Exactly 2 months ago(on Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 at 8:19 pm ) i blogged about the first PR update that hit my blog . Finally my homepage got the appreciation it deserves and got attributed Pagerank 5(iwebtool predicted PR 6, but who can trust it?)

Remember what i said in the first pr update post:

I really hope that on next pagerank update my main page will also get pagerank 4-5. The only problem is that i will have to work my ass off to get it:).

Now i can start monetizing my blog(i currently make about 120$/month from affiliate programs earnings), don’t worry i won’t fill every inch of your screen with ads. You won’t sense the difference, because there won’t be any, except the banners will change.

Once again i used the Google Pagerank checker tool made by SEO Junkie , and here are the stats:

(click image to see full stats)

In the stats picture i didn’t include the pages which didn’t get any pagerank value attributed, if you wish to see the full stats visit the stats page.

Releasing themes really got me a great value of IBLs(inbound links) which contributed to the high value of the index’s pagerank. Now the only thing that i have to do is to manage to keep it.

Technorati

Over at technorati thaslayer.com has 760 authority value and a rank of 5,251 with 847 blog reactions

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In other news Google still didn’t send the payment to those publishers who had their payments canceled due to a deposit payment technical error, and 10th may is arriving faster than the french TGV.

Although with the new theme my blog traffic almost doubled(really) i’m thinking of getting a bit more traffic and backlinks by doing link exchanges.

I posted a thread over at DigitalPoint:

Title: Blogroll Link exchange with blogs from Web design/development/IT & C niche

Hello, i’m looking for a link exchange with some blogs from Web design/development/IT & C niche which have atleast 300 unique visitors/day

the links will be placed in blogroll and will be shown sitewide

My blog gets about 300-500unique visitors/day

You can check out the pagerank of my blog’s pages by clicking here

if your interested PM me please with your blog’s URL and traffic details

cheers,
Tom

In a matter of 6 hours i got like 7 offers from which i accepted only one. The rest of them wanted to do 3 way link exchanges with me and they would have placed my link on a so called partners page which actually contains links to dozens of sites.

Some people think they can motivate others to make 3 way link exchanges by saying “the partner page has pr3″. So what if it has pr3?, the pagerank’s value is dropping day by day. Webmasters have learned that the world isn’t spinning around the pagerank and there are more important factors to consider when doing link exchanges.

It doesn’t matter where you post the link exchange, as long as you manually check and add the links. I saw many blogs that use a script which automatically adds the links to the page after submission.

An other important thing is to exchange with sites in your niche(category), if you exchange links with travel sites and your blog is about Computers than surely you won’t get traffic. Also try to make link exchanges with sites that get at least the same amount of traffic that yours does.

Limit the number of exchanged links to 5-15 otherwise you will fill your websites footer/sidebar with lots and lots of links.

After you exchanged links constantly check if your link is still intact on your partner’s webpage. If he removed it do the same and never deal with him again. Also if you see that your webpage isn’t getting any traffic from the partner’s website cancel the link exchange by letting your partner know it’s not worth it for you.

If you do smart link building you will notice great results in a short period and both you and your link exchange partner will be pleased of it.

Most probably you know that the Pagerank update is in full progress. Well many pages of my blog got a pagerank value attributed, but the weird thing is that my homepage got pagerank 2, and some posts got pagerank 4.

The highest PR one of my posts got is Pagerank 5. I was expecting for a higher pagerank for the post 16 FREE web 2.0 fonts for your designs because it had lots of backlinks from pretty popular blogs in the blogoshpere.

Lets hope that i will benefit from this and will get the possibility to earn more from my blog and sell some 125×125 ads in the sidebar(a little extra revenue besides the revenue from designing templates is better than nothing). I think that the main goal of every blogger is that to get his blog to generate as much passive revenue as possible.

I spent quite a lot of time searching for a tool that can check the pagerank of all internal pages of a site(when you have a blog, or a site, or especially a forum a tool like that can come really handy).

The first thing that i did was to check out the tools over at iwebtool.com. The only tool that i found was the visual Pagerank tool, but that didn’t help me much because if i would have used that tool all the way i would have wasted a lot of time navigating on pages.

I tried other tools like:

http://www.pagerank-monitor.com/

http://www.vidnasty.com/sitemap/test.php

http://www.livepr.info/internal-pages-page-rank3.php

http://www.rightscripts.com/pagerank/

…but neither of them did tehir job as they should have done it.

Eventually i found the Google Pagerank checker tool made by SEO Junkie , i downloaded it, used it and it did its job like a charm!

The tool is a desktop aplication for windows. You have to enter the URL of your site and it will use the search query site:www.yoursite.com . Then it will build a list of the indexed pages by google and will display the pagerank attributed to them. It also generates a HTML file with the URL’s and the pagerank, the only problem is that it generates the file right after it finishes. A demo of the generated HTML file for my blog can be viewed HERE.You can organize the list, but the thing is that it doesn’t regenerate the HTML file with your organized list. I’ve sent a mail to the owner of SEO Junkie with a few suggestions which i hope will be implemented.

Here is a screenshot of the organized list:

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I really hope that on next pagerank update my main page will also get pagerank 4-5. The only problem is that i will have to work my ass off to get it:).

I am subscribed to Ernest’s mailing list. He made the wordpress ping list and shared it with his newsletter readers. I’m subscribed for more than 2 months and till now i’m really satisfied with his newsletter, he shared some great tips!You can subscribe to his mailing list from his blog: www.highendtools.com Trust me you won’t be dissapointed

This ping list can really help you gain extra traffic and higher SERP rankings. You need to add the list to your blog, and each time you write a post wordpress will ping all the following services:

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.amagle.com/

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/

http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

http://rpc.newsgator.com/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

http://www.blogoon.net/ping/

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2

http://www.wasalive.com/ping/

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

http://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/

http://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.

http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2

http://1470.net/api/ping

http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

http://bitacoras.net/ping

http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

http://www.blogoon.net/ping/

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://coreblog.org/ping/

http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php

http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

http://ping.amagle.com/

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/

http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc

http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.myblog.jp

http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://ping.weblogs.se/

http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/

http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2

http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php

http://www.catapings.com/ping.php

http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi

http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php

Adding the list to your blog:

Head over to your wordpress AdminCP -> there select the Options tab -> select writing sub-tab -> scroll down to Update services

When you publish a new post, WordPress automatically notifies the following site update services. For more about this, see Update Services on the Codex. Separate multiple service URLs with line breaks.

Paste the list in the empty field and update the options. Simple as that, from now on you don’t have to do anything except writing posts.

You may have noticed that for quite a while seomoz.com has a Seo quiz.

The quiz consists in 75 SEO related questions and the result is pretty accurate judging by the complexity of the questions and the way they are phrased.

My quiz results:

You scored 109/255 points (43%)

To be honest i answered correctly some of the questions thanks to my intuition. I’m a designer not a SEO or SEM expert. Those of you who work in the SEO or SEM branch will surely get a better result.

In the end of the quiz you will have the possibility to check your answers and see where you messed up.

I say it again: I highly recommend that you take the quiz even if you think you are a SEO dummy, take it 1,2,3,n times you have absolutely nothing to loose, infact you have great chances of learning some SEO

Link to the quiz: http://www.seomoz.org/seo-expert-quiz/take

Remember about 6 months ago some of the Iwebtool Tools were broken and either didn’t work or they showed inaccurate data? Well history is repeated, some of the tools mysteriously got broken again.

Before i begin just a quick reminder: If you click the title of the tool it will take you to the tool’s page, all the images are enlargeable by clicking them.

1) Google Pagerank Prediction:

For every website it displays Insufficient backlinks* even for google, yahoo,live etc

2) Link popularity tool:

You can notice that the pagerank isn’t displayed “/10″ and that the data is very innacurate:

Here are the results from Google:

Results 1 - 10 of about 3,090,000 linking to google.com

Here are the results from Yahoo:

1-10 of 103,000,000 for google . com

3) Pagerank Checker:

Notice that the tool can’t connect to some of the datacenters(the DC’s are working) and classifies them as Datacenter down.

I’m just wondering how much will it take to get the tools fixed(last time it took almost 3 months till they got back to normal) and what do the sponsors have to say(if i would have sponsored a tool and the tool stopped working i would probably tell them to fix the tool or give a refund.

I bought the scripts about half year ago, they we’re buggy, had lots and lots of notices and they we’re vulnerable to attacks.The scripts we’re made for php4.x(they we’re probably made long long ago) , but as technology progresses improvements are made and so php 5.x was launched.

At first we didn’t know what to do with the scripts: delete them or keep them, but eventually we kept them. We started working on the tools about 2 months ago, what we basically did was that we rewrote the tools fixing all the errors and malfunctions with security problems and added ajax(we love ajax) features to them and implemented a flood control feature to minimize server load, we also integrated the tools page with vbulletin for improved usability.

You can find the tools at www.webarea.ro/tools

We currently have 13 fully working SEO tools for you to use:

Multi Rank Checker
Check Multiple Ranking Indexes like Google PageRank and Alexa Ranking for upto 10 URLS at a time. You can check multiple website’s rankings by typing each domain name in different rows.

Spider View
A search engine spider is the piece of software which crawls your website, indexing the content in the search engine’s database. Our tool will simmulate a search engine spider and will show you your page just the way a Search Engine Spider sees it.

Link Suggestion
Use this advanced tool for finding links from search engine. We offer 3 types of search: In title - In quotes - Normal Search that will allow you to find the links you are looking for just a mouseclick away.

Fake Rank Checker
Want to buy a link on a website and you want to make sure its PR is real and not forged? Then this is the perfect tool for you! This tool will check if a page’s PR is valid or forged.

Google Banned Checker
Google bot didn’t visit your web page for a while? Are you affraid that your web page got banned on Google? This is the right tool to check it.

Keyword density checker
This tool will allow you to analyze your web page’s keyword density giving you the ability to define the filters.

Link Popularity
Link popularity checker will check your backlinks on 3 major search engines: Google, MSN and Yahoo, it will also display the total number of your backlinks form all 3 search engines combined displaying your website’s Google PR along with them.

Multiple Keyword SEO Position
Check your ranking by multiple keywords on any of the 3 major search engines: Google, MSN and Yahoo.

No Follow checker
This tool will check if the specified link has a NO-FOLLOW attribute on the defined page that it is on.

Reciprocal Link Check
Don’t bother visiting your partner’s websites to check if your link is present on their pages, this tool will instantly check if your link is present on the defined pages.

View HTTP Headers
Check the HTTP Headers of any web page. Http headers can provide important information of a web page like the server it is running on,the cache, the content type.

Search Engine Position
Check your website’s position on the 3 major search engines: Google, MSN and yahoo by a specified keyword, you have the possibility to set the limit from Top 100 to Top 1000.

Search Engine Saturation
Check the search engine saturation of 4 websites in the same time and compare the results, this tool can help you visualize where you and your competitiors stand.

We are currently on the embed system, you will be able to embed the scripts on your page using php(use php if you are sure that URL file-access is enabled in the server configuration file) or html , the php embeding system is finished and probably tomorrow the html embed system will be done also.

Although our forum is a romanian webmaster forum i will make a category for discussions/suggestions about the tools for tool users. The category will be open for guest posting also and will be moderated(to filter spam)

Any suggestions/feedback are welcome on our forum or on commenting this blog-post.

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