Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category
What is the ‘nofollow’ attribute?
May 1st, 2009 | Author: Jeremy
There are many web directories around that offer free links. This often seems like a great idea. However, you may be unaware that many of these use this attribute when providing free links.
So what is it and why should you be bothered?
According to Wikipedia
“nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring.”
A link using the attribute rel=”nofollow” is not completely useless, visitors can still visit your web site through a link using this attribute, however you will be losing out when it comes to link popularity and search engine rankings.
What can you do about it?
First check out if the directory you are thinking of submitting to is using this attribute for its free links. If it is, pay for your listing if your link submission is mainly about building up Link Popularity.
If it is more about just being found on the internet then your free link may be useful even if it has nofollow.
At the end of the day a free link is a free link. If you have the time to submit it then go ahead. I have been amazed at the traffic that has come from weird, seemingly unknown directories.
YAWD - (Yet Another Web Directory)
March 18th, 2009 | Author: Jeremy
Yep! Just couldn’t live without putting together another Web Directory. This time it’s totally free, which is why I called it Totally Free Directory. From this you can probably guess the URL for the site, but in case you haven’t it’s www.totallyfreedirectory.com
It’s really free to submit your own web site or blog so why not do it now and build up your site’s Link Popularity.
Pinger Plug In
July 23rd, 2008 | Author: Jeremy
If you remember my article A Useful List of Pings you might be interested in a Wordpress Plug In that I came across that can help you manage pings. It’s called the MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer and you can get it from his blog.
RSS In Plain English
May 28th, 2008 | Author: Jeremy
I came across this rather interesting introduction to the concept of RSS. Many thanks to Common Craft:
Well, now that you know all about it, why not submit your RSS feed to my RSS Feeds Directory so that others can find your feed (and get another important link to build your Link Popularity).
Changes to Global Search Directory
May 24th, 2008 | Author: Jeremy
I have added the Link Popularity Widget Mod v 1.2 to Global Search Directory. This allows you to see information about a link in the directory, such as Alexa ranking, number of pages indexed by Google, Yahoo and MSN. It also shows if the site is indexed in the DMOZ or Yahoo directories. You can see more about the Mod at www.trsites.com/articles/article-20.html, and download it if you run a Directory site powered by PHPLink Directory.
You can see this information when you click the ‘detail’ link of a specific site in the directory. This is important information if you are considering contacting a site for reciprocal linking or advertising as you will be able to see which sites are getting high levels of traffic.
More detailed statistics for links at Global Search Directory
May 24th, 2008 | Author: Jeremy
I have added the Link Popularity Widget Mod v 1.2 to the directory. This allows you to see information about a link in the directory, such as Alexa ranking, number of pages indexed by Google, Yahoo and MSN. It also shows if the site is indexed in the DMOZ or Yahoo directories. You can see more about the Mod at www.trsites.com/articles/article-20.html, and download it if you run a Directory site powered by PHPLink Directory.
You can see this information when you click the ‘detail’ link of a specific site in the directory. This is important information if you are considering contacting a site for reciprocal linking or advertising as you will be able to see which sites are getting high levels of traffic.
New Page - Free Online Tools
May 6th, 2008 | Author: Jeremy
I’ve added a page of useful online SEO tools. Here you can check the Google Pagerank of any site and check to see if a site is banned by Google. I’ll add some more later on.
You can use them at www.asounddesign.co.uk/free-online-tools/
New RSS Feeds Directory Launched
May 5th, 2008 | Author: Jeremy
As part of the A Sound Design network of sites I have just launched a new directory. This is a more specialised directory as it is for RSS/XML Feeds only. In brief RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication‘ or ‘Rich Site Summary‘ and is an XML-based format for distributing content, such as news headlines and latest blog articles. If you you’d like to know more check out this article on Wikipedia.
For a limited time you can submit your RSS feed completely FREE. But get in quick as I will eventually be charging for submissions.
Submit your feed at www.rss-feeds-directory.info. Please tell others about the site too.
A Useful Lists of Pings
April 30th, 2008 | Author: Jeremy
The thing I like about blogs is their ability to inform popular sites that you have added new content without you having to do anything manually. For those of you who don’t know this is done by sending a Ping.
This has the potential to bring you instant traffic as people browsing sites like Technorati can see what is fresh content on your blog.
I’ve done a bit of research and have come up with what I think is a fairly comprehensive list of the most important services to ping. Add this to your blog admin area in ‘Settings - Writing Settings‘ and then ‘Update Services‘ at the bottom. Paste the list in there. (That’s the path for Wordpress blogs. Not sure of other blogs).
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
Please add a comment if you know of others to add.
Featured Links at Global Search Directory - now half price too
April 25th, 2008 | Author: Jeremy
For a limited time Featured Links at Global Search Directory are now half price too. They were £5.00 one off lifetime, but now only £2.50.
Get ‘em while they’re hot at www.globalsearchdirectory.com.
