I have become somewhat irregular with this blog. I have got busier with my work and it doesn’t help my energy at all. Writing a good post after a long day and again in front of internet is not an easy task, at least not for a lazy guy like me
But I have planned to write on this topic for some days now. And yes, Yahoo does support nofollow attribute much like Google. If you add a nofollow tag in a link, Yahoo crawler will index it. But the link will not be considered for ranking of the target page. Here is what they have said officially on their help page:
The Yahoo! Slurp web crawler obeys the rel=”nofollow” attribute for links. Web publishers and blog owners can apply a rel=”nofollow” attribute to any hyperlink on their page to indicate that the link may not be an approved or trusted link.
Note: Yahoo! Slurp may use a “nofollow” link for discovering content, but the link will not be considered an “approved” link for consideration when ranking the target page.
If you would like to read the whole article, click here. So if you have been using nofollow attribute for Google search, you have been automatically taking care of Yahoo too
Today I found out a coupon code for NetFirms. Using it you can buy .com, .org or .net domain name with just $1. And unlike GoDaddy coupon code for $1 domain name registration, you don’t have to pay by credit card. You can use Paypal to make your payment. So when you register any of the above tlds from NetFirms, just enter this coupon code “DOLLARDOMAIN”. Grab the opportunity as most of you know NetFirms is as trustworthy name as GoDaddy or NameCheap itself
First of all, I dont use Google Analytics as my visitor tracker. This blog is not a business site and I have been quite happy with Ritecounter.com for more than a few years now. It gives me all the traffic statistics that I need.
Google Analytics generally updates your reports every 24 hours. This means that it could take 24 hours for data to appear in your account after you have first installed the tracking code.
See the first line carefully. So Google Analytics doesn’t update your visitor statistics in real time. It may get delayed by a day. So if you just compare your site stats with another real time site tracker you may get different results. Don’t get confused about it.
By the way, I am not telling you to avoid using Google Analytics because at least I know what kind of detailed stats you get from them
Well, the title sums up pretty much everything. Some days back I told you about the working version of NoDofollow that was made by a fellow blogger to make the add-on work with Firefox 3.6. But today I checked the official Firefox add-on page for NoDofollow. And after a long delay the original developer has released the updated version that will work with the latest Firefox. So enjoy this nice little plugin.
Today I was going through an interview of Matt Cutts at StoneTemple Consulting that was published about 10 days ago. And here this fact about 301 redirect caught my eyes. When we move to our new domain we usually use 301 redirect to seamlessly redirect our users and search engines to our new urls from the old ones. And most of us, the webmasters know that pagerank juice and link popularity will be added by Google from the old domain after some time.
Well, that is still true. But think about this case. Somebody has linked to your old domain url. So first the link juice will be passed to the old domain and as you are using 301 redirect it will be passed to your new domain. But there will be natarul decay of link juice while passing from one link to another. Matt Cutts has confirmed this case. So you will still gain most of the PR but there will be some leakage of link juice. Here is what Matt Cutts had to say about it:
Eric Enge: Let’s say you move from one domain to another and you write yourself a nice little statement that basically instructs the search engine and, any user agent on how to remap from one domain to the other. In a scenario like this, is there some loss in PageRank that can take place simply because the user who originally implemented a link to the site didn’t link to it on the new domain?
Matt Cutts: That’s a good question, and I am not 100 percent sure about the answer. I can certainly see how there could be some loss of PageRank. I am not 100 percent sure whether the crawling and indexing team has implemented that sort of natural PageRank decay, so I will have to go and check on that specific case. (Note: in a follow on email, Matt confirmed that this is in fact the case. There is some loss of PR through a 301).
So be a bit more serious while going for a new domain for your site
This backlink strategy has been already used by some other bloggers. And I am going by this tried and tested method. Here is the deal. Just write a short review post of my blog with a backlink. And give me that blog post link of yours. I will linkback to it from here as my thanks to you. I have always believed a backlink from a blog post is better than a blogroll link. It helps you to build authority for your blog.
Currently my blog is having a PR 3. So in return of a short review you will get a free backlink from a pagerank 3 blog and that is also in a post body. It will surely help your link popularity especially if your blog is new.
Just remember your blog must not have anything related to illegal, gambling or adult content. And it should have at least 15 blog posts so that I can be sure that you are sincere about blogging.
So thanks blogger buddies.
Here is the list of your blog posts that have reviewed this blog:
Have your ever checked your page load time with Google Page Speed? Perhaps you have checked the site loading time using some other speed test services. But you can do it by using Google’s own Page Speed Service. For that you need FireBug addon with Firefox web browser. But frankly speaking, I was never not too excited about it. The page speed activity looked somewhat clumsy to me. First of all, it will display all the request and response times for whole open browsing session. That means if you have more than a site opened in your Firefox then the log will get mixed up with all the service times across the domains in a single console. And the individual request time just comes and goes through the console. So when a processing is finished like a image loading or Javascript execution, those timings will vanish from console. If you want to monitor times, you have to stop Page Speed Activity in the middle of page loading. That is rather inconvenient. By the way, check this manual from Google to learn in detail how to test page load speed of a single site and monitor times in log.
But one thing that stands out is analyzing performance using Page Speed.
So it will have a thorough check-up of your page and give you a overall score out of hundred. And it will list all the problems from DNS request, url redirection, image loading to CSS, Javascript or caching problems. You may find out a few things that you really need to tweak.
I have used NoDofollow add-on for Firefox for a long time now. It is actually my favourite Firefox addon, just a little one effective enough to show you dofollow and nofollow links. But as I upgraded Firefox to latest version 3.6 some days ago, I found NoDofollow is not woking with it. So I waited and waited for the original developer to make an update to support it for latest Firefox. But it hasn’t happened yet. But today I found an unofficial version of NoDofollow that supports Firefox 3.6. You can find it in Scott Miller’s blog. I tested it personally in my Firefox 3.6 and it is working perfectly.
So now you have a few more templates to choose from if you strictly use blog templates from Blogger’s own gallery. But what is more important, all these 15 new Blogger templates are highly customizable giving you more control over the style and look. Each of these templates come with one, two and three column layouts and you will have complete control over the size and arrangement of the columns. Then you can choose any color or make your own custom color to apply it to your new Blogger template. Not only the color, you can also change the whole background with any picture from iStockphoto. There are hundreds of images to choose from. And the best thing is that you do it without affecting your blog live online. Just select the “Template Designer” tab to have a live preview while editing.
Here is a cool and short video from Blogger that will take you through a quick tour.
This new feature is only in Blogger Draft right now. So if you want to try it to your blogspot blog you just have to login there. And why not? It is your chance to make your blogspot blog more beautiful
Each time you edit your blog post WordPress sends a ping to the blog pinging services automatically. So if you edit the post several times after it has been published, WordPress will send pings same number of times unnecessarily. Blog directories and blog ping services like Ping-o-Matic track those pings & based upon the frequency of those pings they may consider your blog as a potential spam & ban it from their services.
So if you update your blog posts a lot, you better have some extra protection from being marked as a spammer. There are some plugins that can prevent WordPress autoping. One popular WordPress plugin is MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. You just have to install it. Then you will get the options to enable and disable pinging. Even you can set the maximum number of pings at a certain time interval like one ping in 15 minutes. And from the log below the page you can find the pings that the plugin has prevented and the pings that went through. A cool plugin altogether. But for activation of this plugin you have to submit your email address and click on the confirmation link in the email. From then on, you will receive newsletters and offers from MaxBlogPress. You can unsubscribe from the mailing list any time.
But what if you get the exact same plugin without having to disclose your email address? CBNet Ping Optimizer is just a perfect alternative to MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. Everything is same. You will get the exact same functionalities and same user interface and you don’t have to register your email address.
