BACK TO BASICS: PAGE RANK EXPLAINED

A blog has a greater potential to make money if it has a high pagerank (Check your blogs' pagerank here). Get paid to blog programs (like payperpost) and sites that pay bloggers for advertisements and links (textlinkads), determine the rate by which a blog will be paid based largely on Google Pagerank.

WHAT IS A PAGERANK?

In my last several months of blogging and Internet surfing experience, I have read quite a lot about Google Page Ranks from a number of "Experts". Some try to be highfalutin about it and there are those who showcases their technical expertise by using too many jargons. the end result is a confused reader.

Well, in an attempt to be helpful to professional bloggers wannabe (like moi'), let me try to present the simplest explanation that I've found. And where did I find it?

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.... from GOOGLE!!!!!


Here's what they have to say:

PAGE RANK EXPLAINED:

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages' relative importance.

Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines dozens of aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.

I cannot claim expertise in this topic but I have a couple of high page rank blogs (PR 6's and 7's) and a number of low ranking sites to have an idea how its done. I will try to explain what I know in tomorrow's article. For the meantime, go and write that nice article in your blog for today.

... soooo tired!

Ciao!!!!

BACK TO BASICS: PAGE RANK EXPLAINED (2nd part)

This is in continuation of a previous article.

Since Google is the dominant search engine at this point, the competition is for websites to land on top of Google’s results. A website selling DVD’s would want to be on top whenever somebody types the following keywords: “Movies, DVD, online DVD store, and related words”. Imagine if your online store would land on top of searches for every item that you have on sale? Billions… nope, trillions of sales, even!

So the trillion dollar question is:

“How does Google determine who lands on top of its searches?“

In my amateurish mind, I strongly believe that PageRank determines your visibility on Google’s search engine. As the devil directly puts it: ”PageRank continues to play a central role in many of our web search tools.”

How will your site/blog get a high pagerank? How does Google determine a blog’s pagerank?

In am not very comfortable, but feels the need, mentioning that I am running a PR-7, two PR-6’s, one PR-4 and this blog. I initially have no idea how I got those page ranks but after reading lots of articles, Googles explanation and my own scrutiny of my sites, I now have a good idea.

Let us start... I have read from an SEO consultant's blog (forgot his name and site) that backlinks form the backbone of Google’s page rank system. Visiting Google's website in search of an explanation, this is what I found.

GOOGLE SAYS: In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B.

MY INTERPRETATION: it means that whenever a page links at your blog, Google counts it as one vote.

GOOGLE SAYS: it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."

MY INTERPRETATION: If the page that linked to your site is “important”, there is an additional point for your site. The page that contains the explanation did not define “important” but in my belief, “important” means a page that has a lot of incoming links. Another way of putting it is, “A page is important” if a lot of pages links to it. So, if a page that has a lot of incoming links (e.g. www.johnchow.com) links to you, Google will probably count it as an additional point.

My example is my PR-4 site. I initially had no idea how it got that rank but when I checked my incoming links, I noticed that my blog is linked in the sidebar of a PR-5 blog. Therefore, my blog is linked in every page of that PR-5 blog. To make things more beautiful, that blog has so many pages.

This is probably the reason why a lot of sites buy incoming links, especially from High PR sites. Buying links speeds up the process of getting promoted to a higher PR. I used to want incoming links from other blogs in the hope of getting visitors of that blog to visit my site. Now, I know better.

I have read in some reputable blogs that Google frowns upon links to pornographic and violent sites. I have also read that Google is starting to penalize, sites that sell links. Such are supposed to be counted as deductions and will adversely affect a site’s PageRank.

There are many other factors that determine pageranks. As Google explained: “we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis.”

But in my experience, what I wrote above were the main reasons why my sites got their page rankings.

ANOTHER PAID WRITING OPPORTUNITY FOR BLOGGERS

Here's another Home based money making opportunity for today.

As I've previously written, bloggers make lots of money by getting paid to write reviews of other sites in their blogs. As the PageRank and number of daily blog visitors increase, the price that people are willing to pay just be be written about in your blog increases. There are blogs that earn beyond $250 dollars for a short review of other people's blogs/sites.

Some people call it selling one's soul because some advertisers require a positive review of their sites. However, my solution is for the blogger to carefully study the site and accept the job only if they feel that the advertiser deserves a positive review. Otherwise, don't. There are also advertisers and blogs that forbids the "positive reviews only" requirement. In that case, the bloggers may write whatever they want and still get paid.

Aside from the sites that I've recommended in my previous posts, I have stumbled upon this site that offers to pay bloggers for reviewing their advertisers.

At this point, I still cannot recommend if they actually pay. All the other sites that I've listed previously have never failed to pay me for review assignments that I have done for them in my other blogs.

On their own, bloggers may also advertise their services in their blogs. take for example, www.johnchow.com that makes thousands of dollars per month, writing reviews of other sites in his blog. I've read some of his reviews and my God, it was not positive at all. yet, he got paid handsomely for it. By the way, he has a nice work station at home but he also blogs from his bed. Hahaha! Making money from his bed!

What are you waiting for? Go, make money online!

Work from Home by creating HubPages

Here’s a very good Work From Home Opportunity. I am not kidding. I have been into home based business and online work to know that this is excellent in the long run. Please read on.

We all have our own specialties. As kids, some of us were very good at video games, drawing cartoon characters, Nintendo games, etc..

As we grow older, some of us develop new knowledge and acquire new skills in varying degrees. The point that I am driving at is that we can make unending streams of money simply by writing and illustrating what we all knew and what we are all good at nowadays. This is a very exciting home based business opportunity, if you will ask me. Writing about what we know can become a full time work at home thingie for we are all oozing with knowledge that a lot people can always benefit from.

CREATE A HUBPAGES ACCOUNT BY CLICKING ON THE LINK BELOW
JOIN HERE

There are billions of people in this planet and there are always many things we know that a lot of people elsewhere will be very grateful to learn. Never underestimate what you know. Write about it, share it and earn from it!

I am talking about Hubpages. A Hubpage is simply a website talking about a single topic. Simple examples include

• “How to slice an onion without shedding a tear,
• “Growing a vegetable garden”,
• “Atari tricks” (yes, there are people who will read it and be happy), etc..
• “Drawing Pinnochio”

You may also create hubpages talking about particular topics like your views on religion, etc.

How do we make money this work from home opportunity? Simple, hubpages are well indexed in the major search engines and can therefore be found easily. Hubpages also have a huge following. By putting our adsense or bidvertiser codes, kontera and affiliate programs like amazon and e-bay pages.

Whenever people clicks on your adsense codes, you make money.

Whenever people buys items from your highly targeted e-bay and amazon ads, you make money.

Therefore, all you have to do is keep on creating hubpages and in time, you will generate lots of income.

CREATE A HUBPAGES ACCOUNT BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK-- JOIN HERE

This is a good work from home opportunity that you can do in your spare time. Hubpages can also have links to your own blogs/websites giving your sites an extra boost in the search engines and a little push in the PageRank.

Work from Home by creating hubpages. You will make money for life. Imagine writing 2 hubpages every week, that would mean 96 hubpages a year. If every hubpage will bring you a dollar a day, that would mean $2,880/month from Adsense alone. If your topic is really hot, that can bring in a lot more.

I am telling you, it will not be impossible for you to make thousands of dollars per day by creating hubpages. Even if you don’t have very hot ideas, it is not impossible for you to create thousands of hubpages that will also bring in thousands of dollars per day.

This home based business opportunity is very legitimate and will not cost you money. All you need is a little time every day.

By the way, they do not allow a few items, namely:
* No Spam
* Nothing about gambling
* No adult content
* Only English

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A GET PAID TO BLOG PROGRAM. I MAKE MORE THAN $250/WEEK FROM THIS PROGRAM

I realized just now that Smorty has a referral program. It means that I make money whenever those I refer to it earns something. This is not a multi level marketing scheme. It's free and the referrer (me) makes money only from my direct referrals.

OK, here it goes:

1. Smorty offers blogging jobs, mostly requests to review certain websites for a minimum of 150 words. As the saying goes, no publicity is bad publicity so even if the blogger bashes the site, people still goes to it.
2. Bloggers can join as many blogs as possible. The amount of each post will depend on the Pagerank of the blogs. In my experience, the lowest amount is $6.00. A PR-6 blog can make as much as $100/post.
3. Bloggers chooses from the list of job opportunities available for him and fires away.
4. Bloggers get paid within 10 days.
5. Terms and conditions are updated from time to time. Please read Smorty's FAQ and T & C.

To join, please click on the banner (above this post).

Good Luck!