I noticed about twenty minutes ago a change in PR being reported in my toolbar.
The Lab has a PR5 (today). One of my other blogs has moved from 3 to 4 for the home page.
I haven’t checked any of the others yet.
I’ll also be looking at inner pages and posts for changes up or down.
Just thought I’d pass it along.
Manage still exists but Options is gone. The Options have been scattered about various places on the Dashboard. Settings, Plugins, Users are now top right. They aren’t on a tab just sitting there to themselves.
There are plenty of spammers and short cut artist in the net taking a good tool and using it for less than honorable purposes. So why not take a Trolls tool and use it for a good purpose.
Marc Rasmussen made a good point about wanting to put his efforts into commenting where it will do the most good for both the blogger and the commenter.
“I’m one of those guys….kinda. I found your blog through a dofollow search in the new Google beta search. I didn’t really know this existed but a friend of mine showed me.
So now I am writing a comment for a little link juice but I did read your post as well as a few others. Great blog.”
If you are going to read and comment why not do it where there is juice coming to you for providing content to the discussion.
Now before we go too far down this road you should realize that even with a do follow on a blog it doesn’t mean there will be any juice.
- First, the post if new has no juice to give.
- Second, if this post is not indexed there is no juice to give.
- Third, even if it is indexed if it has no PR there is no juice to give.
Therefore, even if you do find a blog with do follow it doesn’t mean you will be getting any juice. At best it is like having an orange (the blog) and you might get a single drop of juice (your comment on an indexed post) at some point in the future. If the post falls out of the index the single drop of juice dries up with it.
Now, once you realize how much work can go into searching for do follow blogs and posts to read and comment on knowing there might be a little juice coming to you in the future but not knowing for how long. Is this really the best place to be putting your SEO efforts?
If you still think it is then why not go ahead and use a tool like Comment Kahuna. I won’t recommend it because:
- This is software they give “free” that I have to install on my computer. What are they trolling from me that I’m providing them for free?
- Anyone that thinks it is white hat to use a tool to leave comments just for backlinks are not people I want to provide access to my computer system.
I”m not familiar with the Google Beta Search Marc mentions in his comment. It might be something to check out for me, I would rather spend my efforts in writing more quality content which will bring readers an in turn indexing which puts a lot more juice in my Orange than a single potential drop of juice coming from a comment on a blog I have no control over. Hum, just a thought!
We get busy. It happens. I know because it happens to me. I have a routine I usually go through at the start and the end of the day. It varies little, making sure everything is up and running for the hours I’m shut down.
Sometimes though a piece of that routine gets clipped. Maybe it isn’t checking the hittail search results for a few days. Sometimes it isn’t logging into the Google Webmaster Tools and that is the one I want to encourage you to check daily.
I use a Google sitemap generator plugin which generates a new sitemap with every new post and pings Google. I still manually submit it most of the time, but not always. It had been several days since I had checked the Webmaster Tools and I was surprised when I logged in to find the Lab’s sitemap had ERRORS!.
I had just published a post which would generate a new sitemap so I hand submitted it. A few minutes later it came back with ERRORS and a strong suggestion to verify the sitemap before submitting it again.
I loaded the sitemap file into a browser and it showed errors as well. Rather than try and spend time finding them, which I would if I had too, I went to the plugin option page and hand generated a sitemap. This one validated and I submitted it. In a few minutes it returned a status of OK.
But what if I hadn’t checked. What if my sitemap was sitting out there for weeks or a month and had errors in it. Probably a glitch during the read write. But whatever the cause it isn’t a good thing to overlook.
Sometimes it is the nail in the tire that brings the whole car to a halt.
This is the Monday morning reminder. Put this on your list “Check Google Webmaster Tools” and don’t forget routine maintenance is as important as increasing performance.
Don’t know where to go to find keywords or specifically what keywords to target? Like Zillow
Moderation is turned on for all comments at the blog lab. At least until you have achieved a level of trust that posts your comments as soon as you submit them. Unless they have more than two active links in them, that puts them back in moderation.
Please, please, please, if you have a blog be a blogger, but don’t have a blog and pay someone to blog for you. It will hurt you more than anything else because in the end you will appear to be a phony.
Late to the Party, are you kidding me, for most of my life I didn’t even know there was a party.
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Comment Kahuna Great Way to be Banned
By Dave Smith Saturday April 19, 2008
Today I ran across this “Free” tool for creating instant great backlinks to your site. The little video created to tell about this “tool” has some obvious mis-statements about how Google works. It also promotes this free tool as white hat. It could be, but more “Grey Hat” in the way it is being promoted.
It is a tool to “Troll” for keywords you want to rank for on blogs. Next you can use this tool to quickly fill in the comment required fields and leave a comment which will bring you wonderful “Google Juice”. The tool will indicate which blogs have no follow turned off. You want those blogs because they provide more juice than the ones with no-follow turned on.
But there is one thing they are not recommending, in fact they seem to blatantly thumb their nose at the idea of “READING THE POST”. Why would you want to read the post. After all you are only commenting to get backlinks.
Until now when I’ve seen comments that were obviously just trying to get backlinks (I knew they hadn’t read the post by the comment) I have dumped them in the spam folder. But not anymore.
Google isn’t the only one who can Black List
From now on any comments I see which are pure trolling for backlinks or it is obvious they have not read the post will have their email Black Listed. All comments will go directly to the trash for disposal.
One little thing they didn’t mention. IF YOUR COMMENT ISN’T APPROVED YOU DON’T GET ANY GOOGLE JUICE.
I would recommend to real estate bloggers.
Don’t Be a Juice Thief
The Google Juice I have is mine to share or give away. Try taking it without permission and you will be locked out.
Setting up a Comment Blacklist
Wordpress 2.5 Settings, Discussions
Before 2.5 Options, Discussions
Near the bottom of the page you will find “Comment Blacklist”
I’ve only used this for a couple of people in the past that seemed only have a four letter vocabulary, but I’m not afraid to put a black list into use.
Once again I find myself quoting my 5th grade science teacher. “A Word to the wise is sufficient”