PageRank Update In Progress?

Update: I’ve added a question mark to this post because it appears perhaps the PageRank update is NOT in progress. I thought I saw enough signs – a few of my sites have changed, John Chow’s changed too and a couple of blogs were talking about – but perhaps these are just random events and not indicating a full updateRead the rest of this entry »

A Field Report on the Effects of the Alexa Widget

Adnan from Blogtrepreneur has written a field report entry in the forums regarding his experiment with the Alexa Widget on his blog in response to my previous article – How To Boost Your Alexa Ranking In One Easy Step.

Adnan reports:

I think it’s pretty obvious in saying that for me, the Alexa widget had a massive

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Results of the AlexaRank Experiment

Back in earlier December I wrote two pieces regarding Alexa traffic rankings -

Many readers followed the advice I offered in the second article and placed the Alexa widget on their blog in an effort to test… Read the rest of this entry »

Conducting Competitive Intelligence Using Search Status: A Search Extension for Firefox

If you read Rich Schefren’s latest free e-book – The Final Chapter (aff) – you will have come across a link he provided to a great tool called Search Status for the Firefox browser.

You can download Search Status here

It’s a neat little Firefox extension that provides you with some handy shortcuts for things like PageRank, AlexaRank,… Read the rest of this entry »