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How to Find Dofollow Links on a WebPage

Sandy — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:02:48 +0000

A DoFollow link is one that does not follow the NoFollow Attribute. Nofollow provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines “Don’t follow links on this page” or “Don’t follow this specific link.” and does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links.

If you’re using blog commenting as a link building strategy, you might be interested in knowing if the blogs your commenting on actually does dofollow your links. By default, all WordPress blogs automatically assigns the nofollow attribute to all user-submitted links (comment data, commenter URL, etc). The reason most webmasters choose to keep their blog as “nofollow” is because of the amount of Comment SPAM that can be generated once you switch over from this default WordPress attribute.

However, there are many bloggers that believe that they must give back to the commenter and make their blog dofollow. There are tools and google search operators you can use to find dofollow blogs. However, a good firefox addon to use is Nofollow.

It’s a simple extension that highlight links in a page according to nofollow / dofollow status. A nofollow link is highlighted in red color and nofollow in blue as you can see below:

After you install the addon, all you need to do to figure out the NoFollow and DoFollow links on any webpage is to right click and choose the NoDoFollow option in the pop-up. Choosing this option would highlight all the hyperlinks seen on the web page. The DoFollow hyperlinks shall be highlighted in BLUE while the NoFollow links would be shown in RED. This will easily help you figure out the status of any web page.

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Visible PageRank Vs Real PageRank

Sandy — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:00:34 +0000

The importance of backlinks cannot be undermined; they’re the only basis that helps you attain a higher pagerank & should be the core of your SEO strategy. Although a higher pagerank does not necessarily mean you will rank better in Search Engine Result Pages (SERP’s) for your keywords, it does mean that you have much more authority on the web.

There are different ways to look at PageRank

Visible PageRank vs Real PageRank

Visible PageRank is the number what most of us look at 1, 2, 3, etc. through the help of sites http://prchecker.info. This PageRank is updated by Google once every 3-6 months.

Real PageRank is the true PageRank of your website. This information is available with Google only and it has a huge impact on your rankings.

As stated by Google “Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don’t match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page (Keyword Density) and examines all aspects of the page’s content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it’s a good match for your query.”

Real PageRank may be computed & updated by Google very often, but visible pagerank will be updated for the public once every 3 – 6 months (current situation). It’s also possible that visible pagerank when updated might reflect historic data. So a page that you think has a visible pagerank of 0 may in fact have a pagerank of 2 or 3 in the “eyes” of Google.

At the Google librarian Central , Matt Cutts also states:

PageRank evaluates two things: how many links there are to a web page from other pages, and the quality of the linking sites. With PageRank, five or six high-quality links from websites such as http://www.cnn.com and http://www.nytimes.com would be valued much more highly than twice as many links from less reputable or established sites.

Getting one way links from authority websites is the best way to build up your own authority on the web. It’s obvious that this is not easy & authority websites would link only if you have something out of the box to offer / your content is genuinely useful.

The verdict & objective of this topic -> One way link building from authoritative sites is what helps you rank high for your keywords in search engine result pages (SERP’s). Visible & Real pagerank will increase automatically when you write keyword rich quality content and get one way links from authoritative sites. So Keep Writing!

Please feel free to let us share your thoughts on Visible PageRank & Real PageRank and let us know if this post helped you in anyway

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Broken Link Checker WordPress Plugin

Sandy — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:30:03 +0000

In my earlier post on blog post checklist, we spoke about how broken links can effect your blog negatively in terms of visitor frustration. Google also states in their webmaster guidelines that webmasters should make sure to check for broken links. It is therefore essential for webmasters to regularly check their links to make sure that they are still pointing to the initial resource and do not return a 404 page instead. It is impossible to check all the links manually if you have a lot of content on your blog.

Broken Link Checker WordPress Plugin makes this task easy for you by automatically searching your blog and looks for links to incorrect URL’s, missing images and redirects. Broken Link Checker which will automatically check all posted links in posts, pages, comments, custom fields and your blogroll to ensure that the links are valid.

Features of this plugin

Can customize how often all links are checked – default is 72 hours
Option to email yourself with details of any new broken links that appear on your site
Exclude links from future checks (good for false positives)
Specify where the plugin looks for broken links
Stop search engines from following broken links
Links can be edited directly from the plugin’s page, without manually updating each post

It’s impossible to avoid having broken links on your blog. Even though you are careful while linking out to websites, blogs, you cannot control other websites from moving pages around and changing URL structures.

The Broken Link Checker WordPress Plugin is an excellent way of finding and removing broken links from a WordPress blog which would provide overall long-term benefits.

Download Broken Link Checker WordPress Plugin

Do let us know how you fix broken links in your blog?

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How to Configure SEO Smart Links WordPress Plugin

Sandy — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:20:37 +0000

In my earlier posts we talked about SEO Smart Links WordPress Plugin which helps you Interlink your sub pages within your blog to improve your rankings and helps in providing you with long-term SEO benefits.

I recently explored the plugin options and got it to function. Below is a small guide on how to configure the SEO Smart Links WordPress Plugin:

This is the first section of the plugin wherein you can configure which part of your blog will be automatically linked. To reduce database load you can choose to have links work only on single posts.

Target

In this section, the targets SEO Smart links should consider. The match will be based on post/page title or category/tag name, case-insensitive. I recommend you select only posts and avoid pages since you would not want to rank for pages like sitemap, about me etc

Custom Keywords

This option is the most important part. Here you need to enter keywords you want to automatically link. Use comma to separate keywords and add target url at the end.

Limits & External Links

Here you can set the following options

You can limit the maximum number of different links SEO Smart Links will generate per post
You can also limit maximum number of links created with the same keyword
Limit number of same URLs the plugin will link to

SEO Smart links can open external links in new window and add nofollow attribute. This is based on your personal choice

I hope this post will help you configure the SEO Smart Links WordPress plugin effectively. Do let us know in case of any questions

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SEO Smart Links: WordPress SEO plugin

Sandy — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:42:00 +0000

Interlinking your sub pages within your blog is a great way to improve your rankings and helps in providing you with long-term SEO benefits. It also reduces leads to decrease bounce rate and increased earnings.

While linking your blog posts is an absolute must from an SEO point of view, it can also eat up a lot of your time if done manually. SEO Smart Links WordPress plugin is a very useful plugin which can be used to smartly link your blog posts with relevant anchor texts automatically. This eventually helps you rank better in search engines for your targeted keywords.

Further, you can configure this the SEO Smart links WordPress plugin to link keywords and phrases in your comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. Below is a screenshot of the SEO Smart links WordPress Plugin:

The best part of this plugin is that everything happens completely transparent, and you can edit the options from the administration settings panel.

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