We’ve had a problem with DMOZ and its listing for McKeesport Candy Co.. Basically an old website existed, a new website was built, and the URL recorded at DMOZ needed to be changed. For the last 7 or 8 months we’ve been trying to get DMOZ to change the URL they showed for McKeesport Candy from the old to the new website. Within the last 24 hours, DMOZ has updated the listing for www.candyfavorites.com. It now has TWO listings:

Candy Listing

Regional listing.

Now we’ll see how long it takes Google to reflect these changes at DMOZ. It …

Google is Dancing. The Jagger update appears to be impacting some of my clients. For example, www.candyfavorites.com has fallen out of Google completely in the last 24 hours. If you search at Google today for www.candyfavorites.com, it gives you one of those “sorry, no information is available…” screens. However, if you search for

candyfavorites.com -site:www.candyfavorites.com

Google returns 50,300 known links and mentions of that site.

Until yesterday, the site www.candyfavorites.com had a Google PR of 3. Today it is gray-barred (no page rank info is available), when I check via Intenet Explorer’s toolbar. When I check on Firefox – the …

Very busy time for me – not a lot of time for blogging. Today I found out that my main website, www.wordsinarow.com has gained PageRank in the most recent updates at Google. Those are being called the “Jagger” update and seem to mostly be concerned with backlinks. Wordsinarow.com is now a PR 6. (Woohoo! That and $3.95 will get me a Latte Vente at Starbucks.)

BTW, in my experience the “link:” command at Google has been busted for about the last year. To find out the number of links to your site, you need to …

What the hell?!! There are some sites around that can FAKE PageRank. Here’s one: DarkSEO Team. That’s worse than faking an orgasm! They can’t do that, can they? (Someone’s tapping me on the arm…. Apparently, they can!)

And here is where you go to actually verify the PageRank of a website: SEO Logs PageRank Checker. Let’s hope the two of them are owned by different folks who never put their heads together.