My Life With IT

Jasa has kindly offered to pay for a domain and hosting of your choice. WOOT! I want! It’ll be interesting to see since I have an idea of another domain that I hope to be developing this year. The winner is the top referral. So, start referring now!

Contest period: 24th Jan 2008 to 24th Feb 2008
Winner: End of Feb 2008

When my Page Rank (PR) dropped, I was upset. That was because I had spent months on this domain and managed to get it to PR3 after 4 months of hard work only to see it drop drastically to PR0 overnight. Total devastation.

[via Flickr]

However, there is not much I can do except not to link to link farms and those suspicious looking websites that are suspiciously looking like they are culling links to increase either Technorati ranking or Alexa ranking.

When the PR changes began, everyone was trying to figure how it worked and what to do to rectify it. How PR worked to me is a mystery despite the given equations. I get more confused even with the various examples of Page A link to Page B, etc. Perhaps with a colourful spreadsheet, this would explain Page Rank better.

The effects of the number of pages also affect PR. The equation given as below:

PR(A) = 0.25 + 0.75 (10 + PR(B) + PR(C) + PR(D))

I’m not quite sure about sub domains will cause the entire domain’s Page Rank to be affected but judging from the recent turn of events, I guess it could contribute.

David at exTra For Every Publisher is holding a domain name giveaway #2 by giving away 4 domain names.

BloggingShift.com - expires 10/13/2008
Somefoo.net - expires 1/10/2009
VRUnleashed.com - expires 10/13/2008
SmallReaction.com - expires 11/13/2008

I would like Somefoo.net as I’m hoping to develop something that I have thought of this morning.

[via My Blog Contest]

I’m very upset. It’s not the first time Advertlets has encountered domain redirection issue. The last time, it was one of the ads that caused my domain to be redirected to some site that I don’t know if it’s safe for my readers. This time, the domain has gone down because it wasn’t renewed. Good Lord. Goes to show how much you care about this providing for bloggers, eh? I’m not the only one who is upset too.