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HarpzOn is for sale. Sort Of

Wow. Mitch from HarpzOn.com just called it quits and is selling off his domain.

Mitch was one of the more interesting new entrants into (pro) blogging advice club with a novel and interesting idea of how to get to the top.

In addition to relying on good content, word of mouth and traditional promotion tactics, he decided to throw a pile of money at the problem, targeting top bloggers in his market segment for paid review of his blog.

Well, unlike many of us, Mitch is already successful online entrepreneur, so he could afford it. And his tactics appeared to be working. He had good content. He’s got a quite a few links from a number of highly respected bloggers.

All of which helped Mitch attract a bunch of subscribers to his feed and mailing list and get to the level of about 1000 visitors per day, in a few weeks. And his became one of more interesting daily feeds in my feedreader.

So it’s a pity to see Mitch go. If he is really going, that is.

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Pagerank update starting up?

Looks like Google Pagerank export is starting.

I just checked Livepagerank service for some of my blogs and there’s lots of Google datacenters showing PR0 for those sites that gained quite a few links since January. Some of the abandoned ones dropped from PR4 to PR1

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Now if this theory is correct (lot’s of DCs with PR0 means that your PR will change. If you gained links then it’s going up) I’m in for some good news in April. Looks like John Chow’s in for good news too :)

What’s wrong with Digg search?

What’s wrong with Digg search? It’s the third day now that I try to do a search of articles for the past year and get this:

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All other searches - for the past week, month or all time work ok.