Time to post again
Well, hello again everybody! It’s been a while since my last post and a lot of things happened. My blog’s page rank has improved ( I’m at PR2 right now ), I’ve earned some money with affiliate marketing ( will post more about it tomorrow ), found a great site where anyone can buy traffic and started to write a short ebook where I tell you how you can make at least $100 on-line. The book will be ready by June and it will be available for anyone who subscribes to my RSS via email.
Why I’ve stopped posting?
To be honest, I didn’t have the time to post everyday. I know this is not the best excuse, but this is the truth. Posting on my blog was not one of my priorities and when Payperpost denied my blog, because I didn’t have an archive, I’ve sort of give up. That was until a day ago, when I’ve checked my site’s value on DnScoop.com and I saw that my page rank was upgraded from a PR0 to a PR2. I’ve also saw that my back-links dropped ( they’ve been cut in half actually ) and that my traffic dropped.
The next step
Next, I though to sell my site. I’ve estimated that I could get at least $50-$60 for it. But then I’ve realized: I’m giving up. I’m not a quitter and with a few adjustments and some committed I could make this work and I will make this work. Even if I can’t post every day, I will try to post valuable articles and I will try to monetize my site.
The time has come to step up and take Entrepreneur Hut more seriously.
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at 3:20 pm under
if you use pay per post you will lose your page rank. Google dropped me from a 3 to a 0 for one post. As I type the site is still a zero. I have removed the “offending” post and asked Google to reconsider.
Consider yourself LUCKY that you got denied by PPP
There were hundreds of thousands of sites penalized by Google for accepting paid posts, including mine.
From PR 5 my blog dropped to nothingness.. i.e. PR ZERO overnight. And that’s how it stayed for over 2 months, till it gradually began to pick-up again, probably based on a fresh batch of incoming links.
It’s not a pretty sight - specially when PageRank is something (however flawed it might be) that almost every blogger swears by and is sort of a standardised measure of how popular your blog is.
In case, if you still want to go ahead with other paid post services, make sure your site doesn’t contain any sort of:
1. Disclaimers stating you take money in exchange for posts.
2. In-posts disclosures with words like sponsors and it’s synonyms.
3. In-post links to the paid blogging services (PPP, SponsoredReviews, ReviewMe etc.) - this one’s a dead giveaway.
Keeping affiliate / referral buttons to such sites is all right. You won’t get penalized for them. But for the posts, you need to be ultra-sneaky
@Richard McLaughlin: Damn that man - for just a single post!!! At least I had around 19 posts under my hood. But then again my loss was greater too.
Pay Per Post can drop your Pagerank as well..
don take this risk because PR can make you big money in future !
As miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said and you… I’ve decided not to try pay per post. I’ll use a different way to add money and value to the site.