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You might have noticed that a lot of articles on Crenk have been removed. This isn’t exactly the case, we have actually made a huge amount of them private.
Crenk is going through a major transition period and we are going to greatly improve the amount and quality of our articles. All old articles have been made private and we will be going through them one by one and getting them republished when they have been adequately improved. Ohh.. and of course with a lot more opinions! For a long time I have been sick and tired of pushing out articles that I wasnt happy with, so its time we got rid of them and only published articles we are proud of!
Along with improved tech news you will also see more reviews (web and mobile apps), plus a lot more fun geeky viral content.
Overall, Crenk is going to be a lot more fun, with articles that appeal to the mainstream technology geek.
This is the moment to let us know what you would like to see here on Crenk! Any thoughts.. drop them below in the comments.
p.s. did I mention less crappy ads!
Our friends over at Shuttur have just launched their site into Alpha testing mode. Shuttur is a social image service. Shuttur shows you the best images voted and controlled completely by the community.
Additionally, they have a no registration option in which you can just host images.
Anyways, they are looking for VIP Alpha testers. If you want to get into the Alpha testing drop us an email at: info (at) crenk.com
In great news, I have just started writing for the Huffington Post UK. You can head over and check out my Huffington Post Profile here and you can also check out my first article “Amazon Finally Launch Digital Video Game Download Store in the UK“.
I am planning on writing a few articles per week on the Huffington Post, but the majority of articles will be on here.
Recently, we have had a lot of issues with the site and some functionality, but we have been working hard to fixed that and everything is slowly starting to come together. Thus, expect a lot more great articles to go live very soon.
There are thousands of blogs that have been effected by Google’s recent Panda update. After viewing the 3,300 comments on this article via the Google Help Forum it seems as though they dont caremuch about feedback on their results.
I wanted to write a quick article here on Crenk to show how Google’s Panda update has hurt our site. I’m hoping that someone from Google actually reads this article and notices that there is still a big issue here!
Yesterday one of our authors wrote an amazing how to article titled: How to Download and Burn Hulu Movie to DVD.
The article is completely original, it’s over 400 words in length and provides a detailed step by step guide. This article is the epitome of original content!
I wanted to see where this article was actually ranking within Google for the keywords: burn hulu movie to dvd.
I would have thought that the original Crenk article would have been in the top 50 at least. However, after searching the top 100 article we didn’t appear. Bad times!
Then, I discovered that 4 websites scraping our content are ranking within the top 100, one even ranks just outside the top 10. How is this providing good search results?
It would be great if someone from Google could please take a look and let us know why this is happening!
The new Crenk is finally here. Welcome to Crenk 2.0, which is focused around community. Crenk 2.0 allows anyone to contribute to Crenk and earn money when your articles are published.
Crenk 2.0 in basic points:
- Anyone can submit articles to be published on Crenk
- If your articles are published you will receive a revenue share
- Revenue share is based on a CPM rate (provided in the platform). Thus, every 1,000 pageviews you will receive a rate
- Stats are provided in the Dashboard and all stats are real time
- No limitations to how many articles you can publish
- Revenue share is valid for the life of the article
- Payments will be made via Paypal Quarterly
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to drop us an email. Otherwise just signup and get started now!
Here at Crenk you might notice a new bar at the top of the page. This product is from Hello Bar and helps webmasters to add header bars to the top of their websites.
Crenk has decided to use Hello Bar to ask our readers to donate to the Japan Earthquake clean up via the Red Cross.
The Hello Bar comes from UK design shop digital-telepathy. If you haven’t used Hello Bar before, you’ll need a new account; just sign up with the invite code “helpjapan.”
Crenk has been selected as one of the top 50 UK Technology Blogs according to Cision. Its another great bit of new for our site which seems to be growing daily.
The list includes Techcrunch EU, Coolest Gadgets, Red Ferret and more.
To check out the full list click here.
Here at Crenk you might have noticed the lack of posts for the past few days. Crenk has been moved to the Cloud and specifically the Rackspace Cloud.
The whole process on moving to the Rackspace Cloud was amazingly simple. Rackspace have made it very easy to upload your content via FTP, create the zones, add and edit email addresses and control MySQL databases, etc. I’m really happy we have finally moved to the Rackspace Cloud service and this will provide Crenk with a lot more flexibility and room to grow.
From here on out you will see a lot of great changes to Crenk. Crenk will be adding more content, higher quality content and provide more articles for the average internet user.
Last week Google released some major changes to their search algorithms. The aim of this update was to push content farms and low quality content sites further down the list.
Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts wrote on the Google blog:
This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.
Since that time we have noticed that our organic traffic from Google has nosedived. Crenk isnt a content farm and we aren’t a low quality content source!
Can someone at Google please get in touch and let us know why we are being heavily punished!
P.S. This seems to have changed our traffic numbers, but somehow the content scraper that is HuffingtonPost hasn’t lost any traffic at all.
Crenk has been lucky enough to make the top 100 gadget blogs according to Online Masters Degree. I’m not really sure why an Online Master Degree website is ranking gadget blogs, but its always nice to be in the list.
Top Gadget News Blogs for 2011
Get the latest news in gadgets and all technologies with a visit below.
- Business Week Get a blog where the bottom line is directly involved with breaking the latest news here. Bloomberg has a special section for technology news which offers several blogs or news by tech category.
- Real Tech News Independent tech news is offered on this blog. Over 40 contributors review and write about many new gadgets, deals, and more.
- Pogue’s Posts Get the latest in technology news from “New York Times” blogger David Pogue. He has been writing a tech column since 2000 and has authored many books on the subject.
- Techmeme Get your technology news on the serious at this site. Regular headlines and analysis are featured several times a day.
- Information Week The business value of technology is featured here. You can also check out their many blogs on everything from green computing to hardware.
- Crenk Startup technology is often focused on in this blog. Deals, freebies, how-to’s, and gadgets are also written about.
- Tech Crunch Get the latest news just by clicking the Gadget section here. You can also check out the homepage with loads more on what’s hot, or check out the Crunch Board where jobs and services are posted.
- Tech Dirt Think gossip is just for celebrity talk? Then check out this blog with tech news such as Apple using special screws so that users can’t open their phones.
- The Register Get the latest in technology news from this British site. It includes sections on hardware, software, security, and more.
Click here to read the full list.
