If there’s one group of people we can all poke fun at, it’s got to be politicians. It doesn’t even matter which country you’re focusing on, although, as an American, and a right winger at that, I have to say the politics here just get worse and worse every damn time. It doesn’t even matter who’s running anymore, because they will never make good on what they promise for the most part anyhow!
I can’t use them for WF or for my blog, so I may as well give them away to someone who can make good use it. These links are from 4 .edu domains and 1 .gov domain. They are NOT referrers, trackbacks, blogroll or comment links. To those that think this matters, they are not no-follow’ed either. I can’t use them because I already have links from other pages and I’d really hate to abuse the weight they’re starting to pass through.
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To all those who purchased the TrustRank beta service for $400 per TR report and recommended authority/trusted links, you should have it in your inbox. If you didn’t get it, please email me on my aojon.com email account. Be sure to include the PayPal transaction ID, along with the domain and topics/niches. I had a few bounces, so make sure you whitelist my email address. I’ll be sure to get it to you this weekend.
After AD:TECH NY next week, I’ll be launching the next phase in the TrustRank service. It will be more of an a la carte type of service. One of the things to look forward to will be not only recommendations, but actual link work done for clients. It’s a semi-automated process, meaning, since I can’t fully automate it without sharing the information with a programmer, which I refuse to do, I’ll be hand picking the domains for the clients, and having them fed into an older custom app I found in my arsenal from a little under a year ago. It will do the job just fine and will allow you to sit back and get links without doing the work yourself. It should go a lot faster, and produce some great results. I’ve already tested it out for some friends for free, and on some of my newly acquired domains. So far, it’s worked 100% of the time, so hopefully it will stay that way without any issues.
I had some clients who submitted domains and topics/niches for other countries and languages, and surprisingly, this service can work for just about anything and any language. There was even a casino and pharma client, and at first I didn’t think there would be all that many results, and that I would have to refund them, but to my surprise, it actually produced some really solid results.
I thought that the most interesting part of this first service was that during the recent PageRank change, almost none of the results via TR were changed, or downgraded rather. Many of the results actually shot up a few notches. I had to change a few people’s TR scores because they went up a lot quicker than usual, so it was as if Google was saying “alright, your PageRank is too high, so let’s take some away, but we’ll compensate you with more trust/authority”. Not sure who decided that on Google’s side, but whatever, no complaints on this side of the fence I’m sure.
Another interesting part was seeing empty domains, like newly expired/deleted ones, jump a few points in TrustRank (nothing to brag about, still pretty damn low), but retained their PageRank even though when I ran it through some “very accurate PR testing tools” they appeared to be fake PR. I still don’t understand that, and quite frankly, I’m not going to even bother trying to understand it, because PageRank has no effect on anything except if you’re selling links on your site to people who still believe that PageRank matters (aka - 98% of the SEO industry and webmasters).
I’ll be at AD:TECH NY from November 4th-7th, so don’t expect any responses from me or blog posts either. We don’t have a booth for WickedFire either, but there may be a meet up point on the 5th. Check WickedFire.com for more details. I didn’t plan anything personally, but we did it last year at Copeac’s booth, and it was fun to finally meet so many of the members. Plus it made Copeac look like an uber popular booth, haha! No I’m kidding, they are great people and always have a ton of foot traffic show up.
That’s all for now. Catch ya on the flip side.
Oh yeah… There’s a radio show in the works. It won’t be anything like that one pilot episode I did almost 2 years ago either. We are going for a more quality in content but with a very sarcastic/humor focused program. We’re still debating on whom we will be hosting/streaming with. The choices right now are - WebmasterRadio, DI.fm/SKY.fm, or hosting/streaming it ourselves. One of my good pals from my brief college and fraternity stint does funny voice-over work, and can mimic just about every great character voice I know of, so we plan on using his talents for some intro and commercial work. I really want to have a live show too, so people can call in and voice their opinion. More on this after AD:TECH as we are still working out the details.
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Just wanted to throw a quick update post here.
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.
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)
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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.
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