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"It's Okay! He's Friendly!"
It's a common scene. An owner is walking their dog through the park. They are careful to observe the rules. Poop bags? Check. Avoiding no dog areas? Check. Leash? Check. And suddenly, a rambunctious, off leash dog is headed their way.
If all goes well, the other owner collects their dog, apologizes, and is off on his or her way. But all too frequently, they yell from across the park, "It's Okay! He's Friendly!" Maybe they aren't confident in their dog's recall. Maybe they are embarrassed. Maybe they don't believe in leashes. Whatever the reason, the responsible owner now finds themselves trying to control an interaction between their trained, leashed dog and an excited, overly friendly (hopefully) off leash dog. What can we do?
1. Be proactive. It is important to be aware of your environment at all times. While we don't want to nervously look around, seeing boogie dogs in every shadow, we still need to be aware of the potential interactions for our dog. Do you see the joggers coming up the path? Will your dog bark uncontrollably at the end of their leash, or are you ready to make this a training opportunity? Likewise, many times the excitable, off leash dog can be avoided by seeing them early and giving a bit of extra space or going the opposite direction.
2. Be your dog's advocate. It is human nature to want to be polite. But it is important to understand that this off leash dog (and his owner) are not. Let's say, for a moment, that you are having a cup of coffee with your friends outside your favorite cafe. How will you react if I suddenly run up to you, sit on your table, and grab your coffee to take a sniff? Am I being friendly? Or simply intrusive? This is how your dog likely views the random, unknown off leash dog. Even if your dog is the most friendly, playful dog in the world in an off leash setting, he may not enjoy having his play time with you interrupted so rudely.
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It is okay to stand up for your dog.
Simply call out, "Leash your dog, please!" Or "Call your dog!" I have even gone so far as to remind the person that this is a leash only park. If you are lucky enough to have a dog without reactivity issues, you want to keep it that way. And if you have a previously reactive dog, one unpleasant interaction with a loose dog could ruin all your hard work.
3. Always keep treats handy. Yes, I never go to the park without treats. Here's why. First of all, I understand that my dogs are always learning. I also understand that we all have off days. Remember those joggers? I would rather step to the side and take the opportunity to teach my dogs that those scary, fast moving strangers bring wonderful treats.
BUT, having those treats handy provides a second security blanket. Many times, when that off leash dog comes barreling over to say, "hi!" a handful of treats on the ground can provide a terrific distraction. I caution that if you have a food guarding dog, this may not be the best option. However, you will likely toss the treats and get out of dodge. And if that owner is concerned about what you just fed their dog, well, their dog shouldn't have been loose to begin with.
There are plenty of other alternatives. For example, if your dog is friendly AND you know he has a rock solid recall, you might opt to drop his leash. Be cautious of your location and be certain of the other dog's body language. Are you sure he really is friendly? When in doubt, don't take the chance.
There are also an assortment of protection sprays, my favorite being Spray Shield. It is a citronella spray that startles the dog with a smelly burst, giving you just enough time to get away. I advise against using pepper spray as you could risk a wind shift that results in you or your dog receiving a dose of painful, burning spray. And this would make it much harder to get away from the oncoming dog.
Unfortunately, it is unlikely that every dog owner will suddenly understand the importance of keeping their dog leashed any time in the immediate future. Although, the reasons are plentiful beyond manners. Increasingly busy streets, poor training and a lacking recall can result in a deadly combination. In any case, it is possible and necessary to consider your dog first whenever you are faced with an unleashed dog.
While we want to maintain a sense of courtesy and manners to other humans, at the end of the park trip, we are responsible to and go home with our dog.
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Excellent article, Shelley. I would only add one thing: if you have a small dog and live in an area where you often encounter off-leash dogs who are not friendly, or dogs who jump over or break through back yard fences to attack your dog, it might be worth checking your state and local laws on carrying a non-lethal stun device. You mentioned that deterrent sprays can backfire if it's windy, and that this is why you only advise the use of a citronella spray and not a pepper spray. I also agree with this reasoning.
However, I no longer can put my toy breed dogs at risk by letting them enjoy walking on leash anywhere in our area, not even around the block. Two of mine were nearly killed by two large breed backyard dogs who broke through a fence and attacked my Papillons while they trotted nicely by my side on leash next to my wheelchair.
There was absolutely nothing I could have done to protect them. Had it not been for courageous homeowners who came running to my rescue, beating off the dog who had my dogs pinned and bloody on the ground, while another homeowner banged on the door of the attacking dogs' owner, my dogs both would have died that day.
And on that day, I ordered a stun baton. It will not injure nor kill an animal, but it will stop any living thing it touches long enough for me to get my animals to safety and get out of Dodge.
Fortunately, I've never had to use it. I'm a peaceful clicker trainer, and I will try any ruse – including tossing treats – to avoid conflict with other dogs. But these dogs had no interest in treats, and that handful of chicken and hot dog bits were ignored for the tastier treat of two small dogs, who must have seemed like rabbits or other prey to them.
Stun devices – some small as a cell phone – are not legal in all states or communities (though guns are!), but for those who live in areas of great risk and have small dogs – or live with disabilities, – it can mean saving the life of your animals.
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Google PageRank is a popularity score that effects everyone with a web site. Here's a high level overview of what PageRank is and what your PR means.
9/1/11 NOTE: Google PageRank evolves as much as Google's algorithm and search services evolve. This recent post by Neil Patel offers some more information and new insight.
Google PageRank is a popularity score that can potentially confuse everyone with a web site. It's one of the many ingredients in the recipe that contributes to good search engine optimization (SEO). Most folks don't need to know what this is. You've got enough to take care of, just growing your business. But for those of you who want to know why it gets mentioned, here's a high level overview of what PageRank is, and some thoughts on what your PR score means.
SEO is as much an art as a science, and in the case of optimization on Google's search engine, it's always evolving. In true Google fashion, Google found a cool way of ranking all the sites in the world based on how important they are. The result is a numerical score on a scale of 0 to 10 called Google PageRank. The algorithm includes many elements like traffic and keywords, but it is primarily made up of the number and authority of the inbound links to your site - that is, other sites posting a link to yours. In other words, it's a measure of how popular you are on the web.
For the lay person, PageRank is simply another ingredient of SEO.
Interesting Little Tidbit #1: Contrary to popular belief, the term "PageRank" is not a literal label that describes the rank of a web page; rather the term is named after Google cofounder and author of the algorithm, Larry Page.
Interesting Little Tidbit #2: The PageRank algorithm is often confused with Google's super secret search algorithm. In actuality, the PR algorithm was published's in Page's Stanford dissertation and is available to the public.
Interesting Little Tidbit #3: A PageRank score is applied a page not a whole site, which means your web site will collectively have multiple PR scores. Most people are interested in the PR of their home page. (Which is what I'm referring to throughout this article.)
Why does this popularity contest matter?
The reason people care about PageRank is because one way to boost the organic search engine placement of your web site, is to get an inbound link to your home page from a site with a high PageRank. Not much has changed from grade school. If a sixth grader invites a third grader to be in the 6th grade kickball game, the whole school will notice and it can increase the third grader's cool-factor. In the Google world, an inbound link from a highly ranked site, such as CNN.com or Yahoo.com will impact your own PageRank score, which in turn will increase the relevancy of your site, causing Google to place it higher in the results.
Looking at it another way, each time a page links to another page, they're casting a vote for that page. Votes from sites with a higher PageRank have more weight. Both quantity and quality matter. So the more votes that are cast for your site, the more important it must be. The more important your site is, the higher Google will place you in their search results. This is not the only factor Google uses to rank pages or search results, but it's an important one.
If you're interested in an in depth explanation and analysis of the formula, this excellent article by Phil Craven breaks it down: Google's PageRank Explained and how to make the most of it.
How do you find your Google PageRank?
The PageRank of all sites is published on the Google Toolbar. The Google Toolbar is a free plugin for Internet Explorer or Firefox, that is available for download directly from Google. Embedded inside the Google Toolbar is the PageRank icon (a green thermostat that runs horizontally.) Mouse over the icon to view the pop-up tooltip with the score inside. To view the PageRank of any web site, simply go to their homepage and mouse-over the PageRank icon in the Google Toolbar. If no PageRank information is available, you may not be on the site's home page. Worse, Google may not know about the page - this is often referred to as being "indexed by Google". Indexing is simply storing your site's pertinent information in a big database, so it can be compared to other sites with similar data.
What do the scores mean?
The scale runs from 0 to 10, with a 10 being the highest score given to the most popular sites in the world. It should be noted that a PR of 8, 9 or 10 is nearly impossible to obtain. But they'd be great sites to get linked from! ESPN.com and MSNBC have a PR8. Only a handful of sites are bigger than MSNBC with a PR9, Yahoo, Twitter and The New York Times are among them. Ten's at the top. Three came to mind: Google, Facebook and CNN.com.
Many believe that the PageRank scale is a base-10 logarithmic scale. The Richter scale used to measure the seismic energy in an earthquake is also a base-10 logarithmic scale. So an earthquake that measures 5.0 on the Richter scale has a shaking amplitude 10 times larger than one that measures 4.0. For Google PageRank this means that moving up at the lower end of the scale is much easier than moving up at the higher end. Jumping from PR5 to PR6 is much harder than jumping from PR3 to PR4.
Note there are no decimal points in the scale. Therefore a site's PR is only an indication of a range. One PR5 page may be at the low end, another may be at the high end. Either score may fluctuate during one of Google's regularly re-indexing. Here's one way of looking at what the scores mean to you.
PR0 - Stinker. Google knows you exist, but that is about it.
PR1 - Could be better. Your site's getting indexed by Google, but you may want to work on this.
PR2 - Below average on the world wide web. Above average amongst Bizniks. (But most sites belonging to Biznik members have PR below 1.)
PR3 - Average on the web. Most sites you see on the web have a PR3.
PR4 - Above average. You've likely been conscious about getting your site out there a bit.
PR5 - Good. A PR5 may land you on the first page of some search results, pat yourself on the back.
PR6 - Great. You've obviously done some work on your SEO. You'll be able to contend for some top positions.
PR7 - You're big! If you've got a PR7, consider yourself a top site. Most medium size businesses would do well to dream of a PR7.
Remember that bit about the Ricther scale? If jumping from a PR5 to a PR6 is hard, jumping from a PR7 to a PR8 is 100-times harder.
PR8 - You're huge. MSNBC.com and ESPN.go.com have a PR8.
PR9 - Your bigger than MSNBC, like Yahoo.com, Twitter.com and NYTimes.com.
PR10 - You're at the top, we all know it: Google.com, Facebook.com and CNN.com are in your posse.
How can you improve your ranking?
As I mentioned above, one's PageRank is only one factor contributing to one's seach optimization. One way to boost the search engine placement of your web site, is to get an inbound link from a site with a high PageRank. A quick and easy start is to get on Biznik. Biznik.com has a Google PR6. The minute you create your Basic member profile on Biznik and add your website address, you've created an inbound link to your site from a highly ranked site.
Next, tell everyone you know about Biznik. (Not for ours sake -- but for yours!) The maximum amount of PageRank in a site increases as the number of pages in the site increases. The more pages that a site has (especially relevant pages about small business topics with keywords we're all interested in getting optimized for), the more PageRank it has. When Biznik.com achieves a PR7, every single Basic, Pro and ProVIP profile will benefit.
When it comes right down to it, making little improvements to your Google's PageRank is going to have relatively little impact on the growth of your business. However, understanding what PageRank means, may bring clarity to one of the benefits of Biznik (Biznik's SEO), and provide insight to your marketing and networking strategy.
Thank you…
To the following resources that inspired and informed this article:
- Google's PageRank Explained and how to make the most of it by Phil Craven
What does your Google PageRank mean? by RedFusion Media
PageRank on Wikipedia
Learn more about the author, Lara Feltin.
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Posted by Laura Dodson, CPA, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 18, 2011
Posted by Bill Bradfield, EA, Blaine, Washington |
Jan 18, 2011
Great article as usual Laura. Just checked and I am a 2. I would like to improve that, but an satisfied for now.
Posted by Justin Parra, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 18, 2011
It's also useful to note that different pages on your website can have different PageRanks. Your website is not just one PageRank. I'm pretty sure this article is talking about your homepage which is the most important.
Posted by Conor MacEvilly, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 18, 2011
My site has a page rank of zero but ranks consistently 3rd on google for "north Seattle homes" and 2nd for "buying a home in north Seattle". However, if you search for "Seattle homes" I'm no where to be seen. Maybe next year!
Posted by Gary Pickering, Bellingham, Washington |
Jan 18, 2011
PR is not an accurate indicator of a sites ability to rank on the first page Google results. I have dozens of clients that have first page results with a Google PR of less than 5 including a couple of my own PR1 sites that have the #1 spot in Google.
Interestingly, I focus very little on Google PR as a technical measure for my Search Engine Marketing services.
Posted by Tammy Redmon, Olympia, Washington |
Jan 19, 2011
Thank you Lara. You broke this down into terms that I can really grasp. You analogy of the school yard was fantastic.
"Think about it. Nothing's really changed from grade school. If one of the sixth graders on the playground invites you, a first grader, to be in their kickball game, the whole school's going to notice and it will increase your cool-factor"
So I am off to look for more of the really 'cool' kids to engage with in my Hollywood Squares and see if that will give me a boost. Well, during the time I will be looking for help on boosting my SEO with an authentic expert in the area.
Thanks for the knowledge boost.
Posted by Jim Dickeson, Mercer Island, Washington |
Jan 19, 2011
I'm a 2, too!
Let's see if this helps:
Export Compliance Training
Import Compliance Training
But remember, there's more at work than page rank. It's important to know your audience's search phrases. Not search words; search phrases. The word combinations people actually type in. Single search words are too competitive - too many other sites, sites with higher page rank, are already using them. Search phrases are what searchers use to narrow their results. And that's where YOU want to show up, in those narrowed results. Hence my two primary key search phrases above.
Then, after Google culls their database for sites with those search phrases, THEN, it applies page rank. So, you can beat out sites with higher page ranks by having just the right phrases that people actually use to search.
Are we having fun yet?
Posted by Lara Feltin, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 19, 2011
@Justin, correct. In an attempt to keep things simple and at a high-level overview I was speaking of your homepage. I will see if I can add something to the article that will make that more clear.
@Gary, thanks for your comment. I agree PR is one of the many factors that Google uses. Im glad to hear of sites with low PR scores ranking well. Further evidence, in my opinion that SEO is as much an art as it is a science. :)
Posted by Jim Dickeson, Mercer Island, Washington |
Jan 19, 2011
Ooh, maybe it does help.
Here's where I landed yesterday in Google search results for these phrases:
export compliance training: 7
import compliance training: 6
export compliance: 34
import compliance: 19
export training: 4
import training: 5
And here is where I am today:
export compliance training: 3
import compliance training: 2
export compliance: 2
import compliance: 2
export training: 4
import training: 1
So let's do it again:
Export Compliance Training
Import Compliance Training
On the other hand, maybe it's just a Google thing, and I'm not meant to understand.
By the way, about my prior comment on search phrases versus single search words. I just Googled the single word "export", and I didn't even show up in the first 770 sites - that's 77 pages. Compare that to the results for search phrases above.
Posted by Eric Basir, Evanston, Illinois |
Jan 21, 2011
Sounds really cool. But I still don't get it. I got stuck on the Google Toolbar. There's no such thermostat rank on mine. Oh well. At least I tried.
Posted by Lara Feltin, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 21, 2011
When no thermostat appears, that means Google does not have any PageRank information for the page you're viewing. If you're working with an SEO consultant or web developer you may want to ask them about it.
Posted by Jim Dickeson, Mercer Island, Washington |
Jan 21, 2011
In my case, it was turned off by default. (The pagerank thermometer, not the toolbar.) And it wasn't immediately evident how to turn it on.
Click on the blue wrench near the right end of the Google toolbar. An options window opens. Then click on the Tools tab, and make sure the box for PageRank is checked.
Then it appeared for me next to Bookmarks on the Google toolbar. For some reason, they didn't put a text name on it; you just have to know. If no rank, it is just a gray rectangle; rank shows up as a green bar.
Posted by Brandon Na, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 21, 2011
Please note that PR is not updated consistently. So, let's say you have a page rank of 0 or n/a after 5 months of hard work, it doesn't mean your site is worthless. It means it hasn't been ranked yet.
The last "official page rank" by google was in April of 2010. Some say they noticed their PR change in October. Previously, it was almost quarterly. Google's gotten either a little lazier about this or they are placing less relevance or importance on ranking it.
I'd put the url for the history of PR's, but I think I saw one of the administrators get angry when you put hyperlinks in comments. So, I'll opt not doing it. It's in an article on my blog though, just fyi.
Anyway, this is a great article, but I hope for people who are not as familiar with SEO don't use it as the one and only main "grade" they use for their website. There are over 200+ factors in the algorithm and frankly, quality links with great anchor text is the highest most valued factor in improving your SEO.
PR though may be good to just at least get a good swag on what sites you might want to link to you. However, there's also a recent theory being thrown around that the title of the page that links to you also has a some weight in what your site is equates to like what value you get in the anchor text in the link.
Sorry, I'm sort of throwing a bit out there...my main point is please don't use it as the one and only guidance for your SEO. Just making sure people know that. ;)
Posted by Kyle Alm, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 21, 2011
I agree Brandon, PR is a junk metric, it has ZERO correllation to your search engine ranking for a keyword.
The backlink count is the best indicator for both PR and ranking for any given search term, so it is a very common misconception. Google has even stated publicly that PR is deprecated.
Also, I think that PR updates differ depending on the site, Twitter profiles get updates faster than a new domain. That is theoretical on my part, but I haven't heard of Google updating PR more than once a year.
Posted by Susie Schwarz, Smithtown, New York |
Jan 21, 2011
As I develop my business website with content, I will keep Google's pagerank in mind. Huummm, how did I get a link on CNN or yahoo? I need to work on that.
Fledging websiter, Susie
Posted by Andrew Lippert, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 21, 2011
It is quite interesting to me to watch the Internet Marketing Professionals and SEO Experts weigh in on topics such as this. I think it critically important that you all take a look at the opening paragraph from this article. Lara's intent is to describe an often confusing topic for small business owners. To quote her directly, 'But for those of you who want to know why it gets mentioned, here's a high level overview of what PageRank is, and some thoughts on what your PR score means.'
This article is designed to help those with less experience parse the conversations the professionals oft times lob like flash bangs into a room seeing who they can dazzle with their brilliance. Lara is not describing the basis for Google's organic search results of your website for a given search term. Instead, I believe she is attempting to educate this community about a term that is thrown about rather casually.
Ultimately, the basic information here is still germane.
- PageRank is an indicator of a page's 'relative importance' - nothing more
- Obtaining links to your page from a page with a high PageRank benefits you
- Biznik pages have a relatively high PageRank, so create a link from your Biznik profile to your site - it can only help
This isn't a conversation about the importance of your page's PageRank to search engine optimization. It is articulating the relevance of the PageRank of the page that links to your page in the broader context of relevance. Get the distinction?
Participating in Biznik can generate additional, high-quality, business relevant, inbound links from a high PageRank page to your site. That is a good thing for your SEO. So get your Biznik on (and upgrade to ProVIP while you are at it)!
Posted by Kathryn Ault Noble, Poulsbo, Washington |
Jan 21, 2011
Thank you for that fascinating information, Lara. I had no idea there was a way to view ranking numbers, I simply assumed that if I turned up within the first pages of a search, that was good enough.
Now, I am afraid to look! Thank you everyone for those great tips. . .now I'll be off to check those numbers.
Posted by Lara Feltin, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 21, 2011
@Kathryn, it's important to clarify, that if you're fine with your placement, that is "good enough" (to use your words).
The point of this article is not to give you one more thing to keep track of. On the contrary, I think it's fine to ignore your PR score and spend your time building your business.
This article is a high level overview of what PageRank means, for those who keep hearing about it and were wondering what the heck it is.
Posted by Lorraine Armgardt, Littleton, Colorado |
Jan 22, 2011
Although Biznik's home page has a PageRank of 6, the page that your site links from is most likely unranked. From what I understand, Google does not place much importance on your PageRank and SEO people I know do not consider it a good indicator of your importance in Google.
Posted by Brandon Na, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 24, 2011
@Susie Schwarz, it's not easy getting links from sites like CNN or Yahoo without being profiled in a story or if you can find a really minor commenting section on their sites that doesn't serve you much. You can listed by Yahoo in their directory, but it's a bit pricey and not guaranteed. See what they say on their site:
"With Yahoo! Directory Submit, your request to be listed in the Directory will be reviewed and the Yahoo! editorial team will respond to you within 7 business days, for a review fee of only $299 ($600 for adult sites). If your listing is accepted into the Directory, there will be a $299 recurring annual fee in subsequent years ($600 for adult sites) to maintain the listing."
I don't think the admins here like links, so I can't show you where on their site it is, but I just did a search for "listed on yahoo directory" and it came up #3 in the organic listings on google. (funny how yahoo can't even optimize their own page to show up #1 where 42% on average click through for a keyword phrase that's somewhat intiutive) ;)
Posted by Lara Feltin, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 24, 2011
@Brandon, thanks for the those helpful tips. I'm sure we'd all appreciate a link to the Yahoo Directory Submission page. Please post it.
You may be confusing Biznik's policy against link spam with your comment, "I don't think the admins here like links." Of course we like links! Especially links that advance the conversation and provide resources others can benefit from.
We don't like link spam. Link spam are posts filled with links to your site(s) that offer little to the conversation. ProVIP members are offered a signature on every post they make, which includes an automated link to the URL of their choice. All member posts include a link back to the author's profile which can contain a description of their business and a link to their site.
Posted by Elvis Arias, Jersey City, New Jersey |
Jan 24, 2011
agreed biznik is def. link friendly
Posted by Kyle Alm, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 25, 2011
@Andrew Also from the first paragraph, "Google PageRank is a popularity score that effects everyone with a web site. It's one of the many ingredients in the recipe that contributes to good search engine optimization (SEO). "
Inaccurate at best.
PR0 - Stinker. It's possible that with a PR of zero, Google doesn't know the page exists.
PR1 - Could be better. Your site's getting indexed by Google, but you may want to work on this.
Totally false, PR 0 doesn't mean that a site hasn't been indexed.
My biggest problem is that the post keeps the PageRank mythos alive. If you are looking for links, sure you want a link for a high PR site, but that's really the end of the conversation.
I agree with that the term "PageRank" gets thrown around too casually (inaccurately) and perpetuates the myth. And I believe that this post falls into that category.
Posted by Elvis Arias, Jersey City, New Jersey |
Mar 03, 2011
curious how long did it take biznik to get from pr 5 to 6 . . . Once you have a site with very high pagerank like biznik, does the strategy change to move it from 6 to 7 ?
Posted by Lara Feltin, Seattle, Washington |
Mar 03, 2011
@Elvis, I'm afraid it's impossible to say how long it took for Biznik.com to get from PR5 to PR6. We noticed the change around 2 years ago, so that gives you an idea of how long we've been at PR6.
In terms of a strategy, I wouldn't say the strategy changes in general. For Biznik, our strategy for moving to the next tier is to increase new users (which will increase the quantity of the content), and ultimately increase traffic to the site.
Posted by Peter Chee, Redmond, Washington |
May 28, 2011
I just looked at the pagerank for http://thinkspace.com and it's now a PR 6! Just so you guys know, it's taken me about three years to get to this point. I know that I was sitting at a PR 5 for about 1.5 years. My goal has always been to get to the same level as the 800 pound gorilla in my industry which I finally have!
Does anyone on this thread know what the impact of social is going to be on something like this? Such as Facebook "Likes" or Google +1's? Does Biznik have any plan to also add a social measurement or B2B kind of endorsement button/badge?
Posted by Peter Watson, Sydney, New South Wales Australia |
Dec 22, 2011
People should worry less about page rank and concentrate more on traffic and conversions. I have pr2 and 3 sites outranking pr5 sites for big terms. So page rank is useless.
Posted by Dennis Dilday, D.C., Everett, Washington |
Mar 29, 2012
I wanted to get that toolbar on Firefox to check PR and got this: http://www.google.com/toolbar/ff/index.html
Thanks for the conversation.
Posted by Dennis Dilday, D.C., Everett, Washington |
Mar 29, 2012
Interesting. I just checked on the PR of my main office website (2) and my blog (2) and my Biznik profile (not ranked!)
Interesting. BTW, I just Googled "pagerank" to find a site that did it for me:-)
Posted by Bryon Henderson, St Marys, Ontario Canada |
Jan 24, 2013
This is a good list to figure out where you stand in googles eyes. Most people thought it was the other way around. Thank you for this
Posted by Frank Free, Cornelius, North Carolina |
Jan 30, 2013
Thanks for the background. I have a PR3. My website is 20 yrs old. I have tons of content and 641 Alexa back links, 3000 google indexed pages and I come up 1-3 in most search terms I value. However, a new competitor with PR0, a few back links, no content - just list of searches available - but his interior pages are coming up 1 or 2 in most searches. Don't understand. Could he be buying position in the organic section?
Posted by Lara Feltin, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 31, 2013
I'm afraid I don't have an answer, Frank. Let's see if one of the SEO professionals here chimes in. This article was written over 2 years ago, and what I do know is that Google updates their search service often!
Posted by Beth Siragusa, Seattle, Washington |
Jan 31, 2013
I would start with getting an SEO review of your website by a Google Webmaster especially since your website has been around for such a long time. This tells me there may be something in the html that needs some immediate attention.
According to the Webmaster rules there are certain things that, if not done properly, will make the Google Algorithm that monitors and grades your site stop in it's tracks and say "this is an error" and it won't even look at the rest of your site! If this is happening on your homepage it might suggest your low Pagerank.
Hope this helps :)
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While posting to you, I slipped in at 17th and your "neighbor" is at #13 vic004 Worcester, Massachusetts 30,725. Funny.
Hey just noticed your handle while looking at the 30 day points leaders. Very neat, at this moment, you are "" #30th "" on the list. way to go. We all know we don't stay there long. BLESS.


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NEW YORK , Sept. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 16, 2013, the Credit Suisse NASDAQ Gold FLOWS 103 Index and the Credit Suisse NASDAQ Silver FLOWS 106 Index (the "Indices") concluded the notional sale of options on GLD shares and SLV shares with October expiration. We expect that the notional cash distribution generated by this sale of options will be withdrawn from the Indices on October 15, 2013, subject to adjustment in the event of any market disruption events.
NEW YORK , Sept. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 16, 2013, the Credit Suisse NASDAQ Gold FLOWS 103 Index and the Credit Suisse NASDAQ Silver FLOWS 106 Index (the "Indices") concluded the notional sale of options on GLD shares and SLV shares with October expiration. We expect that the notional cash distribution generated by this sale of options will be withdrawn from the Indices on October 15, 2013, subject to adjustment in the event of any market disruption events.
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"The Early Church(es)"
While I enjoyed Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus, I think I like this one was even better.
Here we are taken through a tour of the first generations following the death of Jesus and the many forms of Christianity that they practiced. He discusses why some flourished (able to claim ties to the antiquity of the Hebrew scriptures) and why some sects floundered (disagreements over the role of women.) It was very easy to follow along and see how each event contributed to the scripture and the forms of Christianity that have been handed down to us today.
I was just as fascinated with the stuff that almost made it into the New Testament (letters from Clement, Titus for example) as those that did.
Ehrman goes on to provide a clear context to understand the books of the Apocrypha as well. A lot of verses I never understood before suddenly made perfect sense when I was oriented in the right cultural beliefs. For example, in the Gospel of Thomas (alleged to have been written by Didamus Judas Thomas, Jesus's twin, but debunked by scholars) it says that women must become men to reach the Kingdom of God, Ehrman explains that Neo Platonists did not see the human race as having two genders, but only one. Ancients believed that women were males who never developed properly! Needless to say, that had never occurred to me. Suddenly, all became clear.
While this book may be too introductory for experts, it was fascinating to a lay person like me. Recommend.
"Not PG Wodehouse, but cut from the same cloth"
This is the first Alexander McCall Smith book I've listened to (never having been bitten by the Ladies Detective Club series bug) and I enjoyed it. It's a wry, witty send up of the world of academics, specifically German philology, and I've already gifted it to several of my friends who I know will like it. I suspect this is Smith's homage to PGW and I will listen to the entire series again I'm sure. Interspersed with liberal doses of Uncle Fred, Pongo (my favorite) Bertie and Jeeves and the whole gang.
Recommend, particularly if you like "Wodehousian" humor.
"A new genre for me - the religious thriller"
I suppose people who knew Joel Rosenberg is a born again Christian/culturally Jewish writer would be less surprised than I was when reading The Auschwitz Escape. There's a thriller plot - no doubt - as the two protagonists attempt to - well - escape from Auschwitz. But it is served up with lots of existential chatter -- Does God exist? How could He allow Auschwitz, if He does? Why is a Christian in Auschwitz? Why aren't they all? And so on.
I don't know if the theologically driven sub-plot enhanced the listen for me or not. It certainly slowed the book down repeatedly and I caught myself thinking, "get this thing moving..." but I hung in there because the characters were well drawn and I wanted to see how it ended. And, the story has lingered in my mind since I finished it yesterday so that's a recommendation in and of itself. But be warned, this is as much about religion as it is about Auschwitz. Interesting listen, though not what I expected looking at the cover.
"Understanding insanity via literature..."
This was an original approach to the experience of being stalked by an anti-semetic lunatic set on ruining him - via literary analysis.
Not to say I found Lasdun cold. I really felt his anxiety as it grew and how it wore him down. And he does well exposing the humiliation he felt as someone who was innocent but accused (of arranging a rape before he even met her, for example.)
There were times I caught myself rolling my eyes at the way that Lasdun tried to understand "Nasreen" (whose real identity has been outed on the Internet and is easily findable with a cursory google) through literature, starting with Gawain, the Green Knight, I kid you not. But Lasdun is a poet, so I guess Sylvia Plath, D.H. Lawrence and even ol' Gawain is where his thoughts naturally turn. (Patricia Highsmith too. I haven't thought of her in ages.) If he were a plumber, a more natural comparison might have occurred to him.
But still, worth the read.
"Irving's most difficult novel"
Listening to A Son of the Circus is like going for a very long, meandering walk with a crazy uncle. Lots of stories of the past, woven only slightly together, driven by insane coincidences, following spur of the moment tangents to other distant places -- and yet, when the crazy uncle is John Irving, with his unmistakeable warmth and humor at full force, it's a walk worth taking.
This is a novel I've failed to read all the way through for eighteen years (I'm ashamed to admit this) and I'm a devoted Irving fan. It takes perseverance. But listening to it did help me connect the characters (and keep them all straight) for the first time. Definitely better listened to in audio format than read.
For Irving fans (and I think you have to be or I don't think you'll make it through this one): Recommend.
"Not Shardlake, but pretty good..."
I am a huge fan of C.J. Sansom's historical mysteries, with the Matthew Shardlake series ranking among my all-time favorites. So, it was an easy decision to see what CJS would make of an alternate history where the British signed a peace treaty with the Nazi's in 1940 instead of going to war as they did.
I found, as I listened, that though all the characters were well realized and though each had some sort of secret, I missed the "mystery" that I'm used to in a Sansom novel. The narrative is split between several main characters, including the Gestapo agent chasing our band of resistance fighters so Dominion was tense all the way through. I wished that the author had split the narrative one more time and shown us more of Winston Churchill leading the resistance. He does finally, but I was waiting most of the book to hear that.
I think to get all the nuances of the story, it helps to have a working knowledge of Britain before, during and after the Second World War. But I'm guessing most fans of historical fiction have that. I liked the book, but didn't love it as I do earlier Sansom books.
"Half a book"
I listened to all of Kate Quinn's The Serpent and the Pearl and I'd have liked to have found out how it ended. Yes, yes, I listened to the entire thing, but the story just stops with the heroes in grave danger and no resolution to any of the stories I've been following for sixteen hours.While it is true that the title includes a "Book 1" after a very strategic colon, I took that to mean the first one in a series - not act one of a story.
I might listen to the next one if I can't find anything good (want to bet it won't resolve anything either?) but I feel a little ripped off.
Besides the non-ending, this is a historic melodrama with characters and dialogue that are alright, but in no way memorable. The writer has an annoying tendency to harp on specific characterizations over and over again: Julia has long hair, the dwarf character is short and the cook is thin. Alright to pass the idle hour, but don't get your hopes up that you'll find out how it ends without spending more credits. Bah.
"I laughed, I cried"
This is the first book I've read by Jojo Moyes and I'll be on the look-out for more. The characters sprang vividly to life, their voices and personalities unique to themselves. And they are memorable. It will be a long time before I forget Louisa Clark and Will Trainer. The pacing was intense too. The story grabbed me on page one and never let go.
The one cautionary note I have to add is that looking at the cover design, this book looks to me like a fairy tale romance. It's not. In my opinion, it's so much more. But I think if you are looking for a formula American romance, you may be disappointed.
In these reviews, I always try to think of another writer to whom I can compare the style of the work. Moyes reminded me a little of Liane Moriarty, a little of George Elliot and a little of Kurt Vonnegut. But really, she's in a class all her own.
"Not as good as earlier books"
As a big fan of two earlier Julia Stuart books (The Matchmaker and The Tower one), Pigeon Pie Mystery came as a significant let down. It felt like a rehash of The Tortoise and the Tower with the same fascination with exotic animals, historic properties and many mustachioed characters. A rehash that lacked the emotional weight that the earlier book had because of Milo's death, let me add. I spent almost the entire time wishing I was listening to it wishing I'd saved my credit and just re-read either of the earlier books.
The other problem I had was the reader got a kind of "knowing" edge to her voice when a line was meant to be funny. It drove me nuts! I understand that farce is the most difficult genre to read aloud (see the Tarquin Hall books or The Rosie Project to hear it done correctly) but it still grated. For that reason alone, grab the written form if you must. If you are already a fan of Julia Stuart, I think you're about to be disappointed.
"Slow until it gets you!"
I admit, I almost didn't finish listening to Shaman. The first third of the book is very slow-going. Hours of description, both of the exterior world and Loon's thoughts about his environment and his body (ahem), almost defeated me. It was kind of like hanging around a thirteen year-old who has one topic of discussion: him or herself. For hours.
But, I slogged on and by the break between parts one and two, you couldn't have pried my iPod out of my clutching fingers. I was hooked. This is not a fast read, but it is good - if you can make it that far.
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There are two kinds of self-parody — deliberate and unintentional — and Robert De Niro is now a master of both.
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Despite the fact that this film is truly a bad film, I love it to death. This may be due to the fact that underneath the cheese and goofiness, the glaring continuity errors, the poor dialogue and the general overall ugliness of the film, it's remarkably entertaining. It is, after all, an Italian gorefest from the 70's, so really, it couldn't fail.
Lucio Fulci became an icon of the horror world after this film hit theaters - in some places at least. It was banned in a few countries for the violent content and ridiculous gore. Fulci would go on the direct a few other notable horror classics ( The House by The Cemetery, The Gates of Hell, The Beyond, etc.) but none would pack the punch that Zombie did.
Story wise, Zombie is pretty straight forward: A reporter with an awesome comb-over and whose office is an historical artifact of it's own - desks with ashtrays where computers should be - joins a woman in search of her father who was last heard from doing research on a remote island in the Caribbean. They catch a ride out to the island with a bearded Gordon Lightfoot looking dude and his wife who spends half of the movie naked. They find the island, but find that the woman's father is long dead and that most of the island's population has also passed on. Or so they think. They soon learn from the other doctor working there that most of the dead are coming back to life. Oh, also, the boat they arrived in has a busted crankshaft or something and they can't leave. There you go - Night of the Living Dead, but on an island instead of in a house.
A few notable scenes:
1) There is an amazing scene where a zombie wrestles and starts to eat a shark. Though filmed in a salt water tank with a shark who was given sedatives and fed a pile of food before hand, it's still pretty crazy that a man in zombie makeup actually fought a live shark. He's got no air tank and the shark appears to have a real set of choppers. After seeing actual footage of a guy getting his calf bitten off by a shark on the Discovery Channel the other night (who doesn't love "Shark Week") I have to say, that scene alone is priceless.
2) The infamous eyeball scene. Simply put, a woman's head is slowly pulled into a chunk of splintered wood and her eye is brutally, slowly and painfully stabbed and pulled out. For latex and syrup styled effects, it's pretty effective. I've seen this movie maybe 10 times and I still cringe. . . and laugh.
It's not a flawless film. In fact, it's overflowing with them. The doctor's beard flips from 5 o'clock shadow to full and thick from scene to scene. Great effort appears to have been spent on realistic gore effects like the afore-mentioned eyeball scene, or the scene where the zombies are gut-munching on the torn apart remains of the doctor's wife: both truly gruesome. And some of the details are pretty icky too - zombies rising from the ground with live worms crawling in their eye sockets. But at other times, the effects almost feel like an afterthought. Bullets to the head of the zombies are nothing more than slight splatters of red on their foreheads. And the majority of the zombies seem to just be covered in some crunchy looking fake skin and raspberry jam.
Still, perfection and quality take a backseat when you come knocking at Zombie's door. Boobs, eyeball gore, gut-munching mania and pure, squirmy, dumb-ass entertainment are what you're going to get.
I'll say it, I'll say it!! One of the greatest zombie films ever. There. Suck it.
- Complaint Dept
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Zombie (aka Zombi 2) (1979)
Posted by Planet of Terror at 9:19 PM
2 comments:
- Radiation Cinema! said...
POT: I still don't know how the got the footage with the shark! Was the shark drugged, maybe, or was the actor just crazy? Either way, a real jaw-dropper of a scene! -- Mykal
- August 9, 2009 at 8:47 PM
- Tower Farm said...
I'm not a huge fan of this movie, but I agree the effects are actually pretty good compared to similar movies of the time. Love the eyeball scene!
- August 10, 2009 at 8:54 AM
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