Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Is Google changing page rank in accordance with panda



 

Recently I have noticed some weird changes in google page ranks. Several of my blog posts and helium.com articles jumped from 0 to pr2 within 24 hours. In addition, I have noticed a drop in page rank of several sites. Helium.com dropped from PR6 to PR5 within 24 hours. Hubpages.com also dropped from PR6 to PR5 within that period. I have confirmed these findings by using several page rank websites and Google chrome plugin.

In addition, my main blogsite, http://mentalhealthdoc.blogspot.com has gained a page rank of 1 with no serious link building.

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But I have not noticed any immediate search engine ranking advantages from these changes.

 

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What can be the reason?

I think Google may have changed their page rank algorithm in accordance with the recently introduced Google panda.  That’s why I am not seeing any improvement in search engine rankings, because it was changed already in Fen 2011 and currently they incorporate panda into their page rank to reflect true picture. In effect they might have put old wine into a new bottle.

However, this change means inpage factors in a web page may play a big role than outpage factors such as link building in future.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Writing site for international writers Helium.com (Review)



Helium.com is a writing site that allows international writers to earn money by posting articles. They pays upfront or incentive payments for writing articles for specific titles. In addition, they pay a advertisement share. Most of the time adshare revenue is good, compared to other writing sites.

In addition, they allows you to earn money by participating for writing contests, writing for outside publishers and participating in their special projects.
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However, this site needs grammar and spelling mistakes free articles. Their editorial oversight is rather tough, but reasonable and unbiased. Therefore you can submit your quality articles to their site and earn money right away.

In addition, you have to submit 400 words or long, well written articles without pictures or formatting. Your article should be original and should not be published anyware in the internet. Their terms of use requires you to give them exclusive rights of your articles for one year. However, during that period, you can create ebooks or publish your work in print media, but you should not publish your article in the internet for one year.

Problems with the site

They change their payment policies, terms of use and other aggreements very frequently. It is because the recent changes in internet, especially panda update by the google. In addition, Helium.com got hit by the google panda. They do some internal workings to rectify it.

Issues on how to earn steady income from helium

To earn a steady icome you need to publish articles frequently. In addition, you need to rate other people's articles (It is a mandatory requiment). In addition, you need at least 300 articles to get some decent monthly income. Author of this blog earns around 300US$ from helium for his 380 articles.

Another important thing is you need to promote your articles via twittter and other social media platforms. It is quite easy to promote them automatically, if you use social media automation tool. Best tool i can recommend is Socialoomph. Other tools available are tweetAdder and twaitter. I will discuss about article article marketing with socialoomph in a next blog post.

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