freeg131: Philip Gamble

GameMakerBlog appears to be a big looser in Google’s latest PageRank update going from PR2 on July 9th to 0 today.  Whilst I am not concerned that my search rankings may slip, they vary week to week anyway, I am annoyed as this could have a big impact in reducing the number of sites willing to advertise on GMB.  PageRank is seen as a measure of how noteworthy a page is, so I wouldn’t be too surprised to see income in August at around half that of July.

The pageranks of all the other sites I listed on 9th July have remained the same.

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(over the last month)

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The highest Google PageRank I have ever achieved for one of my sites is 4/10. This was for a site, funded by a New Zealand online advertising company, I co-ran which provided a CPM (per thousand impression) based advertising service for promoters. The NZ company went bust and we closed the site a couple of years back, the Page Rank has now fallen to just 1.

Here is a list of some of my domains which have a PageRank:

• GameMakerBlog.com - PR 2
• FreeG131.com - PR 2
• GameMakerStream.com - PR 1
• GameMaker.tv - PR 1
• RickySixthForm.co.uk - PR 1 (let’s not go there…)

Suprisingly Stencyl.org has PR 0. Fleague.net did get (somehow) to PR 3 at one point, thanks to a single link in from a high PageRank page.

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American copyright bully Viacom wants to know what videos I watch on YouTube.

From an issue that arrose on YouTube last year it is clear Viacom is hypocritical.

Come on Google, fight.   Their source code is secure but surely this information about its millions of users is extremely valuable for marketing purposes…

• BBC article
• PCMag article

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Following a link from Mr Needlestone’s blog I came across the blog of Drew Buddie, head of ICT at the Royal Masonic school. The latest post contained some facts about children’s usage of technology in the UK that are certainly believable but I actually found quite scary.

• 93% of all children have their own PC

I do, but it is about 8 years old and doesn’t have Internet access.

• 8 is the average age for a child to have their first mobile phone

Not sure why, but I find this a bit sad. I am now 18 and have never had a mobile phone. Go me!

• 1.4 million children own their own webspace

Not surprising at all. Especially with the rise of social networking sites in recent years.

• 2.7 billion searches are carried out on Google every month - so are children now asking Google instead of their parents?

Yes, for sure. There are lots of things I either Google purely out of curiosity, I tend to use Google as my first port of call when looking for any kind of information. But much of the material we would have simply not found in the past or would have had to ask our parents for even though they are unlikely to be specialists on solutions to take multiple deprivation in MEDCs…

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In the past month or so CassioburyPark.info has had around 230 page views, taken up none of my time, and has earned me £9 (~$17.90).

The site, providing basic information about Cassiobury Park in Watford, has not been promoted anywhere and does not rank highly in Google. In fact for a search of “cassiobury park”, cassioburypark.info is not even on the first page.

Despite poor Google rankings most of the traffic does originate there. However the vast majority is from specific search terms such as “cassiobury fun fair” and “history of cassiobury park” instead of people looking for general information about the park. In total 52 different search terms were used to find the site in this past month.

The money comes from matched (which is not a dating website!), an ad network that pays you £3/month per page (upto a max of pages 5 per site) for including an Google AdSense style text ad on your website.

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