In my last blog, I talked about leaving comments on blogs in order to get the blog owners to notice you, and consequently link to you. Nowhere in that blog did I tell you to e-mail a bunch of sites and ask them to add you to their blogroll. (A blogroll is a list of blogs that a site will put into their sidebar, and that list of blogs usually corresponds very closely to the topic of that blog, meaning you likely won’t find a blog about politics in the blogroll of a cooking blog, and vice-versa.) E-mailing other blogs … Continue reading →

Here we discussed what page ranking was, and here we discussed how Google determines your page ranking. Now let’s figure out how to raise your Google ranking. As I already said, Google rewards people for incoming links, and the high ranked the page is that is linking to you, the more Google rewards you. So it seems like it would only make sense to go after the really high ranking blogs (a 6 or higher) and ignore everyone else. Although this makes sense on the surface, it doesn’t actually work, because a high ranking blog will be inundated with requests … Continue reading →

As I just covered, the higher the page ranking, the more traffic a website receives. This is important to you, the blogger, because if you write an article for a website that has a low page ranking (a 0 or a 1) then the exposure for that article will be minimal at best. If you put that article up on a website that has a high page ranking (a 5 or higher) then you are going to receive quite a bit more traffic, for the same exact article. Since traffic usually means ad revenue, you want traffic. I promise, you … Continue reading →

I have mentioned Page Ranking from Google before, and I wanted to take a moment to explain what it is, and what it means for your blog. The Page Rank (or PR) from Google is a scale from 0 to 10, 0 being a brand-new blog or website, and 10 being one of the most important websites on the Internet. Google assigns a Page Rank to a blog based on a multitude of factors, which I’ll get into in my next blog. Right now, let me explain how your Page Rank affects you. In a nutshell, the higher the PR … Continue reading →

If you missed Part One, check it out here. We discussed having to produce a set amount of blogs each month/week/day, having a set topic you have to write on, and the fact that you can’t blog for companies like PayPerPost or ReviewMe while blogging for a company. There are more downsides – read on: *Each blog has to have at least X amount of words in it. They can usually be longer than the requirement, but they can never be shorter. If you watched a YouTube video and thought it was good enough to want to share on the … Continue reading →