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October 25, 2007

Teaching Sells . . . Perfect Timing

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 10:25 am

Page Rank Slams

Teaching Sells

If your blog or your business in any way depends on Google traffic, then you couldn’t have missed what happened yesterday.

A discussion of the page rank drop and a list of affected blogs was offered by Daniel at Daily Blogging Tips:

Here is a list that I gathered with big blogs that supposedly lost PR . . .

In a second list, Daniel goes on to mention several mainstream media sites also hit, including the Washington Post, Forbes, and the Chicago Sun-Times.

Kind of makes us all stop to wonder how Google dependent we are.

Teaching Sells Opens the Doors

On the same day, Teaching Sells opened its doors.

You might remember me mentioning a free report about Teaching Sells, a study done and now, a full curriculum for online business offered by Brian Clark and Tony D. Clark.

Here’s what Brian says:

The Teaching Sells training program is a comprehensive and detailed step-by-step guide to creating successful multimedia membership sites. It’s a complete methodology for choosing profitable topics, developing dazzling content, attracting paid members and building air-tight websites.

Charter members will get a 12-week , plus forum access to instructors. Here are the course titles:

  • How to Create Content That Sells
  • How to Effectively Market Interactive Learning Environments
  • How to Create Killer Multimedia Content with Quick and Easy Tools
  • Seven Profitable Business Models for Interactive Content Developers
  • Your Blueprint for Building Membership Sites with Open Source and Low-Cost

    • Software

Check out the courses in detail and enroll here.

I’m a part of this venture and proud to be, particularly because of the high-value offer that’s in effect until October 31.

Google seems to have done Brian and Tony a favor. Check out how this program can do your business an even bigger one.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!

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12 Comments to “Teaching Sells . . . Perfect Timing”

  1. October 25th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
    Jeremy Steele said

    Let the conspiracy theories begin:

    Google is secretly in business with the teaching sells crew, and is getting a cut of the profits. That is why all of this is happening right at launch date.

    *end conspiracy theory* ;)

  2. October 25th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
    Daniel Vukadinovic said

    OR!
    they were selling text links and got penalized :).

  3. October 25th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
    Kate said

    Hey Liz - late congrats! Sorry I missed the party…

    Anyway, I think there’s another theory that most have been ignoring, and that’s the threat of social media to Google. While social media will never replace “classic” searching, I definitely find information coming to me before I even think to search nowadays.

    And when you don’t search on Google, Sponsored Listings don’t get clicked. And without clicks, Google isn’t making as much money. And that can’t make them happy…

  4. October 25th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
    Rick Cockrum said

    I like Jeremy’s theory. :)

  5. October 25th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hey,
    I have it on a good source that Google just tightened up the algorithm that they already had — they took out all of the loopholes. So if you weren’t trying to squeeze through a loophole, you’re safe. :)

    Though, I still think that it was most fortunate for the guys . . . I’m delighted for them. :)

  6. October 25th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
    ME Strauss said

    On the other hand, maybe Brian just outright bought Google. :)

  7. October 26th, 2007 at 10:40 am
    Mike said

    I believe the whole thing is explained right here.

  8. October 26th, 2007 at 10:42 am
    ME Strauss said

    Mike,
    You drew that picture, didn’t you?
    You’re the Google master madman!!!
    It’s YOUR caper!! he-he

  9. October 26th, 2007 at 10:51 am
    Mike said

    Shhh….let’s just keep this under our hats for now. ;-)

    And kudos for the penultimate paragraph!

  10. October 26th, 2007 at 11:07 am
    ME Strauss said

    Thank you and you bet!

  11. October 27th, 2007 at 3:07 am
    Alina Popescu said

    Hi Liz,

    I was also affected (my blogspot blog went from 4 to 2). And yes, I heard the same thing, they changed their algorithm to make it harder to have a good PR. Anyway, it is normal to have bloggers affected. To many links of the homepage are apparently a no-no, so people, switch from extensive blogrolls to separate pages or rss reader :)

  12. October 27th, 2007 at 6:08 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Alina!
    Do know that sometimes during the Google dance your page rank can drop for a day while things adjust and then come back up again. I hope that’s what’s happening with you.

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