Promoting London

From the look of things it would appear that Google are in the midst of a pagerank update, a time when all knowledgeable webmasters cross their fingers and hope that their sites get a boost from the changes [and definitely do not suffer a relegation to a lower value]. There are webtools out there which allow you to view the pagerank of any website at the various Google Datacentres - normally the values would be the same across them all but at present there is a definite difference showing which datacentres have updated and which have not. How does this affect Promoting London? Well, as the word cloud page makes clear, once it reaches a certain pagerank then the cost of hyperlinks from it will increase. This will happen when all the datacentres have been updated which could be tomorrow or could still be a couple of weeks away [there never seems to be a set time span over which these updates take place]. All that I am saying is that there may be a price increase and it may be very, very soon.

As traffic was beginning to settle down here at PromotingLondon I decided it was time to go out marketing and seek some new hyperlinks by submitting the site to some of the plethora of small online directories that exist out in cyberspace. Spent much of yesterday with the submission process for nearly 200 directories of various sizes and format and am already starting to see the backlinks being posted where accepted. It will be interesting to see exactly how much this increases visitor traffic along with the effect it will have on the pagerank of the word cloud.

Regards,

DelB

In re-reading Trickle Down I realised that I had forgotten to say a big thank you to Arun & Abhishek at WordSiteBuilder.com for supplying and installing the script which powers the word cloud here. It was they who took the original word cloud ideas that were being promoted & pushed elsewhere and developed what, to my mind, is a far better product for those of us intent on giving our clients a promotional opportunity that really could fulfill its promise. They providing much needed contextualisation in the relationship between the link words and the search engine priorities. If you are interested, their very own cloud resides at 97tags.com alongside a very informative blog on the process.

Thanks Gentlemen,
DelB