I know its a dog but it still pays to factor in Google’s Pagerank as a qualifier for your link building efforts.
Ive discovered this great tool that, via copy and paste, will mass check the pagerank of 100s of urls at a time.
Its even better because it also exports a CSV and includes Alexarank (for what its worth).
Give it a go and save yourself hours:
With so many new features, im gonna spend some serious time going through the new version of WordPress which was launched today!
Like McDonalds…I’m Lovin’ It.
I’ve been here for over a year now and thought I’d push my luck with the boss and ask if I could get some training to further my knowledge. Originally I thought about some SEO training with Aaron Wall, but at £600 a month and my (no doubt) considerable knowledge and experience in SEO, I was hesitant to spend so much when I know i’ll just end up sifting through the course notes looking for a golden grain of insight that in all reality isn’t there… instead, thanks to a suggestion by the boss I’m getting some training in PHP which could come in handy as I’m constantly frustrated with our existing systems and would love to jump in and fix the issues and make improvements (not that the nice people at Bronco aren’t helpful – its just I know these are quick things to fix if you know what you’re looking at).
I searched nationwide looking for in-office, remote study and local in-person training and finally settled with NTI in Leeds. To be honest the clincher was the 60% Government funded reduction in the original £600 fee for the three day course bringing it down to a much more Yorkshire man friendly £240.
The course uses the Open Source ZEND application suite and is called ZEND PHP I: Foundation.
I’m booked in for the 7th July over at their facilities in Leeds which could be the filler for the hole in my ‘universal’ online marketing and design skillset.
…next stop, WORLD DOMINATION MWAHAHAHAHA!
And in case you’ve been away of had your head stuck in a bucket of sane, Google Caffeine is now fully live across all datacentres.
As expected nothing much has changed as Matt Cutts has said this is mainly and infrastructure update focusing on collecting and collating data much faster resulting in a more incrementally dynamic SERPS.
Panic over people! its certainly no Boston or Florida (shudders)
I’ve been playing with some code in an existing script and come across a big chunk of encryption starting with the line : eval(gzinflate(base64_decode, this appears to be a method of encrypting a line with the base64 method and then gzipping the file to further make it difficult to read.
To get around this and to discover the secrets hidden underneath I discovered a great tool that decodes the gzinflate base64 code into a format you can read.
Simply copy and paste the code as instructed to get going:
Wonderful stuff.
Ive been thinking for a while now that i really should create a popurls clone that aggregates SEO news from all of the top sources… well damned and blast it, Alltop have gone and done it already.
If you want all of your news in one handy scrollable page then give it a look-see, its already become my start page… now if they could only integrate google search on top that would be awesome lol.
http://seo.alltop.com/
Just caught this nifty little tip from Blind Five Year Old where those of you who dont like the new Google Keyword Tools design can revert back to the old UI by using the following address:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?forceLegacy=true
Personally I love the new design and think the directory is insightful even tho i do often have to turn off Googles suggested additions to my keyword pool.
Right, back to it ;)
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