Jan 23
The results are in with the poll about Entrecard. The question asked was “What would you change about Entrecard?”
What would you change about Entrecard?
- Better Stats. (38%, 6 Votes)
- Nothing! I love it the way it is! (25%, 4 Votes)
- Choose a different method for determining blog ad costs. (25%, 4 Votes)
- Better Forum. (25%, 4 Votes)
- Allow fewer dropped cards per day. (6%, 1 Votes)
- Other. Leave a comment on my Entrecard Post! (6%, 1 Votes)
- Allow each site to receive fewer dropped cards per day. (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 16
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Mandy left the following comment: “I would like to see a way to search for other Entrecards. The bigger Entrecard gets, I keep loosing my place trying to find my favorites. Hey, there’s a thought a “Favorites” where you can add you favorite Entrecards? ”
There is a favorites function in Entrecard. Click on a blog under “Campaign” and then click on “Add to Favorites” on the right hand side. This works like a charm, however, I still would like to see a search since sometimes I remember the name of a blog, but just can’t seem to find it.
Jan 02
A blog meme is often a series of questions that bloggers answer that involves sharing a personal experience or other experience. A blog meme can help build traffic to your site, especially if you are the creator of the meme.
This meme was developed by Yimto Affiliate Marketing Blog. Simply put, if you are using Entrecard, list your top 10 Entrecard Droppers and give there website a short review. Here are the official rules:
So, here are the simple rules of this Meme:
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1. Post your Top 10 Dropper’s Blogs, and write a little comment about them, which you could use as a recommendation should you choose
2. Message them with the Entrecard message system to let them know that they have been tagged, and encourage them to continue the chain. (and thank them for dropping so many cards)
3. Include a link to the Entrecard Meme article of the person who tagged you
4. Include a link to the original post
The Entrecard Top 10 Card Droppers Meme
http://www.yimto.com/the-entrecard-top-10-card-droppers-meme
5. Drop your card on your Top 10’s sites, if you haven’t already!
6. Drop cards on the other sites that were tagged along with you if you wish, as they will probably drop back
7. Copy these rules onto your post, so that others can easily participate!
And that’s it! So get tagging!
Here is my entry!
This was fun! I am going to re-visit this meme in about three months and see how things have changed!
Dec 31
I previously authored a post about DoFollow and NoFollow and now I have joined a DoFollow blogroll. All of the bloggers on this blogroll will build links back to your site when you leave a comment. Read about the DoFollow blogroll and join!
Dec 06
With all the decrease in bloggers’ page rank, you might be wondering why? Here is a tool that could help you determine the cause - Bad Neighborhood - Tools for the Uncommon Webmaster. The have a text link checker tool that will determine if links on your blog my cause problems.
Each link is checked and three areas are checked. First, the checker determines if the link is Blog Spam. If the link directs to a page where a lot of the incoming links are from blogs, the Blog Spam icon will occur. Some commercial website tend to increase their page rank by blog comment spamming, so be sure to check the comments on the post.
The check then determines the Link Density. A page that has more than 100 links is sometimes considered a link farm or it could be a blog with a lot of comment spam.
The last item is if the link passes the “family friendly” test or if the page is not found. Links to online gambling, adult entertainment, etc. will get flagged and will pages with redirects or the link is no longer valid.
I ran this tool on one of my blogs and found a number of links where the page did not exist anymore. I will try and clean these up. Some of the links were paid posts and thus not changeable. However, even correcting a few items could bode well the next time Google does a Page Rank revision.
Dec 03
No Follow is a link attribute. In 2005, Google decided that any link with the tag “rel=”nofollow” would not receive any credit when the website was ranked by Google. It was originally intended to reduce spam comments. This does not mean that you can not click on the link and be taken to the website. The link is still “live.”
Some bloggers found that having nofollow automatically added to post comments, reduced the amount of comments the post received. To encourage comments, many bloggers implemented a plugin called “DoFollow” which removed the “rel=nofollow” tag from links in comments.
To decrease spam comments, bloggers should install a spam filter (such as Akismet, which comes with WordPress) and/or moderate their comments. I have found that the spam filter does not always catch all the spam, so I choose to moderate my comments.
Recently, Google has decided that paid links will also not be given ranking credit. Unfortunately for all of us bloggers, there is no REAL way that Google can determine a paid link versus an unpaid link. I have four other blogs. Only one blog retained its full page rank. The other three blogs dipped down in rank. One of the blogs has very little paid links and yet it saw a dip in page rank.
It seems, as a blogger, you will have to make a decision if page rank matters or not. If it does, remove all your paid links and do not participate in paid linking programs. If it doesn’t - business as usual!
