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New Google Update! Pros and cons

1 comment Posted by Athanasios

Most of you must have noticed that from April 27th Pagerank started to update in a few website. April 29 is the some sort of an official date of the new pagerank update, which as google is used to do, was sudden.
I heard bothe negative and positive opinions about the new update which among the other seems to have “damaged” most webmaster communities.
I checked that pr5(pr=pagerank) webmaster forum dropped to as low as pr1 and pr2 which is a disaster for them. Some actually, have an uncertain future since their revenue will be limited from now own till the next update..

What is more, a lot of people have reported that some of their links must have not been included for some reason since their pagerank predictions were far higher than the ones they received. God Google have caused suspicions and nerves between webmasters…

I noticed one thing though. Google seems to favor blogs. Again the higher pr updates were at blogs(regardless their niche). That means that either blogs are the most easy to promote websites or that bloggers are the smartest SEOists ;)

Well, for me personally, it’s been a good update. Our blog here got a pr2(hopefully will go better next update) and some of the websites of our group “climbed” as high as pr5!

Good Luck to all webmasters! And..don’t bother to ask when the next PageRank update will be…it shall be sudden as always..

May 1st, 2008

New alexa rank system!

7 comments Posted by Athanasios

Everyone know alexa’s traffic rankings system.
It’s actually used by many people to calculate the value of websites or ad spaces they may sell. However, the traffic ranking was generated by how many people with the alexa toolbar were visiting the website. After the increasing demand to add additional ways to meter the visitors and traffic of a website apart the toolbar alexa managed it!

The new alexa ranking system aggregates now data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users.

Though there is and some sort of dissapointment between webmasters since lots of rankings have changed and most times to a worse number..but that’s temporarily i think since with the next rank update and more visitors being calculated you’ll have your ranks boosted again!

It’s a great move to implement the alexa system with new features and we are eagerly anticipating to see how the new ranking will be!

April 17th, 2008