Important updates to blog improvement review contest, please re-read; leave any comments on that post .

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No I’m not keyword stuffing the title, but it has a good effect. And no it’s not my Google adsense account either; no reason to close what’s not in use.

As I was making some rounds this morning I came across my buddy Mike at IM Is Easy and he had a VERY interesting story to share (not his account either).

Now I’m not a Google hater per-say, but most will agree that it’s always satisfying to hear of David taking a piece of Goliath, even if just a small piece…..$721 in this case.

Read the full story (new window). Pay close attention to the end where Google’s paralegal protested (quite loudly I’m sure), “What if everyone whose account was canceled sued Google?”

Only 12 more days to go for $100 + massive prizes!

OK yea, a large part of this post is self-serving, however it definitely should help others along the way as well.

Back in the beginning of December I was getting fed-up with the uselessness of the wordpress dashboard and went looking for quick and easy ways to check incoming links. Although many link checking tools were mentioned, all but Google alerts fell way outside my immediate criteria…..

Something simple to merely check who is currently linking to me so I could link back/thank them in some way.

Most, if not all backlink checking tools, were not made for such simplicity. The wordpress dashboard was perfect until they changed the way it reads pages…but I’m not going to get into that now, there are blog articles all over with people complaining about the same thing.

A very important post on DennisEdell.com and $500 to be won on EasyCashContests!

OK so everyone else already did there page rank update posts; what the hell, dare to be different, right? Anyway, I’m happy .

I blogged after the last one back in September about going from 3 to 2 and the reason I thought it happened. Now I got my 3 back and I have YOU to thank for it! All of your very generous outgoing links to me and ULTRA generous blog comments definitely contributed to me raising back up a point; thanks!

Tip: For those that may not realize it, blog comments are Google feeding content just like anything else!

I haven’t checked ALL my inner pages yet, but three of my most popular scored a 2! Another scored a 0, which is different from nothing at all. (Ask if you dare, but it’ll give you a headache.) Hopefully those will score more next time.

First, a little horn tooting for reaching 50 posts! Woohoo! Yippie!! Yay for me!!!

Don’t worry, I don’t dare to openly compare myself to Darren Rowse again

All kidding aside, I sincerely hope they have been good quality posts for all involved

Hmm, it seems though that the good quality posting is at least half the reason I got a PR downgrade from Google - I went from 3 to 2 during the last dance at the end of July!

Huh? What?! Penalized by Google for quality content?? Well, in a round-about sorta way…

Those that have been with me for awhile may remember that I had well more then 50 posts at one point. However, realizing that the posts weren’t even close to stellar (not by a long shot), I removed about 40 of them.