It seems unlike Google to issue two page rank updates within 3 months but there has been chatter that the next update is in progress. If you check your Page Rank using Dig Page Rank then you can see the data centers are being updated.

Before you get carried up in the hustle and bustle of all the forum posts and blog posts – remember a few key points about Page Rank:

1. Page rank does not determine traffic

2. Page Rank does not determine SERPS

3. Page Rank updates all the time, it just takes time for the green bar to update on toolbars

4. Linking for PR is against Google’s rules and not the right mentality

This is something that has been on my mind for quite some time now and I wasn’t sure 100% if it was true or not, until now.

For those of you that know me I love StumbleUpon, it provides great on going traffic if you setup and maintain your profile correctly – see my post “Unofficial StumbleUpon guide”. Occasionally my blog posts would get stumbled by someone else for whatever reason but I considered SU a means of letting people know when I have a new post out, in case people have not subscribed via RSS.

Last month, one morning I typically wrote a post and used my usual means of promotion, or so I thought. Later that day I checked to see if any reviews had been made on the submission and to my surprise there was no listing visible. I thought perhaps there had been a mistake when I submitted, so I tried a different technique and looked on my profile again, still no submission – so what am I dong wrong? – Nothing at all is the answer here.

When I now try and submit my own blog content the process appears to work, when you later check it returns this result:

So why has this happened?

I suppose it’s to stop people gaming the system, which I don’t really consider it doing as the content is different each time. I have had friends get URL’s band in Digg before simply because they submitted the same domain too many times so I’m quite glad that the domains don’t get banned entirely.

If anyone else has started to have this problem too please use the poll below, it will be interesting to see the results:

I apologize to all my readers that Seounique was down for around 72 hours.

As some of you may or may not know I was hacked a few weeks back and it seems that my hosting company needed me to replace my HD on the server. This is the reason I have been away, and the site down. Seounique is back up and will I will get a posting asap.

Sorry again,

Thanks Matt