Life after MsnHOO

Today Yahoo announced that it would rebuff MSN 41 billion $$ takeover offer. I believe there are 3 simple reasons for this rebuff

  1. They want more Money
  2. They Want More Money
  3. They Want MORE MONEY

Yes - $31 a share is not enough for Jerry and the Gang to sell their souls to Redmond. I believe that this offer would have actually been successful has not Google got involved. Now Google may or may not be able to Buy Yoohoo due to Monopoly laws, however it definitely do something to C@@kBlock Redmonds bid. Read more

NoFollows Dirty Little Secret

Through a series of experiments conducted in the Web Genome research laboratories involving a 6 month period and lots of Unique IP’s and servers, we have discovered Googles dirty little No-Follow Secret.

To begin let us define the basis of No-Follow. This means that the web indexing robot will see the link, but not follow it nor index it.

The general purpose of No-Follow is a statement by a webmaster that they do not value the link enough to warrant giving that link credit in the SERPs (search engine results)

So to put it simply, the Link flow is like water, each link in promotes the page in the rankings and each link out decreases the rank. This means that in theory a webmaster wants as many links in and as little links out - hence the NOFOLLOW tag which is designed to allow the user to see and click on the link, but tells the search robot not to look at this link

Typically NO-follow is used by the following types of sites Read more

Google - The Self Correcting Prophecy

Interesting things have been happening in January with Google and her search algorithm’s. I will take the fate of one of my sites as an example.

Prior to the January PR update, this site was pulling approximately 300 uniques a day from Google based on a few strong keywords, but mostly on random long tail results that were deep within the content.

After the PR update, this particular site still stayed at a PR4, but all but dropped out of the Google rankings, only continuing to pull in approx 10-20 uniques a day from people who found it buried on page 30 of the SERPs.

The reason for this drop could have been many things, but there was probably fair reason that it was flagged by a computers point of view, however from a users point of view the site is a wealth of content.

However yesterday something happened that is being reported by many others across the sphere.

Google Self Corrected and my site came back into the SERPs. Not quite to 300 a day, but hovering well above 200 uniques from Google with my 1st page ranking for certain keywords again restored.

So What happened?

What can we learn about Google from this?

7 High PR Do-Follow Forums


On my Digital Point account today I got a private message from some random fella directing me to his webpage which pointed to a bunch of free PR7,8 and 9 pages where you can post a follow link in the forums. He then of course wanted to sell me a PR9 link on another page. But the information presented was interesting enough.

He said that there are numerous forums of PR 8,910 Authority sites that let you post a do-follow link in your sig or post and remain largely unmoderated. The link he was directing everybody to was a page on the Adobe forum discussing Flash and Shockwave. It was very humorous to see the trail of over 50 comments that looked something like

“You should really check your drivers, Golf Pro Shop”

“have you tried uninstalling? Make money online”

Well you get the point. And the point is that if PR still means anything AT all (and that is open to debate) then these forums are a source for posting and building up lots of juicy pagerank. Assuming that they are largely abandoned by the creators.

Here is a partial list of High PR (6-10) Authority Forums with do-follow tags that you can use to boost you Pagerank. If you post, please make it relevant and also your link somewhat relevant. Ie.. since most of these are tech forums, make your link something to do with technology. Read more

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