Currently a free service, SubmitterBot will aid in submitting your website to over 450 directories. They also have submission tools for 98+ Social Bookmarking sites and 75+ Article Submission sites.
I have not tried this service yet, so I cannot attest to how effective it is. I did notice that some of the directories that I use are on their list.
If anything, the lists that they supply (with links) is a pretty valuable resource.
Directories
Social Bookmarks
Article Directories
Has anybody used this service yet? I would be interested in knowing what your results were, ease of use, etc. Comment below or join in the discussion at The BoG Forums in the SubmitterBot topic.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Webstractions Server & Blogging Platform Move
After a long drought in the blogging arena, I am back. Yet again. While I have been creating and launching blogs elsewhere on the web, I just haven't had time to actually post anything other than simple 'testing' posts.
I have just relocated this website to a new server at GoDaddy. My old hosting company was not bad, they were just too pricey. I am getting more than I had before for a quarter of the cost. Yes, more for less. Cannot beat that.
Technically, you can consider this just another 'test' post. I want to make sure that Blogger is publishing via FTP correctly.
Speaking of Blogger. That brings up another subject. I will also be switching blogging platforms to WordPress very soon.
An astute reader would begin to wonder why in the heck would I go through the hassle of making sure that Blogger FTP publishing is working correctly? If I tend to move to WordPress, why would any of that matter?
All very good questions. But the answers will have to wait. Actually, it will become very self evident over the next couple of weeks.
Time to push the Publish Post button. If all goes well, you will be reading about it right now. If not, forget I even made this post.
[UPDATE jan 6, 2009: A little hiccup with the server. Seems I have been down for a few days! Need to republish a couple of posts.]
I have just relocated this website to a new server at GoDaddy. My old hosting company was not bad, they were just too pricey. I am getting more than I had before for a quarter of the cost. Yes, more for less. Cannot beat that.
Technically, you can consider this just another 'test' post. I want to make sure that Blogger is publishing via FTP correctly.
Speaking of Blogger. That brings up another subject. I will also be switching blogging platforms to WordPress very soon.
An astute reader would begin to wonder why in the heck would I go through the hassle of making sure that Blogger FTP publishing is working correctly? If I tend to move to WordPress, why would any of that matter?
All very good questions. But the answers will have to wait. Actually, it will become very self evident over the next couple of weeks.
Time to push the Publish Post button. If all goes well, you will be reading about it right now. If not, forget I even made this post.
[UPDATE jan 6, 2009: A little hiccup with the server. Seems I have been down for a few days! Need to republish a couple of posts.]
Friday, June 15, 2007
NoOldSpamLinks Plugin for WordPress
I am not impressed easily by plugins in general, simply because there are just too many of them. But Lucia's NoOldSpamLinks Plugin for WordPress will get my award for Best Plugin of the year when it comes to be. The NoOldSpamLinks Plugin is in its infancy right now and a lot of work needs to be done to it still, but what I have seen so far is all good.
The premise behind NoOldSpamLinks is it will enable you to 'grandfather out' links to a domain that you have already posted about. Add the link to your NoOldSpamLinks list and everywhere that link appears in your posts will auto-magically change to NoFollow. Future enhancements of the plugin will account for any links in your Dofollow comment area as well.
Why would you want this plugin?
Simple. Imagine, if you will, a nice lady's blog GrannyMay. GrannyMay blogs about the retirement years and how to be financially well off when the time comes. She is a very hip senior citizen babe and knows her stuff, you have been blogging about her enthusiastically for years. Plus she has legs up to here, Chuck!
Then one day GrannyMay dies. It is sad and the blogging world mourns the loss. What is even sadder is that XXXpRoN.com just bought her domain for $1251.69 at auction, what a steal! GrannyMay has a PR6 site with hundreds of thousands of backlinks. Now everyone is linked to a hoochy-coochy site catering to Grandma fetishes. We always fantasized about GrannyMay, but this is just plain sick and you spend the rest of the day speaking to Ralph on the white telephone.
That is okay, you have NoOldSpamLinks handy and get rid of your attachment to GrannyMay by Nofollowing the links. At least in the eyes of Google, they will not be considered. It may take Google a little time to come around, but rest easy that it is taken care of --- the drastic change at GrannyMay will spur them to reassess those backlinks.
Keep an eye on the progress of this plugin. Drop by Lucia's blog, install the plugin and give him some feedback.
The premise behind NoOldSpamLinks is it will enable you to 'grandfather out' links to a domain that you have already posted about. Add the link to your NoOldSpamLinks list and everywhere that link appears in your posts will auto-magically change to NoFollow. Future enhancements of the plugin will account for any links in your Dofollow comment area as well.
Why would you want this plugin?
Simple. Imagine, if you will, a nice lady's blog GrannyMay. GrannyMay blogs about the retirement years and how to be financially well off when the time comes. She is a very hip senior citizen babe and knows her stuff, you have been blogging about her enthusiastically for years. Plus she has legs up to here, Chuck!
Then one day GrannyMay dies. It is sad and the blogging world mourns the loss. What is even sadder is that XXXpRoN.com just bought her domain for $1251.69 at auction, what a steal! GrannyMay has a PR6 site with hundreds of thousands of backlinks. Now everyone is linked to a hoochy-coochy site catering to Grandma fetishes. We always fantasized about GrannyMay, but this is just plain sick and you spend the rest of the day speaking to Ralph on the white telephone.
That is okay, you have NoOldSpamLinks handy and get rid of your attachment to GrannyMay by Nofollowing the links. At least in the eyes of Google, they will not be considered. It may take Google a little time to come around, but rest easy that it is taken care of --- the drastic change at GrannyMay will spur them to reassess those backlinks.
Keep an eye on the progress of this plugin. Drop by Lucia's blog, install the plugin and give him some feedback.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Testing Nofollow Fix
This is a simple test post for the Nofollow hack I wrote.
The testing is now complete, and I can announce that I have fixed the problem with unquoted Blogger variable tags. Pretty simple.
Will post the solution later this evening. Thanx for you patience on this matter.
The testing is now complete, and I can announce that I have fixed the problem with unquoted Blogger variable tags. Pretty simple.
Will post the solution later this evening. Thanx for you patience on this matter.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Blog Link Erosion : Interlinking Headed for Extinction
While nofollow is firmly entrenched into virtually every blogging platform, there are other forces at work that continue to hammer away at the now delicate interlinking structures of blogs. Interlinking, which made blogs a formidable search engine ranking powerhouse in the past is now headed toward the endangered species list with the latest method of wrongly advised SEO madness --- PageRank leakage damming.
Whether you call it link hoarding or PR dilution, PageRank leak theories have been around for years. There have not been any solid provable studies on the effects of external links in regards to PR leakage and its relationship to how that may affect your ranking in organic search engine results. PR leaking has always been an over-hyped link baiting topic used by SEO-types who just want what you want --- more links.
The leakage theory is too overly simplistic in nature. Even the gullible find it easy to understand and that is what makes it an easy sell. As most of us know, it is more complex than that. Many variables go into the making of a search engine algorithm and the actual engineers behind the programming are not going to reveal how it works.
The latest breed of WordPress plugin allows you to set up a post or page that will hold a set of links to external websites. The linking data is conveniently maintained in the WP database. Possible uses for this plugin could be for lengthy lists of categories, archived posts, etc. But it is being promoted as the Blogroll Page Plugin. Say what?
The Blogroll Page is another erosional approach to undermine blog interlinking and some are tacking on the added value of PR leak reduction to sell it. I have no doubt that this plugin will become popular over-night due to some responses I have seen.
I don't want to be an alarmist, but if Nofollow was to fluorocarbons then Blogroll Pages are the cow flatulence that will further decay the interlinking ozone layer. Interinking is what made blogs work. When people start to over-analyze and question every link on their pages in this manner it tends to lead to paranoia. This will become problematic for not only their blog, but also to their intricate interlinking structure.
In an effort to improve the blog in the name of the almighty PageRank, they are in effect biting the hands that feed them --- the Blogroll members. And of course reciprocity will be the name of game when that hand returns the favor and stops linking back. They may even drop you from their "favorite reading" list as well if they see a trend of link hoarding out of you.
The premise behind blogs is simple. Link, and you will be linked in kind or more aptly --- United we stand, divided we fall.
Technorati Tags: wordpress, plugin, blogroll, page, linking, leakage, PR, PageRank, interlinking,
Whether you call it link hoarding or PR dilution, PageRank leak theories have been around for years. There have not been any solid provable studies on the effects of external links in regards to PR leakage and its relationship to how that may affect your ranking in organic search engine results. PR leaking has always been an over-hyped link baiting topic used by SEO-types who just want what you want --- more links.
The leakage theory is too overly simplistic in nature. Even the gullible find it easy to understand and that is what makes it an easy sell. As most of us know, it is more complex than that. Many variables go into the making of a search engine algorithm and the actual engineers behind the programming are not going to reveal how it works.
The latest breed of WordPress plugin allows you to set up a post or page that will hold a set of links to external websites. The linking data is conveniently maintained in the WP database. Possible uses for this plugin could be for lengthy lists of categories, archived posts, etc. But it is being promoted as the Blogroll Page Plugin. Say what?
The Blogroll Page is another erosional approach to undermine blog interlinking and some are tacking on the added value of PR leak reduction to sell it. I have no doubt that this plugin will become popular over-night due to some responses I have seen.
I don't want to be an alarmist, but if Nofollow was to fluorocarbons then Blogroll Pages are the cow flatulence that will further decay the interlinking ozone layer. Interinking is what made blogs work. When people start to over-analyze and question every link on their pages in this manner it tends to lead to paranoia. This will become problematic for not only their blog, but also to their intricate interlinking structure.
In an effort to improve the blog in the name of the almighty PageRank, they are in effect biting the hands that feed them --- the Blogroll members. And of course reciprocity will be the name of game when that hand returns the favor and stops linking back. They may even drop you from their "favorite reading" list as well if they see a trend of link hoarding out of you.
The premise behind blogs is simple. Link, and you will be linked in kind or more aptly --- United we stand, divided we fall.
Technorati Tags: wordpress, plugin, blogroll, page, linking, leakage, PR, PageRank, interlinking,
305 Free Themed TrueType Fonts
From TypeNow, 305 Free Themed fonts. Font categories include popular movies (Lord of the Rings), television shows (Battlestar Gallactica), websites (Yahoo ... no Google here though), music bands (Pink Floyd) or singers (Lenny Kravitz). Only 20 or so are available for Macintosh.Sweet resource.
Technorati Tags: free, truetype, fonts, themed
Blogspot Blackout in Greater L.A. Area
In a seperate issue that is not related to the China firewall problem, the Greater Los Angeles area is experiencing a breakdown in communications with the Blogspot.com domain. Of course, blog maintenance via Blogger.com is not affected.
This problem, ongoing for a week now, seems to affect multiple ISP's (Earthlink, AT&T, Covad) regardless of what browser you are using. Blogger has not identified the problem and are asking you to contact your ISP's enmasse to have them work on it. Why Blogspot is not contacting them on their behalf is curious. Seems to me this would be easier to do, rather than explain how to do it via Google Groups to non-technical blogspotters.
Due to massive outcries on this subject, a single Google Help Group thread has been stickied, in which I posted a troubleshooting method to help Blogger (or Earthlink, Covad, AT&T) find where the break down is occurring in communications via a Trace Route ping.
See the third entry from the top in Can't get to my Blogger page thread for instructions. I would like to know what your results were if you try this.
UPDATE 6/14/2007: A response from Covad via email was posted by Double J in the Google Groups thread:
Since Covad is the upstream provider for Earthlink, AOL and AT&T, this stands to reason. This falls into my line of thinking when I suggested using a Trace to isolate where the breakdown in communication was.
So far, I have not seen if their efforts have been fruitful. I do not see anymore activity in the thread yet, so that is a good sign.
Technorati Tags: blogspot, unreachable, los angeles, at&t, covad, earthlink, ISP
This problem, ongoing for a week now, seems to affect multiple ISP's (Earthlink, AT&T, Covad) regardless of what browser you are using. Blogger has not identified the problem and are asking you to contact your ISP's enmasse to have them work on it. Why Blogspot is not contacting them on their behalf is curious. Seems to me this would be easier to do, rather than explain how to do it via Google Groups to non-technical blogspotters.
Due to massive outcries on this subject, a single Google Help Group thread has been stickied, in which I posted a troubleshooting method to help Blogger (or Earthlink, Covad, AT&T) find where the break down is occurring in communications via a Trace Route ping.
See the third entry from the top in Can't get to my Blogger page thread for instructions. I would like to know what your results were if you try this.
UPDATE 6/14/2007: A response from Covad via email was posted by Double J in the Google Groups thread:
Please include the following line in all replies.
Tracking number: CTxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxx
Dear James,
Thank you for your email.
We were experiencing a slight routing issue that was causing many
of our customers to be unable to access certain sites. This seems
to have been rectified. If you are still experiencing difficulties,
please contact our Inbound Tech Support Team at 1-888-642-6823,
option 6.
Thank you for choosing Covad,
Noelle
Covad.net Technical Support
1-888-642-6823, opt 6 24hours/7days a week
Since Covad is the upstream provider for Earthlink, AOL and AT&T, this stands to reason. This falls into my line of thinking when I suggested using a Trace to isolate where the breakdown in communication was.
So far, I have not seen if their efforts have been fruitful. I do not see anymore activity in the thread yet, so that is a good sign.
Technorati Tags: blogspot, unreachable, los angeles, at&t, covad, earthlink, ISP
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