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How Technorati Calculates new Blog Authority

Technorati has released its new Blog Authority ranking. The amount of detail provided by Technorati as to how the authority is really determined is about as deeply secret as the Coca-Cola recipe or which ‘eleven herbs and spices’ are used by KFC. As per many of us Bloggers, I have been interested in determining how [...]

High PageRank Article Directories

Part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is getting quality incoming links (also called backlinks and inlinks). Links are not simple to attain! One means of possibly attaining links is to publish articles for reuse through one of the various article publishing Sites /Article Directories. The advantage of using these Directories is that other sites may [...]

Article Directories – A Waste of Time?

Heard of the various Article Directories (GoArticles, Article Dashboard, EzineArticles etc.)? Well so have the Search Engines! Search Engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo etc.) publicly state that they frown upon duplicate content (the article doesn’t need to constitute plagiarism however no added value is deemed ‘bad’). Article Directories are portals for distributing the same content to [...]

To Dofollow or to Nofollow?

Nofollow is an HTML instruction to Search Engines not to consider the link destination as endorsed by the link originator. Google, Yahoo, Bing and other high quality Search Engines use links as one factor in considering the importance of a Webpage. So, very simplistically, if two WebPages are identical except that one has more incoming [...]

Blog Spam Increasing

Almost everyone is affected with email spam. Spam detectors / email filters have improved substantially over the past few years but unfortunately the skills of the spammers have also improved. It is not just businesses involved in the fight against spammers but also governments; The Australian government, for example, is taking spamming and the negative [...]