To begin with, I know that in this period, Google Chrome is maybe one of the most searched keywords in the technology niche for the simple fact that it’s a product made by big G. Because the product is a browser, it creates other subniches, as with Firefox, we have for example three or four: themes, add-ons, tweaks and “in general”.

From what I’ve tested so far the most searched keywords are related to addons, which gives me the impression that this is by far the best niche. Why? Because if you are smart you would realize that you can sell addons when the right time comes or release some for free and your traffic will probably increase.

Besides that I can tell you that I am on the main page of Google (not in top 5) for some keywords related to add-ons and I get around 500-600 unique visitors for them. I also believe that the dudes from first and second position get approximately 2000 u/v, which is great. In my case I am now receiving a total of 1400 u/v/day for all the keywords related to this niche and bellow you have a graph from my Google Analytics account which shows the traffic on the Chrome Tweaks blog, which has little content.

Putting all together I think this niche has some future and you can either get in now, or wait for a stable version of Chrome with “full options”, because it is quite impossible to generate new content about this browser.

Another great thing with this new pagerank update is that for the first time Google informed webmasters through Matt Cutts’s blog that they would update the PageRank Toolbar in a few days. For sure this stopped the chaos in the webmasters world and on forums like digitalpoint and sitepoint, where noobies were starting threads every 5 minutes asking if pr updated.

So from my experience I can tell you a few ways (except submitting to web and article directories) to improve your pagerank.

1. Create your own blog network. If you have a few blogs which you update frequently, you have the opportunity to link them and pagerank will for sure increase for them. I’ve made this with an article directory which is constantly pagerank 5 after two updates. How I did this? Well I added a link to it on all my blogs and I made sure that it doesn’t link to other websites (I think it has only one link).

2. Create your own keywords. Although it has never been confirmed (like the rumor that the older your blog is the higher your pagerank will be) I think that branding some keywords, creating some new ones gives your website/blog an identity which might influence the pagerank algorithm. For example I have a few keywords like: AcosminMAG, AcosminTYPO, Acosmin etc which are not used on other blogs. Also some bloggers link to me with the an anchor text that contains those keywords.

3. Try Internal Linking. This will for sure increase the authority of certain pages on your website/blog or even on your index. From what I’ve tested some pages on this blog like the “wordpress themes” page has a few links from some of my posts and so it is one of the most visited pages on this blog and has it’s own pagerank (I am talking about organic traffic).

Here are a few things you shouldn’t do:

1. Links from Social Bookmarking websites are strange! I know they help you get your posts indexed faster, but how many of you seen that those SB websites rank higher than you in searchengines. If you only want to get traffic from SB websites and get indexed faster then use them, but if you want to be on the first position for something try to get links for your articles from somewhere else. In the same time I think that links from social bookmarking websites are equal to 0 when it comes to pagerank .

2. Don’t use link farms. I’ve seen a lot of bloggers using this method to increase their pagerank and in the same time they were panelized by Google with a pagerank decrease or a ban in the search engine. It is not worth it, because links from link farms are equal to 0 and it is considered a spam method.

3. Obviously don’t sell links. You know that Google started a war with link sellers and you should not add things like “sponsored links” on your blog. Instead try to add links only in your blog roll and don’t exceed more than 10 links.

I hope you are happy with your new pagerank.

Hope your page rank has improved because I really think this day, 12.01.2008 is the official google pagerank update day

I hope you’ve seen the movie “I am legend” starring Will Smith (Robert Neville), otherwise go to a cinema and see it, because in my opinion it’s a great movie. To get an idea about the movie, read the summary from imdb link here. Now let’s compare the story from “I am legend” with Google. I can only imagine that Google is the virus because it has behaved like one since the beginning and so, over the years it has “infected” us by spreading very fast on the internet (in the world) with the help of the monsters (spider bots) that are working full-time to provide the best cache for this search engine.

Because Google is the best virus, people have spread the word about it (infecting other persons) and so it has monopole in this industry for now. But wait, there are some persons out there that are immune to this virus; those persons are all the other search engines like Yahoo, MSN etc, the only problem is that they aren’t good enough to defeat it and save the world. Now comes Robert Neville in action! Who is he? Well he represents all the other projects started with the main goal > destroy Google. I don’t know if you remember, but a few months ago, Germany (Theseus) has started a project that can be described in a few words: “the world’s most advanced multimedia search engine for the next-generation Internet”. Now this can be our salvation, a cure for Google’s domination.

In conclusion I would like a cure like this, because I like new stuff, but until then we remain infected and I think that one day Google will own us. Let’s hope not and go see the movie because it already owns me!

Sean Cornwell, Senior Product Marketing Manager of Google UK, said that

AdSense for Mobile provides a valuable way to connect mobile users with the right ad at the right time as they seek information on the go, whilst offering publishers another way to increase their revenues.

Oh yeah, and your revenues as well. In conclusion I am waiting for the new gphone to click some ads.

• Social Bookmarking has been in the last two years the place where all the magic happened. Why? Because it’s the place from where you can get traffic, backlinks and rss readers in the same time. So submitting to digg, netscape, stumble or other sbw is one of the best ways of getting links.
• Another important thing if you have big and good articles , you can submit them to important article directories such as articlecity, enzinearticles . This is a good source of backlinks because first of all you get a link from an important website, you get targeted traffic that will also link to you if they like your article.
• For bloggers it is always good to leave comments on bigger blogs that are targeted to your topic. This won’t help for your pagerank because the link from the comments will have the nofollow statement, but it will surely send you some traffic.
• My favorite is creating themes, plugins, widgets for blogs. You can’t imagine how many backlinks you can get from this, or traffic. It is one of the easiest way, of course for those who know how to create them, because you can leave a link to your blog or website in the footer or in the blogroll.
• ReviewME is another solution, if you have some dinero to spend or a simpler way is linking to other blogs in hope that they will link back(or review for free). Just do it and you will see some results .

In conclusion, I am looking forward for the new page rank update and I hope that all the tam tam with paid links is true.

In my opinion this tools are much more simple to use and are very good for keyword research. I will return with a tutorial on how to create a niche website

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