Working at Home on the Internet

Google Can Go Suck An Egg

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I really wasn’t going to write anything about the Google god, and the Almighty Page Rank that they hold over the heads of Bloggers trying to supplement their income with advertising.

BUT…

For some reason The Great and Powerful Google has decided to Lower my Page Rank from a 5 to a 4. Why? Who knows. From all the information I can come by, it has something to do with Links.

Everyone who has ever been here knows that I link to just about anyone or anything that has something to do with Working at Home, the Internet, Business Tips or just about anything I think would help my readers Succeed in their Business endeavours.

Could it be that I have Text Link Ads in the sidebar?

If that is the case, Too Bad Google… I make more than 3 times the money with Text Link Ads than I do with Google AdSense. TLA also pays Every Month, without having to wait 3 months after hitting your minimum payout, like AdSense does. There is no way that I am taking those ads (which are plainly under a heading of Affiliate/Advertising Programs) down. I would rather take down the AdSense Ads!

Personally, I think that Google is trying to drive TLA and other Link Advertisers Out Of Business to eliminate the competition. I could be wrong, but that would be a mistake in my opinion. The better way would be for Google to Improve their AdSense Payout System. Make it more timely and less cumbersome. And May the Best Man Win.

Frankly, I am beginning to care less about Google and the Page Ranking System they control. I am going to try to continue to provide valuable information to my readers and let the Chips Fall Where They May.

October 29th, 2007 at 10:26am | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Google | 7 reader remarks | Print This Post

What Statistics Do You Look At First for Your Site?

The Basics?

Ok, After the Summary… We all want to know how many people visit, how may pages they view and how many return visitors we have. Even after the Visitor Paths, there you have to keep scrolling to see who went where and how many times they have returned and it’s really difficult to see Keywords with any real feel for what people are looking for.

Speaking of Keywords…

You should notice that a full 16% of the keywords used to find the Blog are Work from (at) Home and another 15% with variations of Work, Home, Business, Internet, Computer. All of which are in my MetaData Keyword list. I must have done something right. One suprise was how many times that variations of WordPress show up in searches, but it is nice. And this is only one page of 4, all of which give further information on how people are finding the Blog.

This leads us to Landing Pages…

I think the take away from the results of the Landing Pages stats show the importance of Keywords, not only in the URL of the Site, but in Titles of individual posts as well as the content within the posts themselves. The term Work at Home leads to the Main Page as well as numerous individual posts containing the term in the Title, sub-titles and text. It further indicates that Search Engines will pick up a Keyword if it is well placed within Title and text if it is currently important to readers searches (WordPress 2.2).

Just for the Halibut…

I show this because I want you to realize that you aren’t playing to a single country. I am from the U.S but only 50% of my readers are from the country in which I reside. The other 50% are from Everywhere Else. This is the main reason I put the Google Translate right above the Sidebar, I want to make it as easy as possible for people to read what I write.

Granted, this is only a snapshot of one day, but checking what Keywords are working and where people are landing is a good indicator of the audience I am reaching. And isn’t that the point, to reach the right readers? To give them what they are looking for?

What statictics give you the best indication of the health of your Blog?

June 27th, 2007 at 04:54pm | Posted by Joe | Basics, Google, Keywords, Management, Stastics, Work at Home | reader remarks | Print This Post

The Value of Old Posts

Way back in January, when I first installed the Verizon DSL using the Actiontec GT704WG Wirless Router I wrote about the problems I was having with the installation.

I also wrote of the solution I came up with after all the trials and tribulations I had dealing with the incompetent help line. That was actually 11 (eleven) months ago.

As things work out, someone sent me an E-mail to the Old Address that was still linked in the post on the New Blog asking if I could help them. It seems they were going through the same problem. They couldn’t come up with the Drivers for the equipment and couldn’t get any satisfaction from Verizon (same problem I was having way back when).

I uploaded the files for the fix to http://workingathomeinternet.com/actiontech they can be copied (downloaded) to a hard-drive. Restarting the computer should allow the system to find the proper Drivers.

Sorry, Verizon and Actiontec, but if it’s proprietary, then you should make if easier for your customers to access the Drivers.

The Moral:

The value for me is, someone found an Old Post related to their problem through a Google Search.

The value for them is they found the information they were looking for on an Old Post of mine through a Google Search.

The Old Posts Involved:

My Dilemma

It’s Finally Over

November 22nd, 2006 at 07:00am | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Basics, Blogging, Google, Keywords, SEO | 9 reader remarks | Print This Post