Joel Krigsman and I have been talking about anchor text for a while.  Yes he has no girlfriend and I have no life. But seriously we have been talking about how Google registers anchor text in sites.  We know that Google crawls the web via links and rewards sites with lots of good links and can penalise a site with too many bad links.

 The test comprises of the following:

• This page on this blog aaatestaaa
• Links off this page to
  •  a page on a partner site dddtestddd
  • a pdf hosted on this site eeetesteee
    • the pdf also links to the page on the partner site

We are using and stuffing keywords in all these pages phrases that currently don't rank in Google Australia Search (pages from Australia).  We will report further on this test in the coming weeks.

Christian iPhone App

I recently made a christian iPhone app for my wife's site, Daily Devotions.  I used a app making service online from appmakr.com.  I added Google Ads so I could better track impressions and use, and hopefully make a dollar or two to support the site.

Appmakr don't provide any reporting stats but the reports from both Feedburner and Google Adsense indicate between 700-1000 impressions a day and a reach (Feedburners term) of approximately 300-500 users per day.  Also we have seen a massive jump in listeners to the podcast.  The most recent sermon in the podcast section of the app has had over 500 downloads according to Feedburner.  This is a massive jump from the 10-25 downloads the files used to receive.

Later blogs I will provide statistics as I have today begun a SEO campaign to try and rank for the phrase Christian iPhone App, I will keep you posted.