It was quite depressing at the end of April, to see my site's Google Page Rank drop by 1 point. It went down from PR5 to PR4 and it's the main reason I haven't sent out a newletter in May. So to correct the situation, I spent lots of time with articles.

I have also learned that I'm not alone seeing my Page Rank drop. It seems to be a universal thing in Google land. A few saw their rankings go up, but most web sites got kicked downstairs by Google. Reminds me of the crashing thunder of Niagara Falls with all those rankings dropping down. So if you also experienced this dilemma, don't despair, just do what you know you have to do. Stop procrastinating, like I did.

Your web site's PR is mainly determined by the quality and quantity of information you have provided. My web site, Best Affiliate Products, has 497 pages of great information on affiliate and niche marketing. So how come my PR went down?

I suspect it is partly a result of many of my good quality guest articles being reclassified, and being placed in this fairly new phenomenon called the Google Supplemental Index.

You probably know that when the Search Engines index you and place your pages in the main index, it helps you to be found by every day Search requests. The higher your Google Page Rank, the higher up you'll be placed in the Google search results. And of course, this brings more traffic to you.

Unfortunately, whatever pages are in the Supplemental index, doesn't help you much. Being in this index implies your information page is considered "duplicate content". The content is still good, but probably won't be found by every day searches. Your visitors will only see it once they are on your site for other info.

It's not clear just how bad that is, but it certainly indicates that it's time to deal with the matter.

I'm still looking for answers, and am doing some tests with linking. When I have some results, I'll let you know. The one main thing I did was add 50 pages of new content. I am also starting to see some new traffic from the articles I posted to submission sites.

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The month of May saw many new subscribers join us, and I certainly disrespected you by not sending a newsletter in May. For this I apologize deeply. To atone for my disgression, I offer you this download of useful info, by Jason Blackston. Right-Click Here to download this PDF file, How to Use Articles to Deliver a Boatload of Traffic and Sales to Your Web site for Years to Come

OK then, so take a second download, also at no charge. The Power of Article Marketing by Captain Timothy Gorman will show you just how valuable it is to write articles, as well as post them to submission sites. Right-Click Here to download this PDF file The Power of Article Marketing

We'll see each other in a few days time. 'Till then, have a good week.

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