Archive for January, 2007
Google heard me.
In my post here ‘PR and is it important‘ I told you that one of my sites had a PR 0, well shortly after that post I visited my site to find that in the latest PR update the site was given a PR4. What will it mean, I do not know, the traffic increased [...]
Server Aliases and 301 redirect
For the ten years I have had a web site every server has used a Server Alias in the web server configuration so that domain.com and www.domain.com both point to the same site. This is great as it means that the site is accessable with or without the www. in front of the domain – [...]
PR and is it important
PR (Page Rank) is a figure generated against your web page by Google. According to wikipedia PageRank is a link analysis algorithm which assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm [...]
Link Popularity
There was once a time when FFA (Free for all) pages appeared to be a good way to increase the number of links pointing to your site and hence increase your sites traffic. Then you had link exchanges, these again appear to be great but as with FFA’s joining a link exchange can have the [...]
Webmaster Tools
Google provide a very useful tool in the form of Webmaster Tools which allows you to track how your site is doing in the Google search results. Google describe the tools as Our suite of webmaster tools provides you with a free and easy way to make your site more Google-friendly. They can show you [...]
Things have settled down at last
Well I’ve been monitoring Yzoo for the past few days and things appear to have started to settle down. The amount of traffic the site is getting is now up to the level it was in mid November 2006, and is gradually climbing. It is unlikely to reach the December 2006 peak this month but [...]
Doing the ‘Google Dance’
Well it appears that I am not alone when it comes to sites disappearing over the past few weeks. I read a post on the Google forum where the author called it the ‘Google Dance’ Once again the site is returning to the Google SERPs and traffic is up, traffic from Google is now back [...]
Google has dropped site again
Well I really do not know what google are doing, are they just updating their index/datacenters or are they punishing the site for some reason? The amount of traffic from Google and the positioning of Yzoo.co.uk in the Google SERPs did improve for a couple of days but then it dropped of again and known [...]
Was it just the holiday season?
Since my last post I have monitored my status in google SERPS. The incomming traffic from google is now back up to 65% of my total incoming traffic for the month, this is not as high as it has been but does show that the site has been reindexed which does make me wonder if [...]
Sigh of releif
Just got one peice of good news reguarding Yzoo and Google, today my Adsense earnings for November hit my bank account. Why the sigh? Well before Yzoo I was earning just a few dollars a month on Adsense. In October it jumped to a few hundred US Dollars for the month. In November it jumped [...]