Google PR update

It seems that Google is in the middle of a PR update. Unless this is a cruel practical joke by Google, this site is slated to go from a PR of 1 to a PR of 3. What does that mean for this blog? Well, first of all, it means that I will qualify for many more opportunities from PayPerPost. Second, well I don't really have a second as this blogs main purpose in life is to generate some money. I never would have thought of making money from a blog if a friend hadn't told me about it back in January. From that point on, I checked out PayPerPost and got my blog ready to meet all of their requirements for approval. So far, it has been fun and a little frustrating when that $500 post was in my grasp 2 weeks ago and I couldn't click fast enough to grab it. Come on PayPerPost, keep up the $1000 Tuesdays, Please. I want one of those. Anyway, I just thought I'd drop you all a note to let you know that the site is growing in the eyes of Google.

Alexa Ranking Jump

Yesterday I expressed the importance of Google PageRank. I thought today I could give you a brief comment of another website ranking tool: Alexa. Alexa seems to rank sites differently than Google, in that they don't rank you based on your incoming links. Instead, they rank you based on queries of your site. These queries happen when someone visits your site and has the SEO toolbar installed that queries for you. Another way to ensure all your visitors query Alexa is to install a small script that displays your Alexa ranking right on your page. With this tool built into your site, every page view results in another query. Another difference between the 2 ranking sites is that with Alexa the lower number is better. I have noticed my Alexa rank improve by about 1 million in the past 2 weeks. Coincidentally, that is about when I placed the Alexa script on my site.