Is Pagerank just a decoration at the top of your blog?

Like Many internet marketers, bloggers would tend to only look at decent Pagerank blogs if and when optimizing their sites for the search engines (robots) and for humans (their site visitors).





The question however on the lips of many bloggers, constantly remains now even more frequent than any other time – and a very disappointing and worried one: Is Google Pagerank really that important? If so why is that so many people don't rank within the search engines as great as they had expected it would be? And why don't they ever get an increase of Pagerank while other sites get a major difference all of the time.

Google Pagerank Toolbar don't always tell the truth, you know

The honest truth don't lie within Pagerank. There are a lot of people that seem to be quite outpaced by Google when acquiring the levels at measuring optimal search engine presence and a footprint of establishment online. What they should know, and you too, is that Google constantly changes the way in how websites should be ranking.

Pagerank is just a tool to give you an idea of how strong a website ranks.

Is that true? The ugly truth is that Pagerank really aren't that important, though. It's the content what is actually the prize. And Google acclaims this out loud. The more Google tries to tell internet marketers that they really shouldn't be looking at the Pagerank meter, the better they are confident  that Google simply wants to divert their appeal to the Pagerank and what (according to bloggers) it can be capable of doing.

Google is telling the truth. Don't focus on building backlinks and backlinks and more of them.

The focus is on getting content. Beautiful, interesting content.The only way to grow your visitors is to start and write about common ordinary things in your life that will appeal to your readers or website visitors in one or the other way. It will be more welcoming to them in the sense that you no longer have the presence of an internet marketer with a website that are just trying to sell something to them again – like any and almost every other person out there in the jungle of the internet.

I have seen a lot of websites being very persistent at blogging. And they're just one of many PR 3 blogs out there that are doing very good, making over $3000 a month – and it's all about the fact that they constantly produce useful, interesting content. By the way, these type of sites are always in the Alexa top 50,000.

Tip: Don't expect to make $3000 from start with a blog. A blog remains an enormously great tool to obtain residual income. So if you'd ever want to start and make some real money online, and I'm obviously talking about $3000 +, you're going to have to be persistent and constant at what you are doing, and just simply will need to enjoy it!

Who knows, if you're really serious about what you want to do after you have figured out what exactly your passion is and building a blog around it – you might start to profit over $10,000 within reach of your first 6 months online.

Nothing is impossible. “How much you want it” is key to your success. Never mind Pagerank.

Is Paypal open to all South-Africans?

It was quite an exciting time when FNB (First National Bank) brought back PayPal's services to South-Africa – finally, again and at last, Paypal changed (added)  the much awaited services to the Paypal South-Africa site.

To people who have been used to the benefits of PayPal since forever, obviously didn't realize how to appreciate this tremendous opportunity. In fact. We South-Africans appreciated it so much, we had been quite afraid of something that might become (you never know!) a threat to keep PayPal in South-Africa. I mean: PayPal is accepted as payment method on virtually all websites in the world. That's over 90% to be exact. Or perhaps I should correct myself even better.




This fact creates the impression that PayPal is the only trusted way to accept internet payments and to inter-transfer money between individuals and businesses – and this specifically brings me to the actual point.

Out of the 190 countries which may buy online using PayPal, only 43 could have received money into their PayPal accounts. Not all 190 countries. Only South-Africa (Africa's largest economy) became the 44^th country allowed to fully make use of PayPal's entire service: making payments and being allowed to sell, use PayPal's integrated merchant services – and off course receiving, withdrawing and depositing money to and from a local bank account. All while the other nearly 150 other countries are still in the growing PayPal network that may only make payments, cannot sell, receive, deposit money from a local bank account – neither to withdraw it to there.

To South-African internet entrepreneurs, this was a blessing bestowed upon us all as we felt this deal between FNB and PayPal have finally linked us with the world and the world with us. We no longer needed to stress about how to exactly make use of third parties (and perhaps 4^th parties) so that we can earn some money online . . .

But now the question remains: Is Paypal everything we hoped for? Is our Paypal prayers truly answered? Can we fully say that we can start to make money with Amazon, EBay, with Lulu and tradebit and Payloadz, sell affiliate products, writing for money, etc? There are literally thousands of ways that one can find a resource from PayPal's over 100 million active users to send some green love and to utilize PayPal's 190 markets – but can ALL South-Aficans really benefit from this?

The simple answer is no. Even though FNB brought Paypal back to our country, it would seem that Paypal insist that South-Africans only link “Cheque”or Credit Card Accounts to their Paypal account and not “just savings” accounts.

This suggests that not nearly as much South-Africans will be able to deposit money to and withdraw money from their Paypal accounts even if they would  have money in it!

To crown this, Fnb doesn't even state this on their website – but only make their customers believe that they can link ANY account to a South-African Paypal account.

What a sad, sad story: Paypal is still not available and open to poor South-Africans. What a shame.

Intelligent content appeals more blog traffic and website visitors

Despite the constant question and daily search on how to find the precise elements and the right recipes to truthfully succeed at getting good amounts of blog traffic to a website – it remains still a mysterious puzzle to figure out. As simply by stating: “It’s a better Pagerank, obviously!” as an answer, seem even more complicatedly wrong and imprecise as time leaps by.





The internet is known as a universe consisting of millions of websites (some like supernovas, others much smaller compilations) that becomes together an ever-expanding, infinite interspersed world of different colors, shapes and sizes. And of meaning.

However, it is also an ever-bustling beehive if looked upon close: with literally billions of fast moving objects, eye-glittering – flashing everywhere. Others, although quietly still, are nothing but disturbances of spam (or so it would seem): words, trillions of them everywhere, confusing, over-believing – giving off red flashlights in one's mind – ultimately finding it hard to put trust in such words or opportunities.



Are your blog a lonely person in the world of the internet?

And the question, still stands, always remains: How do you get more blog visitors? How do you attract traffic to your website like a magnet?



The answer is much simpler – perhaps too simple to comprehend: You slow down. You actually start at the very beginning. Why? There's something you're doing wrong as even at the times when you are getting traffic to your blog, you're getting less than 0.5% of the people to do what you wanted them to do. Right?

Forget about everything what other bloggers are doing with their blogs: trying to get a few visitors (especially backlinks) with commenting relentless unappreciated comments. Installing “auto content” plugins to get the same not-so-impressive content that are on hundreds of other blogs – again just to try and gain traffic.

Define your question to yourself and analyze it with such preciseness so that it may have a more purposeful meaning to more importantly: your blog.

If you're going to do this, you'll soon be figuring out that you don't just want more people to visit your website just for the sake that you want (that you need) more traffic to it.

Why do you want more traffic to your website? Is it just to gain more sales? Do you have a long-term plan with your blog or website?

You should get traffic to your blog that make them come to a standstill. Away from the rush there in the outlying universe, you aught to be a little unexplored star that barely glows amongst the many supernovas – but one that impresses every visitor with his first eyesight of your blog.

How to grab your website visitors in awe

1 Don't panic (it only causes trouble), patience is a virtue

Panicking is the first thing that lead bloggers into their graves. This is impatience. Don't expect your blog to become a supernova when you just change it one bit. Never do what most bloggers do as a solution. They overthrow their blogs with unimpressive eyesore things: “If I can just quickly spice it up with 10 cheap PLR articles, buy more of those cheap backlinks and do a little bit more tweaking . . .”

2 Rather start putting in real effort . . .

Otherwise you'll keep struggling. Keep failing – just wasting even more time. If you really want to be a “blogger” – you'll need to blog your way up to the top. By saying this: don't do negligible petty things just because it would be the easiest thing in the world to do. Real bloggers pay for their successes they have earned with nothing other than their time. Time and effort – writing and blogging unique, insightful, entertaining content of the highest quality. This is what will determine whether a blog will become popular or not. The rewards are backlinks that will come by itself and visitors that really feel entertained. Visitors that will be staying for longer coming back – and popularize your blog through social media.







You must always remember. Your visitors can't be entertained if you are chasing them away with your fast moving objects that might seem overcrowded amongst content on your website that probably say:  “I'm just here for the sales, you know”. Website visitors don't stay long for a visit on blogs like these. There is nothing worse coming off of a blog whose content count undoubtedly seem much less than the disturbing things around it. And so the visits will remain for just seconds . . .

3  Blog even though you're an internet marketer

Even when you're selling programs and products or services to keep yourself alive while utilizing your website or blog for this purpose – you need to blog. (Why is it called a blog?) Especially when your site is still new and you'll be forced to advertise on free websites such as forum sites. Blog your products to your audience. Don't advertise. Do away with the inflated over-believing approach. They'll run away. You'll look like just the rest of everything out there: frightening fast moving objects.

Impress your clients, your visitors, and your audience. Provide reviews and honest opinions to them in the most common language possible. This will appeal to them and find it more welcome. Give them a feeling that you have years' experience and knowledge of that what you are talking about. However and in whatever way you put your words on paper –let it be something welcoming.

If you still fail – ask yourself why. Is it because you haven't yet started from scratch?

If you haven't started from the beginning – you simply haven't started yet. It's as simple as that. So how can you achieve anything? If you haven't started to produce something worthwhile to look at – you really aren't going to achieve anything here.

At the end of the day when you finally realize how crucial this is – you would finally have slowed down from moving too fast. And you will actually come to thought about how simple and easy these beginning steps are. The solution at getting more people to your blog. It was never the overcomplicated things you've ever been thinking rushing from left to right and from the one guy to the other guy in panic getting everything settled that you thought was the right things to do . . .

In fact. Starting at the starting point requires no money. And how are you not enjoying it! In this simpleness (not simplicity in doing everything worthlessly easy) is intelligence. The intelligence of simpleness. A word of common feeling producing something unique and exciting.  There's laughter in it. Entertainment. Real conversations. Something that your visitors would want to share with their friends and with the world.

When you'd find this intelligence you would have come to terms of your fatal previous understanding that you are just a mere person with a blog online. That this wisdom let you came to the realization that you indeed are a person who have a blog, yes, – but that your blog is nothing other than a brand. That every brand does carry one or the other reputation. And as soon as you gain this reputation (one of trust) you'll actually start reaping the organic (automatic) results of success infinitely.

What the heck is pinging?

I can still remember the first time when I discovered this term . . . (or is that trying to uncover) while searching for something else online. And as usual it causes a lot of problems coming to grips with more words that you don't have a clue about, all trying to figure out your first predicament.

With Pinging you call all the content hungry creatures

But the more you spend time online (as any blogger should and must love reading,writing and commenting relentless) the more you start to enjoy learning important phrases such as “pinging” rather than it be another stressful phrase you have no idea about.

Pinging is one of the great artworks of blogging. All that it is, in simple english, is that it calls all websites that are craving for your stories. Or is that content. Almost just like when big corporations and companies make public announcements. Before they make these official announcements, they would first notify all the press (these are obviously newspapers, broadcasters, radio stations etc.) that they would want to make these announcement/s.

This is exactly what happens online with “pinging”. This is important for any blogger to know, as the interface of blogs in which they operate is almost as if they are mini-press release sites. In other words, pinging goes directly hand in hand with blogging websites.

I believe every person that’s a blogger should fully appreciate the way in which blogs operate and all the things that makes it function the way it does. Like, yes, pinging. It's every internet person's dream/frustration (no matter which type of website you own), when you update your website and apply new content to it – but it won't show in the search engines that what you have done. And sometimes, a lot of internet newbies, marketers, bloggers (especially with new websites/web pages) would wait for days before Google would come and other search engines to update their content. This might be very frustrating to see that your website isn't updating at all, and sometimes, it only update within but every 7 days!





With pinging, you call out every directory, whether search engines, feed directories, blogs, or any other websites that are content hungry sites. They will come and visit your site within no time. And within no time at all will you see your newest article/blog post within Google in a matter of minutes. Literally.

You are not doing anything. You just notify. Called pinging. Pinging says on it’s own terms: “Please hurry to visit this site, there's new content published!”