Entrecard Good Buddies

November has been a difficult month for me personally, and one consequence has been a lack of fresh content being posted to my blogs. Reward Rebel wishes to thank the generous-spirited members of the Entrecard Community for their loyal support during this period.

By introducing an Entrecard page, Reward Rebel plans to thank its Entrecard droppers and advertisers by spreading the link love as widely and generously as time and professionalism allow!

November’s Entrecard Hotties are:

• Technically Easy
• Computer Aid
• Earn Blogger
• Authority Directory
• My Gypsy Goods
• Altered Events
• Worldwide Travel Blog
• BMW F1 Blog
• Avoid Money Scams
• Turnip of Power is no longer a member of Entrecard

Ode to the Turnip
Oh, Turnip,
the caress of your cursor
will be sorely missed
by my widget.

I’ve created the new Entrecard page, although it’s in its infancy, and will take a little while to list all the sites to be included.

Layne | Reward Rebel

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How To Identify A DoFollow Blog

Reward Rebel’s last post Link Building With Comments On DoFollow Blogs raised some points that I’d like to address now.  After all, you need to know how to identify DoFollow blogs before you can begin to comment on them!

Recently, one of my commenters introduced me to the Firefox Addon, SEO Quake, and now I’m a massive fan of this phenomenal web tool!

The above screenshot shows SEO Quake’s settings options’ drop-down menu, from which you can clearly see the data you can access for at-a-glance viewing.  The simplest thing to do is select all the options that are ticked in the screenshot.

To make it super easy to identify a DoFollow blog, you just need to select ‘Line through nofollow and noindex’ then every link that displays on your browser that is NOT DoFollow will have a line through it.  Not very visually appealing, but you can always toggle it on and off as and when you are selecting sites for commenting or not.

SEO Quake also allows you to see the following data about any blog or website that you open in Firefox:

• Internal and external links
• nofollow or DoFollow
• Google Page Rank
• Alexa Traffic Rank
• Keyword density
• Yahoo links and rank
• Publisher ID of Adsense et al
• Age of website
• IP address

Even more valuable is that the keyword density tool allows you to load Google keyword data for Adwords Pay Per Click advertising.

This is one of the most valuable free web tools I’ve encountered and it has to be a ‘must have’ for all webmasters or bloggers. So, go and download SEO Quake and be amongst those who benefit from the vital data by utilising the docked toolbar and/or what’s called SEObar and floats at the head of each web page. I use the toolbar because I find the floating SEObar obstructs the presentation of the website being viewed.

SEO Quake will definitely help your Internet Marketing ambitions!

Layne | Reward Rebel

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Wordpress Custom Permalinks Structure

Wordpress custom permalinks structure settings default to using the blog post ID number, not the post title.  This means there’s an absence of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of the primary keywords you’ll have ingeniously woven into your post title!

Search Engines attach greater importance to keywords in blog post titles when your site’s permalinks structure positions the post title as close as possible to your domain’s root directory.  The closer something is to the root directory, the more important it’s considered by the search engine algorithm.

For example, Search Engines will rank the second example below more favourably than the first, simply because the custom permalinks structure positions the post title - and therefore the primary keyword(s) - immediately after the root directory, which is usually the domain name, e.g. yourdomain.com.

1.    yourdomain.com/2008/10/28/how-to-make-money-online
2.    yourdomain.com/how-to-make-money-online

However, the default permalinks structure on Wordpress looks like this:

You’ll notice that this site’s root directory is rewardrebel.com/blog but the same rule applies.

If you’re not too confident with this area of blogging, there is one simple and straightforward amendment you can implement that will greatly improve the effectiveness of the keywords in your post titles when they are indexed by the search engines.

Open your blog’s Wordpress Admin Panel and go to ‘Settings’, ‘Permalinks’; click ‘Custom Structure’ and in the box, type: /%postname%/ so that it looks like this:

I’ve noticed a number of Wordpress blogs that have retained the default permalinks structure, and I’ve wondered whether this is so because the blog author is unaware of this simple SEO edit, and how beneficial it could be.

So, I decided to show you this, because it’s so simple, and I’m good at doing ‘simple’…..

Layne | Reward Rebel

NOTE:
I apologise for having overlooked a very important point mentioned in the Comments here by Dennis Edell of Direct Sales Web Marketing.

If you customise the permalinks settings on an established blog that has pre-existing links to specific posts, those links will cease to function.  Google and other search engine links will also cease to function until they index the site again.

You have now been warned!

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