Free SEO Tool to Check your Blog – Website Grader
Website Grader is one of the free SEO tools that you can use to check your blog. You can use it as a reference to check if there is anything else you can improve for your blog. The tool is able to check your blog quite detail and include some advices on how you can improve your blog. You just need to fill in your site URL, related keywords (optional) and websites that you consider competitive (optional). The analysis takes about few second and a detail report will be produce. Below is the information that you’ll get in return.
1. On-Page SEO
· META data
· Heading Summery
· Image Summery
· Interior Page Analysis
· Readability level
2. Off-page SEO
· Domain Info
· Google Page Rank
· Google Indexed Pages
· Last Google Crawl Date
· Inbound Links
3. Blogosphere
· Blog Analysis
· Blog Ranking
· Subscription Methods
4. Social Media sphere
· Del.icio.us bookmark
· Digg.com submission summary
5. Competitive Intelligence
· Competing websites
· Historical Data Available
That’s basically what you’ll get from the report. It should give you some idea on what to improve for your blog. Feel free to try it out.
Pages That Should Be Consider Added
Having to stumble upon an article from Problogger regarding 20 Types of pages that every blogger should consider and I think this blog really needs to put up some of them. This blog really has lots of things need to be done. My first step was to concentrate on 2 things, that is traffic and content. I’ve been doing this ever since I started this blog and I’m still doing it right now. Once in a while I’ll stumble into some of the articles that make me evaluate the things that I done with this blog. That is good as I can keep on improving the blog. Sometimes I’m able to spend a lot of time on the blog and sometimes I’m busy with something else, but I tried to do it as much as I can. Taking one step forward is better than not moving at all.
There are some pages that I wanted to put up form the list. I just need to do it one at a time. What about you? Found some pages that you miss out?
Make Your Long URL Short
SnipURL is a site where you can change your long URL short. As this is a tool that changes the URL, then it should works the same to hide your affiliate links. Sounds like the same as TinyURL that I post about early this year. If you registered and sign up with SnipURL, you get to manage more on snips. That’s for users that required more control over the URL and often uses the tool. For normal usage, all you need to do is just visit the site and use the tool online. If you’re frequently using it online then you may consider placing the tool to your browser toolbar. There is also a multi-snip feature that enables you to do many snips at once. You can even snip a whole bunch of list from your exile file.
This is definitely one useful tool that is free online. Good things should be shared.
AppApeal is looking for Freelance Writers
AppApeal is looking for freelance writers to write application reviews. AppApeal has gathered a collection of web base applications that are available online. The applications are being categories into blogging, photo, email, feed reader, game, travel, video, music, bookmarking and many more. With so many web base applications out there, finding the best and right one to use might be difficult. The most common method will be tried out all of them and judge it yourself. Obviously that is not a good way of doing it. It seems that AppApeal understand this and included extensive reviews on the web base application to help users pick the right one. The site is now looking for freelance that are able to write the reviews. Reviews accepted will be paid $15 through PayPal. Extra $10 will be added if the reviews are better than average. That sounds like a good deal to me. Long term cooperation with the site is possible if you do a job.
One thing that I like to point out is that many bloggers wrote about the web base application in their blog. If I’m trying to find out how certain web base application works, all I need is do a search about it on Google. I’m still able to get lots of reviews other than from AppApeal. The question is who should I trust? Even so, AppApeal is making it convenient for users to compare and choose. At least one thing for sure, you get to know how many applications available to choose. Seriously, I got friends that know hotmail as the one and only web base email application.
Help test out the new Ads serving application – OpenX
When I check back the link to OpenAds, it turns out to be OpenX. It seems that OpenAds has change to OpenX and the software is now at Beta stage. OpenX 2.5 beta is ready to download and they need people to help test it out if there is any bug. Below are some of the new features according to the site.
- New developer API - Developers are able to write third party applications which create campaigns, retrieve statistics and control the ad server.
- Faster ad tag - New ads tag is able to serve more than one ads per webpage. This makes it faster, more efficient ad serving and more delivered inventory.
- New targeting options - New features are added to help target ads more effectively. It’s now easier to pass custom data to the ad server and to use them for targeting based on string or numeric comparison.
It seems that OpenX should be much better then OpenAds with all those changes. I’ll let you decide that after you test it yourself. I did not choose OpenAds previously because it is a bit complicated to use. Let see how much improvement are done for OpenX.
Place your link into Million Blog list
Here’s a site that trying to make a list of million blog – Million Blog List. All you need to do is put your blog at the bottom of the list. You may describe your blog in less than 500 words. You can have your blog title in bold if you help spread the word. That is to post about million blog list, add it to your blogroll, or put the badge on your sidebar. There is also a chance that you might be selected as the blog of the week. This blog is at number 1078 in the list. I think of this as one good place to get a link back to my blog. Well, that’s the whole purpose of doing it. Every effort that you put into making a link back to your blog is not a waste. You might not see the effect immediately but once you accumulate enough links then you’ll start to see the results. I know it’s a long road but let’s take it one step at a time.
Hochstadt.com is having a Party Contest
Marcus is having a big party contest. There are more then $7000 and 66666 EntreCard credits to be won. The prizes are more than enough for 200 winners. Judging by the size of that, almost everybody can have a piece of it. So go ahead and visit his site and participate the contest. There’s a big chance for you to bring back something. All you need to do is subscribe to the site, post a comment, stumble, dig, fav on Technorati, use the give image to link back to the site, blog about the contest, link to all contributors and finally indicate which prize that you like to win most. If you did all the above then you might score high enough to win the prize. Due date is on the 1st of May. Go ahead and have fun!
Buy, Sell and Trade EntreCard Credits with EntreCash
I’ve been receiving info regarding selling EntreCard credits for some time and this is one of the sites that I found created for this purpose. As EntreCard grows bigger, we will start to see sites related with EntreCard around. EntreCash is a site where you can sell, buy or trade EntreCard credits. It’s a community network for you to do anything related to EntreCard credits. The site is merely prepared an environment so that people gathered and trade EntreCard credits. How far can this site goes depends on the growth of EntreCard.
This site is still new and they are looking for bloggers to help promote it. If you write about them, then don’t forget to drop them an email. You’ll get a link back for an entire month.
