Green Flamingobecause I said so

If you have been blog traveling lately you will have heard of the Google Pagerank update.

Google Pagerank or PR is measuring the authority of your site, like your technorati rank. How it works is Google counts how many backlinks you have to your site, and from there it gives you a rank from 1-10. It is rare to see a high PR site like PR8 or higher. Most sites are between 0 and 5 for pagerank.

So to increase your pagerank then you have to collect backlinks. It depends how high the PR is on the sites that you get links from. You can search for charts, or use this one, to see how many links of what PR to get to a certain rank.

The PR of Green Flamingo actually went down. I am very disappointed in this, but it is how it is. I used to be PR3, but now I am PR2. In between now and the next PR update I will try to increase the rank, hopefully to 4.

What is funny is that when I had PR3 I got that without even trying. In fact I think I received PR3 when I first looked into making money online. In Internet time this was years ago, but really around January. After I found out what PR was I was surprised at the number.

Now when I have been trying to increase my pagerank, for it can help increase sales or even boost the look of your blog. I am disappointed that is went down, but it is the way it is. For all of you that had a backlink on my site, some of your PR increase will be because of this backlink.

I think I mostly got my pagerank from tech-buzz.net and lionandmagicboy.com. On tech-buzz I no longer have my top commentator spot, and the PR5 or six that it was moved down. Fortunately it’ll be back up and my top commentator spot will be reclaimed in August. Lionandmagicboy will soon close down, but I have other sources for links.

I heard from Jason at theuniversitykid.com that it is not very good to have out going links, so this is one of the reasons I am not linking to some of the sites I mention, though it really does no harm. so I have a little announcement.

The links and banners that I was giving out at the beginning of July (I think it continued to the 5th or 6th though) I will be taking down in the next few days. This would come no matter what, my intention was to keep them up for a month. This is very close to a month, and since most were practically free, they are going to come down now. I am going to begin banner advertising, so if you received a good experience from having your banner up then contact me. My advertise page will be up soon, so if you are new here then you should read that. The links I will keep up until a few of the banners go down, and eventually the links will come down, though not right away. Really nothing will come down right away, but be prepared is all I’m saying. I do have a new category of links, these are the sites I read and love, so a lot of my blogroll if I read those blogs will be transferred. I am also going to add one or two more, some of the ones I read and comment on often.

Back to the PR update, and your status. I want to know what the PR update has brought you! We just want to know how your pagerank has changed, good or bad.