GameUtopia

So what is all this Twitter stuff about? How did it get so big? I honestly don't know but there isn't a single day that goes by that I don't here the word Twitter, Tweet, and follow me on Twitter.

I haven't been on Twitter until recently. I guess I was Twittered out maybe. So I decided to log back in tonight and play around with it. The more I mess with it the more I actually like it. It's a fairly simple site that I think just about anyone could navigate and find their way around unlike most others where you have to spend hours just trying to figure out how to update something.

Twitter can be a powerful traffic tool if used properly. I was doing some promoting with it a while back and I did get an unexpected flow of traffic. However, it didn't last for an extended amount of time. Like anything though, I would assume regular posting and updating would help.

So if you have never been to Twitter, you might check it out in your spare time. You would be surprised who is on there. You might just find someone you have been trying to find on Twitter too.

And Twitter is one of the few sites that the not so technical or Internet savvy folks can actually figure out.

They apparently even have their own little lingo and terms they use, twits, tweets, you name it. Go figure who would have thought something so simple would be so big?

I've been noticing a lot of hidden iframe's on sites lately. Sometimes they vary a bit, but all of the ones I've noticed seem to involve a link to a .cn or china site. Undoubtedly it's some kind of malware or similar exploit. Apparently a lot of site owners or administrators aren't even aware their site has this or something, because when I come back to the site days later it's still there. Perhaps some anti-virus and other blockers don't pick it up as a threat or something. I use avast anti-virus and it has picked it up and blocked it on more sites than I can count lately.

It has become more than a little annoying seeing that warning as frequently as I have lately. Then again it's always something. The wonderful world of the Internet. If there is something that can be exploited somehow it will be I guess.

Anyway I just basically wanted to point out that this is out there, and if you are a site owner or administrator be on the look out for it. I know some other anti-virus programs I've used on other computers don't warn me about it like avast does. Whether the others have some protection against this and I just don't see the warning or not I do not know.

Always be on the look out for this iframe exploit and other exploits!

My quest for Google Pagerank has slowly paid off. I have seen my main site slowly increase in pagerank from a 0 to a 1 and now a 2. A couple of the internal pages were a pagerank 3, but I believe they are now 2's.

I spent countless hours researching and testing thoughts and ideas on how to increase pagerank. I followed a few sites tips and suggestions. They all seemed to have helped, but I can't help to wonder if I would have achieved this anyway.

I have come to the conclusion that it is a never ending process that involves a lot of time and effort for quick results. By quick I mean 3-6 months.

I have scaled back my quest for pagerank because I can't devote all my free time to this, I have other things to work on.

At any rate getting a pagerank 1 and 2 is relatively easy I would say, but 3-4 and above will take more time and effort as it starts to get tougher after this.

I am hoping to top out at a 3 or 4 and I will be content with that.

Ok here it is December 14, 2008 now...Rumors are flaring at many of the popular forum sites about the next PageRank update. Some people are claiming that they have had pagerank updates to their sites internal pages. However, nobody has provided proof or even links so one can verify. Because of the lack of proof, I can only speculate that they are just trying to mess with everyone and inflate the rumors even more.

One thing for certain it will happen. There's really no big rush. I just wish Google could provide a time line of some kind, such as the cut off date is x-day, and the updates for the previous time line will be posted on x-day. This would be nice, but it would take part of the fun out too.

Then there is the fact that they are constantly changing and updating so it would be almost impossible to give specific dates.

At any rate I will continue my quest, although I am not as ambitious as I was. I am getting burned out on promoting. I have decided to cut back until they do update to see if or how successful my efforts have been. If moderately or better I may continue full throttle once again.

To be continued!!

Well no Google PageRank update on November 27th and as of today December 1, 2008. This wasn't really expected to happen anyway.

I am going to go out on a limb and predict December 27, 2008 for the next update give or take a couple of days. If we are all lucky...wink...wink!! Google might give us a Christmas present and make it happen right before Christmas.

No big deal or anything either way. It's just a matter of time. It gives us all the more time to promote our sites before it happens.

I will continue monitoring and following the update status and follow up with any changes into my ranks.

Stay Tuned!!