Google Page Rank Update November 2010

When is the next Google Page Rank Update? The last reported PR update was way back in April 2010. Since then no Page Rank Update has been reported. Usually Google PR update takes place after every 3 to 4 months. However, this has not be followed for this year. There are talks of a possible Google page rank update this december 2010.  But some webmasters also think that the next PR update might be at the end of November 2010. I will keep you posted on this one.

To verify any PR update you can visit "XENYO. COM" or CHECKPAGERANK . NET and check if your site/blog has a new Page Rank.

Update: It seems like there is a google Pr update going on for November 16, 2010 December 1, 2010. One of my blogs with PR 2 went to PR 0.  Other sites are fine, no change yet. Check your page ranks though and confirm if there is any PR update.

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How To Detect Fake Page Rank

What's the best way to determine if a website's page rank (PR) is valid? How to detect fake a Page Rank? For old time webmasters, this is not a secret at all. But for the new ones in the blogosphere, this information is significant.

For Webmasters Page Rank is important in search engine optimization or SEO. Although in the past months, there is not anymore that same weight given to Page Rank in terms of search engine placement. Nonetheless, Page Rank still has it's value.

For advertisers, a website's page rank is important. Many advertisers prefer advertising on high PR sites.

Google gives websites their deserved Page Rank based on many factors, but the exact formula or the exact rule on Page Rank-ing is never established. There is no concrete formula in determining a website's page rank. Only Google knows.

Page Rank changes every 3 to 4 months. The last Page Rank update occured last April 2010. However, in June 5, 2010, there were reports of possible Page Rank update.

How to detect a fake page rank? The best way is to install the Google Page Rank Tool Bar on your browser. It's available as a Mozilla Firefox Add on. This is the most accurate, most reliable indicator of a website's true PR.

Another way is to use free page rank checkers online. However, not all of these checkers are fully updated. Thus, you might get inaccurate results. So far, the best online page rank checker is CHECK PAGE RANK dot Net (http://checkpagerank.net). What's nice about this checker is that it tells you right away whether the page rank is valid or forged. Here's the result for my blog http://ticklethythoughts.blogspot.com

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How To Set Up Your Blogger Custom Domain With GoDaddy

How to set up your blogger custom domain with GoDaddy? This simple tutorial should help you. Setting your custom domain is easy.


1. Go to your GoDaddy Control Panel > Manage Domains> Total DNS Control
2. Now Look for CNAME record (Aliases) and scroll over to the last entry and edit "www"


3. Input these settings:

Name - www.yoursite.com (the exact name of your website)
Host Name- ghs.google.com (remove the @)

4. Update and Continue
5. Proceed to your Blogger.com Account > Login> Publishing> Custom Domain> Switch to Advance Settings > Input your domain.

That's it! You're done! Easy as that. If you are having troubles, let me know.

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Keyword Optimization: How To Get Traffic

Part of the objective of blogging is not simply writing and getting your ideas across, but also getting readers to read what you write. You need readers or visitors or what is called as"traffic".

How To Get Traffic?
There are several ways to get traffic to your blog or website. You can tell your friends about your new blog. You can share your url or website address (http://ticklethythoughts.blogspot.com) via emails, social networking sites like facebook, friendster, myspace, etc. You can also bookmark your site or submit it to directories. You can also promote via word of mouth. But all these require repetition hence are tedious processes. This is where "keyword optimization" plays a significant role. But what is "keyword optimization"? It's basically optimizing your blog/site so that it ranks high in the search results.

WARNING: This post is just a crash course..

How to Optimize?

1. First you need to choose the keywords you want your blog/site to rank on the SERP (Search Engine Result Placement --Search Engines such as GOOGLE.com, YAHOO.com, BING.com, MSN.com) See image below for the keywords I have optimized for this blog.
   
   
   
   
2. Second, make a post/article containing the keywords you have chosen. There is no certain rule on how to write your article so it becomes search engine friendly. But over the years I have learned some tips/tricks which prove to be effective every time I engage in SEO- Search Engine Optimization.

• Include your keyword in your post title.
• Mention your keyword at the beginning, middle and end of your post.
• Mention your keyword a couple of times at least thrice in your post or more depending on the length of your blog post. This is called "keyword density".
  
  
  3. Third, Promote your article or blog post. The purpose of promotion is to share your link and create back links. How do you do this?

• Bookmark your blog post - Digg, Jumptags, Stumpedia
  
• Twit your blog post - Sign up for Twitter
  
• Comment on Do Follow Blogs. Leave real comments and don't spam or your comments will be deleted. If you want to leave your "active url" on the comment board, just use this code- <a href="http://ticklethythoughts.blogspot.com/">Tickle Thy Thoughts</a> . Just replace the url and the title.
  

Organic Traffic
It will take a few hours to a few days to a few weeks to months before you can see results. But this is for a long term traffic. If you succeed, you will be getting "Organic Traffic". What's this? It's the traffic coming from search engines. So even if you don't update or promote your blog actively or visit one chatbox to the other, you are assured of regular visitors from the search engines. Below are some screenshots of the keywords my blog ranks high in the Search Engine.

Like what I said, this is just a crash course. In my next articles I will share to you how to choose your keywords, the high PR bookmarking sites and directories and other stuff about Search Engine Optimization. If you haven't followed my blog, I urge you to do it now or subscribe to my feed.

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