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I know that It’s been awhile.  I’ve been hard at work on a DIY SEO video series over at BoneheadSEO.com that is nearing it’s completion and have been working my tail end off lately getting it finished.

I know, I know, you probably don’t care so much about that…but what you might care about is something coming out tomorrow.

It’s VERY likely that over the past week or so you’ve heard about Commission Blueprint 2.0 that’s coming out tomorrow…now hear me out on this one.

I actually own the first Commission Blueprint product (unlike what a vast majority of others can say) and it was hands-down one of the BEST products I’ve ever owned.  And we’re talking about over 13 years of online experience here…so when I say that, it’s a big deal.

Plus, I’m one of a pre-selected group of people that were allowed to get you in on this product.  (I think that’s kinda cool.)

Now I know that if you’re like most people (including myself) you just roll your eyes when it comes to some product that’s being promoted over and over again by everyone and their brother.

And I promise you that tomorrow will be one of the biggest days in “pushing products” you’ll ever see because EVERYONE wants to jump on the 9/9/2009 bandwagon.

But…if I can have your ear for a second…I highly encourage you to at least head on over to http://commissionblueprint20.com/cb20.php and watch the three videos they have there for you and make an educated decision for yourself.

If you’ve ever wanted a way for someone to walk you through step-by-step the entire process of Affiliate Marketing and in such a way that it’s understandable for even the greenest of newbies, (and even for those who consider themselves advanced affiliate marketers), then I highly recommend you at least give it a chance.

Don’t simply ignore it just because you’ve seen too many product promotions lately – I truly feel that would be to your detriment.  (and I’ll be the first to admit that I am completely guilty of that).

When you first visit the site there are three videos.

The first one that you’ll get to is one that explains “How is this different from the first Commission Blueprint product?”

As you scroll to the bottom of the page, you’ll see two additional videos:

• The Game is Changing
• The Keyword Revolution

Again, I highly encourage you to watch those videos which are full of great content that you can start to use in your online business.

Watch the videos:  http://commissionblueprint20.com/cb20.php

Steve gives you access to a report (no charge of course) that is already making people some money (as verified in their forum) – again, you can get to that forum by clicking the link on the page.

I highly recommend you watch everything right now and, as soon as the doors open tomorrow, I will let you know.  Here’s the link to the site again:

http://commissionblueprint20.com/cb20.php

Oh and before I forget, they’re taking it off of the market on September 16, 2009 – so it’s only available for a few days.

*YES, this is a promotional post!* 

A question that’s often asked (nearly everywhere SEO is talked about it seems) is about PageRank and what to do if all of a sudden the awesome PageRank you just had yesterday – has tanked or worse yet, disappeared all-together.

If your PageRank has Dropped

First, determine what has really happened.  If you had a PageRank of 5 yesterday and you all of a sudden have a PageRank of 1, all is not lost.  This could actually mean a variety of things.  One of them is that one of the sites linking to you has seen a significant drop in PageRank itself.  Remember, when other sites link to you (and especially if they’re one way links), you get a portion of their PageRank passed on to you.

So if you had a site that had a PageRank of 7 linking to you, thus helping your own PageRank status, and they all of a sudden dropped to a 3 (as an example) then your PageRank will likely be affected.

Now consider this PageRank drop with not one site but with multiple sites.  This would definiately have an adverse effect on your overall PageRank.

The first thing to do would be to check and see if there have been any changes to the PageRank of the sites linking to you.  But first, you have to know who is linking to you.

One way to do this is with Yahoo’s site explorer tool.  Enter in your domain name, click “inlinks” and then choose “except from this domain” from the drop-down list.  This will show you all of the links pointing to your own site.

Visit these sites and be sure that none of them have been removed from Google’s index.  (You can find this out by typing in the Google search box the following – site:thenameofthesite.com.)  If nothing comes up, they’ve been removed from the index and this could be one of the causes of your drop in PageRank.

You can also use Google Analytics to see who is sending you traffic via the “Traffic Sources -> Referring Sites” link.

If Your PageRank is Gone

Ok, this is probably one of the worst-case scenarios.  If you previously had a PageRank on your site, even if it was as little as a 1, and all of a sudden you look up at your trusty Google toolbar and notice that the PageRank of your web page is now gray, this can be a very significant issue.

The first thing to do is to first check that URL in Google and see if it’s still indexed.  Just type in the Google search box site:yoursiteurl.com and see if something comes up.  If it doesn’t, it means that you’ve probably been removed from Google’s index.

So what should you do?

Well, if this were to happen to you that means that Google felt that you were doing something illegal; or at least something against their webmaster guidelines.

So you first need to ask yourself a few questions.

• Did you use any kind of black-hat techniques on your site?  Things such as cloaking, invisible text, redirection, etc.  If so, this could likely be the reason.
• Were you selling links from your site?  Likely that this could be the issue.
• Did you offer any downloads off of your site that could have contained malicious code?

There are many possible questions that you could ask yourself – and far too long of a list to post here; but the bottom line is that if you were doing something “illegal” in the search engines eyes, they probably found out about it and you are now feeling the reprucussions.

You can also check out Google’s business listing quality guidelines andGoogle’s webmaster guidelines to double-check to be sure you were following the rules.

If you have a Google webmaster account, log in and see if you have any messages from Google.  If you’re lucky, they’ll have sent you a message telling you why your site was removed.

Whatever it is that they tell you, FIX THE ISSUE.  Once you have the issue fixed, you’ll next need to submit a reinclusion request.  Which could take a bit of time so be prepared to wait and ready to explain yourself.

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Earlier this month, Google posted a list of Twitter accounts specific to Google.  If you want to read the original post, visit http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-accounts-on-twitter.html.

That said, here’s the list: