I’ve been blogging for just a little over a month. I even started on a Friday the 13th (of all days!) As of this post, only 3,254 people (big thanks to all of you) have visited my site. I only have a little less than $4 for this endeavor (not enough to pay for my Internet bills he he). But I am still, will always be, happy and upbeat about this entire blog thing.

1. It rekindled that long lost love for writing.
2. It created a new chain of connective knowledge for me.
3. It helped me wallow away this insomnia.
4. It boosted my self-esteem.
5. I got 5/10 Google PageRank™

What is PageRank™, you may ask?

PageRank™ is a system for ranking web pages developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools.

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."

Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.

Google's complex, automated methods make human tampering with our results extremely difficult. And though we do run relevant ads above and next to our results, Google does not sell placement within the results themselves (i.e., no one can buy a higher PageRank). A Google search is an easy, honest and objective way to find high-quality websites with information relevant to your search.

5/10 only? At least it means this site is relevant and important. I do not aim to be the number one blog or be thousands richer because of it. Ask me after a year. Being relevant and important is enough.

By the way, my site has a good host. And I am thankful.

Happy? You bet I am!