +0000

That it is

By: Troy

Troy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:47:16 +0000

Thanks Terry,
I have noticed many times through the year, when google decided to shake up my pagerank (and everyone elses), that my SERP’s increased, and so did sales. That green bar has been more proof that it means nothing.But it sure impresses some people!! Good law’rd, I have even been hired by people that were impressed by nothing but pagerank. So, then the next step is usually to create alot of worthless inbound links to make that green bar go up. A laugh, isn’t it!

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:49:59 +0000

Interesting. I havent looked at theirs in so long I wouldnt have noticed. I’ve been using Yahoo, as Google is known to be skewed. But last month (September, I mean) Yahoo showed a major decrease (dropped over 10,000 of my incoming links that were showing previously). The numbers were back up this month though – around normal. Strange…

By: Kara

Kara — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:46:47 +0000

No I’m talking about Google’s backward links. It seems they were doing nothing but dropping for months, then all the sudden I’ve seen a huge increase the last few days. And not just on one site, but several of my sites. Could be some of my own sites just now appearing (like our blog, that was moved), I’m not for sure.

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:28:26 +0000

Are you seeing those through Yahoo’s Site Explorer – the inbound link numbers?

By: Kara

Kara — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:07:37 +0000

I noticed a drop in some of my sites too. But not to worry, every time it drops on a page, my visitor count seems to go up.

Although on the plus side, have you noticed backward links updated too? I have hoards of new links on all my sites!

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Best Online Business Internet Marketing Training — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:25:28 +0000

Well I notice other major search engines do not bother about this PR things. Maybe it’s one of those google way of proving the ‘big brother’ of search engines online