I was doing my regular visit of my blogs today, to check that everything was going well and received a very welcomed surprise.
Google had passed by and given my new blogs their first Page Ranks.
While StandOutBlogger continues to be a PR3 Blog, I received one new PR2 and two new PR1 blogs.
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FranchiseBuzz.com.au (PR0-PR2)

Launched in the middle of November, I have spent quite a lot of time working on this Franchise Business Opportunities blog. And While my posting has dropped off over the holidays, I am planning to jump straight back into things coming into the new year.The thing I am very excited about is that I also received a lot of internal PR2′s. In fact all of my individual posts, minus 4 of them are PR2. (You can check internal Page Ranks at: http://www.askmie.com/internal/)
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SurveysForMoney.com.au (PR0-PR1)

I bought this domain for my birthday (My wife will let me buy two domains a year without selling my old ones – and that is my birthday and Christmas). Started in December, I have already made over $10 on affiliate commission through CheckMyStats, and another $5 or so with Adsense.Surveys For Money received quite a few PR1 internal pages, with my post on High Paid Surveys getting a PR2.
My focus for 2010 for this blog is to start building a list off of this blog and continue to improve search engine rankings.
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SoftwareProducts.com.au (PR0-PR1)
This one was of those spur of the moment domain purchases. I thought, ‘What a fantastic keyword domain!’, but forgot that even with a great domain, you still have to put effort into the blog.
I did a little bit of work on SoftwareProducts.com.au and it still get’s me the odd click in Adsense, but I would like some extra time to make it a lot better than it currently is. That being said, I got quite a few PR1 internal links and one PR2 page for a post on Watch TV Online.
As you can probably see, that I have started to focus my attention of the Australian market with few .com.au domains. I think this has been one of my better blogging decisions and I look forward to seeing how these blogs perform over 2010.
So, was it just me, or did Google visit some of your blogs and give you a nice New Years present?




All my sites that I don’t care about got PR updates between 1-4. None of my main earning sites got PR though…not sure if google is still working its stuff
Wow! Crazy that isn;t it. Why don’t you consider selling your PR4 ones? They would have some value.
Just curious, how would you know that ‘Google stopped by?’
I use a addon to my firefox browser which you can get at: http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
And it tells you the Google page rank of your page. So each day I visit my blogs I saw that there was no page rank and when I visited today it was a PR2 – which means Google has updated page ranks on everyones blogs.
Mine’s still a page rank 3. well at least it didn’t go down. ;)
Liane – It is the same with StandOutBlogger.com. I have been a 3 for over a year now. Need to spend some time link building I think.
Congratulations Tom! Success Circuit is currently a 2, it used to be a 3 but I think it changed a few months ago (when I was quite inactive). Time to get that up to 4!
Hi Tom,
I didn’t know until I saw your post and I got a nice surprise for a new affiliate marketing blog of mine too. It got a PR1.
Shane – I know what you mean. I could get StandOutBlogger so much high if I only spent more time on it.
Pete- That is great to hear!
All of my blogs went up or remained static…better than the last update when most went down.
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That is great to hear :):)
Hi Thom, I just saw your blog
I am a little bit confused here… some people say the more important think to your site is the traffic rank from Alexa. So, what do you think? google PR or alexa rank? I need your opinion. thanks :)
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Marikxon – Neither give you much more than a guide. I would focus on building both of them, because together they help sell advertising. But overall, I would keep working on building my real traffic which can be gauged through Google Analytics.
Ironically the blog I’m moving everything to lost the 1 it had. lol
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Congratulations Tom, you’ve clearly been working hard on those sites. Teenius is still stuck at a PR3.
From what I hear, it’s much harder to break the PR 3-4 barrier than it is for any other number. I know when Blogussion went up to a 4 it’d taken them a good amount of time and link building. Still, I’m sure with some SEO’ing it’s achievable! ;)
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Hey Congratulations for your PR update.. and lets hope in next PR update Standoutblogger will get some PR upliftment too. :)
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Hi Tom,
I did get a surprise when my blog went from PR0 to PR3. It gave me some momentum to work harder in 2010. Moving to the WordPress platform and doing a lot of guest posting must’ve helped considerably. Good luck!
Best,
Bob
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Nice one Tom. One of my blog just launched in November and it’s jumped from PR0 to PR2 now. Looks like a good start for me in 2010.
Also wish you have a great success in 2010 for your Australian market. :)
No update for me for last 2 years :(
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Congrats.you did a great job.
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Congrats. I do have the same surprise my blogs PR updated from PR1-PR2.Hoping it gets increased in coming days.
-Krish
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my site pr3 now :)
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Congrats Tom! Some of my blogs which has a year old has never got pagerank even PR1, but they do receive traffic and earn some money too. In fact, I didn’t do any link building for them. lol!
Google didn’t give me any present this year, hope to get PR4 for my blog in 2010.
Cheers,
Lee