A few deep thoughts over blog advertising
Posted By Luana on March 23, 2009
The new theme is UP! 
What do you think, babes? Ya like it? I finished it last night – well, the pixel art in the logo still needs a few shadings, to say the truth – at 2AM, heh ^^ I must say that I’m really satisfied with it, because it’s clean and pink and the base theme I used has valid CSS and XHTML properties, which means that my pages will be better indexed in seach engines.
Anyway, since we are in topic already… I have been pondering – and sis Jhoice knows that, as I told her on YM once! – about this for some time, and I’ve come up with the firm belief that advertisers should just stop looking at blogs’ Pagerank and start considering other things like: web traffic (Alexa is a good indicator), blog activity, quality of posts (which includes spelling and grammar) and – for a change… maybe Yahoo WebRank? Oh I think MSN will come up with its own sooner or later, you’ll see… LOL! Seriously, I’ve seen very good blogs with a PR0; how can advertisers be so blind? 
I think they should take the factors I listed above in more consideration than the simple Google’s opinion. Google has power on the web, but we are the ones who have power on our websites, and selling links is not a crime: it just needs to be done with criterion, and seriously. Because of course, a blog that sounds like a spam bin will tend to be avoided, and not just by Google: what do we do when a TV channel we are watching is practically all spots and adverts and no real content to entertain us? We turn it off! Now, the same thing happens on the web, and if people start “turning off” our blogs and unless we’re blogging privately for a small elite of invited readers… what’s the point of keeping a blog like that? I’ve made my own mistakes in the past too, when I was still a newbie with paid reviews and they did sound spammy and advert-looking. I’ve improved since then, my reviews are now better blended with my site content and posts: practically, only half of the post is a review now; the rest is my stuff 
Still, as you know, Google penalised my Honey-Babe.net blog more than a year ago, by dropping my PR to 0 and thus drastically reducing the number of my links on Google searches. Which sucks, seriously. Now that all of this happened, I want to tell my fellow advertisers (because I think on the net we are all fellows, after all): next time it’ll be better for you (yeah, for you! not just for me) allowing a simple rel=nofollow to be added to your link: my site won’t pass PR to you of course, but it will pass traffic and knowledge, and so increasing your notoriety. Sounds good, doesn’t it? That, and please, value activity, quality and traffic more than the little green bar on Google Toolbar. Please. You’re loosing a lot like that (because your link will disappear from Google index together with my post!), and we bloggers do as well (because we get less opps = less money). Besides, G is not the only important search engine around. So, let’s do this together for everyone’s safety, ok?
Alright, I’m done with the rant ^^ I hope this post will be read and understood by the ones I addressed directly and the other bloggers too, as active and well-written blogs always pay. Always.
See ya soon, babes! :3
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Hi! My name is Luana. I'm a 27 years old Italian girl living in a province of Rome. I'm engaged to my one and only soulmate Simone. I live with my parents, brother and sister, and 2 wonderful little robots, Orion and Erik . I'm a freelance illustrator, article writer and translator. I'm a 
LOL! I hope my blog can get clean and all of that stuff. Though it will take me a while as I just moved to a new location and all. XD
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yeah, your right! advertisers must try to look on other things beside Mr. G page rank.
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The factors that are determinant in a website?s Alexa rankings apart from the data collected from the users of the Alexa toolbar are no where clearly mentioned. This somehow brings in a question of doubt and credibility issues as far as the Alexa rankings are concerned. However, even today the Alexa toolbar has the largest chunk in determining the ranking of a website.
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Hi, thanks for the visit..actually, I think you remember one time when I tried to keep up with this Google page ranking and someone thought it was fake…honestly, I got tired of figuring out, and settled to have my blog viewed by few friends who are now living in other parts of the world. I might have another run with it, in the future should I decide to go back to writing reviews, and you have a point too, our blog should consist of something that is of our interest and not because of the demands of the advertisers…good post! Keep it up and good to have you back again!
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Luana Reply:
March 24th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Yes, I remember that time, Riza
And when I saw your post, I got quiet pissed, to say the truth. It never happened to me that BBR would act so dishonestly, when your PR was indeed real, and not fake. But there’s always a first time, right? You know, I keep writing reviews not just for the money (that I really need ATM), but even because I actually love writing them. If only advertisers would be less selfish and PR-addicted, everything would be better; in reality, I think traffic and content of a site count more than PR, and for that I agree with Google. I just don’t approve their methods, because they penalize the blogger and not the advertisers who’s been the cause. I only hope these happenings will make everyone’s eyes more open. Plus, really! I think bloggers should just stop having paid-links-only blogs! A blog is mainly something we love to write, either be it a personal blog or an articles blog, paid-links should never be the reason why it’s up xP I did my mistakes in the past too, when I was a n00bie, and I deeply regret it.
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OMG ♥
I LOVE LOVE LOVVVE the new layout/look! Everything looks so organized… not that it didn’t before, but I think you know what I mean, hehe :] My new lappy is definitely my new best friend… doesn’t talk behind my back and won’t stab me in the back LOL nooo drama here, hehe (i made a funnyy haha… and I’m on my third cup of coffee, so it adds up the hyperness :3)
I have a super duper question for you, m’love ~ do you know of any safe and trustworthy blogger ad sites I could sign up for, to make some extra pocket cash? I’ve been researching and looking around but there’s so many and I don’t want to sign up for anything unless I know for a fact they won’t like, steal my debit card number or I won’t get hacked @_@
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oh my gosh i love the new theme luana! its super cute, you’re always good at that stuff tho
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of course you’re an affie, did you even think you had to ask? lol ima add you right away! ahh i sm excited
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