I’ve recently change my hosting arrangement to a paid host. My old free host at byethost.com was excellent and I still recommend it for anyone trying to host their WordPress simply because it has all the paid host requirement and more.

The only problem I had with them is that the FTP connection timed out 80% of the time. And for someone who likes to modify their templates all the time this is not good. I still have couple of my other sites with them.

To be indexed by Google especially on the first page is webmasters wet dream. This is called SERP (Search Engine Result Page). Plenty of ways to get your site indexed and it usually got to do with whether Google thinks your site is more relevant to a particular query. This is all relating to visitors. Visitors usually only look at the first page result for their query, so the better your SERP is, the better chance of Google sending visitors to your site.

Every time someone asks about how to improve their website PageRank there is always someone in the audience who says basically forgets about PageRank and concentrates on traffic. While traffic or visitors are usually the end target of a website, is PageRank then not important at all?

Lets have a look at the news from horses mouth

PageRank Technology: PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.

With more and more options are being test on us webmasters as guinea pig by Google in particular is the image ads.

Below are reasons why you should stay away from image ads.

1. Did you not remember the whole reason why Google ads get to be this big in the first place? Because at that time there are so many other advertising method using image that is intrusive, prolong the page loading time and simply does not blend with the surrounding. Came Google with text only ads, long story short, Google won, so why do you now want to go back to the dark ages?

1. Text Ad Unit

This is the normal ads you see on most pages with Adsense. This is also the most popular type of ads. With this ad you can customize its size and color. However, it is advised to change your ads format inside your Adsense account and paste it to your website rather than modifying it directly. As this is the most common type of ads, Google continually improves it to provide better “user experience”. Two of the last change is that now your visitors will have to click exactly on the ads as oppose to the background before. The other one is the introduction of expanded text ads where the ads has the arrow that you can click to reveal the rest of the ads.