Last week I attended a very informative one day seminar designed to help participants learn specific strategies that they can use to create and sell a profitable business that makes money from home. Anybody who is self-aware will know that they encounter certain blocks that are stopping them from setting and achieving ambitious... More

Linking to other sites can be an important element in search engine optimization, but some links are more desirable than others. Here is a useful explanation of some of the areas to watch. Official Google statement: Can links to other web sites hurt your rankings? The effect of bad neighborhood links on your web site rankings.... More

If your site is not achieving the page rank you think it deserves: check the following. Server is Often Inaccessible to Bots - Content is similar to or Duplicate of Existing Content in the Index External Links to Low Quality/Spam Sites Duplicate Title/Meta Tags on Many Pages Participation in Link Schemes or Selling Links on Your... More

The most recent Google Page Rank update was completed st the end of April. There were winners and losers as usual. For example this new blog on the topic of how to earn money from a blog still has page rank 0.  I was not completely surprised as I had only been posting to it for around six weeks, and normally I would expect to... More

In March I moved Kevin the Collie’s Dog Training and health tips blog across from a blogspot address to its own domain. The blog had achieved 4 at its Blogger address, but that page rank disappeared after the move. But the page rank update at the end of April put things back on track as the new domain regained a page rank... More

The page rank buttons installed on websites do not always show the latest page rank, nor does the Google Toolbar in my experience. I did some checks on all my wealth creation web pages using this free tool and I found some pleasant surprises – even recently created pages have a Page Rank of at least two . There is nothing... More

Apparently the next Google Page Rank update is due at the end of April or the beginning of May. I cannot wait, since I have been working on a new blog with information on how to earn money from a blog recently. I also migrated my dog’s Dog Training and health tips blog from a blogspot address to its own domain. This means... More

This blog has been established for seven months and gained a Google Page Rank of 2 after just a few weeks. I was getting a little jealous since the dog ailments blog had a higher page rank, but today I discovered that the Page Rank has recently increased to Google PR4Tags:diary,Make money online, Affiliate Marketing, Adsense,ebooks,... More

In my previous post I pointed to some factors that can wipe out your efforts in gaining inbound links to your site. That does not mean that reciprocal linking is any less important. Here are six golden rules for quality inbound linking: 1. Link only to partners whose pages have some relevance to you.2. Make sure you are not leaving... More

Here is an authoritative view on the things that affect your page rank. A high page rank alone will not push you to the top of the search engines. BUT all those hours you have spent gaining quality inbound links could be in vain if you have overlooked one major element – duplicate content. You can watch the video here, there... More

Here are three basic ideas to follow get top google rankings for a newly launched website – they involve some effort, but if you apply them you should get page 1 ranking on Google for your chosen keyword or phrase in three months. 1. Write up to five articles on the theme of your website, optimised with your keywords or phrases. 2.... More