For this Thanksgiving 2010 V7N Network is giving you a discount of $12.50 off Directory submission & Contextual Link advertising, all you have to do in the checkout is insert: THANKS10 as promo code and click on APPLY CODE (wow, handy instruction lol).

For those who are new to this and don’t know what V7N Network is and why it is good to submit your site on the V7N Directory you can read my v7n directory review that I wrote awhile ago.

If you know of any promotional codes for this thanks giving, please let me know so we can share it with others too and save some $$ when we can.

Cheers!

One thing that grabbed my attention on the forums is the discussions regard Google PageRank that hasn’t been updated for over 5 months now and how so many webmaster feel lost without PageRank. The amazing thing is that they were really based solely on PageRank to find quality sites to get links from and now without the update they feel like lost..it happens when you get used to have everything served in a plate without lifting a finger. The fun part is that these so called webmasters and seo’s now are forced to get back to the basics in order to find the light at the end of the tunnel, those that will move fast might see the light..others will just sink down and hope that almighty Google one day will decide to do them the favor and update PageRank.

Con’s Of Relying on Google PageRank to determine quality of a site and find link partners

Even tho it is true that PageRank can be a strong indicator of the link popularity of a site and it is closely related to the crawl rate the site gets, it is however wrong to rely on Google PageRank solely when you look after link partners and resources where you can publish your articles (guest blogging or article directory submission).

It is wrong because Google PageRank can be tricked out and manipulated. During my research of link partners for some of my sites I have ended up into so many stupid webmasters that thought could their way through easily and get a link swap or even sell a link inventory, the sad part tho is..that they are for a long period in business and I believe that many other people have been scammed. Yes, I use the word scammed because that’s what it is and I will explain you now and use as an example one last case I was involved to, while searching for link partners for a car related site I was approached by a webmaster with a high PR website asking for a link swap, it would have been a great link swap since the site had the double PR then mine..and if I didn’t check the background of the site then I would have been tricked as well, because the site was an old “psychology” related site who’s domain dropped and the webmaster just registered the domain and recycled it as an car related site just because of the high PageRank.

Pro’s of not relying to Google PageRank

As I said, if I had just relied to PageRank I would have most likely exchanged links with a recycled site and be fooled, tricked and manipulated. That webmaster would have got a link from a site that has been heavily promoted, with high quality unique content, top rankings for its targeted keywords and gain more authority as a “car related” site which it wasn’t, while I would have just had a link from a sloppy recycled site.

So how do we check a site’s quality without even checking its Google PR? There are 3 main things I do check on sites with which I want to exchange links, submit my articles or whatever else involves linking and building a link profile;

• Check the link profile of the site
• Check the domain age of the site (and the web archive)
• Check the number of indexed pages the site has

The link profile of a website is a great indicator if the site has been recycled or not. If it is a car related site then obviously it’s link profile should be from car related sites.

The domain age of a site is also a good indicator and it means that the site has been online for awhile. We also know that the age of the site or the page (from where we have a link) play role on determining some sort of an “authority” of the site in the eyes of the search engines. In simple words it means: old sites were not build from webmasters to just make quick money, they were build with the intend to last long.

The number of the pages indexed of a site is another indicator of a “quality” site since this shows the site is being active and the owner of the site is regularly updating their site (well okey, this more relays to blogs and sites that use some sort of a CMS mainly).

Now that you know at least 3 key points on which to rely you can give up on PageRank as resource to determine the quality of the site, you will learn more long the way and be able to find better link partners for your site and increase your search engine rankings.

If you have any other tip or suggestion that you would like to share with the others, leave a comment bellow and spread around the knowledge.

But that is the past and now I am back in Italy, no sea, no pool in the backyard .. and my computer in front of me with my work waiting for me, scheduling projects and organizing my day the best way I can to keep up with everything from client projects, to own projects and some free time for me to relax and do whatever I feel like doing, and with this hot weather cold beer is what suits most I would say (cheers).

New Updates on DNseo.net Blog

Before the vacations I left few things started out but never finished, like the effective internet marketing strategies series which still needs to be completed, and I will during the next days. So you can expect new posts from that series in the next weeks, I will keep it slow but thats mainly because I want the posts to be with as much details as possible and to give you real examples and reasons why you should not ignore those free marketing strategies at all. Right before I started the series there was a change of a categories permalink from marketing-and-advertising to internet marketing tips, so if you have any link pointing to the old permalink I would appreciate if you can update it to the new permalink structure.

The other change you might have notice in this blog is a new seo software reviews category that currently has only the market samurai review as a reviewed software, which can also be found in the SEO resources page as I highly recommend this software. You should well expect more SEO softwares and tools to be reviewed in feature. The good thing about this category is that I can show you some of the tools most of internet marketers and SEOs use and what are the benefits you could have by using these software.

About a year ago when i realized that I will not have that much time to blog and won’t be able to closely monitor the blog and fight spam I decided to use the “automatically close comments” for posts after 15 days as I really do hate logging in and finding out hundreds of spam comments, even tho I put a good use of the comment discussion option for wordpress and blacklist the keywords that mainly spammers use. However that is history, I have extend the “auto close comments” option to 120 days, that means the posts will be open for comments up to 4 months after the date they get published.

I guess this would be all for now, ah before I forget, remember that you are always welcome to guest blog on this seo blog so do not hesitate to register (and don’t forget to confirm the registration by clicking the link that you will receive in your email) and publish your article in one of the next categories: internet marketing tips, make money online, search engines, google search engine or seo tutorials.

For me it is kinda sad that I have to give a break from this SEO Blog again for a week, especially now that I started blogging again as I managed to organize my time a little better and bring back some attention to this blog. This means i will have to post pone the free effective internet marketing strategies series of posts until I get back.

The other thing I might be missing during this period are the mega discounts for products that companies release during this period, hope they will be still valid until I get back. If your vacations aren’t planed for this period then you should definitively check my market samurai review, it is truly a powerful keyword research and SEO software that can help you out big time. You can also download the free version and check it out if it works for you.

One other thing I would like to offer you is guest blogging on my blog, if you have the time and would like some self promotion by also contributing to this blog and the community of this blog then register now, confirm your registration and submit your article (I will make sure to read it and publish it even while I will be on vacation). Until I am back, register to my RSS feed and be the first to know my (or my guest bloggers) next post.

See you soon.

I have blogged several times about their directory section, the V7N Directory and I even have them listed in my seo resources page as well due to the quality of their directory and the seo benefits of that directory. I have recommended V7N directory since the first time I submitted a site of mine, and then followed by submission of a second site to make some experiments, proved, and recommended again.

V7N Coupon Code

For a limited time, you can get a lovely discount of $12.50 by using coupon code: ALMOSTSUMMER (do not forget to click on Apply Code before checking out). This coupon code is not valid only for their directory but as well the contextual advertisement too (or as they call it, contextual links). So same coupon code can be used in both places (or wherever you prefer most).

The above mentioned coupon code is valid for only a limited time and will end Monday, May 31st at midnight CST, so you better act quick if you want to get this discount.

As summer is getting close, companies are more then happy to give discounted prices to pull some customers. Subscribe to my RSS feed, there are more offers of which I am aware of and will blog about some of them.

If you have WP Super Cache installed then most likely you know what the function of that plugin is, but since many others might have not heard of it yet..let me explain first. The WP Super Cache plugin it creates cache of your pages in static HTML and then shows those pages to your visitors (until the cache expires, which you can setup in your admin panel). This way your wordpress blog doesn’t have to query the database and show the content to the visitors, nor it needs to make other php functions so it saves your bandwidth usage, which is a good thing.

The bad thing that users have reported about this plugin is that it creates duplicate content in your site, and you have yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com/index.php indexed in the search engines, so all your efforts to eliminate duplicate content on your wordpress blog is useless at this point. The only fix for the moment known is to uninstall the plugin and wait for the search engine crawler bots to re-crawl your site and remove the duplicate pages from their index, or you can 301 redirect the duplicate pages to the original URL in meanwhile the authors of the plugin find the bug and make a fix for it, in meanwhile avoid to install this plugin.

Do you use WP Super Cache? Have you checked your site by querin site:yourdomain.com in the search engines and see if you have duplicate pages created from this plugin? Let us know..

OIO Publisher Coupon for October 2009 – TERRA-DNSEO Buy Now for $37

Once you have created the account, apply coupon code TERRA-DNSEO and you will receive immediate discount of $10 on OIOPublisher plugin.

Why you might want OIOPublisher?

• Easy to install, with just one click like all normal plugins
• Manage orders/advertisements on the fly
• Activates orders/advertisements automatically once payment is received (save time)
• Several payment getaway integrated (PayPal, 2Checkout, Authorize.net and much more)
• Affiliate access to other users, let others advertise your services for you and give them % of your earnings

All those features included with OIOPublisher can really make your online orders much easier to manage. You can create channels, sell different type of advertisement (banners, videos, links etc) or you can even easily customize it and use it as billing software for your services by setting up flat rates or recurring payments.

For full features of this lovely plugin please visit OIOPublisher website, do not waste time purchase this plugin within the month of October and use coupon code TERRA-DNSEO to receive $10 discount.

There are two tool options I did notice there, or rather 2 groups of tools. One is SEO and the other one is for PPC, and since all the reviews I read were about the SEO tools and my interest was to check the SEO tools only I will limit my review on the that only.

SEO Tools that you can find on ShoeMoney’s membership

• SEO Checkup
• Backlink Analyzer
• Domain marketplace
• Backlink Finder
• Keyword Density Tool
• Most Linked
• Related Blog Posts
• SEO Competition 2.0
• Text Optimizer
• Outgoing Links

These are the tools you can find on ShoeMoney’s SEO Tools and I checked them one by one to see if they justify the membership fee or you can just simply find these tools on the web for free or if you could find even better tools then those for that price. So lets start reviewing all the tools.

SEO Checkup

The SEO Checkup tool was something I really did liked. It is one of the last tools build from his team and is something really useful if you want to learn more things about your competitor and how come he ranks #1 and not you. You have to just insert the keyword for which you want to rank and your URL (note, URL is optional) within few minutes (yeah takes a bit longer to make all the analyzes and it is obvious as it has to check several sites). Once the report is generated you will be able to see details of the top 10 sites ranking in the first page for that keyword, in addition with domains PageRank, Yahoo linkdomain, Yahoo links, Alexa ranking, age of domain, titles that your competitors use including the keyword density in title, number of words in title, as on page optimization it also counts the number of first three headings that your competitors have within the page with which they rank, keywords that are used in headings.

Other on-page factors are included within the SEO Checkup report such as,

• body text and keyword density within the body text
• URL and if keywords are present in URL
• sitemap and robots.txt analyzes
• meta description analyzes
• links (well this isn’t really a report since it asks you to run another backlink checker report)
• html code and page load time
• Images (no report even for this section, it just gives suggestions on what you should do)
• Meta keywords

Overall, the SEO Checkup plugin is sweet and a time saver, i liked this one since the moment i got the report. But lets pass over on the second tool.

Backlink Analyzer

With the backlink analyzer you get a lovely report (have to wait couple minutes for the report to complete) of keywords that your competitor has, amount of keywords that use certain anchor text, sites from where those links come and sites with which competitor has made reciprocal link exchange. Interesting and helpful tool, but definitively not something you can’t find online for free. Webconfs anchor analyzer tool is one of those free ones even tho it limits to 65 backlinks its report.

Domain Marketplace

This is another interesting tool. It has a marketplace of domains (name of domains is hidden so all you will see is xxx xxx xxx xxx.tld), but the domain names listed in here are classified based on Inlinks, .gov links, .edu links, .mil links. Even tho backlinks from .gov, .edu, .mil give a great value as far as it regards SEO, to me this tool is useless since I can’t see the actual domain but all I see is xx x x x xx x x x x jibberish stuff. However, for those interested in flipping sites and making easy profits it is a good tool to track down expired domains with decent backlinks already (saves you time building those links, someone else has done it for you).

Backlink Finder

An unknown error occured. Please wait a few minutes and try your request again.

Thats the message I got since I signed up when I try to get report on backlink finder based on my keywords.

Keyword Density Tool

With this tool by inserting your site URL and desired keyword you want to check you get a report of the keyword density in your body text report. Thing which you can get for free on many other websites, just perform a search on your preferred search engine. With WebCEO this tool is already build in.

Most Linked

This tool runs a report (based on site URL) on pages that have most incoming links.

Related Blog Posts

Now this is a interesting tool. Say you have a blog post regarding SEO Tools, write down the keyword on this tool and it will generate a list of related blog posts based on that keyword. Copy then the URL list and paste it into the send trackback to ping those blogs.

SEO Competition 2.0

A tool to have fun with in your spare time, because it gives same results as the SEO Checkup tool and gives even less information’s.

Text Optimizer

You have your text ready to put in your website but would like to check on keyword density for your desired keywords before publishing and make sure that you have it optimized well? With this tool you get the keyword density report for your text before publishing it. Yet another tool that you can find for free if you search right through the web.

Outgoing Links

If you want to measure the outgoing links from your site (or from your competitors site) then this tool will give you report on that. Pretty simple and straight forward.

My Opinion on ShoeMoney’s SEO Tools

As far as it regards shoemoney’s seo tools, and only the seo tools, i am not very pleased, with exception of the SEO checkup tool which is something really lovely and useful if you want to learn more about your competitors. The other tools are really something you can find online for free (WebCEO’s free edition has most of those tools included for free, and even more), all you have to do is perform a search query on the search engines and the tools will be there.

Personally, after this 10 days promotion I won’t renew the membership with shoemoney’s tools as I do not see those tools justifying the price nor it makes me work easier. If i’d have to subscribe one day it would be just to use the SEO Checkup tool, but I doubt I will pay that price to use one tool only.

Have you used Shoemoney’s SEO tools? What do you think about them?
If you have used these tools I would love to hear what do you think about, you liked them? Felt they are waste of time or they helped you more then you expected? Let me know through the comments please.

Many readers of my SEO blog have previously stated they use WebCEO, most use the free edition (with limited functions) and some have purchased one of the paid licenses. Well I wanted to let you know that you have time until 22 August 2009 to buy WebCEO at incredible low price, 50% cheaper. This is a one time offer and as stated above it lasts only until 22 August 2009, after that date prices will go up to normal again.

Discount Price Comparison

• Web CEO SmallBiz Unleashed: Discounted price: $129 Normal price: $339 (included: Professional Training and Certification in Internet Marketing)
• Web CEO Professional Unleashed: Discounted price: $229 – Normal price: $479 (included: Professional Training and Hardcopy Certification in Internet Marketing)

As you can see the comparison above you save $210 USD if you purchase Web CEO SmallBiz Unleashed until 22nd August, and you save $250 USD if you purchase Web CEO Professional Unleashed license. Both licenses are included with professional training on how to use Web CEO and search engine optimization secrets along with a certificate in internet marketing.

If you ever wanted to own a license of this software but the price seemed too high, then this is the right moment to purchase Web CEO as I doubt you will ever get lower price on this seo software in near feature.

Which SEO Software do you use?

Do you use a SEO Software to optimize your website? Tell us which SEO software (or combination of softwares) you use and what makes you chose it over the other seo softwares in the market.

It is the time that the wordpress gets upgraded, even tho i just LOVE the current version, however there are some functions that the old wordpress doesn’t have included and I would need to use plugins for that, such as closing commenting on posts older then X days which would be very useful for me even tho the amount of comments are not too much that could put in danger my web hosting resources.

I do like more the interface of the wordpress version i currently have, i do like the fact that there are no security holes reported for this version as far as I have checked. The old but good interface it is what makes things to be user-friendly for me, while in the interface of the new wordpress that point has been somehow lost.

Now, before I rush to upgrade I need your thoughts on closing comments older then X days or no. Do you think it is good to “re-open” in discussion the older posts or they should be left at their place without the possibility to comment? Please, vote the poll and if you do have the time comment bellow about that why do you think they should remain open or why they should be closed.

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