Archive for October, 2007

TrustRank Service Updates & The Recent PageRank & SEO Effects By Google

Just wanted to throw a quick update post here.

    TrustRank Service Updates

I’ve decided to scale down the amount of reports delivered to doing just two reports per day. Not because it has any effect on the TrustRank scores, but because it’s more efficient for me, time and quality wise. If you NEED it done sooner, email me and let me know. Be sure to include your invoice/transaction order number, and all of your topic/niche and domain information. For those of you who can wait longer, thanks in advance for making my life easier.

    PageRank and Search Engine Optimization Effects By Google

The recent PageRank updates were really interesting and amusing at the same time. They were amusing because everyone got all shaken up about losing or gaining (although most sites lost a point or two) their PageRank status, and think it has some effect on their overall ranking.

The REALLY amusing and interesting part about the changes was that Google made overall changes and new additions to their advertising sub-algorithms to incorporate their move into other forms of advertising and delivery across the board. My guess was that it was a really clever diversion on their part, because they have everyone riled up as always about small PageRank and even smaller algorithm updates, so people wouldn’t notice the changes made for their TV, print and radio units. Good job Google, you’re just proving my theories correct one after another here. Although, you gotta admit, it was a VERY slick move on their part. Unless of course you just want to pretend it was all just a giant coincidence that they waited this long to do the changes on PageRank and SERPs updates and at the same time inject their new platforms for offline advertising as well. There were also analytical updates and changes, but I can’t get into that stuff now, because it is far too complex for a blog like this, and quite frankly, I just don’t have the time to explain it. Plus it’s not HUGE so there’s no sense in getting into it until it has real effects on things other than just analytical data.

That’s all for now. Oh look, my blog’s PageRank and WickedFire’s PageRank went from a 5 to a 4, and yet, rankings haven’t been lost. Wonder why that is.. >=o)

Response To An SEO’s Blog About My TrustRank Research

Thanks for the link and the constructive criticism. Aaron Wall is underrated, while almost every peer of his is overrated. That guy is one smart man. But I stand by my statement about links not being the only part or the only thing to consider. Uncovering all of the TrustRank algorithm factors (well, definitely not all, I doubt I’ll ever get all of them, but 300+ by hand ain’t bad!) you see another side of Google that closely reminds me of the NSA and the CIA having a reputation of friendly neighborhood folks that just want to make sure you are happy. Which is impossible. Same deal with the big G. They’ve been hinting for years that “well if you were to go about things in this direction, it may be in your best interest — but don’t do this or that, or else we will ban you!”; And yet, what you said about SEO’s, and shouldn’t they know about this? No. No one has known anything. Because it’s all been 100% speculation with very little, if any, real confirmation from Google themselves.

The Google staffers who go to the SES shows, and speak about topcis everyone gets all riled up about, all they are doing is creating more buzz. I feel like watching Google and expecting to get answers is very much like watching the show LOST. It’s great for dramatics. Everyone has their own theory to explore. Everyone is addicted. Everyone has almost the same questions they want answered. But for every few low quality questions answered, they bring up 50 more that make you go nuts all over again, and also force you to drift away from the original questions you wanted answers for! Sorry, but it’s all one confusing mess, and has been for years. Most SEO’s just preach whatever they see or hear their industry peers saying. Many of them also post theory as facts, or at least it appears that way, and then by natural forces of the internet, theories that look like facts, become facts, rules, laws and guidelines, and still…. no answers from Google.

PS - Since I’ve disabled comments on my blog as of recently, I’ve been blogging a lot more often! Woah! WTF?! That stands for WHAT THE FUCK, not where’s the fire for you Technorati whores.

Orders for TR Service Are Delayed!

I know. I know. I promise I’m working as hard as humanly possible for a one man show to get all of the orders filled. I’m also spending a considerable amount of time focusing on each order and giving it the love it deserves to make sure everyone gets what they paid for and then some. I have approximately 40 orders completed and delivered now. I did the really tough and annoying ones first. The ones specifically where people who submitted their target topic and/or niche were totally off, so I had to do it for them, and then a few that changed their orders at literally the last moment on Friday. Now I remember why I hated being a consultant. Sometimes when people pay for something, they expect you to drop everything and pay attention to them. Well, my bedside manners blow, so I’m keeping my AIM on Away status, and I’m getting these churned out one by one like I promised. I also decided to re-do a few of them so that the suggested URL’s for getting in-bound links are about as easy and close to free or cheap as hell as they can possibly be. Each report will include lots of in-depth definitions on what the TrustRank levels and scores mean, how to get better links, how to take the non-BH and gray hat approaches depending on your preference of whatever hat color you sport.

That’s all for now. Just figured I’d post about it so to calm the emails of people asking if I sent it and maybe it hit their spam boxes. I doubt it. All of them are set at High Priority from my Outlook Express box, and if you got my first two payment and response emails, I doubt you’d miss this one.

TrustRank Service Update

Just wanted to let everyone know, all reports are going to be delivered by Friday night NYC/EST time. There have been a few delays from people switching orders, adding orders, and a few people just being plain annoying. There is ONE pending order that looks like it will fizzle out (if you are that idiot reading this, I’m going to be deleting your invoice because you haven’t answered it since Monday).

For those of you who want to get the service but were too slow or too late to catch it, I can add you to the waiting list, but it’s very unlikely more than one spot will open up.

The next service is going to be more expensive but will be doing a lot more at the same time. For those people who ordered the first one, I’ll give you first access to it and take $50-$75 or so off your order.  I’ve been screwing around with some other cheaper solutions too so that more people can benefit from it, and trying to figure out if I can get it automated or not, so we’ll see what happens then.

Also…

Stop trying to IM and email me asking me to explain what I did during the year of research on the TR algo. Seriously guys. Why would I sit there and explain the shit in-depth and give out the stuff I did and found out and share it for free? Exactly what would I gain through that? And also, I will never make a piece of software to sell or anything that would EVER put me at risk at losing my upper hand with this stuff, ever! So just stop asking already. I’m glad you think it’s really interesting and blah blah blah… but I spent a year now doing this shit by hand, and when I was first asking around for help, no one was there to give it to me, so if you want to do it yourself, you’re on your own! Don’t try to get shit from me on this.

That’s all for now. I hope to make a totally unrelated information post as the next blog entry. It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of those, so I think it’s time for that again.

Last Call For TrustRank Scoring Service & FAQ’s

I rejected two people because they don’t know how to follow simple directions, so that leaves approximately 6 spots open. This is the last call for them. Email me with the information now, because I have a good feeling it will be done for today. To those who have emailed me, I’m still in the invoicing everyone process. If anyone doesn’t pay within 24 hours, I’m removing you, and opening the spot to someone on the waiting list (if it gets to that). I’m going to fill ALL of the orders one after another as soon as all 60 are confirmed.

Some quick FAQ’s about the service…

Q- Can I pay you now to reserve a spot for a new site later?

A- No.

Q- How fast will you get my site to rank #1 and for how long on Google?

A- You are an idiot. This is not an SEO or Ranking service like that. Learn to read before you send retarded emails.

Q- This TrustRank stuff is fascinating, can you tell me more about what you learned?

A- No. I spent 11 (soon 12) months doing it by hand for myself. Not for you. I used to be a nice guy who shared information, but those days are long gone due to people always asking and never giving back. If you want to do it on your own, by all means, knock yourself out. But please don’t IM me or email me asking for “tips” or hand me outs on this.

Q- $400 is a pretty steep price. Not sure if I can afford that right now. Can you just tell me my TrustRank score and maybe give me 2 or 3 link suggestions instead? I promise not to tell anyone.

A- No. How about you go to Times Square and hold up a giant sign that says “I’m Retarded! Please Donate to my cause!”

Q- Are you against TLA or SEO’s with these services?

A- Nope. I may not agree with most of their sales pitches, but this is actually something that surprisingly compliments their services to their clients, and also I plan on banking off of them for that exact reason. TLA and other link leasing/selling places would probably do a hell of a lot better if they sold links that had good TrustRank scores and didn’t make it so obvious as to the sites that your link would appear on. Whatever, I’m not getting into it now, it’s giving me an idea for a better service.

Q- Why are you selling this instead of doing it for your own sites?

A- I am doing it for my own sites. But since I’m the only one in the world outside of Google Inc. that managed to figure this stuff out, I have the upper hand, and I’m going to milk it for every dime it’s worth, without ever “revealing” how I do it for as long as I possibly can. This is MY time to shine, so if you don’t like what I’m doing, screw off, because I just don’t care.

Q- Can I make a donation to your favorite charity over a period of time instead of paying a flat fee?

A- Yes. My favorite charity is called Pay Jon through PayPal for this service in a one time fee of $400 a pop or go away. I don’t think they take checks, cash or money orders either right now.

Q- After you hit 60 customers, are you going to do it again in a month or two later?

A- Doubtful. Again, since I’m the only one doing it, I’m going to do different types of services that cater to my availibility to keep me challenged and interested, and well paid for it.

Q- What are you going to offer next then?

A- A monthly subscription service for users and a seperate service for the professional and consulting SEO services out there.

Q- Do I still need to get other links or do any SEO stuff after I get the report from you or after your subscription service thing is launched?

A- That’s your call. If you depend on this, it will work, but it will go slowwww. It’s like being a homerun hitter in baseball. You can’t just rely on steroids or juicing yourself up to be the next Barry Bonds. You have to work out and keep fit and practice too AND add the correct regiment of “performance enhancing drugs” in order to be the best out there, regardless of age or any other factors. So consider my services the “performance enhancing drugs” and your site as the seriously training athlete.

Q- Can you recommend any SEO techniques or firms I should use?

A- No. I’m not a consultant. Just follow the normal on page and off page shit you’ve been doing up until now.

Q- But wait, if this means I have to keep doing SEO and linking stuff, then why do I need your services?

A- Because the chances of you hitting the correct TrustRank level on your own are slim to none. Many sites get great TrustRank scores, and then do something to lose them or cause them to quickly drop. It happens all the time. This isn’t some magic potion that if you sprinkle it on you’ll be good to go forever. Things like that exist only in fairy tales. That’s what make them FAIRY TALES. In the real world you have to work for what you want. Although, with this stuff, I’m not giving you the answers, just merely suggestions on what I would do if I owned your site. Very much like half the answers to a test, because you still have to come up with the other half yourself, and you will still have to study and apply work to keep it going, although, it will get MUCH easier and cheaper for you. So instead of constantly having to do paid link campaigns every month of 10 or 20 links, it will drop down to about 5 or less within a month, and after another month or so, you probably won’t need paid links anymore (depending on your current TR score and forecasted TR scores — remember, linking is just ONE of the factors, there are still over 300 of them to do, but linking is one of the MAJOR ones).

On a side note, I’m disabling comments from now on. They irritate me and I really hate having to manually moderate them, so if you want to comment on anything I post, slap a link to here, and comment about it on your own damn blog.

Boomshockalaka!

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