Blogger Blogs and PageRank

I'm curious about something. I've seen a lot of blogger blogs lately and I've noticed that for some reason very few, in fact hardly any, have any pagerank at all.

I've taken time to look at a lot of them and most are actually unranked... They're not even a zero. This in spite of the fact that many of them have a good number of inbound links and most of them are coming from ranked pages (values anywhere from 0 to 5, with the average being about 3)

I'm wondering, approximately how many links are required from sites with PR1 and above for a blogger site to gain a PR1 rank of it's own?

Filed in: blogs, page rank, links, inbound links, blogger blog

Comment Policy Revisited

I got a couple of comment notifications in my email today and they're a prime example of why I have full comment moderation turned on. Somebody who signed themselves as "warhammer gold" and left comments on a couple of posts. Those comments were nothing but links for various domains involved in selling gold in a game called "Warhammer".

Needless to say I nuked 'em. I have zero patience for this crap and any comment that isn't somehow relevant to the post it's on will be deleted without a second thought.

I welcome comments. I even welcome comments that have urls in them as long as both the comments and the urls are relevant. Though if it gets really bad I'll just turn the things off entirely and not bother. It's not like *this* blog is making me any money.

Good Stories and Blogs

I haven't posted here in entirely too long so I thought I'd drop in and write **something**...

The best thing I can think of to put here right now is a few good blog recommendations.

A Short Tail is a fairly new blog that's got some really good short stories in it. I expect some really great things to show up there in the future.

On Two Ton Tilly You'll find all sorts of things from editorial opinions to cute cat stories.

A good stop on your search for interesting blogs to read is Blog Hunting where the author is doing just that, hunting for interesting and, dare I say it, "good" blogs.

All of these are very much worth the reading and their value should do nothing but increase over time.

Links for a pair of new blogs

Here's a couple of new blogs that I want to recommend. DollieKay and TwoTon Tilly. Both are written by people new to blogging and need all the links, traffic and stumbles etc that they can get.

Two more great blogs

It's been a bit longer than I'd wanted since the last post but stuff happens.

In the meantime, I'm going to get right to the point here with a bit about a couple more blogs that I think readers will appreciate.

This time I'll start off with Off The Cuff (http://offthecuff.lurasbookcase.com) Off The Cuff's author writes in exactly that style... quite literally "Off The Cuff". The subtitle on the page is "An Arkansas view of the news, politics, entertainment, you name it." and that is exactly what you get. Don't let the part about "Arkansas view" fool you, There's plenty of Arkansans that have a good grip on current events and what is right (or wrong) with a lot of things going on in the world and Off The Cuff underscores this fact. Just because you live in the sticks doesn't mean you're ignorant or without a voice.

There are some entries there that are guaranteed to get you thinking about our world today and some of the really unfortunate trends that are growing in it such as this post "History Repeats Itself...If We Do Not Learn" that makes a very good point about the fact that most, if not all of the problems we're dealing with today have been around before and if we take the trouble to pay attention to history we can learn from past mistakes and have a shot at avoiding them. Then on the lighter side there's this really hilarious video that features "Three Clowns Of Late Night" in a mock brawl that does a great job of poking fun at policitians.

Another blog that is certain to be one you'll add to your "must read" list is Window Shopper (http://shopper.purrfectdomains.com). Window shopper is all about shopping in general and shopping online in particular. There are a lot of useful and informative entries such as "Tips For Saving on Ebay" with a bunch of good advice for anyone buying online, particularly on eBay. There's plenty more money saving advice such as this article "More Savings At Home And At The Store". Last but not least, lets not forget having a bit of fun with a Wierd Al video: "I Bought It On Ebay".

All in all, Off The Cuff and Window Shopper are both sites that will make fine additions to anyone's list of "I gotta keep up with that one". That's all for now. I'll be posting again in a day or ??? with more shameless promotion of a couple more blogs.

Time For A Bit Of Shameless Promotion

That's right. I'm going to do a bit of shameless promotion of some other blogs and just to keep it from looking like a long spammy list of links in one post, I'm going to spread it out over a series of entries. I figure that ought to set me up for at least the next thirty (or more!) entries.

The first Blog I'm going to mention is God's Topshelf (http://godstopshelf.com). This is a Christian blog with a message based in the word of God and His love for all of us. It's entries range from favorite Christian music videos to thought provoking articles and Bible based lessons that aim to help the reader grow spiritually.

The second one is called "Blog Hunting" (http://bloghunting.com). It's a site that's sharing reviews of blogs and other things that the author has discovered. This is a new blog just getting started so don't be surprised to find that there's not a whole lot of stuff on there now. That is going to change and I'm certain that there's going to be some interesting blogs talked about here.

Wow! Updates!

Imagine that! I actually took some time to do a bit of updating.

Nothing much yet. Just divided the links into two lists and put all of the blog links in one and websites in another.

Perhaps I'll get into at least a semi-regular posting habit. (seems a shame to let a perfectly good blog go to waste) I'm already doing better though.. two posts in less than four days... what'll happen next?

yes, I'm still here

Amazingly enough, I actually DO still have the password for this blog. Sometime soon I'm going to get to the business of posting more often.

What's a blogger to do?

So many blog for $$ sites, so littel time.

Well, you'd think so anyway. Things aren't actually as rosy as they look. First there's payperpost... which up until recently has been great, but their latest modifications are killing them.. It's gotten nearly impossible to take an opp if your timing isn't JUST so. This means you can click "take opportunity" all day long and not earn a cent because after to do this you find out that all of the slots for that opp have been taken.. combine that with the reservation time that you can hold the opp going from 1 hour to *six* hours and you can pretty much forget it if you're not VERY blessed and manage to click into an opp just as it becomes available. wait one second too long and you're out in the cold

Blogitive is pretty good, easy to work with, they usually have enough opps to keep you busy, but sometimes the longer ones don't seem worth it at $5.00 for 300 words.

Blogsvertize is turning out to be ok, though if I *NEVER* see another "just say hi" opp again it'll be too soon.

There's some others that we're checking into and the jurr's still out on them.

In other news, A Peculiar Blog has been moved from Thingamablog to Wordpress 2.2 and I'm toying with the thought of moving I Am Not A Hamster to wordpress as well. I just wish I had found out about wordpress BEFORE I had gotten started with Thingamablog... Or that TAMB's authors had put in the ability to use some of the features that Wordpress does... like trackbacks and pingbacks and any of dozens of WP plugins