JohnScott started an interesting thread over at the V7n webmaster forums about how Google stopped using his actual page title (V7 Quality Web Hosting - Voted Best Host of the Year) and started using the Dmoz title (V7n Inc.). The site used to be on Google's first page for quality web hosting. No longer.
VE Tom left an interesting comment on the topic on Internet Marketing Blog.
You may remember how unithosting.net vanished into thin air taking many of my web sites (that I hadn't backed up) with them. Well I've learned my lesson but did get a spammy reminder today:
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Good thing I've been saving my money. Bluefind is back. John Scott is determined to make it (once again) one of the premeir web directories out there. I wouldn't bet against him either.
Bluefind has been getting a nice overhaul to make sure its well-organized and also has a little green in the Google toolbar.
It's the perfect time to submit your sites and the best part is that they list quality content pages (not your sitemap). Go get your deep links (and don't forget that my directory also links to quality content pages)!
Some of you may recall Registerfly.com billing me three times for the same transaction. More billing trouble today. I renew two domain names that didn't transfer in time (they can't be transfered when they're going to expire in a couple of days). The renewals fail. My credit card is charged. Here we go again.
I call up and they put the funds in my account and tell me to renew the domains in two hours, using the funds from my account. I try, but the renewals fail again. I try again. Nothing.
I'm trying to transfer all my names out of there. I had been going to Godaddy, but everytime I try to pay online with my credit card, there's some error and I have to call in my order. Other people have problems with Godaddy too. This has gotten very annoying. Now I'm using Domainsite.com and they are cheaper, there online order form works, and email support is very fast.
Reports of broken Google PageRank have been coming in from all over the web. My new site is a great example. With 49 weak backlinks listed in Yahoo, My NFL officiating site is PR 6. It should be a 2, maybe 3 in my opinion.
I have a few other PR 6 sites, one with nearly 20,000 backlinks of which at least half are better quality than the best link going to my new sports site.
I have according to Yahoo, 738 links coming into my travel Amazon bookstore. The home page is PR3. However, my travel sites page is PR 4. That's so weird because I have so few links from other sites pointing at the internal pages and so many pointing at the homepage. Other pages on the main menu are also PR 4 like my Europe travel books page. OK, I can understand that.
But why are pages that get a link from the homepage and the travel sites page (but not the other pages) also show PR 4 like this Hawaii site page? And with the same links, my advertising page shows PR 0. Also showing PR 0 is this travel DVD page with a link from the homepage (and that's the only link). Oh and now the hompeage is PR 4. What's going on here? I swear it was PR 3 a moment ago.
Now I see. The coder who did this site for me was not an SEO... It seems that my domain/ is PR 3 while my domain/index.php is PR 4. Rookie mistake that I should have seen a long time ago. I still don't see why 501 internal links = PR 4 when 783 externals = PR 3 but I just have to live with that ambiguity...
Another new site. I bought this one cheap, 40 bucks. But since it had been made with yahoo sitebuilder I had to spend a good hour or so cleaning up the html. I wanted to cry when I saw that html...
Anyway, this is a weird site for me. It matches my sports theme, giving me 4 sports sites now. The weird thing is that it's a negative site about poor officiating in the NFL. I see very low CTR with YPN and Adsense on my Sports sites anyway, but I would expect this one to be even lower. Who wants to buy something after reading all this stuff about how bad the NFL refs are?
So, how do I market it? I already have it listed in my Jtrotta.com directory. And the previous owner had set up a reciprocal link with another site about poor officiating. But it's pretty sad when you can count a site's links on one hand and still have over half your fingers leftover.
Wow Directory is having a special (5.00 express submissions this week, so they're next on my list. From there, I'm not really sure where to promote this one outside of directories...
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