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Re: Why Page Rank is not useful

Mike — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:50:07 -0000

case.edu is now 7/10 ... PR is some kind of useless in my opinion ...

Re: Breakfast Television Mediocrity | btard deleted nostatus

btard — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:34:35 -0000

Pass the petition along: http://www.petitiononline.com/btsucks/petition....

Re: Breakfast Television Mediocrity | btard deleted nostatus

demos — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:23:57 -0000

what a waste of air space now.. not worth watching ... WE MISS YOU DAVE AND SIMI !!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ALWAYS PUT A SMILE ON MY FACE IN THE MORNING.

Re: Commission Junction deactivating accounts

btard — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:08:56 -0000

howdy. to be honest I just dumped their asses. I have better results working with performics and other (albeit smaller) networks.
I don't need this craziness to deal with when i can make some good ad revenues and affiliate commissions elsewhere.

Re: Commission Junction deactivating accounts

vivea99 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:28:52 -0000

Hi I found your site while searching for "commission junction deactivated." Shows up as the first result actually! I was deactivated one time for dormancy, and made sure to login every month to prevent that. After reading your post, I'm guessing a second deactivation was a result of not generating sales in 6 months?! I didn't know they charged a DAF fee. Now that I can't get back into my account, what do I do? Would I have to pay $10? Confused :(

Re: Montreal Canadiens New Era Cap

btard — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:10:18 -0000

I have it now. check here http://nostatus.com/2007/03/15/habs-59fifty-new...

Re: Montreal Canadiens New Era Cap

Chris — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:47:49 -0000

MAN if u find that hat buy 2 Pal i will pay big money for a montreal canadiens new era hat, ive been searching toronto for ever for one

Re: Benin Republic scam spam email

A Janzen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:00:49 -0000

I received one of these interesting emails, seems I helped this individual some time in the past, and for my help, he would like to send me a cheque for a very large amount of cash,
I sent him my contact phone number ( Police Department) and they would be happy to handle the transaction.
I wonder if I will get a reply, He claimes to be an old "Friend"

Re: Benin Republic scam spam email

Mike — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:35:57 -0000

I got the same type of scam. Says I inherited money, $800,000, but I had to send him $98 for the postage for him to mail me the check. The guy goes by the name of John Orji or Anno Augustine. They to are from Benin.

Re: Benin Republic scam spam email

btard — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:37:37 -0000

lol. keep me updated to what happens :)

Re: Benin Republic scam spam email

DJ — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:05:59 -0000

I got one today, August l3, 2008 from "Hon. Patrick Johnson" with a New Zealand address and decided to answer it with this.

Dear Mr. Johnson,

Thank you for your generous offer. I am writing to inform you that I have forwarded your e-mail to the US Government's Federal Trade Commission. I'm sure that they will be very interested, and you should be hearing from them soon.

Re: Friday’s Video

Chris — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:43:49 -0000

Jesus Is God And the Devil is LIKE a roring lion. LOL look at this devil as a good exsample. O and Satin..(The Lord Rebuke The). You have no Power.. Your Power is lies and Deceite LOL your Just a Bully with a big mouth and not Butt to back it only thing you have going for you is these dum people that follow you. But Remember Where sin abound Grace Did abound all the more.................................

Re: Benin Republic scam spam email

btard — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:53:50 -0000

Hey Rachel. They occasionally respond and I have a bunch of emails back and forth until I lose interest :)

It's pretty funny.

Re: Benin Republic scam spam email

rachel — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:29:03 -0000

Do these guys ever respond when you bait them? Sometimes I pretend to be interested in them in a "more than business" kinda way and pretend to play along with their scam while I scam them into thinking I will come meet them in person. It's pretty funny when they get desperate and forget the reason they emailed me in the first place.

Re: Why Page Rank is not useful

btard — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:26:44 -0000

Yeah, we've had this conversation a few times on MSN. I've been writing on a forums about the relative uselessness of PR. Enjoy the long weekend. What is there to do on BC day?

Re: Why Page Rank is not useful

Dan Nedelko — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:20:46 -0000

The horrid green little bar is a marketing tool. Period.

There are is the Algorithmic PageRank (which has no upper limit) and the marketing PageRank (which is the 0-10).

Any further investigation of it having relevance beyond CPM based advertising sales is moot. Have a read:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

Also keep in mind Case Western University is classed on an EDU IP block which will also be considered of high quality (much easier to attain that magical 0-10) as opposed to a Commercial site.

Have a great long weekend.

Re: Why Page Rank is not useful

btard — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:27:38 -0000

Heidi, thanks for the comments. I get a lot of value from people's opinions when I actually try to write a critical post.

I imagine I should have noted that obtaining high PR is not usually possible with niche sites. To quote Google:

"In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important"."

I guess if you don't have a globally popular site then you won't get that inbound link thing happening, however, your site still may be the authority on "Blue Widgets" and thus shouldn't Google at least acknowledge it? I don't know, just asking questions. For me, being top in the search engines for key phrases is more important to me than that horrid little green bar :)

BTW. I don't know if this is a localized thing but I'm seeing case.edu as having 8/10 PR.

Re: Why Page Rank is not useful

Heidi Cool — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:12:52 -0000

I think Page Rank should be considered on a relative scale. You may be the top blue widget distributor, but if blue widgets are a niche market you're just never going to get a Page Rank of 9 like we have for http://www.case.edu. Your small company site, no matter how wonderful, just won't have the breadth of content that draws inbound links the way a large university or corporate site would.

That's O.K. though because you're not competing with Case, you're only competing with other Blue Widget folks. In that category perhaps 4 is considered very high. My blog, which is a bit over 3 years old now has a rank of 6. I host it on the Case blog server, so I gain benefit from the association with the university. Also as I've created more content there is more to link to and many of my readers have been kind enough to Stumble or link to my pages. But even if I were to blog every day, and if each of those entries was brilliant, I still don't think I'd come close to a 9.

p.s. I downloaded the Google Toolbar to get the Pagerank to show up in my browser.

Re: need to blog more

btard — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:08:26 -0000

doh. if i wanted people to comment, maybe i should make that comment link more apparent?