After 6 months Google are finally in the process of updating the visible stats of websites PageRank. This is the longest wait between updates since Google started.
This is good news for those with new blogs who missed the last update (including this one) as you will probably get a PR today or in the next few days however many of you will be disappointed to see that your PR has dropped. BloggingTips has achieved a PR4 however several of my other sites have had their PR dropped by 2 or…
I spoke the other day about the release candidate of WordPress 2.3.1 being released. When I logged in today I noticed that WordPress have now released version 2.3.1 of the blogging platform.
As I mentioned the other day, other than twenty odd bug fixes, the only major addition to this version is tagging support for Windows Live Writer.
You can see the official announcement about this release here and can download this new version from the WordPress download page.
As always, I recommend taking the time to back up your files and your database before…
They say that there’s nothing new in this world, and that any idea you could possibly have has already been done. That’s not true, but even if it were, that doesn’t mean that every possible thing has been done enough. Search engine optimization often involves knowing what areas to capitalize on because the competition is low.
Think about your own recent searches. Did you ever find yourself getting frustrated because you couldn’t find what you were searching for online? Surely, it was out there, right? Everything is out there, so they…
There has been a lot happening in the blogging world this week. I haven’t posted about them as yet so I thought I would do a summary for those who have missed these events. Enjoy 
Google dishes out PageRank penalties
The biggest story of the week is undoubtedly the news about Google dropping the PageRank of some of the most popular blogs and websites on the web. For example, ProBlogger went from a 6 to a 4 as did CopyBlogger and Blog Herald (Daniel from DBT has a good list here). Some have suggested…
When a site owner is looking for a blogger to write for them they have the following criteria in mind:
- Can they write original and interesting articles for the topic?
- Does their style suit the property and audience?
- Are they able to write all required types of content?
- Will I get more value back than what I pay out?
The first three points all cover the craft of writing. If you can show ability in your writing samples then the job of getting the gig is half done. Usually though there are several other writers…
