Page Rank Update?

There seems to be talk about a possible Google page rank update so I checked one of my blog's page rank across multiple data centers. That blog was my first ever since I tried blogging. Despite its humble page rank of 2, it was and is the source of practically all my Adsense earnings. A positive page rank shift will be very good news indeed.

Moments after hitting the "check page rank" button, to my amusement, some data centers actually say its page rank has moved up to a 3! WOW! Of course, there is never any assurance that it will indeed settle at 3 once the page rank dance is over but it's just a very good feeling to see that number 3 beside its URL. Even if just one data center out of a hundred said it was a 3, I would still consider it a reason to celebrate. Why?

The previous times I have checked my page rank during page rank updates, it has and was always a 2 in all data centers. Now that it's showing a hint of a 3, it is most certainly an indication of an increase in pagerank.

It is generally agreed that page rank is a real number, that is, it is never exactly an integer such as 2 or 3. Instead, it can lie anywhere between these integers and can be a 2.44449 or a 2.50001. I would theorize that the page rank integer that data centers display is actually rounded.

Due to the logarithmic nature of page rank, moving up by one point means that your home page has become approximately 10 times more important in cyberspace. That's not an easy feat!

Adsense pays through Western Union!

It was a surreal experience changing my payment mode from check to Western Union. Wow! Google Adsense can now pay to the Philippines via Western Union!

• No need to wait for one month for the check to arrive by ordinary mail. You can get your cash the next day payment is issued.
• No more bank charges and clearing periods.
• You get it in cold cash. Just bring the necessary documents (ID, name of payee, etc.)
• You can choose to receive payment in dollars or convert them to local currency while claiming.
• If you choose to receive dollars, no need to open a dollar account. It's cash remember.
  
• You can decide when to have the dollars changed to local currency. You can evade Google's tendency to issue local-currency checks when the forex rate is best for them.

Too bad Adsense has issued their payment to me a few days before. I guess I'll have to wait for next month to try out the new Western Union money transfer.

This is so cool!

Taking down Adsense

I'm now in the process of taking down my Adsense ads at one of my websites for the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences Student Council (CFOS-SC).

This is in response to Google Adsense' smart pricing which I've read a few weeks ago. It is the last site other than philmoney.blogspot.com to serve my Adsense ads. I don't think clicks would convert well from that CFOS-SC site so it might just drag down the earnings per click of my entire Adsense account. Right now, I will concentrate my Adsense efforts into philmoney.blogspot.com.

Since I started removing Adsense ads from my other sites that (I believe) wouldn't convert well for advertisers, I've noticed a slight increase in my earnings per click. That was not too long ago so I'd say my trending is inconclusive. Nevertheless, I hope to see an increase in my earnings next week when Adsense updates its smart-pricing for my account. They are said to update it weekly.

This is one of the first relatively complex sites I have manually put together using Dreamweaver. It's now very laborious to update so I decided to use Wordpress instead and host it in my own domain. Still, I don't plan to place Adsense there.