WooRank is a free website analysis tool similar to that of WebsiteGrader and BuiltWith, but it’s more on ranking and SEO.
Website: http://www.woorank.com
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Tynt.com – see what texts and images are being copied from your blog
Following two screenshots are self-explanatory for what Tynt does:
Other than that, Tynt will also show which texts or images are being copied from your posts in the blog. All these will be reported in detail when you login to your account at Tynt.
I have already installed it to my blog, so beware if you want to cut and paste ;) Unfortunately it doesn’t show who (i.e which IP or URL) copies, rather it only shows which texts are being copied.
Nevertheless it’s a great service, because by seeing which posts are being copied the most, you can know what type of posts people like the most. Once you know that, you can increase the effectiveness of your posts by blogging in particular style or format.
Website: http://tynt.com/
(via http://23rdworld.com)
WikiRank – See how many pageviews each Wikipedia page gets
If you used to wonder how many pageviews particular page on Wikipedia gets, and whether it is worth to get your link up on that page…. now you don’t have to.
Because WikiRank allows you to see the statistics of every page on Wikipedia.
Of course, it only shows the pageviews and not the number of clicks each link gets. But still, it’s a great service for SEO people. For example, if you really do all it takes to get traffic to your blog, with WikiRank you could have checked the latest trends and perhaps make a niche website or blog about particular ‘upcoming’ topic that will get a lot of pageviews on Wikipedia and then try to get your link up on that particular page.
For example, people searched over 3 million times for “Watchmen” in Wikipedia.
If you had watched the movie and had written a review about it, and then got your link on Watchmen page on Wikipedia. I am sure you could have gotten at least hundreds of clicks if not thousands from Wikipedia. Just a thought.
Website: http://wikirank.com
How to share Google Analytics reports with others
Google Analytics is a great service and it’s used by many. One of the features that I like about Google Analytics is – sharing your reports with others.
Sometimes advertisers or potential partners would ask for your blog’s/website’s traffic statistics. And in this time of fraud and forgery, screenshots won’t simply do it (perhaps this might do). They want to see the real, live statistics. So, in this kind of situations G.Analytics’ “share reports” feature is a great solution.
Sharing your reports is easy, can be done in 3 simple steps.
1. Login to your G.Analytics account and go to your overview page of your reports. At the end of the page you will see a link “User Manager”, click it.
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2. Next page will show you the list of emails (people) who have access to your reports. If it is your first time, you will only see your own email. Click on the “Add User” link.
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3. Enter the person’s Gmail, yes it should be gmail and not any other email. And select the access type, you can either make the person “admin” or “view only”. After that, choose the report of the site(s) for him to view, in case if you have more than one site being tracked by G.Analytics.
Note: Be careful when making strangers admin of your reports.
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That’s it. Now the person can login to his Google Account (Analytics) and see your reports inside his account. You can remove the person from your reports anytime.
Wakoopa – discover new softwares
Wakoopa is a software tracker, once installed it will track all softwares and web applications used by you and report it to wakoopa. Here is an example of a user’s page.
It’s been around for some time actually, but never really took off. The site has a great potential, especially the “discover new software” feature. Because you can actually see which softwares are being used the most, unlike in download sites you only see ‘most downloaded’ stats which wouldn’t really tell if people are still using the software after they have downloaded it and tried it for a few days.
So, ‘more download’ doesn’t really mean – good software – in download sites. But in wakoopa, ‘more usage’ really means – it’s a better software than the competitors.
Website: www.wakoopa.com
Twittersheep – who follows you
Twittersheep is a cloud generator tool for twitter, but it generates the tags out of the words from your followers’ bios.
The following screenshot is a tag-cloud of my followers. Basically these are the words that my followers use to describe themselves in their Twitter bio. From one look you can see that most of them are bloggers ;)
So, it’s a great tool to find out what kind of people/professionals are your followers on twitter.
Website: http://twittersheep.com
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ades
Monitor site-hacking with Google Alerts
Google Alerts is great in keeping track of keywords. But it can also be used to monitor your websites if anyone has hacked them (hopefully it won’t be the case), if it does happen Google would send you a notification. Google team blogged about it on their blog saying:
… Try a site: search on your site to see if anything unfamiliar shows up in Google’s results for your site. You can add words to the query that are unlikely to appear in your content, such as commercial terms or adult language. If the query [site:example.com viagra] isn’t supposed to return any pages on your site and it does, that could be a problem. You can even automate these searches with Google Alerts.
Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-redir…
Online Tool: Checking if your ISP manipulates your torrent traffic
P2P file sharing traffic can constitute up to 75% of all the broadband bandwidth depending on the country. This of course increases the cost of operation for the ISPs, since it means traffic congestion and slow internet for them which leads to unsatisfied customers.
To solve this problem they either buy more traffic, or they limit the p2p traffic. Businesses being businesses – maximize profit, minimize cost – some of them go for the second option, that is to limit the torrent traffic of their customers.
How to check if your ISP limits your torrent traffic?
This tool called Glasnost can check if your ISP is manipulating your torrent traffic. It takes 7 minutes to make a full analysis of your ISP.
Test on my ISP (Streamyx) returned a negative result for the main port 6885, even though Streamyx is in the Bad ISPs list that are known to throttle the torrent traffic.
Maybe I have not reached the limit yet? Glastnost’s note could be the explanation:
Note: that some ISPs do not throttle all BitTorrent traffic but only if this traffic exceeds a certain threshold. Thus, passing our tests does not necessary mean that there is no throttling occurring on your link.
That’s probably correct since I am not a heavy p2p user.
Website: http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest-mlab.php
Moving FeedBurner account to Google
For the past few days my RSS feed counter has been showing wrong count. Instead of showing 1200+ subscribers it is showing 700-800 subscribers. It’s clearly something wrong, because even with fluctuations it should be around 1000+ subscribers. Plus/minus 200 subscribers is ok, but when almost 500 subscribers are missing then there is really something wrong.
I guess it’s time to move my FeedBurner account to Google. As you remember after Google acquired FeedBurner, they have been encouraging people to move their FeedBurner account to Google. Everyone must move by February 28, 2009.
Why is FeedBurner merging its product with Google’s?
Our vision when FeedBurner joined Google was to help bring the best of what FeedBurner offered in syndication publisher tools and solutions to the AdSense platform, and vice versa. In the time since the merger, the FeedBurner engineering team has joined the Google engineering team (but still focuses on the same set of tools for RSS monetization, analysis, and optimization) and is not managed as a separate company or subsidiary.
Why do I need to transfer my account?
We are moving all FeedBurner accounts to Google Accounts.
Since Google’s acquisition of FeedBurner, Inc. on June 1, 2007, we have been moving the FeedBurner application to Google hardware, software, and data centers. This allows the application to scale and perform like most Google applications and integrate easily with other Google platforms. It also means more reliability in delivering your content, analytics, and monetization, as well as a more secure and consistent experience for your users.
In order to provide an integrated experience and to support the new features we have planned for our feed platform, as well as to improve security, it is necessary for logins to be handled via a Google Account. from FAQ
Transferred!
It took few clicks and about 1 minute to transfer the account. My new RSS feed is now http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AdesBlog. Old feeds will automatically point to the new one, but for the new subscribers it’s recommended that you give the new feed url.
Google warns that the RSS count might temporarily show “0″ for the latest day, and it might take around one week for it to work normally.
So, when are you transferring yours? I hope not on the last day – 28th February 2009!
FAQ Page: https://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=126303
New Login URL: http://feedburner.google.com/
Alexa modifies its ranking system
Alexa announced that it has modified its ranking system. Apparently, it’s now tracking from multiple sources (what are these sources, it’s not mentioned) to rank the sites. Previously it used to rely only on its Alexa Toolbar statistics to rank the sites. And the system was hugely flawed. I guess now we can expect more realistic stats from Alexa.
Due to this new ranking system, more people are now reporting that their sites have dropped in Alexa rankings. This holds true with my blog too. Now my blog’s weekly rank is at 88,172 and three months average is 133,396. So goodbye Top50K with the new system ;) How is your blog’s stats doing with the new system?
IzeaRank goes live, can it fight PageRank?
IzeaRank went live today, a new service that was created as a result of Google’s punishment on blogs and sites that sold text links without no-follow tags on them (my blog was one of them, went from PR7 to PR5).
It’s to be the alternative ranking system to PageRank, besides Alexa, Technorati and Compete.
How it works? Unlike other ranking systems, the RealRank scoring algorithm is public. The system weights blogs 70% on daily unique visitors, 20% by daily active inbound links and 10% by daily page views as reported by ITK. Participants can choose to expose just their RealRank score or expand reporting to include other data such as pageviews and visits.
How good is IzeaRank’s algorithm?
Do you see any weakness in the algorithm? I personally think the algorithm relies too much (70%) on the daily unique visitors. While daily uniques are the one thing that all advertisers are interested in, it’s also very easy to rig (i.e arrange the outcome of by means of deceit) such a system. I think it’s easier to rig IzeaRank than Alexa. Because it heavily relies on daily uniques, and it cannot determine if the unique visitors are coming from legitimate sites or from bots. Because, there are sites that can send you thousands of unique visitors for a few bucks. Of course, these visitors won’t stick on your blog (i.e won’t become your blog readers, or subscribe to your RSS), but your unique visitor stats will definitely skyrocket. And that’s what matters for IzeaRank to rank your site higher in the list.
On the other hand, Google can detect such activities, especially if you are using their Google Analytics on your site.
The real challenge for IzeaRank
Google has a No.1 search engine to back up its PageRank system, what about Izea? Can it back up its RealRank with anything?
Google has the power to include your site in its search index, or kick you out of it. If your blog shows up on the first page of Google’s search results page for a particular important keyword, I am sure many advertisers will be rushing to advertise on your blog. Also if you have a high PR blog, (major) advertisers will be interested to advertise on your blog.
On the other hand, if your blog has PR0 or is nowhere to be seen in the Google’s SERPs, then I don’t think many advertisers will be interested to advertise on your blog. (There are of course exceptions for this, like JohnChow who does not need Google for making money online).
But what I am driving is, can IzeaRank (or RealRank, whatever the name is) actually compete with or replace PageRank? I don’t think so. I think it will become one more stats tool to get a better overall picture of a site. I don’t think it can be used independently. You will still have to consider PageRank, Alexa, Compete, Technorati, RSS Count + IzeaRank to know if the site is doing any good or worth advertising on. For setting your own ad rates, all of them should be considered too.
RealRank tracks only if you want to
Izea’s RealRank won’t track your blog (or site) unless you place a script inside your blog’s HTML. You need to first register for RealRank, then get your script, and place it inside your < head > tags. After which it will start to track your blog’s stats.
I think that’s a major disadvantage, especially for advertisers. Because at the moment, if the advertiser wants to check out any site’s stats, all he needs to do is to, check its PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati Rank, and Compete Rank. All of them do not require site owner to install anything. So in that sense, IzeaRank is special.
What’s your thoughts on this new service?
Popweblog – new site for rating blogs
Most probably you all know 45n5′s Top100 list right? It’s a list of Make Money Online blogs based on stats from Alexa, PR and Technorati. How you wanted RSS count to be included in the rating calculation right? But Mark of 45n5 have been rather slow in improving his toplist, and even the updates were taking quite some time lately. (once in 2 weeks?)
PopWeblog Top100
PopWeblog is a new website that does the same thing as 45n5, rating Make Money Online blogs, but with RSS count included in the rating criteria.
It’s a cut-throat competition on the net, you miss something and do not improve the obvious. Someone else will come up with a better service that is better than your service.
While it’s still a new website (popweblog), I see that many of the top bloggers have already subscribed for the list. I think it’s the curiosity of “how will I rank against others with RSS count included” that makes them subscribe to this website.
Rusdy, the author of the website sent me an email about it. And I just had to sign up and see how my blog ranks.
Tip: Therefore, next time you develop a nice service, send an email directly to the bloggers, preferably to the influential bloggers. If your service is really good, I am sure at least 80% of them will use the service, and some will even promote it for free for you on their blogs (like i am doing now).
So check it out http://popweblog.com
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