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Google update our website page rank again! Have you notice your latest page rank?

I was penalized by Google on January 2009, get back my PR 3 after few weeks. And now, after Google PR update I got PR2! *sigh* From PR3 -> PR0 -> PR3 -> PR2. Instead of improving, it become worst.

Why? I’m curious why Google drop my PR from PR3 to PR2? I didn’t sell text link ads anymore. Who can tell me? Hope to find out root cause and fine tune it before next PR update middle of the year.

PS: What is your latest PR? Check your page rank here.

How well is your Website perform? Many of you may use Alexa to check a Website ranking. But I have to tell you that is not enough.

Alexa is just a traffic rank evaluation. How about page rank? domain age? inbound links and estimated site value? All these info could make your Website ratings more accurate.

Website URL Rate

It is too troublesome to check all info above one by one. That is why I stop my monthly traffic report last year.

URLRate is the tool you need to check all at a glance. It check 5 commonly use criteria to determine a Website rate: Domain age (the older your domain, more value it becomes), Page Rank, Inbound Links, Traffic Rank (from Alexa), and Site Value (just for reference, not actual value).

After collect these information, it then calculate the rating for your Website. My blog get only 5.42 out of 10. The breakdown is “can be improve”. This rating is just little bit higher than passing mark. (more…)

Today is a happy day. Why? Get back my page rank PR3 and received my new and Free iPod Touch 2nd Gen together with the latest LiveSpeakR at the same day.

I was penalized by Google months ago without my knowledge. I only realized when I check my page rank (PR). As you know, I have submitted a Reconsideration Request early last month.

After wait for 2 weeks, no notification, no news, nothing. Then I resubmit another reconsideration request again last week. And now AhTim.com get back its PR3 ! (more…)

Google penalize my blog ranking to PR0 (zero). I don’t know about it until I check back my PR (Page Rank) recently.

I got my PR3 after 3 months of blogging. My last check on PR was June 2008, stay at PR3. I thought everything just fine after that. I can see my visitors is growing but “feel” the traffic lesser after few months. I never think Google penalize my blog. Because I’m just a “small” blogger and Google won’t notice me. But I was wrong!

Why Google Penalize me?

I have read about “nofollow” link tag and the risk of selling Text Link Ads long time ago. I didn’t take any action because I thought Google won’t notice this “small” blog.

Google don’t like paid links because they disturb the organic search environment. Well, this is a subjective point. Anyway, you must follow the rules if you are in the game. Not like JohnChow, he has enough traffic so don’t bother Google but I need more traffics from Google search.

Now I know I have been penalized by Google due to sell paid links (Text Link Ads and custom text link). (more…)

I have receive more and more link exchange request. Sometime this is quite annoying but prove that my blog is doing well. If not, people would not want to exchange link with me. Maybe some of you curious why I don’t do link exchange? Well, in simple word I would say this practice is wrong!

Why I don’t do Link Exchange?

The main reason is I care benefits of my readers. I want all information I provide to my readers are clean, useful and pure. Secondly, of course is due to Page Rank.

Page rank is an organic measurement of usefulness of a website based on it’s incoming links. This measurement bring us useful and important information first, when we do Google search. This means link exchange will spoilt the organic usefulness of internet. It might dirty the information in this blogsphere!

Hence, the practice of link should be like this: if I discover website that I believe it would benefit my visitors, I link to that site. And, if you discover my blog and believe I would benefit your visitors, then you should link to me. If we both think our link is useful for our readers, then we should both link. No link exchange is needed.

What I say?

So next time if people ask me for link exchange, I will answer like this: Link to my site if you think your readers would find it useful or interesting, and do it without hoping that you or your site will benefit from the link.

What you say? Do you do link exchange?