This tool will query Google’s various data centers to check for any changes in PageRank values for a given URL. Usually all data centers will output the same, but if queried during an update, you might get a glimpse of any upcoming changes in your chosen URL’s PageRank value.
The following video of Problogger’s Social Media Marketing Guru highlight 4 simple, but often overlooked or misused very important tips in regard to marketing and promoting your brand/reputation on your blog or in the Twitterverse.
In summary, the 4 tips:
Participate Actively - Avoid silently stalking your friends or followers
Maintain a Constant Presence - Don’t vanish for weeks or months at a time and re-emerge with a barrage of posts or tweets
Add-Value - Posting or tweeting continuously about yourself isn’t the ticket, help out the community, participate
Become Bait - By following the above, you are encouraging others to ’sell yourself’
Who’s your Daddy? GoDaddy? The French Maids of FrenchMaidTV.com put together a little video to help you register a domain name with GoDaddy. Which, is one of the most popular (and affordable) places to register a domain name on the web.
Ever wanted a domain name with options like website hosting with multiple domains and more? It’s easy! Just watch the video!
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I befriended Netscape Navigator the first time in a North Idaho College campus computer lab in the mid 90s. I loved watching the “N” sphere spin away while Navigator diligently processed packets! This was back in the days when you could break a chat room by not closing an html tag.
The Internet has come a long way since then, and so has one of the original web browsers. Sadly, 2007 marks the end of an era for Netscape. AOL acquired Netscape Communications Corporation in 1999, and 9 years later is handing it over to Mozilla, which in-turn will encourage users to adopt Firefox.
Displays the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and Compete ranking anywhere in your browser. Also includes quick access to fast keyword density analyzer, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links and other SEO tools.
If you operate a small business, and have a web presence for said business, you are probably interested in traffic. And, if you operate locally, getting local eyes on your site may be even more important.
It’s no secret. Google is king of search engine traffic… including regional, or local traffic. This is the type of traffic that comes from searches that are followed by the name of a city or city/state combo. Punch-in: ‘coffee shops boise, id’ in Google to see what I mean, or click here.
When a search like this is preformed, Google displays a ‘Local Business Results’ entry that includes a map at the top of the results.
If you’re not listed in Google’s Local Business results you are missing out on local traffic and potential customers. Lucky for you, getting listed is easy and free. Like I said, First Things First.
To get listed, head over to Google’s Local Business Center to start the submission process. After you submit your information, Google will give you a call to verify, then you’re good to go!
Once your site is indexed, it will start showing with local search results. Your listing also enables customers with a review tool and a handy dandy map to lead them directly to your business.
If you use Twitter, you might be interested in Twit This; a handy little tool that allows your visitors to eaisly Tweet about your latest blog post, website or URL.
“Twitter is a community of friends and strangers from around the world sending updates about moments in their lives. Friends near or far can use Twitter to remain somewhat close while far away. Curious people can make friends. Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool. Developers can use the API to make Twitter tools of their own. Possibilities are endless!”
Twit This Defined
Twit This is a quick and easy way for your visitors to send in a Tweet about your blog post, website or URL. Clicking on the Twit This button or link allows Twitter users to Tweet your post to all of their Twitter friends.
FeedBlitz users, you are in for a real tweet, I mean treat; your users can elect to subscribe to your content via Twitter as well as AIM, Skype and regular old E-Mail
Other Ways to Twit This
Use the Twit This bookmarklet to quickly send in a Tweet about the page you are currently viewing.
Exactly what are backlinks, and why are they important?
Basically, backlinks represent incoming links, inward links and inlinks; any and all links on external websites/blogs/profiles etc. that refer to the URL of your web presence. Although simple by nature, they can however affect SEO efforts and Google PageRank formulations.
The following tools will help analyze backlinks to your website, page, blog, profile and/or whatever you’ve got with a URL. Backlink text will be revealed as well; which is the text used to link to you.
The Top 10 Analysis SEO Tool
Find the top 10 results in Google, including your URL, for any search phrase. The top 10 tool also shows the Yahoo! rank, pages indexed, number of backlinks and additional related information.
After you type in 10 or less domains this report generates the backlinks for each of the domains entered. Includes the external domains that link to at least two of the domains entered.