A gift of lovin’ from Google

Posted on April 30, 2008
Filed Under Bloggista, Google

Google’s gift PR After 15 weeks of blogging here at Bloggista.com, or exactly 4 months on 10-May, 2008, I had my share of frustrations, humiliations, disappointments and excitement and surprises at the same time. Probably these are really what inspired me to keep on blogging, and learning some more each day.

Disappointments include being unable to break into the top 100K Alexa Ranking, however, unique hits have been steady for a several weeks already. As of today, my Alexa Rank is at 195,973. And this means I have to work very hard to get on the top 100K for the next 4 weeks.

But today, I was surprised to see that Google gifted me a PR3 rank. It was almost 4pm that I checked on my blog today, approving some comments in moderation queue, especially the one from Ambo, one of those Pinoy bloggers I admired. But it was only after visiting Bendzg’s blog that I realized something is going on with Google Page Ranks. I checked on PageRank.net to verify if my new PR is accurate, and indeed I got a PR3! My friend, Bendz was so disappointed with his PR that he wanted to quit blogging on his new blog site and go back to his old blog site. Not a good idea Bendz, better go on blogging in there.

The PR3 was indeed a surprise, although I know it could have been PR4 based on some PR prediction tools. Maybe those prediction tools are not as accurate or maybe Google did deducted some PR points on my blog - that will remain a mystery. Perhaps the SEO experts out there could give better explanations, as I am still ignorant about PR and SEO stuff.

With this gift from Google from NOTHING to PR3, I resolved to blog even more better contents, and minimize if not eliminate things that doesn’t make Google happy. Would this mean I will quit from doing paid posts? Certainly not, however, I should make responsible paid posts and as much as possible, only get opportunities that do no require “do follow” links. I know this is not a big deal, however, getting ranked is probably almost every blogger’s dream. My PR3, as per my expectations, is not bad. My internal pages were also rewarded with good page ranks, mostly PR2.

Perhaps Google understand why smalltime bloggers, like me, go on blogging online, and part of it is to earn some honest money from sponsors and paid contents. And gifting smalltime bloggers with a good Page Rank is one way of saying that Google also needs smalltime bloggers as much as we need Google.

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11 Responses to “A gift of lovin’ from Google”

Entrepreneur on May 1st, 2008 1:34 am

Excellent work! Congratulations, you’ve come a long way since your last post about page ranks
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Deimos Tel`Arin on May 1st, 2008 1:41 am

Congrats.

Mine went up from 2 to 4 so I am happy with that.
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Cynthia Blue on May 1st, 2008 6:16 am

First a slap, now some love. My blogs are going through the same. Hrmph.

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paolo on May 1st, 2008 6:35 am

congrats on the PR. it really feels good when our hard work gets paid off, even if it’s just a green bar. My blogs have also risen in the last update - 2’s, 3’s and 4’s (I have 5 sites) =P

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marc on May 1st, 2008 3:17 pm

congratz “kabayan”!!! well done
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bloggista on May 2nd, 2008 3:36 am

Thanks guys! No matter how trivial this thing is, but still feels good. Deimos got a 4, very nice!
joanjoyce on May 2nd, 2008 10:14 am

congrats congrats google loves you hehe.. me? slapped
ceblogger on May 2nd, 2008 10:29 am

congrats to both of us on our new PR!

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Joliber Mapiles on May 2nd, 2008 12:15 pm

Congrats Bloggista.. At least your hard work paid-off..

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Free Form Filling Software on May 9th, 2008 10:30 am

Congrats on your new PR keep up the great posts

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