Submit Your Content to GoogleBase

I was about to submit my Squidoo lenses' urls to Google when I found Google Base.

I know some people do submit their articles and Squidoo lenses to Google's search engine and I was about to start doing this when I read that Google only indexes the home page of the urls you submit; I did not go any further, since I am sure that submitting the home pages of Squidoo and Associated Content would be a waste of my time (I am pretty confident these must have already been submitted at least a million times)!

I did find another way to submit content that is not a website or blog: it is called GoogleBase and you can submit offline (a good place to start selling products, rather than paying Ebay fees!) as well as online content: people profiles (free online dating?), reviews, articles, classifieds, anything you can think of that will not fit in the website category. I actually remembered that I had submitted my blog and my affiliate casino website last November and they did get a few page views so it works for me!

As there is no category for Squidoo lenses, I submitted my 3 lenses in the Reference Articles category; I will also submit all my Associated Content articles there.

I could also submit my own profile, if I can get away without having to post a photo of my own mug (wouldn't be fair on the others, really!); it might be worth it if I can post my links on this profile and not give away any personal information, as I take my online security seriously.

Google Favours American and Japanese Webmasters...So What?

Everybody's talking about it: Google is closing its Adsense referal programme to everyone except those residing in North America, Latin America and Japan.

All the "Great" American bloggers, including Shoemoney, are or have been talking about this. So what, we are well used to the fact that most money-making programmes on the Internet favour Americans. Let me just wonder why, all of a sudden, do they all seem to feel so concerned about us; do they really think that we cannot fight our own battles or is this just an opportunity to write a cheap little post?

So thank you for your newly-found sympathy but let me tell you: the fact that Google will not pay us anymore for refering new webmasters to Adsense is far from being a tragedy; the few dollars we would get from it are worth nothing to us nowadays anyway!

We could have a problem, however, if Adsense stopped paying us for displaying ads on our websites and blogs, but we know it won't come to that, because too many American advertisers would lose a lot of money over this!

Google Gave my Blog a PR2

I must be doing something right!

I still find it hard to believe but yesterday this blog had no PageRank (not even 0) and today when I logged in I noticed that I had a PageRank of 2!

So what does this mean for me?
Well, to tell the truth I don't know what this means exactly apart from the fact that Internet Junkie should be easier to find by the Search Engines, hopefully more bloggers will want to link to my blog and leave comments, and when I re-submit my URL to PayPerPost and other "Get Paid to Post" websites, it is more likely to get accepted straight away.

What does this mean, in plain English?
In plain English, it means that I am going to make some $$$$$$$s!
(Sorry, I just couldn't help that last one!).

Is Del.icio.us Broken?

I haven't been able to access the famous social bookmarking del.icio.us website lately.

I don't know if it's just me or what, I don't have any trouble with any other websites. I tried everything in Google: I tried to access it from my toolbar button, I typed the address in Google with the dots, without the dots, with the "www" and without, even with and without the ".com", any time I try, I get the famous and much hated "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage".

This has been going on for a month and yet, the del.icio.us website still appears at the top of the Google search page!

I would appreciate your comments if you know what is going on, maybe you don't have this problem, maybe you do, please share your thoughts!

Listed in Google!

Waow! I can't believe it, my blog is listed in Google!

I was feeling a bit depressed today when I checked my "how much is your website worth" gadget, as the value had dropped from $197 to $180 but I thought this was due to the fact that I hadn't written on it or added any links for 4 days.

Then I started writing posts every day and adding links to Freebie websites and this morning my blog's value had dropped to $175! This was a big disappointment for me so I decided to do something drastic (well not really, it's just something I should have done a long time ago): I added my blog in some Irish blog directories, since I am in Ireland.

I know these last submissions haven't got time to kick in yet but just by curiosity, I typed "Internet Junkie" in my Google toolbar and on the second page, at number 13 to be precise (13 is definitely a lucky number), there it was, as listed by BlogCatalog.

So submitting to blog directories does pay off, well I haven't seen any money yet but imagine the thrilling sensation of being listed in Google! (OK, now I sound like a total nutcase to anybody who has never tried to advertise a website, nevermind, I am happy!)