Google PageRank Checker
ThinkBling now has a tool that allows you to check the current PageRank of any site. This PageRank Checker simply requires you to type in a URL and the PageRank is promptly returned.

PageRank Calculator Continued...
The PageRank Calculator now allows one, if they choose, to enter the average number of backlinks from the pages linking to the target page. What does this mean? Well, if a page has less links, each link passes more PageRank. Therefore if all the backlinks have only 40 links per page, then the target page gets a higher PageRank.

PageRank Calculator 2
Some initial feedback about the PageRank calculator. It has been decided to expand this into basic and advanced features. Keep your eyes posted for updates.

PageRank Calculator
Recent postings of algorithms concerning Google's PageRank have been used to create a PageRank Calculator. PageRank is Google's general measure of a webpage's importance. Higher PageRank generally means that a site gets more traffic, is higher in Google's search results AND its links pass a higher PageRank to other pages.

It is interesting to play with, but is just an estimation from articles posted on the web. Only Google knows for certain how it calculates PageRank.

Mentioned too many times?
This blog has mentioned gdiggler, googl3 and big bling in the last couple posts. As a possible side-effect it may be climbing up the search results. Is this a hint that out bound links (OBLs) can increase ones search engine results?

Sandbox Effect?

Some out there believe that search engines have what they call a "Sandbox Effect". The Sandbox is basically the place that new pages and websites go when they are first cached by the search engine. Search engines may view new content temporarily as more important content.

This topic is brought up because looking at the search results for big bling we saw them at 50 the other day and now it is at 122. Intersting enough if search for "Big big" in quotes it has rissen to 18.

Was the 50 then 122 result change showing us the sandbox effect?

Search Engine Results
Here are the search results for 3 terms that we spoke of previously.

googl3.ThinkBling.com comes up as the 5th result for a Google googl3 search.

gdiggler.ThinkBling.com comes up as the 1st result for any search for gdiggler.

BigBling.ThinkBling.com has jumped into the results and now is the 50th result for any search about big bling. Interesting enough if you do a Google search for "big bling" (big bling in quotes), the site jumps up to the 20th position.

It is also very interesting to note that these sites have fewere than 20 visitors.

Also as a side note we are using a Google Keyword tracker to keep an eye on the results. This is much simpler than searching through the result pages.

Search Engine Results Update
It's been less than 2 days and we have some preliminary results.

A search for GDiggler returns 2 results. The first is gdiggler.thinkbling.com and the second is this page.

A search for googl3 returns 571 results with google3.thinkbling.com being number 3.

A Big Bling search returns 153,000 results with bigbling.thinkbling.com not appearing in any of them.

More updates to come...

Subdomains and Google's Page Ranking?
Google's very basic algorithm states that each link from a web page to another web page counts as a vote for that page. Whenever one searches for a specific search term, the appropriate votes are counted and the results are shown.

There are some articles that say Google puts a lot weight on subdomains. This blog entry wants to test this out. Let's choose three phrases. The first one is "Big Bling". The second phrase is a make believe nonsense one "gdiggler". The last is word "google" but with a typo "googl3". These phrases point to subdomains at ThinkBling.com.

The purpose is to see if these links, from Think Bling can get into Google's, or any other Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS).

This is not a scientific experiment, but perhaps can still show a little insight into how to promote a website.

ThinkBling offers Revenue Sharing
ThinkBling's forums now allow its posters to share in on the revenue. For any poster with 10 or more posts, his/her AdSense ads will show up on forums.thinkbling.com 50% of the time. One can earn money simply by posting articles or blurbs they feel others might find interesting.

Check out the bling forums!