I still exist and thoughts about my blog and PageRank
By maurizio | November 26, 2007
Hi.
I know it’s been ages from my last post. I am/was busy because I’ve finally found a (new) job! And I have to move. :/
Anyway..
I wanted to post my “how-to create charts” post but it’s still uncomplete. I think I’ll post it in 2 parts.
Please note my PageRank. Now it’s down to 0. Why? Probably because I wrote to them (using the tool inside Google Webmaster Tool) stating that I did something wrong and pointing at my post about Andy Coate’s viralink post I did ages ago. I even corrected it. Of course that wasn’t the problem for them, but it was for me.I read Google TOS and they say I shouldn’t post something that is confusing for my readers, and that post is full of useless link so that was the only mistake I did, IMHO. They probably decreased my PR because I wrote some PayPerPost review, but I still believe they are not confusing my readers. If a reader doesn’t trust my reviews he can just skip them. If he trust me he can still check by himself. I haven’t found anywhere that they don’t want paid links; maybe I should check again.
If you can show me where they clearly write that I can’t have “FOLLOW” links on sponsored posts, I’ll “NOFOLLOW” all of them. No problem for me, but FOLLOW or NOFOLLOW are not confusing my readers; they are probably confusing just google.
Anyway I don’t really mind now. I’m upset but whatever.. I’ll probably stop writing PPP post because there aren’t interesting stuff to post about anymore (I haven’t checked lately though).Maybe I can’t even post now that I’m down to 0. Whatever..
The upsetting thing of the week (actually of the last weeks) is ShoppingAds that sent me an email stating that my account was blocked. I don’t remember why because I can’t find that email. Maybe is because I haven’t received an email but they just wrote it on my account page. Anyway I still don’t see anything appearing on my right sponsor space, which is very disappointing, because I was hoping to have at least a couple of referral subscriber since I published it very early.
I’m starting to consider throwing away all that ads stuff on my blog, but then I will lose the experience of managing this kind of stuff on a blog.
On a side note, I’ve noted that I have at least 15-16 reader daily, even if it’s almost a month that I’m not posting anything. This is in some way good and in some other bad. It’s good because I have some kind of traffic even if I don’t post. It’s bad because I usually have 20-25 readers, which means that I’m making efforts to post stuff and just 10 people are coming here to read my new posts.
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ShoppingAds
By maurizio | November 1, 2007
Today I’ve received an invitation to test ShoppingAds. I was already looking for an alternative to Adbrite because it seemed to me that no one cared about it ( 99% of the time I checked it, there was an ads about Russian Brides).
I wonder if you’ll like it, at least you can try it on your own blog.
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Shoe wins and IE loses
By maurizio | November 1, 2007
Even with today’s stats Shoemoney beat John Chow.
If you are watching my site with Internet Explorer you’ll see some weird position for the posts. I am sorry but I have no idea why it happens. I know that the chart’s html code must be all on the same line to avoid problems (due to wordpress), but I have no idea why the posts on IE are down there (or here if you read it with IE :-) ). I hate when the two browsers render the pages differently. I used to worry a lot about the behaviour on IE, but lately I’ve noticed that most of my readers use Firefox so I don’t mind that much anymore.
I am not blaming IE to behave wrongly; I think it’s Firefox that is behaving wrongly probably. I noticed a lot of times that Internet Explorer is simply more strict on the way it renders HTML. It means that when you make mistakes on HTML, IE shows the code wrongly because you’ve made a mistake. Firefox instead try to understand what you meant and it shows the code “correctly”. On this case IE is the right one; it’s better to show you the mistake rather than guessing what you meant.
Anyway it’s not always like that. Most of the times is IE that guess in the wrong way.
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Shoemoney is the winner
By maurizio | October 31, 2007
Apparently. If they take today as the last day of the competition, Shoemoney beat John Chow by more than 2000 readers and 10% more gain. If they use Feedburner dates, we have to wait until tomorrow because FB stats are from yesterday (see my table dates).
Shoe played his card just 2 days ago because the the huge spike is visible just today (with yesterday stats, remember?). He gained almost 5000 readers in just one day. That’s a lot of readers. I wonder if he used a trick or he just added a subscription popup on one of his ringtones site.
I think I can say that both are winners. Shoe can brag about being the winner of the competition, but John learned a lot of new stuff and gained more than 50% RSS readers, which will inflate his earnings for the month.
This competition didn’t have enough rules. If the rules were to use only the blog to promote the RSS, I think John could have been the winner. John Chow is an expert in blogging while Shoemoney isn’t exploiting it as much as he could. Shoe even said he’s not an expert on that.
Anyway check the chart:
I will publish a long post on how to create this kind of charts soon. Leave a comment if you want to see it sooner.
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