My Life With IT

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.

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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.

It’s not easy thinking of new topics to write about and still be able to make the flow smooth in a site. However, if you take a post and add on to it, it’ll help you keep the momentum going.

I’m a lazy blogger and I haven’t been linking to my old posts except making use of the Related Post plugin. As for the recent group writing projects I’ve been joining, I haven’t even done some link love to all the other participants.

For example, the Link Post contest and Five Things. All other contest like the Top 5 and BlueJar have link love. These are only for group writing projects. I haven’t even consolidated other contest I’ve attempted. Oh, those contests don’t need a any link love from me.

The fun part of Group Writing Projects is the entry and reading other entries, the next best part is winning it. However, for those who haven’t gotten anything, they always get to be listed with lots of link loves. It’s the time management that gets things going. Having trouble? There are 33 time management tips to help you. See, it’s another group writing project that do help you.