SEM/SEO

It is 10:00pm, July 26, 2006 PST and up to now, Google is still so slow. All my sites serving Google Adsense do not appear right away. And logging into adsense alone was taking forever to load. I told my friend Mike Lopez about it and he agreed, he said even Google itself is slow.

What a big surprise? Google is know to have very robust systems and a slowdown is very unsually for Google. They have servers all around the world also. Could it be that some datacenters had some power outage as many have been consuming too much electricity in the US this summer due to the heat wave and the demand for more electrical power has caused from blackouts in certain areas? MySpace was reported to be affected by this as their site went down due to a power outage. And as always adviced on US television news, to conserve power to prevent any blackouts.

Or is Google just under some major hack attack? Or they came out with some big time application everyone is downloading all at the same time. Or some crazy video on Google Video is causing everyone to watch all at the same time?

I do not know. But all I know is everything Google is so low today, July 26, 2006 and I do not know what the reason is. What are your observations?

Many SEOs have noticed the recent Google PR update last July 13, 2006 (US Time, for others it was July 14, already). As the PR was unfolding from datacenter to datacenter, I was watching it happen. By the end of the day, all my sites had an updated PR. I joined at one the threads on the PR update at the DP forum that was talking about the update and was already at the 10 page that time, it felt like it was only 5 minutes and the pages were already at the 14th page. A lot reporting their happiness in the PR increase, and some not happy getting a decrease and some expected a higher PR that just did not happen. I have not checked all my sites yet but many of them had a PR increase like one of my Isulong SEOph entries from a PR0 to PR5 while my other Isulong SEOph entries just made it to PR3. Although this website shares a page 2 spot like IsulongSEOph.com, it has no PR since this site was put up a little later after most websites were up and online already.
When I noticed one of my PR5 websites, Action Online, it has dropped from PR5 to PR4 and according to may people on the Digital Point Forum, wrong PRs seemed to be released last March 2006. And if this is true, my Action Online site was part of the wrong PR reporting at PR5 and PR4 is the real, true PR it should have.

What happened to your PR? But then again… in the Isulong SEOPh contest, my PR5 site is lower ranking than my PR0 site. And my highest ranking is the PR3 site. So it is not 100% all about PR, like what I mentioned in one of my blog post on Action Online.

I thought I know SEO that I can pass an SEO Quiz.

I just got 60% and still does not know where I was wrong in this quiz:

http://www.123promotion.co.uk/tools/seoquiz.php

Try it out and see how well you do.

Something to check for all Isulong SEOph SEO Contest Competitors.