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Alexa has finally released their much anticipated toolbar for Firefox Browser. Nicknamed "Sparky" the browser plugin accompanies you as you surf, providing useful information about the sites you visit without interrupting your Web browsing. There are also quick links on a popup context menu that allow you to learn about a site’s Traffic Trend information or find Related Links no matter what site you are on.

The Alexa Toolbar is used by Alexa to calculate website traffic details based on the data gathered from the community. Up until now, I’ve been using the Quirk Search Status plugin that shows not only Alexa data but Google PageRank data as well. The new Alexa plugin, co-habitates nicely with my Search Status plugin and it is much faster than the IE version.

If you’re a Firefox user and are interested in downloading the Alexa toolbar plugin, follow this link.

Download Alexa Toolbar for Firefox

Cheers

         

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As usual, I somehow managed to miss Matt Cutt’s post regarding the Google Webmaster Console which allows webmasters to check backlinks to their website amongst other helpful tools. The Webmaster Console is designed to find more accurate listings of backlinks to your site than the previous "link:" Google search. You can also download the backlinks in the popular CSV format which opens the potential for SQL and database hounds to write a variety of applications centered around the data.

In addition to the backlink checker, there are Crawl Stats (statistics for pages Googlebot has crawled), Page Analysis (which shows you how Googlebot sees your site) and a handy robots.txt analysis tools to manage which bots to allow access to your site. Another great feature is the Preferred Domain tool which allows you to tell Googlebot how you want URLs to display in the index if www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com point to the same site. This is a will certainly be helpful with canonicalization issues (if you don’t know what canonicalization is, you can read Matt’s blog post about it SEO advice: url canonicalization).

The Google Webmaster Console is free of charge, however you are required to validate that you are the owner of your website by either placing a META tag on your index page or by placing an html file on your site for Google to approve access.

This is an excellent and impressive set of tools that I recommend all webmasters check out !!

         

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I was searching for a way to remove the [tag]nofollow[/tag] tag from my blog’s comments so that positive, non-spam comments would be credited with a backlink for their efforts. Considering I moderate all the comments to my blogs, I don’t mind, and encourage readers to post comments with links back to their own sites or blogs as long as they are not doing it for spam purposes. I came across an interesting article on the More Earnings via Search Engine Optimization Blog…

WordPress Comments and rel=nofollow

It seems the author agrees with my philosophy of using spam filters and moderation while rewarding comments that are on topic and relevant to the discussion. If you wish to configure your Wordpress software to remove the nofollow attribute from comments, you should definitely check out the article mentioned above.

Once again, regarding research I was doing on [tag]Google Pagerank[/tag], I came across a very informative post on Matt Cutt’s Blog that is quite eye opening and explains a lot about the in’s and out’s of how PageRank actually works. This article is a must read if you haven’t already…

More info on PageRank

Matt addresses the discussion in a question and answer style, and I’d suggest anybody aspiring to learn more about [tag]SEO[/tag] (Search Engine Optimization) read this article and in general read Matt’s fantastic blog.

I thought both of these articles would be of interest to the readers of this blog, hope you like them !!!

         

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It’s been almost 100 days since the last major [tag]PageRank[/tag] update by [tag]Google[/tag], but we’re pleased to see a number of bloggers reporting seeing changes in their sites PageRank over the last few days. Here’s a few of the bloggers ringing in about the update.

Mark Barrera - Google Rolling Out PageRank Update
Gleb Reys - Google PageRank Update: We’re PR 5!
Search-Placement Blog - Google PageRank Update: We’re PR 5!
MyQuestToEarn Blog - Some updates and Pagerank!!

Congratulations to all those receiving PageRank updates, hopefully we’ll be seeing some PR on this site !!

         

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