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.
Here at Crenk you may have noticed a lot of changes in the past month or so. Crenk has gone back to the old theme we had on the site, so we can keep the quality of articles at a high. Crenk was previously allowing articles to be publish by anyone within the community. We have had a few issues with this model and we have had to put it on the back burned. We have also removed a huge amount of low quality content from the site with the aim of helping how Google ranks our site. However, Google seems to have not noticed the changes!
This morning we wrote an article about Wibiya being acquired by Conduit. The article has been quite popular and I wanted to just check how it was being ranked in Google.
As you can see from the above screenshot we seem to be ranking 4th with our original article. This would be quite good, but it seems as though the sites ranking above us are just scraping our content! Google why haven’t you sorted this out yet!!
Someone please explain to me why this is happening. Im not an SEO expert, but I understand Google aren’t providing good quality results.
Brand Republic has just released their BR 200, which features the best advertising, marketing, media, PR and digital blogs from around the world, ranked in terms of traffic and social influence.
Crenk was lucky enough to be added to the list and ranked 30th.
There are many great blogs on the list, but I still think they left off some of the worlds largest digital blogs like Mashable, Techcrunch, RWW and more.
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!
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!
A few days ago we posted about the new Sky News iPad application. Since that time the Sky News iPad application has reached the number 1 spot in the App Store. There is no specific number on the amount of downloads yet, but I’m sure it will be released soon enough.
Sky News have released a specific Sky News iPad app introduction video for Crenk readers, so take a look here. (Even announced by Adam Boulton)
WordPress has started bringing WordPress.com features to WordPress.org sites. Jetpack is a new plugin for WordPress.org sites that provides some amazing features. We have decided to start testing out Jetpack on Crenk and it has been great so far. Jetpack is completely and will always be free.
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.
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.
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.
