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Google PageRank 40 latest articles

2007-12-09T21:15:00.000+05:00

Google's kinship with the mind
When it came predicting these results, "pagerank" beat two other seemingly reasonable ranking systems: tallies of how often words show up in ordinary ...
pagerank - Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Google's pagerank, like Alexa, has long been a questionable indicator of a site's actual "rank." Supposedly based on both the number and quality of incoming ...
A Look at a Few Page Ranking Tools
digitalpoint.com's free Keyword Tracker & Keyword Ranking Tool can be used to check Google, Yahoo and MSN and other engines for ranking of keywords over ...
Do our brains work like Google?
GOOGLE's patented and powerful search algorithm, PageRank, may mimic the way the human brain retrieves information. Our memory for words can be modelled as ...
Overlooked area of Web page traffic key to future growth
Trust Before Google -- the leader in Internet search -- will rank your site, it must trust your site. You score points when other sites link to yours. ...
Matt Cutts Clarifies Recent pagerank Drops & Link Buying
pagerank doesn't always monotonically increase. The forum member asks if Google is being selective in key vertical markets. Well, this is news. ...
Serving up Localized Advertising Without Wasting Money
Yellow pages styled sites are currently purchasing the most ad space on the Google page I am viewing. Companies include yellowbook, DEX, Local.com, ...
pubcon: Treading Lightly On Link Buying
Content syndication on other sites builds authority, sends traffic, and helps pagerank flow. Webmasters can buy competing websites in their niche as another ...
Clear and simple rules to improve SEO, claims expert
The Washington Post and Forbes magazine have had their page ranking lowered by Google, following news that both sites have been selling links.
Toral: The Internet Gets Political
Buying and accepting payments for links can result in manipulation of search engine results and the Google PageRank algorithm. Because of this, Google has ...
Matt Cutts is Geppetto, We Are the Puppets
I'm not talking about Google's Page Rank, I'm referring to old school PR, public relations. Like any puppet master would , Cutts pulled his strings and we ...
3 simple ways to optimize for Google pagerank
pagerank isn't the only thing Google looks at, but it is probably the most important factor. These simple techniques will help your site do as well as it ...
Search Engines 101 Paid Vs. Natural Search
There are a lot of companies that claim to be able to get you on the first page of Google. That may be true if the "search term" is very specific and no one ...
Organic Keyword Research and Selection
It's much easier to improve your ranking for a term you're already ranking for, than ranking for a new term that you currently do not rank for at all. ...
Comment on Google's PageRank Update Goes After Paid Links?
Seems like the Google Page Rank has come back for many of the websites. What is therefore the latest view of what happened in the page Rank update?Was it a glitch? "haven't we learned that you can't look at TBPR during an update? ...
A Simple Way To Improve Your Google Pagerank
Your Google pagerank is very important in the long term success of your website, because the higher your pagerank gets the higher your website climbs up the search engine's listings, and the only other way to be on the first page of ...
Increasing PageRank through Smart Internal Linking
It's also important to understand the difference between Google Toolbar PageRank and the actual PageRank that is assigned to each page since Google is the biggest player in the SE game. Toolbar PR is the reading (usually false) that is ...
More About Google Page Rank
Google Page Rank Trivia. Google's Page Rank is logarithmic in nature, which in a nutshell means a page rank of 6 is TEN TIMES BETTER than a page rank 5. So... when we start getting you a page rank of 1, and then 2, and then 3, ...
Google Page Rank Teasing is Making Me Sick! - I Have Decided To ...
I started this blog about 7 months ago and my first iwebis acquired it's first pagerank only last month. The update last month gave iwebis a PR 3 but now once again iwebis is back to a zero. At one point it was back up to a PR 3 but now ...
Google Page Rank Explained
I'm so sick of people saying my webmaster is PR This and PR that, this site explains what it really is, i have somewhere to send them to now.
What is Page Rank and How Does It Work?
As 2006 faced its last weeks, Google was the favorite among search engine. Most of Google's popularity is credited to its preferred form of search engine optimization, a trademarked program Google dubbed Google PageRank.
Google Caught Red Handed Censoring Sites with Pagerank
Due to content that does not fit in with their ideology, Google manually and permanently set the page rank of the Rob Levin and Megan Meyer articles in Encyclopedia Dramatica to ZERO
Google Page Rank Become Infamous
Really it'sa bad news for the SEO and SEM specialists. Google going to reset the page rank zero and want to replace it with "VR"(Voter Rating).
More Update By Google On Paid Links and Reviews!
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 ...
Although my Webmetricsguru.com blog lost 2 points in Pagerank, my Artnewyorkcity.com blog gained one point, now a Pagerank 5, and my other blogs were largely unaffected by the seismic (not seesmic) changes in Pagerank that occurred in ...
Free Google Page Rank E-book
If you have a blog or websites, this free google page rank (PR) e-book is extremely valuable. This is a brand new e-book that talks about google page rank. Google Page Rank is a simple measurement of how important a blog or web page in ...
Google Announces End of Page Rank-Beware this is Hummor
In a nod to Web 2.0 and in an effort to make the Google experience more user-centric, Google will end the system of assigning each web page a Page Rank based on an algorithm of links, quality and popularity. Instead, each page will have ...
The google pagerank debate rumbles on
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
Google just issued a warning along with extensive "educational" information on the rights they reserve for sites selling links to increase Page Rank. In taking their stance, they clearly state that they will uphold the quality ...
Decreased Google PageRank
I put the "join web ring" link up yesterday which Google considers to be a major paid link, hence the penalty. I'm hoping I can regain my page rank of 5 by tomorrow since the site is apparently up and I took that link down...
Decreased Google PageRank
Content duplication is strictly prohibited.I'm not too sure why, but my page rank got reduced to 3 from 5 overnight which affected me big time at...
uISV Class 07 - December Grades
Also the following warning is displayed for the Google Page Rank scores on the report page:. Note: The Google Page Rank is dependent on external sources and may not be reported correctly. If you receive a Page Rank of 0, the rank may ...
Google's Matt Cutts Drops Hints on PageRank Update & Scares Link ...
Before beginning this post, I will be honest, I struggled if I should post anything at all, because I feel like I have been writing about this PageRank update way too often in the past ...
PayPerPost Fights Back Against Google's PageRank Changes
In one fell swoop, Google last month reduced the PageRank of many PayPerPost bloggers, throwing the young advertising network's business model into chaos. NowPayPer Post is fighting back with its own website-ranking system.
Build it and they will come, or will they? How do people find your ...
You can see a sites page rank by using the Google Toolbar or using one of the many websites that will tell you what a sites pagerank is. This visible page rank ranges from 0 to 10. Very few sites on the Internet have a page rank of 10. ...
Google's Matt Cutts Drops Hints on PageRank Update & Scares Link ...
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

Compare your blog/site with the top 10 sites for a given keyword

2007-11-26T17:40:00.001+05:00

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 .

So go on and check your blog out. Share your results with me. Till then bye! Have a nice day!

List of free directories

2007-11-26T15:17:00.000+05:00

WebNetClick Directory

Free forum, message board and chat room for your site

2007-11-25T20:53:00.001+05:00

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

And so many other. You can view the detailed feture list along with their explanation here. You can see some demo forums, admistrator's panel and view some public forms from this page.

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

2007-11-25T06:22:00.001+05:00

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.

Create an account by supplying your user name, password and email address.

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.

New clothes for your blog

2007-11-24T17:05:00.000+05:00

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!

Compare with your competitors Alexa Rank

2007-11-23T12:17:00.000+05:00

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.

That's all there is to Alexa rank comparison. Bye! Have a nice day.

Eliminate useless keywords!

2007-11-22T17:59:00.000+05:00

Want to find out which keywords are ranked higher in Google? Can't decide which of the two versions of the the given keyword would be more search engine friendly (so you think "car" and "cars" rank the same in Google? You couldn't be more wrong. Car has double the ranking potential as compared to cars. Was that an eye opener? Are you itching to find out how and from where I got the data from. Well hold your guns, that's what this post is about). So here are the steps that you need to follow to be more keyword savvy (choosing the right keyword is important for Google ranking and traffic);

The service is called Google Battle
Here is a description of the service from the developer himself (it will help you understand how the two keywords are compared). "Google Battle measures which of two terms has a higher Google rating by searching for term1 OR term2 and then counting the hits of either in the returned top 100.

The current implementation only searches the snippets returned by Google; otherwise the whole thing would take a lot more time.

There are a number of implementations out there that just show you the number of 'hits' each term has and declares the one with the most the winner. It think the OR approach makes more sense; by asking Google to provide us with a list that contains either keyword, Google with indirectly decide which keyword it thinks is more important. Therefore counting the number of occurances of the keywords in the resulting snippets makes sense. The number of hits of a term doesn't mean much; I can create a million pages with my name on it, but that doesn't make me as important as Paul McCartney (oh well, he has 2 million anyway)."
And the results look like this
(amazing isn't it, men outdoing women by almost 50%). That's a fun tool too, compare different words to see which ranks better in Google (there are some interesting results from some previous searches on the page which you might find interesting (they will awaken the curious in you; even the human private parts have been compared).

Well that's all from me till the next post. Have a nice day and take care of yourself!

50 bookmarking sites 1 widget

2007-11-22T03:11:00.000+05:00

getBookmarked.com will help you to Bookmark a site into several Social Bookmarking Services. Instead of using different links to each Social Bookmarking website, you have to keep only a single link to all of them! When you use this Free service in your Website or Blog, visitors will be able to bookmark it in 50 Popular Bookmarking Services. Actually there are two free widgets, one for your use from within your browser (its a bookmarklet) and the other is widget for your online site/blog. Follow the steps to get them both;

Visit this page
Near the top pf the page you'll find the link to the bookmarklet. It is a piece of javascript code. just drag and drop it onto your bookmarks toolbar (in Firefox).

When you find some interesting web page (most of the time it'll be your own site/blog), just press the "getBookmarked" button. A page will open with links to 50 bookmarking sites. They are arranged in two categoeies;

Most Popular Bookmarks

Popular Bookmarks

When you click on any hyperlink to a bookmarking site, a new tab opens in your browser with URL and the title of the page already filled in the submission form. Fill the description and tags yourself. That's all there is about the bookmarklet. Now we move on to the widget for your blog visitors.
The first step to getting the widget for your blog is to enter the title of the blog and its URL. Press create button.

Step 2 is to copy and paste any of the automatically generated HTML Code into your website. Here too you have 4 options. Choose the type of button you would like to display. Click in the corresponding text box, select the code, copy it into your clipboard and you are done. Visit your blog/site and insert the code into the appropriate area (usually the template).

And a final word of caution.

So that's all that you have to do to meet your objective. Till next time bye! Have a nice day!

Get free Google Page Rank button for your blog

2007-11-21T18:56:00.000+05:00

Wouldn't it be nice to display your Google page rank on your blog/site? Wouldn't it be great if we don't have to pay for it? Wouldn't it be great to get it from an independent source (to add authenticity to your claim)?

If your blog/site has been ranked by Google and you would like to display it for your visitors to see, here are the steps to follow to achieve that end;

Your Google PR is shown in the form of web 2.0 medal graphic. Here's how it looks like;

You can also select black as the background color.
Developer claims that the widget is "Served from a fast and reliable server. This widget won't stall your page load."

Visit this page

As you can see in the above graphic, code for insertion in your blog/site has been automatically generated. All that is left is to choose the badge background color. Select code from the first text box if you want your rank to be displayed on a black background or select code from second text box if you would like your badge to have a white background. Click inside the desired box, press Ctrl+A to select the entire code. Your work on the developer site is done. Browse to your site and insert the code in your template/page(s). That's all there is to it.

Free submission to 15 search engines

2007-11-21T01:10:00.000+05:00

Yes, you read that right! You can submit your blog/site to all the major search engines free of cost. No need to hire anybody to do it. Will not cost you a single dime. So, how do you do it? Just follow the steps given below and you are on your way to free organic traffic;

Visit this page
You'll find two text boxes there.
Enter your URL into the first text box.
Enter your email address in the second box (yes, you'll have to give your email address to use this service; its free after all).
Click the submit button.
Your blog/site will be submitted to the following 15 search engines;

Google
AOL Search
Yahoo! Web Search
iWON.com
Jayde
Exactseek
Whatuseek
ScrubTheWeb
SearchIt
Amfibi
Lycos / AllTheWeb
Altavista
HotBot
GigaBlast
WebSquash

The submission results page will load in your browser. It will show you successful and failed submissions. Successful submissions will be shown in green color, while the failed submissions will be shown in red color. Reason why the submission failed can also be viewed. Direct links to the submission pages of the failed search engines will be shown (they have a leading * appended to their name). You can click them to submit your site/blog manually. These links will open in a separate tab/window. (Not all failed submissions can be submitted manually by visiting the search engines submission page, however).

Free! Show your blog stats on your blog

2007-11-20T20:13:00.000+05:00

Would you like to show your blog's SEO related stats on your blog? Yes, but wouldn't it be just great if it was possible without having to pay for it. Well both these wishes are possible. Here's how to do it;

First you'll have to visit this page.
Enter your site URL in the site URL text box.
After that you'll have to select the SEO related stats that you would like to display on your blog/site. There are two radio buttons next to each stat, first one for showing the stat and the second one for preventing it from showing (obviously you would not like to show stats that are not impressive). All stats are in abbreviated form. Following are some of the stats that you can select;

Google Page Rank
Google info, like total number of pages indexed by Google from your site and back links pointing to your site.
Yahoo info, like pages from your site indexed by Yahoo and the number of back links pointing to your site.
Msn info, pages in MSN index.
Alexa info, Alexa ranking and back links as counted by Alexa.
Today's Unique visitors.
Today's Page views.
Yesterday's Unique visitors.
Yesterday's Page views.
Total Unique visitors (you can also supply the initial value in the text box beneath this stat selector).
Total Page Views (you can also supply the initial value in the text box beneath this stat selector).
Number of users currently browsing your site.

As you configure the stats you would be able to watch a live preview on the right side. After every change the preview graphic will change.

Next you configure the colors;

Background color.
Text color.
Border color.
Indicator color (The color of Google page rank indicator).

Last step on the page is to enter the captcha code in the code text box.
Click the submit button.
You'll be taken to the next page where you'll be given a code to paste into your blog/site.
This is how the stats look like;

Hope I've been of some help to you. If you've some tools or services you would like to share with me and the readers of this blog, please do not hesitate to leave a comment. I'll be grateful.

Show articles related to your blog posts

2007-09-20T23:00:00.000+05:00

Sphere Related Content Widget

The Sphere Related Content Widget connects with an icon link at the end of your blog posts. When a reader clicks on the icon link, Sphere finds blog and media articles related to your blog posts. It can be seen in action on over 1 billion article pages on popular blogs and media sites like the New York Times and GigaOm. The Sphere Related Content widget works best on topics that are being actively discussed in the blogosphere and news media.

Here is how it looks like;

The plugin is very easy to install into your WordPress blog. Get it here!

Have MoveableType? Typepad? Blogger? Then connect up your content with Feedburner Feed Flare. Learn more here!

Everyone else, click here to join in.

Get your posts noticed

2007-09-19T13:39:00.000+05:00

What is Spotplex?

Spotplex provides internet users with real-time ranking of blog articles based on actual impression count. In other words, you can find what is the hot news today, this week, or this month in real time at Spotplex. It is not a list of articles people recommended or voted for, but a list of articles read most in a given timeframe.

Bloggers can track and analyze their blog traffic with a simple Spotplex code or widget. Not just how many people visit the blog, they can even find which articles people read most and how many people read them. Whenever an article of the blog is read, it will show up at Spotplex in real-time and get noticed by Spotplex users, thus more people will see your blog articles.

How Spotplex works?

1. A blogger inserts a Spotplex code into their blog.
2. Whenever an article in the blog is read, the code reports Spotplex server that the article is read.
3. The article shows up on Spotplex and the view counter reflects the change.

How to get Spotplex code for your blog?
Just click the "Get your Spotplex code for your blog" link from the main page and register your blog.
Then, your blog will be analyzed by Spotplex and a code/widget suitable for your blog type will be generated. Your blog view can be tracked with either a code or widget.
How can I monitor the performance of my blog?
Every blog has its own page at Spotplex. You can go to the page by entering:

http://www.spotplex.com/code/(your code number)

or simply enter your code number in the search box and choose search type as code number. You can also go to the page by clicking the Spotplex button you placed on your blog page.

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2007-09-19T12:44:00.000+05:00

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Free email protection tool

2007-05-29T13:28:00.000+05:00

Every blogger would like his readers to be able to contact him. The most obvious way is to display your email address on your blog. The problem is that we are all afraid of spam. Spam bots and spam harvesters are crawling the web for users emails to inundate them with tons of stuff they are not interested in. So what's the solution?
Spam bots can only grab email addresses if they are in textual form. What if we could display them in a graphic. Well that would beat those peeping toms. Here are the steps that you need to follow to create a graphic image of your email address for you blog readers;

Visit this page
The tool is called E-Mail Icon Generator
You'll find three text boxes.
The first text box is for your user name at the email service provider (the part before the @ symbol).
The second drop-down box is for choosing the email service provider. You can choose your email service provider from amongst 25 services like hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc.
The third drop-down is supposed to give users a choice but there is no choice since it has only one entry i.e. .com.
After you have made your choices, press the generate button.
Your email graphic will be displayed.
A copy of the image is saved on the nexodyne servers. A link to the saved graphic is provided so you can display it on your blog. Here's the sample of the email icon that I generated for myself.
You are also provided a link so that you can save the graphic to your hard disk (in png format).
In return nexodyne requests that you place a link to their page so that others may also benefit. (Well what more do you want nexodyne, I wrote a whole article about your service).
You may also find some links to other services that nexodyne is offering.

Well thats it folks. Use this service to dodge those email hunters lurking in the dark corners of the internet ready to grab your email addresses.

Find out your site's ranking in search engines!

2007-04-21T15:11:00.000+05:00

Now you've been working real hard to make your blog worthy of visits. You've been applying all the different search engine optimization techniques you could lay your hands on. Now its time to find out how your blog, web site or a page ranks with the major search engines. Here's how you can find out your blog's ranking;

Visit this page
Enter the keywords that you think should make your site/page appear in a search engines search results page in the first text box.
Enter the URL of your site in the next text box.
Next comes the text box that says " Your Google™ SOAP API Key*:". You only need an API Key if you include Google™ in the search engines list ). (What's a SOAP API Key?). The fact is that if you don't know what a SOAP API Key is its of no use trying to figure out what it is or where to get it? (Google is not giving out anymore of them). The problem is without this key you can't use this online tool to find out your rankings with Google. (Don't loose heart as yet, MSN, Yahoo! and Ask are still there to query).
If you do have that key, you can click the "Remember my key" so that on your next visit you don't have to manually enter it again. It'll be remembered by the cookie placed on your system.
Next select the search engines you want to query (exclude Google if you don't have the key) by clicking the check box next to each search engines name.
Next select the number of top sites you want your search to be limited to. You can select from 40 to 1000 as the number of top search results to query for your site.
Last thing left for you to do is to press the "What's my rank?" button.
Google Rankings will go to work; querying the selected search engines for the listing of your site (if search engine is queried for the key word you entered in the first text box). It will display results as they become available.
You can modify your search for another keyword and repeat the process (until either you give up or you find yourself listed with the search engine(s).

If you don't find your blog listed in the search engines, don't loose hope. keep adding that great content (content is the king) and tweak your site a bit. maybe next time you'll find yourself enlisted and hopefully some traffic will follow.

Free Search Engine Simulator!

2007-04-19T15:09:00.000+05:00

Want to see how a search engine crawler sees your page? Yeah optimize it before that crucial visit. Here's step by step guide to find out how your page is seen by a search engine bot;

Visit this page
Enter your complete URL in the only text box on this page (including http://).
Press "Submit Query" button (or the "Reset" button if you have made a mistake and want to redo typing).
You'll be taken to a new page with the relevant information.
The first text box will show the URL you just typed.
The second text box will show the Title of your page.
Next comes Meta Description, as extracted from your site.
Next is Meta Keywords text box.
And last one is the complete text found on your page.

Well thats all there is to it folks. Hope you found some useful insight into your site as seen by search engine bots. Keep visiting for more related posts.
Have a nice day!

Find out which pages of your blog are being indexed by search engines!

2007-04-18T15:24:00.000+05:00

Want to know exactly which pages from your blog/site are being indexed by search engines? Well here is a free online tool that helps you find out exactly that. Here are the steps to you should follow to achieve that:

Visit this page
Enter your blog/site URL in the first text box.
Enter 3 more URL's in the next 3 text boxes. Your URL will be compared to these ones. Or you could enter web addresses of 3 more of your blogs or web sites (convenient hun?)
Enter the numerical access code in the small text box.
Press "Submit" button.
Search Engine Saturation shows the number of pages a given search engine has in its index for your website. This Search Engine Saturation tool is useful in determining which pages of your website are already listed in Alltheweb, AltaVista, AOL, Google, HotBot and Inktomi.
Results will be shown on a new page.
Results are displayed in a table form, with search engines displays as columns and number of pages indexed by each along the rows. Totals are also shown in another column.

A real useful tool for evaluating your performance. You can also see which search engine is more friendly towards your type of pages. You must give this tool a try. I highly recommend it. It will give your ego something to boast about.

Is your blog ranked in search engines?

2007-04-18T14:28:00.000+05:00

So you are itching to find out what's your blog's/web site's rank in search engines? Are you in top 50 or not? Well I've found a tool for you that will let you find that out. Oh, and yes, its absolutely free. No download and installation either. Its online, available whenever you're online. So here are the steps to check your blog ranking;

Visit this page
Enter your blog/site URL in the first text box.
Enter the keyword (or phrase) that you think should make you appear on search results when typed into the search engines search box.
Enter the access code into the small text box.
Hit "Check Rank" button.
Search Engine Position Tool will query the major search engines and check if your website appears in the first 50 of a search engine result for a specified keyword.
Results will be shown on a new page.
Positions from these search engines will be shown; Google, AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, FAST and AltaVista.

I hope that you find yourself in the top 50 ranks (if you are already there, what are you doing over here; it is me who should be visiting you instead. Leave your contact info).

Increase your blog's visibility with meta tags!

2007-04-17T05:38:00.000+05:00

So you want to be listed in search engines! Well you'll need to add some meta tags to your site/blog template. Here is a way to generate some meta's for free;

Visit this page
Enter your site's description in the first text box.
Add some keywords that describe your blog in the next text box (comma separate each keyword).
Add the number seconds after which your blog/site should be refreshed by the browser.
Select the action that search engine robots perform. Choices are index this page and follow all links, don't index this page and don't follow the links, index this page but don't follow any links and don't index this page but follow the links.
Next enter the copy write notice.
Next enter Author's name (your name).
Next text box is for generator (the software that was used to generate the page)
Next text box is for the language in which the site is displayed.
Last text box is for the search engine robot. It specifies the number of days after which your site should be visited again by the search engine crawler.
Press the generate button (or the reset button if you have the energy to go through he process all over again.
All your meta tags are generated and presented in the last text box. now all you have to do is to copy them into your site's template (or main page).

Well that's all folks for now. Hope this tool help bring some more traffic to your site. Happy blogging!

Free link popularity checker!

2007-04-15T23:12:00.000+05:00

Want to find out how popular your blog is? Want to find out how many sites are linking to you? Want to see your blog compared to some other blog on link popularity charts? Well here is how you achieve all the above;

Visit this page
Enter your sites URL in the first text box.
You can enter 3 more site addresses in the next 3 text boxes.
Enter the access code being displayed in the text box next to it.
Hit submit button.
You'll be taken to a new page.
The first thing you'll notice is a color chart that shows the number of incoming links against different colors for easy recognition.
Incoming links are gathered form these search engines; Google, AOL, HotBot, MSN, Yahoo, FAST and Alta Vista.
You can also view link popularity of 17 other sites (other than those you entered) and these include Microsoft, apache, hotscripts etc. (The stats for these sites do put our stats to shame).

Well! that was it folks. Go check those stats. If they are disappointing, start working on your blogs with more vigor. And you'll see some better stats next time you use this online tool.

Free Keyword density analysis!

2007-04-13T14:43:00.000+05:00

Want to find out what keywords represent your blog? Well here is a free online tool for doing just that.

Keyword density is important because search engines use this information to categorize a site's theme, and to determine which terms the site is relevant to. The perfect keyword density will help achieve higher search engine positions. Keyword density needs to be balanced correctly (too low and you will not get the optimum benefit, too high and your page might get flagged for “keyword spamming”).

The keyword density tool is useful for helping webmasters and SEOs achieve their optimum keyword density for a set of key terms. Use the keyword density analyzer to determine the optimum keyword density for your web site's keywords.

Just follow the step by step guide below to perform a keyword density analysis on your blog site;

Visit this page
Enter the complete URL of the page you want to analyze (don't forget to include "http://" at the beginning of the URL)
In the next text box you'll see some words to ignore while analyzing the page for keywords. These are words that are not important for keyword analysis. If you feel you need to add some more words, type them in the text box (separate each word with a space).
Enter the minimum and maximum character length to be ignored in the next 2 text boxes. This will further filter out irrelevant keywords.
Hit "Analyze" button (or reset button if you are willing to do all the typing again)
The Keyword Density Analyzer will read the page you specify and give a report what words are used and how many times they are used. Report will be presented in a three column table with these heads (arranged in descending order); word, repeats and density.
You'll also find the total number of unique words and total number of words found at the specified URL.

That's all folks. Perform a keyword density analysis. See for yourself how does your page appear to search engine bots. Optimize to get some better ranking.
Have a nice day!

Check your blog's page rank!

2007-04-13T04:19:00.000+05:00

Do you want to find out how important a particular page of your blog is on the internet? Well there is a way to find out out. Follow the step by step instructions below and see the results for yourself:

Visit this page
Enter the URL(s) (don't forget to add "http://" before each URL) of the pages you want to rank check. You can add a maximum of 20 URLs.
Enter the Access code in the text box.
Click "Get PageRank" button.
If you want to change the URLs to page rank click "Reset" button.
Page rank will be shown on a scale of 10 (with 0 being least important and 10 being the most important)

Well thats it folks. Its was such a simple task.
Happy blogging and a nice day to you. Keep visiting.

Submit your blog to Search engines!

2007-04-11T20:49:00.000+05:00

Following is a list of some Directories and Search Engines where you can submit your blogs (and hopefully some traffic will follow):