Link to me…. pretty please?

My last post was an April Fool’s joke, of course (though not nearly as good as Google allows publishers to click ads, IMHO), but now time for something more serious. Readers, I need your help!

This blog contains nearly 1000 posts, almost all of which are in Google’s index, which is great… but hardly any of the rank well, even for their exact titles. It’s come to the point where I’m wondering if there’s a penalty attached to memwg.com. The site’s undergone two major upheavals: the first when I had to switch away from makeeasymoneywithgoogle.com (the original site) because Google stopped serving AdSense ads to it (because it had “google” in its name), the second when I moved from blojsom to WordPress and all the page URLs changed (though I handled most of them gracefully with proper 301 redirects). I know there’s something wrong with the site because a couple of months ago I got a warning in my Google Webmasters console that the site was marked in the index as being one that could cause harm to a visitor’s computer, i.e. it had spyware, although nothing of the sort has ever happened, of course. I think that’s been resolved, but what with that and the previous changes I really think the site’s not doing as well in the SERPs as it should be.

The point of all this: when I mentioned to my wife that I’d be doing an April Fool’s post, she wondered why I was bothering, I should be spending my time on the other, money-making sites in my network. Or on selling more software. And maybe she’s right.

Like many blogs, this one’s a labor of love. But that doesn’t mean I don’t care about its rankings. An improvement in the SERPs would be great, so I need to overcome whatever penalty the memwg.com has slapped on it. I can plead with Google to remove it, but who knows what they’ll do. The best thing would be to get more links to the site.

So here’s my request: if you like this blog, please link to it. Ideally, find your favorite post (see the sitemap for the complete list) and link directly to it with some good anchor text (the title of the post is usually a good choice). Or just link straight to memwg.com with anchor text like The Unofficial AdSense blog or My favorite AdSense blog or even just AdSense — some variant involving “AdSense”. The more links I get, the easier it will be for me to outrank all the sites that do nothing but copy my content without my permission!

It’s seems silly to ask for links, but I think many of you don’t link to many other sites in the first place. So I’m making this selfish request. If my posts (or my software) has benefited you, a link back would be greatly appreciated.

And if you’re a StumbleUpon user, I’d also appreciate a stumble: Stumble it!

And, of course, feel free to bookmark the pages you like. The more, the merrier!

OK, that’s all. I hope I’m not out of line requesting these things, but sometimes bystanders need a little push!

Eric

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