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The issue of Paid Links and PageRank has been doing the rounds across forums and blogs for quite some time now. Google has been coming up with updates on the issue. We've also discussed how selling Paid Links can affect you, ... - Syntagma Media weights in on blog Google Pagerank updates and ...
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Google's widespread dropping to zero of the pagerank of sites that accepted payment for links has kicked off quite a debate on the issue on various sites including their own webmaster blog. For technical reasons, they would much prefer ... - Google Banning Ads for PageRank Selling Schemes
... Matt Cutts left a little tidbit of information in a comment stating that the Google Spam team and the AdWords team have gotten together to ban AdWords advetisements for sites or networks that sell links for PageRank.This. - Google Warning to Sites That Sell Page Rank
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So Google seemed to have reduced the visible PageRank of select sites only. It seems like sites were hand selected. Is this visible PageRank reduction a true penalty? - Some Helpful Steps To Increase Your Google Page Rank
Great article for helping webmasters increase their google page rank and internet presence. - Google visible PageRank penalties vs. real PageRank penalties
- Google PageRank, Revisited
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Compare your blog/site with the top 10 sites for a given keyword
You've been working real hard, on your blog/site, for the past few months. You have been optimizing your blog for a particular keyword. Now you want to see some results. You want to know where you stand with respect to the competing sites. Well you are in luck because such a tool is available. Its free and its online (nothing to download and install).
Its called "Keyword Competition Check Tool". Here's the link to the tool page. Here's what the developer says about the tool;
"This tool will search Google using the keyword that you enter and give you useful statistics on the top 1 to 10 results. You can also include a site of your choice, which will also be included into the statistics. The statistics for each site are cached for one week.
Please note: the information you provide may be used by Just Search Ltd, to contact you to discuss the products & services available.
Sometimes you may find that the tool may time out and give you no results. This will be an issue with Google SOAP API not working and has nothing to do with the tool."
Here is the step by step guide to using the tool;
- Enter the keyword that you want to check (if you want to check the tool for multiple keywords use the tool again, just check one keyword at a time.
- Enter your blog's URL in the text box labeled as site. (It says that this information is optional, but you want to compare your stats with the top 10, so you should as well use it).
- If you do not want to go into complex details then just click the go button.
- But if you want to configure the tool more finely then click th blue colored buttoned named "Advanced" (the button will now display the text "Simple", so basically its a toggle).
- A menu will open.
- In the "Restrict to Country" drop down box you'll have three choices. If you want worldwide results set the option to "--", to restrict to UK results only set this to "UK".
- Next is the "Safe Search" drop down box. It only presents two choices. Safe search is a boolean value which enables filtering of adult content in the search results.
- Next one is the "Filter" drop down box. Like the previous menu, it has only two yes or no choices. Filtering activates or deactivates automatic results filtering, which hides very similar results and results that all come from the same Web host. (I would recommend that you select yes, otherwise it will return cached results from Google).
- Last one is the "Number of Results" drop down menu. Here you select the number of sites compared (plus your site). The higher you set the number of results to be returned the longer the script will take to run, the maximum limit (set by Google) is 10.
- Click "Go" button.
- After a little processing the results will be shown.
- Results will be shown in the form of a table. The table is divided into following columns, serial number, Google page PR, Google site PR, Google back links, Google site back links, Google site saturation, Yahoo back links, Yahoo site back links, Alexa back links, Alexa rank, directory 1 and directory 2 (Directory 2 is the Yahoo directory, directory 1 might be DMOZ, but I am not sure about that). Also there is a row at the bottom of the table which shows the averages of columns. (If any of the rows are colored green then this is taken from a cache of the last results for this site. If the cache is longer than a week old then it is cleared and new data is retrieved.)
- Below the table is the "Comparison Radar Graph" (but I must say that its a bit difficult to read).
- Below the graph you'll see the options you had selected.
- And below that is the same tool again, ready for your next search .
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Free forum, message board and chat room for your site
Wouldn't it be nice to provide some interactivity to your sites visitors? To have a place where your sites visitors can interact with you and with each other. Where they can chat or discuss topics that interest them. Well there is a way to add this type of interactivity to your site for free. Its completely free and you don't have to host the services on your server either (great news for those bloggers who are using free blogging platforms like Blogger or Wordpress etc. There's nothing to buy, nothing to download, nothing to install. Your forums reside on the World Crossing server, so there's no need to install software at your own site. In return for providing the free services the hosting company does show ads on the freely hosted forums (if you can pay, you can upgrade to a premium account and get some extra perks).
Features include;
- Instant setup
- Public or private forums
- Chat rooms
- Personal e-mail
- Newsreader access
- Customization
- Administrator's control panel
- Threaded messages or linear conversations
- Unlimited participants
- Unlimited messages
Here's the link to the service provider. After the page has loaded in your browser, press enter. Click "create a forum" from the side bar.
You'll land on a page which looks like this;
Click on the link "register as a member of World Crossing" (suggestion number 2). Enter your name, password and email address. You ca read terms of service and privacy policy too on the same page. Click "I accept" (there is also a radio button which says "I do not accept", but what's the point). Click "register" button.
You'll be sent an email with your member code. Press ok button (or preferences button, both take you to same page). You can select the special offers from the sponsors and click submit button or click the "No thanks, continue" link. (Whichever option you choose you'll land on the same page).
On the next page you can change your password or preferences, view most active forums or the newest forums.
Click "Change your password or preferences" link. Here you can add information about yourself and configure some other options as well.
Chat with your blog visitors
That would be so nice, wouldn't it? To talk with your blog visitors in real time. Your blog visitors talking with each other, leaving messages for you to see when you go online. That's a sure way to make a few of them stay a little longer (and keep coming back regularly).
One gadget that can help in this respect is a chatbox for your site/blog. This post is about one such shoutbox called ShoutMix shoutbox. You can easily obtain a free shoutbox for your site from ShoutMix. Here's the link to the website that provides the shoutbox.
This is how the shoutbox looks like.
Using the shoutbox is a three step process;
- You create a login account.
- Choose the type of shoutbox style you like, and
- Place the code in your your page/template.
After clicking the continue button, you'll be taken to a page where you can choose from amongst 4 compact and two wide shoutbox styles. Fill in the verification code and click continue. You'll be instructed to log into your control; panel to use the shoutbox. Click "go to my control panel now". Enter your password to continue. Click login button.
At the top you'll see the menu bar. From "Quick Start" menu choose "Get Codes".
Choose "Place shoutbox on webpage".
Enter width and height for your shoutbox, select whether you want frame border around the shoutbox.
Click inside the code box and select whole text by using Ctrl + A keyboard combination. That's all the work you need to do at the developers site.
Hop along to your site and place the shoutbox in a side bar. You can view my shoutbox here.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
New clothes for your blog
Do you agree that the quality of clothes you wear has direct relation to the degree of impression that you create in someone's mind. Its a kind of ratings effect. Likewise when someone lands on one of your blogs pages, the first thing that his mind will register are the images and colors that your site present to him. If you have a great post but your blog theme has registered a negative impact on the visitors mind he is not likely to remember your blog. He may not bookmark it. Your blog fades from his memory and you have lost a potential long time client. So what should I do about it, you ask? To put it simply, get some new clothes for your blog. A great mind in shabby clothes will not create a lasting impression. Get some great looking template for your blog. Dress it up and watch as you begin to retain those drifters from the WWW.
While surfing through the net, I stumbled upon a great looking template for blogs. It has impressive colors, great color contrast which emphasizes your posts and best of all its free. Here's how it looks like;
Doesn't it look nice and impressive. By the way you can see it installed here as a demo.
Its been named Blogy Puerto by the developer and here is your link to the developers page about this template. There is one problem though. The page is in Spanish. So for those poor folks who cannot read Spanish, here's another link. Yes that's our great friend Google to our rescue. This link will translate the original page into English for us (although the translation is not perfect as its based on word for word translation, maybe the algorithm will evolve in future).
Its a three column theme, so you can put lots of stuff above the fold on each page (otherwise some stuff we would like our visitors eyes to catch never achieves what is expected as the visitor might leave without scrolling down). Its for those blogs which are hosted by blogger.com at blogspot.com (i.e. for folks like me and my other neighbors). It also has tabs, which allows for better organization (something lacking from Blogger templates). The only thing that I don't like about the template is that, it does not show the blogger navigation bar. As you know, that the blogger navigation bar allows some useful features such as, searching your site, moving onto some other blogger blog (now this is a source of good traffic, and blogger's with nav bar turned off do not qualify for this free traffic), blog customization link and link for creating a new blog post.
Anyway, here the link to download the template. Its only 7KB, zipped file. You'll find the template in the xml format inside the archive. There are some helpful links on the developers page regarding template installation in general; a video (Oh God, its in Spanish again (and this time even Google can't help us, just get your clues from the visuals)), FAQ and installation guides. Read them carefully before tampering with your existing blog (or if you are thinking about starting a new blog, don't waste your precious brain ATP's (energy) (Blogger only has a few templates to choose from).
So hop along, dress up your blog and start dating those fleeting visitors (and convert them into permanent relations). Happy blogging!
Friday, November 23, 2007
Compare with your competitors Alexa Rank
So you want to spy on your competitors. You want to know how well they are doing. (Who are your competitors? Your competitors are web sites that rank high on search engines for the keywords that you are also targeting). Well Alexa is the service which ranks web sites based basically on traffic (smaller numbers mean higher ranking). So here is a tool which will help you judge your SEO campaign against your competitors.
- Visit this page
- This what the developer of the tool says about the Alexa rank comparison tool;
The Alexa Traffic History Graph allows you to create a traffic history graph for any site. Alexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users.
What is Traffic Rank?
The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users. It is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). The three-month change is determined by comparing the site's current rank with its rank from three months ago.
What is Reach?
Reach measures the number of users. Reach is typically expressed as the percentage of all Internet users who visit a given site. Alexa expresses reach as the number of users per million. The three-month changes are determined by comparing a site's current reach with its values from three month ago.
- Some more configurations
- And some final actions
- Your graph is displayed above the input boxes. Below is the image with default graph type and time span settings for 4 websites.
- You can also display this tool on your own site.
- After pressing the button od clicking the link, you'll taken to the code page. To embed the Alexa Rank Comparison within your site, just cut and paste the HTML code snippet into your web page. Simply click in the text box . The code will highlight. Copy with Alt-C (Command-C for Macintosh). Then paste into your site's code. The table has a width of 345 pixels.
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