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Search engine reputation is the art of enhancing your online reputation and brand image in a search engine friendly way. This ensures that your reputation grows in an exponential way since search engines will continue to help grow the site long after you stop making conscious efforts to promote your site.

According to 97thFloor.com ,online reputation is not based merely on reality but on ‘perceived reality’. Posts on blogs and forums, reviews on websites, messages on message boards all impact the reputation of the site. Read the rest of this entry »

It is well known that duplicate content is penalised by search engines? How and how much are still open to arguments but one thing that is for certain is that Google gives less importance to duplicate content than original unique content.

The topic of duplicate content filter by Google itself is quite interesting and is worth a separate disussion. We will do just that. Here we will concentrate on figuring out how to identify duplicate content. This is especially important if you buy content and need to know if the seller has sold you unique content as promised. Read the rest of this entry »

Listed below are 6 common mistakes/oversights webmasters do and have their accounts terminated.

1. Click on your own ads
The easiest way to get banned from the Adsense program. Repeatedly click on your own ads till Google bans you.

2. Ask your friends and/or visitors to click on Google ads
This is another popular way to get your account banned from Adsense. People ask their friends to help them out; all the friends do is finally cause the maximum damage.

3. Offer incentives to visitors for clicking ads
Somewhat similar to point 2 above, these webmasters offer visitors some incentive to click on Adsense ads. They could also appeal to the sentiments of the visitor by requesting them to click as this will support the site. Sure way to get your account terminated. Read the rest of this entry »

PR is an indicator of how important a site is - at least to Google. As such, webmasters place a lot of importance to it. Large number of websites have been developed based on PR as the subject. There are sites that display the PR, there are others that try to predict your PR while others try to sell you products that can supposedly improve your PR.

Google continuously updates website PageRank but it is updated on the Google toolbar only once about three months. Websites try to crack the algorithm used to determine the PR and thus predict the future PR of the site. Read the rest of this entry »

“PageRank is Google’s measure of the importance of this page.” This is the description given to PR by Google in its browser toolbar. Google, being what it is, today, a site is only as important as what Google thinks it to be!

Free Page Rank Checker offers a free tool to webmasters to see their page rank, in short PR. Just enter your site url and this tool will check and display the PR.

You can also add a small piece of javascript code to your site displaying your page’s page rank. The display is a small widget like one of the ‘Add to Digg’ or RSS buttons.

The free bonus that we have mentioned in the post topic is when you place the PR button on your site. Free Page Rank Checker keeps track of how many page views this widget has got and the top five sites get a free link on Free Page Rank Checker home page. Yes, your site could appear on the home page free of cost!

We, all webmasters spend so much time on marketing and content that we sometimes lose track of the third most important factor in a website - good design. If a site is not pleasing to look and feel (yes, you can ‘feel’ a good site), then chances are visitors will leave as quickly as they come in.

This is where All4YourWebsite.com comes in. As a webmaster you can get ready made website templates for your site, ensuring you concentrate on things you are good at. Templates are all reasonably priced and categorised. You can select from categories such as flash templates, swish templates etc. Templates are also available for popular applications/CMS’ like Wordpress, Zen cart, osCommerce etc. A search option is also built in to help you to quickly identify templates suitable for your niche.

A special category that you must make a point to visit is the zero download section. Here you will find templates that have never been bought/downloaded. This means that these are totally unique over the entire net. Real value for money, we say.

LivelyDirectory is a general paid web directory with a wide range of categories. It runs on the popular phpLD script. The presentation of this directory is very neat and soothing to the eyes. The rates are also on the reasonable side if you consider that the best for this directory is yet to come - probably during the next PR update. In fact, iWebtool predicts a PR of 4 and there are nearly 2000 backlinks.

As with a number of directories these days, there are three options when buying a link. Webmasters can buy a featured link for $30 or pay $20 for a regular link. In case a reciprocal link is provided, then the cost is only $10. Featured links are prominently displayed under each category. If you are looking to buy a link on this directory then visit this page. Payment can be done conveniently through PayPal.

HostingCoupons.org is the site to visit if you need some information on one of the largest hosting company on the net - Hostgator. The latest news on HostGator is broadcast on hostingcoupons, which is presented in a blog format.

If you are wondering why the name says Hosting Coupons and why we have not talked about it, we are coming to that now. If you are browsing on the site, visit this page to find the coupons. You guessed it right - these are HostGator coupons. These coupons can get you a discount of upto $9.94. A complte tutorial is available on this page to show you how to take advantage of this offer.

If you are looking to buy hosting in th near future and if HostGator is one of the contenders, then it would be worth your while to visit HostingCoupons.org to know what the latest buzz about HostGator is.

HotFlair is primarily a directory but that is not what caught our eye. But that is later. HotFlair directory is very well designed with eye catching colors that are also pleasing to see. It is a general directory with well defined categories. The rates are some what steep at $49.95 for a featured listing and $14.95 for a standard listing but this could very well be a reason that you get the maximum benefit from having your listing in this directory. The reasoning is, when it comes to paid directories a lot of webmasters back out and the directory is not cluttered, thus giving your site more visibility.

HotFlair also has a very well written and presented blog which features site reviews. As soon as you read these reviews, you will realise that these are professionaly written after being reasonably researched. Do make it a point to visit the blog.

Web 2.0 Announcer has been launched and you would be doing your visitors a big favor by integrating the tag-feed on your own blog.

Web2Announcer aggregrates news feeds from numerous news and social bookmarking sites and presents it in an user friendly organised way. Currently, web2announcer aggregrates feed from CNET, del.icio.us, digg, redit and numerous others. Also the team at web2announcer is working continuously to add even more relevant content on the site. As the site says, the motto is ‘All the news on your plate’.

If you are using Wordpress for your blog, adding web2announcer’s tag cloud on your site is as simple as adding a plugin. You can download the plugin from here.