July 6th, 2009
It’s at this point that some smart arse cheeps up and tells me that shaping page rank with nofollow is old news and that there’s nothing new in this post? Fair point. But whilst this may not be news to everybody I’m sure it will be to some and besides this post isn’t going where the majority of you think it is. Over the last few weeks our (the webmaster communities at large) perceptions of what nofollow is and does has been blown away by Matt Cutts from Google. So with that in mind here’s how I’m changing my websites for better rankings:-
July 2nd, 2009
As part of my ongoing process of spending my cash to find out how you can best spend yours I had a review done over at JohnChow.com a little while back. The review was actually part of the Blogging Mastermind course I bought (and liked to some extent) so rather than do what I would normally do in this situation i.e. pay for a review of a product of which I’m an affiliate and hope to get my money back, I just asked in a very roundabout way for a review of this blog. I wanted honesty and got it. My goal was to find out what spending $500 over at JohnChow.com would get you for your blog. Why is this important? Because John makes a lot of money pushing high value affiliate offers for products to improve your blog. If you take him up on his offer and try to use his blog as a springboard then this is what value you get. We all know it wasn’t a great review, but then again if you go back and look at Johns review history you’ll find very little in the way of positive reviews of other blogs. Even so the review post attracted quite a bit of debate and was certainly well commented on. So without further a do here’s the raw stats:-
