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AdSense Side Benefit?

You learn by doing. That's for sure. I wanted to understand how AdSense worked so i put it on my blog. It's been fun watching the ads that are served up. They have been pretty relevant to me and hopefully to all of you who are reading this thing.

One of my readers, Dhrumil, commented that he'd heard that putting AdSense on your blog improves your page rank. So I figured i'd check that out.

I used to be at the top of the page rank back in the early days of Google when Flatiron was going strong and not everyone was on the Net. But that slowly changed. There's a really talented artist named Fred Wilson. And one of the great chess gurus is named Fred Wilson. And then there's this kick ass rock band in LA called Fred Wilson. And so slowly but surely I dropped down in the rankings. By last fall when i started my blog, i was around 10 or so.

Well, now I am at the top again. Go to Google. Check it out. And i am sure the reason why is that i put AdSense on my blog. They don't advertise this fact. But it sure is a nice side benefit.

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Fred Wilson is a very well known VC in NYC, and runs a nice blog called 'A VC'. In commenting on his Google Ranking for his name he said: "Well, now I am at the top again. Go to Google. Check it out. And I am sure the reason why is that I put AdSense o... [Read More]

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Posted March 9, 2004 in Venture Capital and Technology

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Fred, given my rather popular name, a certain hall of fame golfer and my blogging MP doppelganger, my Google results started about 10 pages back - ie, buried.

In six weeks, I've moved up to the top of page 2 - I think it's the links in and the success of comments....rather than AdSense.

Posted by: Tom Watson | Mar 10, 2004 12:09:17 PM

Well, I am #7 for Technical Difficulties without comments, trackbacks, adsense, or promotion of any type. And I still have to fight off a hawaiian alternate rock band. Go figure.

Posted by: Derek | Mar 15, 2004 2:17:31 AM

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