Whoa! Another busy week passed by and it seems like the fun never ends at the blogosphere.
The major news everyone talked about is the sales of a few established websites for some nice round numbers. CashQuests, which was sold for 15k was talked about by Kevin, Mark, me and many others. The sale was quite interesting and Kumiko, the owner of the blog have not responded to emails or not said a word about it.
5xmom followed pursuit and managed to get some reviews done, but the blog has not been sold yet. Mark pointed some very interesting…
It seems like there’s no stopping the latest trend of bloggers putting their blogs up for sale. Perhaps this is due to blogging fatigue or perhaps it’s a combination of Google updating their PageRank and bloggers being encouraged by the high price which 6 month old blogs are selling for.
One mans goal sold for $8,500, Shylock Blogging went for $4,000, Blogging Fingers went for $6,000 and Blog Oh Blog was sold for a whopping $10,000!
This morning I noticed that Cash Quests is now up for sale at SitePoint with a minimum bid of…
It’s been a very busy week truly and there were both good and bad news for bloggers.
The bad news for bloggers was from Google, regarding AdSense. AdSense made the ads less clickable by narrowing down the clickable area to the title of the ad and the URL. So now, that means people who are really interested to click the ads only will gnerate good clicks (and money) and accidental clicks (on the space) will not be counted, even if some one clicks and visits the page. In my personal opinion the…
I posted in my personal blog this morning about the number of subscribers being significantly lower today at Blogging Tips. The number of subscribers at Blogging Tips was 1079 yesterday and today it’s sitting at 538. My initial thoughts were that either my server was down yesterday or that Feedburner stats are incorrect. Since I know my server was not down yesterday I assumed that it was a glitch and it would be resolved in the next few days.
Darren Rowse has just confirmed my assumption that there is a glitch with…
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…
