This plugin is interesting and the results surprised me. A little preamble. Everyone loves inbound links. What a lot of bloggers don’t realize is that internal links can be just as important. That is one issue.
Another issue that many bloggers don’t think about is their sitemap. Not your Google or search engine sitemap – your sitemap for your visitors.
This plugin solves both issues. It creates and very user friendly sitemap for your visitors to follow. At the same time it generates a mass of internals links that will keep the search engines real busy.
Dagon Design have produced this sitemap generation plugin and I recommend you at least have a look at it. It supports many different languages and is completely customizable. You can see my sitemap here. Have a play with it and let me know how you get on.
A radical blogger rant. Google are either not very clever or they are simply playing games with bloggers and web owners. I feel it is the later. Anything to decrease costs and increase income – to themselves of course. Let’s look at the evidence.
Google are able to develop very powerful algorithms to determine Page Rank based on a variety of variables yet they cannot do the following.
Google cannot differentiate different ad units and pay accordingly. Did you know that if one ad unit delivers a CTR (click through rate) of less than 3% then ALL of your ad units will earn only a paltry 10% of the full commission payable? It doesn’t matter if all the other sites have CTR’s of 5% or 10% – if that one site has less than 3% then ALL sites are penalized. Surely their software can pay according to the CTR of EACH site.
Google can quickly tell if you are posting Pay Per Post entries. Their reaction, to penalize any blog that does it. Why? Because you are ’selling’ Page Rank. What I want to know is, if they can determine which posts are PPP, then why can they not just discount those posts and the links involved when determing Page Rank.
Finally I come to publishers clicking on the ads on their own sites (not game enough to try). If Google are able to identify those that are clicking on their own ads, why no just record it as so, not pay for that click, give the advertiser a free visitor (oh FREE, Google doesn’t like that word does it) and allow the publisher to follow ads that do interest them – I have seen plenty.
They are playing games. They want the Adsense users to drop out because they are not earning much. Of course if you have less than $100 in your account – you lose it all – more profit for them. When it comes it PPP, is Google really concerned about passing PR (like I said, they could discount it) or are they more afraid of the PPP concept and how that may eventually eat into their paid advertising.
Google could play fair to all parties if they really wanted to. The technology is there. They CHOOSE NOT to use it.
It is so quiet around the house today – too quiet. My eldest has started school today and everyone is lost without her. Still she will be back in a couple of hours. Should make use of the peace.
Today has been one of those days where nothing seemed to go right. I woke up this morning and as part of my usual morning routine, turned on the computer, plugged in the kettle and performed my usual morning routine.
Coffee in hand I sat down in front of my computer ready to start my day – you guessed it – computer had a tantrum and wouldn’t do its thing. After an hour of wrestling I finally decided to re-install windows. Now that is a pain in itself. An hour later I am finally ready to go – oh no – the computer still isn’t. Now the network wont connect. Two hours later, a lot less in the hair department, I finally get the network connected. Continue reading 'Not A Happy Radical Blogger'»
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