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Lazy Domaining is PR3 – Feel Good Factor To Start 2010

Kumaran — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:47:44 +0000

Google has made a PR update somewhere between 31st Dec. 2009 to 1st Jan. 2010. Previous PR update was on 31st Oct. 2009.

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.

How To Go To Google.com

Kumaran — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:02:39 +0000

How to go to Google.com instead of say Google.co.uk or Google.co.in etc etc. When you type Google.com in your browser(say firefox) you will be directed to your country(cctld) version of Google i.e Google.co.uk if your ip is in UK or Google.co.in if your ip is in India etc. Here is an info which might be of use if you already are not aware of it.

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.

Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease – Google Effect

Kumaran — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:28:45 +0000

Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease is a simple idiom whose meaning is Ask if you want something or in other words Those who ask will get it. I chose this title not only because it suited my story but also to experiment and see how it would fair with Google. I wrote my first post and a follow up post with the title “Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease”.

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.

Google Has Made A Page Rank Update

Kumaran — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:10:01 +0000

Looks like Google has updated the Page Rank or in other words the Google PR. I was waiting for this latest update for over a month.

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.

Changing Google Adsense Publisher Id Alone Won’t Work

Kumaran — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:35:50 +0000

Changing Google Adsense Publisher Id alone won’t work anymore. This used to be the way till sometime back. But now Google has changed the way it works and lets see why changing the publisher id alone won’t display the Google Adsense ads.

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.