Google Talk isn’t your mamma’s IM client. Yes, it will satisfy all you IM needs, but it is all its other  features that set it apart.  Some of those features:  voice calls, voicemail, file transfers, Gmail notifications.  Google Talk was the first to give clear voice calls via their IM client.  It makes it easy to transfer files.  It gives you notifications on your PC that you’ve received new email through GMail.

You may have noticed that I skipped over that whole voicemail part.  Here’s a tip for you bloggers out there.  If you want to spice up your blog a bit, add your voice to it.  Using Google Talk, leave yourself a voicemail.  This recorded message can then be placed on your blog to tell your story.

It is widely speculated that Google is set to update PageRank again, so now is the perfect time to manipulate your blog’s rank in 4 easy steps.

By now, you know that the primary way to improve your blogs rank is to get links.  Not just links, but quality links.  What is a quality link?  In its simplest form, a quality link is a link from a page with a high pagerank. Now, it is time to use some carefully placed comments along with some carefully placed links to boost you PageRank.

Step 1:  Find another blog with a PR of at least 4 and with the nofollow tag turned off. I’m sure you already read a blog that meet these requirements.

Step 2:  Within that blog, find a single page with a PR of at least 4 and comment on it linking back to your site with well chosen keywords.

Step 3:  Help out the PR of that page that you just commented on by linking to it from a post, or a blogroll entry, from your blog.

Step 4:  (Optional)  Repeat Steps 1 & 2; except this time, link back to the page you created in Step 3.

These 4 steps get you links from sites with an already established PR and passes out some link love in the process. I’m sure you’ve got other variations on this manipulation scheme.  Let me hear em.