I know my site is fairly modest and doesn’t get the most traffic in town but things seem to have been picking up a bit around here and Google is starting to realize it :). It has been at least a few months since I implemented Google Adsense (the google ads on the right of the page) and it was generating so little income that I didn’t even bother to check it anymore. At pennies per click, I wasn’t going anywhere fast. But, I decided to check it out due to a small problem I was having in my sidebar. As it turns out, my balance is now at $13.02! I just may be able to retire early!

Obviously this is no big deal, but it does show that people are clicking around my site. About a minute later I was doing some updates and a little green bar in my “Statistics” section in the left toolbar caught my eye. This little bar represents my Google Page Rank. This is a rank that google gives to sites based on how many visitors and links my site brings in. 0 means you get barely any visits and 10 means you are one of the hottest sites on the net. For the longest time I was stuck at 1, but it looks like Google has bumped me up to a 2. Pretty cool.

Modest gains, but gains nonetheless.