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The whole page rank idea is just broken. As we all know, Google has removed the Page Rank from blogs that do paid posts. I still don’t understand why.. sure, PR is their system, and they can do with it as they please. However, quality websites can sell links, it’s our own business, and Google really can’t have any say in that. Regardless of their opinion that paid links might skew their PR system. With sites being PR0 because they sell paid links, and with sites getting PR with little or no content, the Google PR system just does not reflect the true popularity, or quality, of a website, blog or other.

Izea has come up with Real Rank, and is soon to release Social Spark. The idea is that these ranking systems don’t deal with Google at all, and mainly deal with how many unique visitors a website, mainly blogs, gets. Which sounds good…

What I don’t like about Real Rank is two things.

First, I don’t like how wildly it fluctuates on a day to day basis. One day my RR can be 2000+, and another day it can be in the 500s. I prefer the Google Page Rank in that it was stable and only updated once every three months or so.

Second, I don’t like that Real Rank is, basically, a competition between bloggers. Not everyone can be in the top 1%, or even the top 3%. The more popular blogs get the higher ranks. The less get lesser ranks. But what about good quality blogs that have good solid readership that are not getting as many unique hits? I would like to see them change that system so that if 50% of all blogs were awesome, they would all get a Real Rank of, say 9. Intead of only some of them, because maybe they get one more hit per day.

Anyway, those are my gripes. I haven’t done much for Pay Per Post in a while because my blogs do not rank very highly in their systems. And I try to focus on content than becoming popular.

*shrug*

I haven’t blogged about Google in the last few days but they still fry my cookies. I am still looking for a good AdSense alternative and you might see various ads come and go as I find one that fits my blogs the best. This is probably a good thing because I hope to find an advertising company that I can work better with anyway.

I just wanted to alert you of a great blog post about the whole Google Fiasco. Karoli over on www.drumsnwhistles.com has a blog post that is absolutely wonderful and truthful. Google GangBang Feels Like Date Rape I encourage you to check it out and give her a digg too as I have.

I still hold it true that Page Rank is now Meaningless as I have already blogged about. And I hold to that. It is now a rank of whether or not your blog/site has paid links or not, nothing more.

I am now going to go watch Bones and baby my belly button because it stings a bit.

Oh and here is the Digg link.

Well aparently many of the blogs that sell text link ads, and blog for money, have been reduced, by google, to a PR0. My Tip Tail blog just went from a PR03 to a PR00. This blog was at a 02 the last few days, but today, big fat zero.

My only blog that has PR is crabbie tail, and it has no ads on it. I was going to put some up but I’m actually glad I didn’t so I can see the effects for myself.

What is my opinion of PR now? It’s pointless. It’s meaningless. If google is going to penalize blogs and other sites for selling links, then the content of the sites is no longer a measure for a good site. Nor is the popularity based on link backs, or hits to the site… the only determining factor is selling text link ads?

Then there are some really good blogs out there that are getting slammed into PR0. Which effectively tells me not to put any merit whatsoever in google’s PR.

John Chow has a good post about the latest google PR, and there is a lot of discussion going on at the PPP forums. I don’t do PPP much any more, but I do other pay to blog companies and I will continue to do so no matter what google says about them.

In fact, google is being the god power, it seems, in that they will rank you if you display their AdSense, but not if you display other advertising via ad links. So in other words if you want PR, you need to bow down to the all holy google. Ugh. As Robert Clough quoted Jennifer saying on his blog:

oh mighty Google overlords, take my ads, take my firstborn, take anything you wish. By the way, give me a minute to bend over and here’s some lube to make it easier on you.

So what to do? If you own Google stock, sell! Google is punishing the average blogger and making itself more important. If you use Google search, stop. I know I have. Or best yet, ignore Google entirely. I am going to. I am going to hope the companies I work for will no longer use Google as a measure of a blog’s worth. The measure is no longer valid.

Well I don’t know if the Google Page Rank Updates have completed yet, but it’s not looking good for Tip Tail. This blog finally got PR, 2 it looks like. But I was hoping TT would go up. The predictors said 4 or 5 for TT, but it has gone from a PR3 to a PR2. Ugh.

Well, maybe it just won’t matter. I really hate watching the PR indicators and trying to follow them. Too much stress. So I just post and talk about what I feel like and hope it all works out in the end.

My ankle still hurts, no climbing around on the bathroom vanities for me quite yet. It doesn’t hurt as bad as it did, though, which is kinda bad because the less the pain, the more I want to do. And I tweaked it this morning when I was hobbling around the house. And it hurt.

I have not calculated my blogging earnings in a couple of months, but I plan on doing that in the next couple of days. But I’ve just been thinking about jobs that pay $8 an hour. I don’t know how anyone can live off that.

I can make $8 for one blog post, and it only takes me about 5 minutes to write. Sometimes more, depending on the content. Not usually longer than 10 minutes.

Today I look forward to making $45 in blogging. I’ve already put in my working hours at work so I’m off the rest of the day. If you work 8 hours at $8 an hour, that’s only $64 for the day. Less taxes you are making just over what I am making with two measly blog posts that will take probably an hour total to make (one will be a video).

I am also going to change some of my blogging for money accounts so it’s UCR making the money, under the UCR EIN, and not me. That way I won’t have to pay personal income taxes on it, then claim it as a deduction when I donate it to UCR.

I do need an accountant, I think. I haven’t found one yet but I have some feelers out. I hopefully won’t need Raleigh personal injury attorneys, but if I ever get in a car wreck or something, then I might!

As you guys know I am blogging for money now. My main blogging for money blog is Tip Tail. But I hope to get this one going soon, as well as my dream diary Pixie Tail.

Anyway just a quick report. I downloaded my paypal payments from June.. and I made a total of $513.46!

That is so awesome! My husband teased me for blogging for money, but hey, he’s not teasing anymore.
All these earnings have been sent from PayPal to Utah Collie Rescue, Inc., to help out the collies.

Well, not really the first payout, more like the first payout of the new domain. My Tip Tail Dog Blog does sponsored posts for Pay Per Post. I did it before I changed domain names, but when I changed, I had to wait for a while to get things reset up for my new domain.

Today, it’s been 30 days since I did the first opportunity on the new domain. Woo Hoo. Got my first $12. From now on, I should get a payout every day or couple of days, depending on how many opps I am able to take.

For the collies! They need it!