One of the best ways to increase your PageRank is to have incoming links from high PR webpages. While it may sound simplistic getting incoming links isn’t an easy task, let alone getting incoming links from high PR webpages.

Why would anyone with a PR7 link a PR1 page? Content.

This may not be a major enlightenment but if you look around Yahoo! has a lot of high PR pages in its directory. For example the Web Page Design and Layout has a PR6 and it’s not very hard to get listed there if your website has something to do with webdesign and such.

You want to find a matching category and click on the Suggest A Site link at the bottom of the page. Give it a few weeks and if Yahoo! finds your page relevant and useful they might just give you that high PR incoming link, for free.

JErmExpress.com has a PR5 and I think most of it is because I’m listed by Yahoo!

Google just launched it’s new service, Google Talk, to rival MSN, AIM and YM. It looks pretty slick and since I like Google I think I’ll download it and see if I’m up for a switch.

It’s a 900kb download, much smaller than the other messenger services and it’s got a clean effective design with no ads. I’ll say that again, it’s got a clean effective design with no ads. Ok I’m repeating myself, here’s what Google says:

They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world. Google Talk offers you:

• Choice: Get in touch how and when you want to–over email, IM or a call
• Quality: Talk through your computer but hear your friends as if they were in the same room
• Convenience: Your Gmail contacts are pre-loaded into Google Talk so inviting or talking to your friends is just a click away

Google Talk is in beta and requires a Gmail username and password.

So if you have a Gmail account and you want to test this with me, you can stalk me at jerrrm-at-gmail-dot-com.

This is speculation but I can’t help to think that this will embrace our future.

What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user’s precise location? The gatekeeper of the world’s information could become one of the globe’s biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers, basically supplanting telecoms in one fell swoop. Sounds crazy, but how might Google go about it?

What about Asia? Some multi million dollar company out there should consider this. I like Google, and nothing beats FREE, but any one person or company with too much power is prone for disaster.

What do you think?

I’m barely making a few bucks off AdSense. So far I’m lucky if my monthly end balance tops over $100, otherwise I’d have to wait another month before I get another check from Google. Last time I got my check it was my first check. It took about a month and a half to get here by regular mail. The check is still being processed now, my bank said it’d at least take a month before the dough hits my account. I have to wait almost three months for a hundred dollars.

Some people have better luck than me. You’ll find a lot of them at the Webmaster World AdSense Forum, which I didn’t find out about until today.

There’s a thread there with a bunch of tips thrown out by the forum members. They’re calling it “Share 3 AdSense Tips” and it’s a gold mine for new publishers such as myself. Many talk about colors, layout, traffic and a myriad of other useful information. But what hit me the most is the truth about Google AdSense Heat Map, that it actually works. I took a look at it a few times in the recent past, mostly ignoring it because I thought I knew better. After all I’ve designed web pages for over five years now. I should know where people look, how their eyes follow certain rules and guidelines thrown before their eyes by the website designer. Stupid. If someone wants to smack me in the head this is a good time. Apparently Google was accurate about the heat map. People have reported that they doubled their CTR after relocating their ads to follow the heat map. I guess I’m not that much off, but I do have ads thrown out in cold zones. I guess it’s about time I redesign my blog. This current design is already over seven months old now. Yikes.

With its current size and growth who’d ever think that Google is so modest?

“If anybody got a Porsche or a Ferrari right now at Google, they’d probably be drummed out of the company,” observes John Battelle, an author and entrepreneur who has been following Silicon Valley companies for 20 years. He says, “Google has a brand image to maintain. And their image is they’re all about innovation and they’re all about the Internet, and they’re all about trust. They’re not about selling out. They’re not about getting rich quick. So you’ve got a culture like that; I think if anyone were to buy, you know, a new Mercedes convertible and drive around with the stereo blaring, and miss work a couple days because they’re rich now, that would not be acceptable behavior at Google.

From 60 Minutes Google Coverage via BoingBoing.