Page Rank

I have been blogging for more than three years. This blog gained a maximum page rank of 4 at one point and decreased to page rank 3 for 2 years. I woke up this morning and randomly checked my page rank for my blogs only to find out that my It's My Party blog went down a notch.

The good news though, my other blog "Home is Where the Heart Is" has 0 page rank but now gained 1 point. I am just wondering what happened? Was there a major update in the system? Most of my blogger friends' no page rank blogs have gained a point too.

Anyway, what is a page rank if you might ask? Page rank is named after Larry Page, the man behind the link analysis algorithm used by Google internet search engine. Some take it as a gauge or give certain weight to the importance of a web page.

I am not that bothered anymore. I will continue to post articles I know will help other people, provide my personal insight on other matters and just write because this is my passion.

With or Without You Entrecard

As you all know, I have not been able to sign in on my Entrecard account because of a breach on RULE # 5 which is no pop-up ads (see article here). I had rectified it already and have followed up and was advised that the ads were still there. In fairness to myself, I was not even informed what blog they were referring to but I did remove any pop-up ads on both blogs. The third blog registered in Entrecard is run by a different administrator so I cannot remove any components the admin had placed there. I am a mere contributor of posts.

I had followed up last 3 November about the status and none has come back. Honestly, my patience is wearing thin. I am giving them until the end of the week to let me know if I am in or out because if they will be so fussy about ads then I am left with no choice.

I managed to earn my previous page rank even without Entrecard. I think it won't hurt to go back that route. I'm not saying goodbye yet. I am still hoping for a silver lining that they will let me sign in again. If not, well, it was a nice ride and I enjoyed every minute I had dropping entrecards to new bloggers and I have met a lot of bloggers thru that.

Entrecard is not all that bad but it's not the only means to an end. Maybe I was just not cut out for it...

Does it matter?

I am pretty sad and a tinge of hurt because some web site administrators said that I do not have enough traffic in my site to be eligible for their membership. The other site even mentioned I was a "fake" (SUDDEN PAUSE.....I need my Zen moment on the last one....10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1). I say, what? Prior to changing my site into my own domain, I managed to garner a "page rank 3" in the span of 5 months. I think that was such a good feat! And what's with that fake thing? I remember posting my pictures in this blog and I don't recall those being another person than I, ME and MYSELF.

I knew the consequences of losing my rank and starting from scratch again if I change my domain but I pushed through because this was what I wanted, a name of my own. In fairness to Blogger.com who has been very instrumental in hosting my blog up to the present, I felt it was high-time to move forward with an identity I can claim.

Actually, 3 sites gave me thumbs down in their membership pool. Technically, I was already a member of the other one but just had to update my blog name and presto! I was nipped in the members list. I asked myself though, does it matter? Having a rank and all? I mentioned before in my earlier post (Blog...blog... and blog some more) that I will be doing this blogging thing for the sheer joy it gives me and so be it. Ranked or not.