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!

• Flying Carpet Optical Illusion – November 26, 2011
• Google+ Song – September 29, 2011
• Dubstep Dancing to Pumped Up Kicks from Foster the People – September 27, 2011
• Dont Just Jump Ship to Apple So Easily – September 27, 2011
• Cat Having Problems with Printer – September 20, 2011

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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.

• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Google: Crenk Isnt a Content Farm! – February 28, 2011
• Google Release Chrome Extension to Help Users Block Content Farms – February 15, 2011
• Google Offers Available in Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa – January 25, 2012
• First Google+ TV Advertising: Sharing, but like real life – November 25, 2011

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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.

You can check out the full list here.

• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Crenk 2.0: Start Publishing Your Tech Articles and Earn Money – April 26, 2011
• Adam Boulton Introduces Crenk Readers to Sky News iPad App: Number 1 in the App Store – March 21, 2011

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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!

• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Google: Crenk Isnt a Content Farm! – February 28, 2011
• Blekko Starts Blocking Content Farms from their Search Engines – February 2, 2011
• Yelp Walks Away from Google’s Half a Billion Dollars – December 22, 2009
• Monitoring your Search Engines Positions – July 2, 2009

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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!

• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Crenk in the Brand Republic 200 – May 18, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Adam Boulton Introduces Crenk Readers to Sky News iPad App: Number 1 in the App Store – March 21, 2011

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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)

• Sky News iPad App Will Only Be Free For a Limited Time – March 17, 2011
• Watch YouTube Playlists on iPad – November 27, 2011
• News.me Opens Up Their Amazing Social News iPad App – April 22, 2011
• Flipboard Valued at $200 Million? Another Sign of an Upcoming Bubble? – April 15, 2011
• Timbuktu: An iPad Magazine Specifically Design for Kids – April 8, 2011

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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.

The Jetpack plugin includes:

• Stats
• Twitter widgets
• Hovercards
• Shortlinks
• Shortcode

• Protect your Blog with VaultPress – April 11, 2010
• Backing up your blog with BlogBackupr – June 28, 2009
• Tumblr Passes WordPress.com in Blogs – June 17, 2011
• Tumblr About to Pass WordPress For Blog Hosting – May 11, 2011
• WordPress Worm and How to Prevent Data Loss – September 8, 2009

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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.

• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Crenk in the Brand Republic 200 – May 18, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Crenk 2.0: Start Publishing Your Tech Articles and Earn Money – April 26, 2011

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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.

• Rackspace Release Cloud iPad Application – March 14, 2011
• Installing and Setting Up WordPress in Rackspace Cloud Site – February 17, 2011
• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Crenk in the Brand Republic 200 – May 18, 2011

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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 Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Google Release Chrome Extension to Help Users Block Content Farms – February 15, 2011
• Blekko Starts Blocking Content Farms from their Search Engines – February 2, 2011
• Wipsace Ignites Online Collaboration – November 20, 2009

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Top Gadget News Blogs for 2011

Get the latest news in gadgets and all technologies with a visit below.

1. 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.
2. Real Tech News Independent tech news is offered on this blog. Over 40 contributors review and write about many new gadgets, deals, and more.
3. 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.
4. Techmeme Get your technology news on the serious at this site. Regular headlines and analysis are featured several times a day.
5. 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.
6. Crenk Startup technology is often focused on in this blog. Deals, freebies, how-to’s, and gadgets are also written about.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.

• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Crenk in the Brand Republic 200 – May 18, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011
• Crenk 2.0: Start Publishing Your Tech Articles and Earn Money – April 26, 2011

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Here at Crenk we have just added a new Like button to the top of each individual article. You will see the love heart and a plus button next to it. If you like the article make sure you click the plus button and like the article. The top liked articles will appear in the sidebar.

This will really help our writers to know which article you really like, so they can write more articles in the same areas.

• Facebook Like: See What do you Friends Like with Likebutton.me – April 26, 2010
• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Crenk in the Brand Republic 200 – May 18, 2011
• Google Panda Got It Wrong! Scrapers Out Ranking Original Content: Crenk Example – May 18, 2011

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In it we detail such things like choosing you blogging platform, promoting your blog, using social networking for a blog and keeping your blog going once you’re over than initial hump.

It is available here to read free of charge.

Be sure to Tweet this post and share the PFD with your friends.

-Dean Sherwin

Author of Crenk PDF

• PDF to Microsoft Word Converter Facebook Edition – December 4, 2011
• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• How to Take Your Blog to the Next Level – July 16, 2011
• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011
• Windows Phone 7 Theme for Your WordPress Blog – May 31, 2011

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Undoubtedly, the recession wasn’t really hitting the internet as hard as what it was other industries. Sure we has a bit of trouble over at Microsoft but that’s because they are also a trading company in the real world. What I mean to say is that the online world was fighting off the worst of it.

In fact, companies such as eBay and Amazon actually didn’t do so bad. People began to sell their stuff when they needed the cash and others bought them because they didn’t have too much cash to splash. It was all making perfect sense until the internet could take no more as real companies started to turn their back on it.

Advertising is plummeting. A new report states that advertising on a worldwide scale is down by five percent. In America, the figure is even bigger at 7% worth an estimated 0.4 Billion dollars. Companies who usually do quite well from advertising such as Monster reported that they lost 31% compared to last year.

Wouldn’t you know it; internet giant Google is the only ad publisher to report a growth, however even this is in single digits.

Now that advertising is failing the next sector to be hit will be entertainment. Big companies that have real world trading have more of a chance of survival but for online magazines and games where they often depend on advertising alone to keep the ship afloat – there may be trouble ahead indeed.

The IDC, who released the report did have some good news however.

“We think the industry will continue to see losses in the third and fourth quarters, but the growth rates–or the loss rates, if you will–will eventually begin to improve,” Karsten Weide, program director for digital media and entertainment at IDC, said in a statement. “However, we also believe the industry may have to wait until mid-2010 until it sees real growth again.”

• First Google+ TV Advertising: Sharing, but like real life – November 25, 2011
• Rdio Television Ad From Walmart and Samsung – November 24, 2011
• The Advertising Collective: AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Join Forces – November 9, 2011
• Crenk is Getting Greatly Improved! – October 18, 2011
• Crenk Still Being Punished by Google for NO REASON! – July 14, 2011

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