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Page Rank Tools and Page Rank Checkers

These are Google Page Rank Checkers that I can recommend- they do what they say they will do. A rare quality in a web tool.

Smart Page Rank

This might be one of the best Page Rank reporting tools I have come across. It list Google page rank from multiple datacenters, give Alexa page rank status, gives age of domain, lists whether the site is listed in DMOZ.org directory and yahoo directory, will also list- fairly accurately- how many of the sites pages are indexed in Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista and All the Web Directories and all that without asking for captcha! ( I am blind in one eye and captchas are PARTICULARLY annoying to me).
One other tool on the site- a backlink checker does something I like- it will check your backlinks- but will also let you check back
links with nofollow attributes. It does not check multiple sites in one shot.

Dig Page Rank This works quite well. Reports from multiple data centers.I like it.

iWeb Tools Page Rank Checker
This is one of the more annoying ones. You are quite likely to get an “insufficient back links” message for no reason.

http://www.checkpagerank.com/ Very Basic. Checks both Alexa and Google, and that’s it.

Tags: Free Tools and Utilities by Lisa Stewart
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In a word.. no. Can often take days for page rank that will show on page rank toolbar to settle.
Sites are still reporting changes in there page rank AGAIN this morning. So if you got whacked- still might be hope
One way to check your site is to go to a page rank checker that reports multiple databases.
I am fan of dig page rank checker

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First Thing to Do After You Install Wordpress- Uncheck Visual Editor Option

I am NOT a fan of the visual editor in Wordpress. Pretty much the first thing i do when I install a blog is turn it off.
The rich text editor is SUPPOSED to be a WYSIWYG type editor . It is a hassle and if you want to get good at writing blogs that are crawled and searched and found- turn it off.

You can still write whatever you want- but you can add tags, etc whenever you want. Do not be afraid! Its not that hard.

How To Turn Off Visual Editor in Wordpress and Write Your Own HTML

The visual text editor in Wordpress is automatically checked ON for every user. You have to to to your user profile in wordpress.
Dashboard-> Users-> Authors and Users-> Your Profile and uncheck. You need to be signed in as that user to change.

Tags: WordPress Blog by Lisa Stewart
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The alst text of an image is a significant as anchor text of a link. Most web designers underestimate the power of alt text.

When designing a site- just writing a blog keeping accessibility in mind is not only part if best practice- it also will help in optimizing your site. A site that is accessible is also one that is easily crawled and index by search engines.
Part of optimizing as site, creating link bait tools and viral marketing will often images and all important alt text.

An excellent reference for using alt text can be found at CynthiaSays.com

It is a fairly quick read and you will pick up some useful pointers and get rid of common mistakes like using image name as alt text or key word spamming in alt text.

The article is part of an excellent series, Understanding Accessibility.

Tags: Internet Marketing and Blogs by Lisa Stewart
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