Google Page Rank Update

Well, the news is that Google has just completed another page rank update. I wasn't actually awaiting this with bated breath because most of my blogging sites are relatively new and I wasn't expecting anything anyways.

Last night I checked a site that I started officially on August 30th. Now if you've been reading my blog, you will know that everything I have ever known about blogging correctly has come from my list of Gurus. This list of Gurus includes Griz, Court, Justin and Vic. They are the smarty pants of the blog/internet marketing world. That's my opinion anyway.

Now, can you just imagine my surprise when I went to my blog about cheap hotels in panama and other travel information I created on August 30th - to be exact, because I went and checked the date of my first posting to my blog - I got a page rank of TWO!!!!!!! Holy smokes was I happy. I've done all the correct things, I prettied it up a little with a little favicon, I regularly post long articles I write and research myself, put up a few pics here and there and then I have gone and manually searched for back links in a natural legal way, like posting a few articles in the article submission services, a few comments here and there etc., etc., just about everything that Mr. make money online himself, Griz, teaches us to do in his blog lessons for beginners. Newbies like you and me.

Needless to say, I was really happy with this Google Page Rank update. However, most of my other blogs are too young right now - less than the 2.5 months of age of my travel blog and they don't qualify yet for a page rank from Google. Oh, I forgot, I do have another one on travel to another part of the world, but I haven't worked on back links because I've been concentrating on the Panama blog. It's a lot of work getting links if you are doing this naturally.

You can purchase back links from a variety of sites, but I am rather paranoid about buying them. A friend of mine recently purchased a back link from a site which had a page rank of 7 and a few days later, that site lost that page rank of 7, so it ending up being a waste of money and a waste of a link.

For the time being, I am doing very little automatically. I'm just doing it all by hand manually which is time consuming when you have so little time on your hands. It would be great to automate some of the blogging process especially when you have more than one blog to manage. I even write my own articles, but I know that you could hire some writers for great prices to help you build content on your blogs from sites where you can hire freelancers who bid for your projects . Does anybody have any ideas?