Though some blogs are reporting an update i am yet to experience it first hand. Anyone has seen a change in the Google PR for your sites?

I use prchecker.info for checking the Google PR.

Lazy Domaining has moved from PR2 to PR3.

During the last Google PR update during January 2010, though it momentarily showed PR3 then settled to PR2. Hope that is not the case this time.

From my experience i feel Google doesn’t take sites launched under 1 month for PR calculation as i see none of my sites launched within a month have gained any PR. On a similar note one of my site(god dot co dot in) launched in the end of February 2010 has gained PR2 which is very encouraging.

Lazy Domaining has gone from PR2 to PR3.

Not that i give a lot of importance to PR but just that it feels good to start the year 2010 with PR3.

If you want to go directly to Google.com instead of the individual country version of Google, then do one of the following

1. Type www.google.com/ncr in the browser which will prevent the redirection to the country version of Google and will directly take you to Google.com.

2. Type Google.com and lets say it takes you to Google.co.uk. Now there you will find a link back to Google.com with the following caption “Go To Google.com” at the bottom. You click this and you will go to Google.com.

3. You can even search for Google.com in the Google search and go from there. When you go to Google.com from the search result i.e by clicking a link the redirection won’t happen.

I wrote those two posts a couple of weeks back. Today i checked Google to see the effect and happy to see Lazy Domaining’s two posts have ranked 6th and 25th.

My second post(6th position) was able to climb up taking help from my first post. It was able to knock down sites like wiktionary & britannica. This again speaks volumes about the power of a blog and the fact Google loves blogs.

Lazy Domaining has jumped from PR1 to PR2 which is very much encouraging.

Here are some of the other Domain Name blogs & websites(in no particular order) whose PR you might be interested in.

DotWeekly.com – PR4
Domaining.com – PR6
ElliotsBlog – PR4
Domainvestors.tv – PR3
YGrab.com – PR3
Namepros.com – PR5
NameBee.com – PR4
RicksBlog.com – PR3
WannaDevelop.com – PR4
TheDomains.com – PR4

Some of my minisites which i recently purchased are showing PR3-PR2. I would like to state that a PR drop won’t discourage me as i don’t entirely base my valuation of a blog or website on PR. It is just another factor to consider.

I used PR Checker to find this info.

One important thing one should keep in mind while Link Building is Link Consistency. By Link Consistency, i mean you should build links for the same url. Don’t mix your back links with the main domain and sub domains.

For eg: http://lazydomaining.com is the main domain of this blog. http://www.lazydomaining.com is the sub domain. Many people miss this point of Link Consistency.

If i get say 100 back links for http://lazydomaining.com and another 100 back links for http://www.lazydomaining.com, the search engines are going to view it as two urls having 100 back links each. I would rather benefit by having all 200 back links for the main domain i.e http://lazydomaining.com.

Keep in mind having Link Consistency is an important factor in SEO.

You have bought a website or a template which is monetized using Google Adsense Ads. The first step for you is to change the Google Adsense Publisher Id and upload the site making sure the earnings go to your Google Adsense Account. But changing adsense publisher id alone won’t work and your ads won’t get displayed. This is because in addition to the Google Adsense Publisher Id, Google also requires something called google_ad_slot.

Before going further lets take a look at the Google’s new adsense code.

You will notice Google has introduced the google_ad_slot which says what colors, fonts, ads type will be chosen while displaying the Google Adsense Ads. In the Google’s old adsense code these attributes will be there in the code itself as shown below.

So now you can see the way Google Adsense Ads are working. In addition to changing the Google Adsense Publisher Id you will also need to know the google_ad_slot which is a unique number which will be generated by Google when you create the ads inside your Google Adsense account.

The advantage of google_ad_slot is that you don’t have to go and change the adsense codes in each of your website pages for chaning the color, type etc of the ads. You can simply change these things in your Adsense account and the changes will be reflected in all the website pages which are using these adsense codes.

Contest is to develop your previously undeveloped domain to rank top in Google search results. $500 worth prizes. One more reason to develop atleast one domain. Development is fun really, if you got the time for it.