Another thing that is not allowed is to promote a particular brand as an anchor text or a tag page article title. I slipped one through before knowing this, but had a “warning shot” fired at me, gently reminding me that I am not to be promoting a particular brand, that this is too close to advertising.

Also, some few of you have been wanting me to include the name of a city with your main keyword as the anchor text in the tag article. Generally that is a tip off to the editor that I am front and center promoting a particular service, and he doesn’t like this either. I personally think that the best idea in this case (take for example Houston Lawyer, or whatever) is to optimize for Google Local Search. I write a bit about it here.

In general things are rolling along just fine, however more people should be asking if I have a high PR tag article title keyword that is relevant to their niche! Don’t forget that the tag article title keyword doesn’t have to be the exact same as your anchor text. They should certainly be related, but do like one of my customers does, and target the high PR tag articles, and I can still work in your chosen anchor text keywords. I had somebody pass on my suggestion of this for a very relevant keyword for his niche, but I guess he just didn’t understand the value of a link on a PR5 of a domain 9 website!

I know some of you had been concerned that after having claimed a high PR tag page in your behalf and written the tag article for you, upon being published it seemed that the page rank dropped off the map, or went into some type of “probationary” state, or fell from the good graces of Google into oblivion by having an n/a for page rank.  The editor was calling it a Technorati ”glitch.”  But as of today, I noticed that the face of Technorati has undergone a change, and thankfully it looks as if the PR has come back to its rightful home.  I had suspected that this would be the case, mentioning that why would Google knock off the PR on tag pages of subjects that were so vital, popular, and were so blogged about.  Every tag page that I had written for customers that reverted to the /r/ and temporarily lost PR as part of the process has now been fixed.  The “glitch” has been unglitched and you have the rightful PR that you had expected to have.

The tag page articles also have more of a front-and-center look and feel to them.  This should help to give the reader an extra chance to take an opportunity to read the tag page article and hopefully click on your included link.