Posts Tagged ‘Relations’

To Blog or Not To Blog

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

One of the biggest trends these days is to use blogs to market and educate users on whatever the sites topic of interest is. Bloggers have even found their ways into the mainstream political arena like blogger Tom Burka.

Blogs are becoming a large source for people’s daily information. Our own blog is related to search engine optimization and seo for example and provides the reader with valuable information on current seo trends.

But political and news blogs are not the only success stories out there. Many business blogs are designed as marketing and public relations tools. Many business people today use blogs as one of their main sources for relative news.

It’s promising to see blogs have impacted business and how their growth will continue to be a large source for news and marketing. We are definitely on the cutting edge of a new wave of electronic publishing!

About Google PageRank Removal?

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Search Engine Journal is reporting that Google might decide to remove their Google PageRank bar from their Google Toolbar.

These rumors are stemming from a simple WebmasterWorld thread that states that Google’s PageRank displayed on the toolbar faces two main vital flaws:

* They are around 2-3 months out of date.
* The release of PageRank has led to people buying/selling text links based on the toolbar PageRank (a good place would be TextLinkAds).

Even though this is a featured thread on WebmasterWorld, I personally don’t agree with Loren Baker when he said:

It seems that Google is keeping an eye on this one and taking it seriously.

This is mainly because Google, as well as many other people, know that Google has definitely faced similar criticism in the past about their outdated PageRank display. However, it is a good Public Relations stunt (as stated in the main post) that has definitely grabbed the attention of many webmasters

If they are truly a search engine, they would be able to single out the websites that participate in the buying/selling of links and place a penalty on them. I highly doubt that they would remove the PageRank display from their toolbar.