If I can jack my site to a PR2 then I’ll give Text Link Ads a try. I guess the key for me is diversification. To much reliance on Google is not a good position to be in.

I cant get in Text Link adds with a PR4 site, I haven’t even bothered with this site as its only PR3.

I don’t know whether they also look at Alexa and other metrics. I’m sure they will mail me if and when I qualify.

Your PR is poor, how old is the site?

You may want to try adding more text, Google doesnt like video very much

Try and keep everything tight / in focus, i.e. some consistent keywording between different posts, this seems to help a little with PR, along with lots of links!

I haven’t had much luck with affiliate adds, I got a reviewMe the other week which was nice, be interesting to see if any more follow…

It will be interesting to see how you get on with the Auction Adds, they seem quite well targeted to your site.

I started the site at the end of December so it’s really only been running for about two and half months. In January I was only really interested in getting videos up everyday. And really it’s only in the last few weeks that I’ve really tried to get some traffic in and build backlinks. The linking has been pretty sucessful though. I’ve gone from 673,000 in Technorati to 276,590 just today. Of course this is still pretty woeful but the percentage improvement is what I like to see. Still having trouble getting big numbers in though. I don’t even check Alexa at the moment because I’m pretty much off the radar.

Thanks for your comments, I appreciate the input.

If you were older and on your tenth blog, then I would say you were a bit of a failure, as you are 18 I would say you are learning

On my other blog I got PR 4 very quickly, I was lucky in that I got highly targeted content on their just before a PR update.

Using wordpress helps too, it is VERY search engine friendly, I would go so far as to say the best SEO’d web application in existance, certainly Ive never seen anything better.

If I were you I would get yourself off blogspot, get your own domain and run your own blog

Now, the longer you leave it, the more content you will have and the more difficult it will be to move.

That said, you have to make sure Wordpress is good for you personally, you might not like it!

I would start by having a good think about a domain name and trying to buy one you like.

Then try and have a go using wordpress on a PC, or buy some web hosting and get it set up on there. Try experimenting with it, putting a few plug ins on and see how you get on.

Once you are happy using wordpress, start moving your content accross.

Once your content is moved, you can leave links on blogspot to your new site.

Once blogspot is dead and your new site up and running dump it blogspot!

Dont rush into anything, spend some time on it , you could waste a lot of time if you make the wrong decision!

From what I hear its hard to get info once this happens, and even harder to get re-instated.