It is interesting to know how much (own) Website is worth. There are several tools on the Internet which can help you to estimate the worth of your page in money ($) but also some tools which does provide some sort of score are interesting to. I’ll will share some interesting tools that can measure the potential of your site or a blog.

Glurk.com

Interesting Web-page worth calculation witch is based on basic SEO-parameters like: Google page-rank, count of back-links, listing in Yahoo directory and so on. You can also say provide some additional or even subjective information, so e.g. count of competitors.
If you like, see saved result for my site.

Snscoop.com

Here you only need to provide your domain name. And other information will be collected and present to you automatically. Nice and handy but do not work well with sub-domains

Websitevalued.com

This Service is truly nice one. Good Information Presentation and the possibility to provide some data (not to much) manually, which leads to more realistic results. Definitely is worth to try it out!

Seitwert.de

Seitwert is an very cool German service. You have to understand basic German to make the information they provide about your site make useful for you. There are six Rating:
Google Rating, Alexa rating, Social bookmarks presence, technical details, Yahoo rating, an other factors.
It show you the problems of your site.

Seomoz.org

Seomoz seemed to be fine SEO company, at least they have very nice free SEO tools. One of them – Trifecta measures so called “Page strength” of your site.
You have to be registered user.

Technorrati based -Blog worth

And of cause the known Blog worth. This rank is based on technorati rank. So you can only apply it on blogs listed on technorati.

Mywebsiteworth.com

Just enter your URL and you will get worth in $ with not much expression. However the worth is realistic one. Where Blog Worth (See above) gets 1000$ here could be worth 50$.

Seekbot.de

Another useful site is german Seekbot. Its not ranking and rating service . But I like to listing it here because it something useful it check your page on the fly like Seitwert.de and gives you hint, how bots do see on your site, what is bad and what is good.

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^(.*)$ http://alexander.holbreich.org/$1 [R=301,L]

to the old domain to preserve some humble SEO result of this page. But for some weeks new Blog had no page-rank. Now he is here and the effect of Permanent redirect on google is proved!

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Why the movement

Primary it had to be done because of some problems with hosting service provider. But that is a long story, which I won’t tell you here. However ORG domain is much nicer? What do you think?

wPopularity Plug-In

Please excuse me for not maintaining it. I just have time to keep this site alive, not really for a writing Plug-ins i free time. But I promise i try to find some hours in the winter holidays, to answer all your questions and maybe even to release new version. Thank you for you patience.

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Ok , I know I begin with the introducing of the My wife’s Blog. It’s about books, travel and geography, because my darling do study at the Faculty of Geography. You might find it also interesting even when you will not find there many articles about IT However her English is much better than my

Back to this blog. As you know WordPress 2.5 is out. And somehow there are no security updates at that time. How it comes? Did the WordPress guys didn’t their work really good this time?   Seems to be. So I consider to upgrade in the next time.

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Nevertheless the Geni people have send me small present for my cooperation, this cool GENI T-short.

P.S. Did you asked yourself what does means “Second cousin once removed” browsing your tree on geni.com? Estman helps to answer that question.

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One of the Important aspects is properly made page for the search engine optimisation point of view. I don’t wanna cover these point in this article, if interested, you can read WordPress SEO – The Beginners Guide by Joost de Valk’s, which is good introduction in the theme. I just wanna cover one of the aspects of good page and that is Meta-information.

Every page of your blog has to provide title attribute and meta attribute keywords and maybe even meta description, which helps Search engines to better “understand” what is on that page. Unfortunately there is no adequate support for meta description by default in WordPress. So we need a Plug-In.

HeadSpace2 – Plugin

The HeasSpace2 PlugIn homepage is one of the popular in that field. The installation is easy, no template hacks are needed, copy and activate as usual. The configuration is done in “options” -menu. It may be helpful to read the description and concepts on the Plug-In homepage, before starting configuration.

There are four main configuration tabs:

• Page Settings (shown on image)
• Modules
• Options
• Import

Page Settings

Crucial are Page Settings, that are default settings for different parts of WordPress like Archives pages, post pages, main page and so on.

In Page Settings dialog it is possibly to configure default tags for all of them, of cause with support of predefined variables. It is possibly that you have to play a little bit around until you get desired effects.

But before you start check your templates header file. Inspect how title is created. It is crucial because some template authors use wireds things for creating titles. You are well advised to use something like this:

<title>

<?php wp_title(‘ ‘); ?> <?php if(wp_title(‘ ‘, false)) { echo ‘ : ‘; } ?><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>

</title>

This, will enable by default right presentation in title, first the title of Post then Blog name separated with “:” like on my blog. Works fine without Headspace2 PlugIn ant with it. By usage with Headspace2 use empty string as separator in the configuration of “page title” in the Modules Dialog.

Modules

Modules has two sections, top and bottom. Top section allows you to define the presentation of meta tag description fields in Post and Pages Editors and also in the Page Settings dialog. And that are so called Page Modules. Here is also “page title” module which is mentioned before.

In the bottom you will find the Site Modules configuration. In the main Site modules could be selfcontaining Plugins. But here they wrapped as modules. Most of them are some Statistic analysers like Google analytics, but what what i found interesting is Google Section Targeting Module. Google targeting allows you to demarcate adsence relevant html>body area of your blog, read more about Google section Targeting (in German).

Warnings

Be careful with the Modules, i have switched something wrong there, and that broke the output of that site, so only admit are worked well. therefore I didn’t notice anything fore more than ten ours. You may be notified strange downtime of my site in the last week?

Conclusion

All in one, Headspace2 seems to be nice Plug-In. use it with care in it will serve you well. Questions are welcome.

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I think that tags are very flexible and also somehow naturally to use, you don’t have to think very carefully which should be taken, and which was used before, you just tag it with firs you get in mind. Tagging or labeling is something natural to humans, think of yourself. Everybody has normally meanings about things in his near environment, we give them names even then when we don’t really understand them. So tags seems to be even replacement for categories, which even leads some bloggers to live entirely without categories.

Categories

However I think to pass on categories is not so good, because tags and categories have different semantic and purpose, we should not do without categories. Let me explain why. There are two main properties of category, that discern them from tags.

1. Wilful classification
2. Hierarchies

What I mean by wilful classification? Usually you think about your category structure at the introduction of the blog. So you take time and divide your further articles wilful in some categories. That helps yourself and others to find only such articles that are from their interest. So your classify all your post in some careful considered categories wilful.

Further categories enable building semantically hierarchies in this classification, because you can build sub-categories, even big category trees (which is not good idea in my eyes). So we notice categories are something different to tags, and effort more consideration (in beginning).

Solution

The solution is of cause a symbios of both concepts. I think categories should not try to copy the flexibility of tags, categories should keep tags in order with small well considered category set. In other words i propose the use of categories as coarse grained classification of blog articles and fine grained flexible classification or labeling of articles with tags.

Example Restructuring of my blog

I begun to write in this blog before tags became standard in WordPress, so i tried to categorise my articles only, this led to such categories:

• Database Systems
• Distributed systems
• eCommerce
• General
• Hardware
• Humour
• IT Architekture
• Java
• Software
  • IDEs
  • Scripts
  • Servers
• Web Development
  • Ajax
  • Css
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Semantic Web
  • XML (XHTML)
• Web2.0
• Wordpres
  • Plug-Ins

That is defenetly to much, some of them can be easy be cowered throug tags. So i deside to build only such categories:

• Internet
  • CMS
  • Web development
  • SEO
  • Blogging
    • WordPress
• IT Architekture
  • Software Engineering
    • Java
• Business Informatics
• Software
• Hardware
• Humour
• Personal
• Off Topic

Fine granularity will be managed with tags. Thank you for reading. I begin with restructuring now.

P.S. You may be also interested in discussion about categories tags an Technorati issues.

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Definition

Socialolism is a strong addiction to Internet applications of social nature. Malignant versions of Socialolism arise just in that times when the affected person has many boring things to do (e.g. Work), even when that things are important.

Common Symptoms

There are some common Symptoms of Socialolism, knowing them will help you to identify the problem.

• Strong desire to open browser and check messages in some Social network during a small pause in Work (e.g. build or deployment process).
• Lingering and strong desire to open own blog or site and look for new comments.
  • Worst: Desire is still there when there are no new comments
  • Worstiest: Desire is still there, even there are newer been some comment on this site before.
• Watching also Youtube videos, that are related to video you actually receives form your colleague.
• Writing new post in your blog during work time.
• Updating your profile in Social-Network-Site instead of doing important homework.
• Checking every digg.com like site on new votes for stories committed by concerned person.
• Opening browser (for very very last time) just before start of durable and boring business.
• Reading Wikipedia more than intentionally intended.
• More than onece a day check of visitor statistic on own sites.

Known places of danger on the Internet

Every addiction has some objects that povoke concerned people. The places where socialolists (people afflicted with socialolism) try to satisfy their addiction are well known. That are blogs (especially own ), Forums, Classmate and Co-Worker networks, Youtube like sites and the whole palette of web2.0 sites like digg.com wich provide social components.

Demarcation of Concepts

Socialolism is not so bad like internetmania which is considered as disease. No, it rather bad consuetude or addiction. It should also not be mistaken for egosurfing, wikipediholism or even photo-lurking. Sure this can have relation, but these sings are real strange. Against them socialism should know nearly every modern Internet user i think. Such statistic bases of cause on my personal notice .

Nevertheless Socialolism must be very close to problems like luck of concentration, idleness and maybe that’s the point!

How to cure

I’m not sure. Don’t connect to Internet? Sure this helps, but it is not pro rata. Just try to do such thing that are more interesting than Social sites? It’s often impossible. Hope to provide you some exercises against socialolism in the future.

P.S. Please notice that article has also ironical site.

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The rel="nofollow" attribute in a-Tags was intitally proposed by google and was supported by MSN and Yahoo! The intial intention was to stem spam-links, that can largely occure in some webpages, especially blog comments. The famious blog engines founded that idea very cool and mosst of them are setting the nofollow attirbut out of the box. WordPress does it by default too. But like many of good-mentione ideas can lead to some not wannted problems.

Analysis

Let’s look closely on noffolow attribute and his purposes. If “nofollow” relation is set within a link, the serachengine (like google) shuld not consider this link in the Pagerank callculations. Basic descriotion of Googles pagerank you will find in Resources below.
But what is when all comment of one blogsystem are marked with “nofollow” by default. What does it means? Does it means taht, all comment on your blog are spam, or irrelevant information. If so why enabling commentig at all? Nofollow probaly does not make really sense in comments or at least in all comment per default. Then comments that are deserve to be marked as “nofollow” are not really comments you wish see on your page. Thay should be deleted by your spamfilter-plugin. So the is not realy any need to have “nofollow” in comment links.

But many of famious blog use it per default. (See german blogs results)
But should we consider nofollow attribute harmfull in any case and forever like No NoFollow intitiative do? Let’s inspect their 11 Reasons agains nofollow:

1. nofollow does not prevent comment spam - There are to meany points in this statment. At one side, of course “noflolow” do not prevent automatic spam. Furhter it can lead to fewer human-made spam (if someone sees that somebodys blog sets nofollows at default, he may not post sensless post, just to have link. Of course in this case, noffolow leads to the fact, that also wanted comments are in absence, becourse authors becomme no “revard” for theyer commenting job.
2. nofollow is confusingly named - i don’t know, i think this is not a point.
3. nofollow harms the connections between web sites – I agree with that, the default and not human evaluated nofollow – harms!
4. nofollow is not useful for humans, just for search engines using PageRank or a similar technique – Yes, but where is the problem?
5. nofollow could be used to shut web sites out – This is true! And it can be very powerfull. Imagine: all bloggers from now on will sets nofollows on the wikipedia links. Ok you will be never able arganize something like this, but if…!
6. nofollow discriminates legitimate users as spammers – That’s true. And is one reaaly big problem!
   
7. nofollow heists commentators’ earned attention – This can be true, as already mentioned at number 1.
8. nofollow could be used to further discriminate weblogs – I think that says nothing.
9. nofollow prevents the Web from being a web – That not precise, it contradics to the statement 4. I think web stays web, nofollow does only change the searchengines view of the web and that is something different!
   
10. nofollow eliminates the dissemination of free speech – Oh yea! Say humane rights defenders from “NO noffolow party” Why people allways try to argue that way to get attention ?
    
11. nofollow was developed in privacy with only search engines companies taking part in the discussion - Yes it’s true but also many of other beatifull, well accepted things.

I my oppinion we shold be caryfull with “nofollow” usage. Nofollow can be dangerous (see points: 1,3,5,6). No follow does not change the world in better way, and spam should be fighted before it reach web page. If spame is on page (in comment, forum-post, ..) it already to late, and nofollow do not handle it.

But the can be some usage for noFollow if can be handled by humans and not automaticaly. For example if someone buys adversting on your page. Or probaly you cites someones page that you don’t like, ant you don’t wish this page gain from it – why not “nofollow”?

conclusion

I am shure, future brings more relation-tags, to specify page relations more precisely. “Nofollow”- Tag may be not the perfect one, so use it carefullu or just don’t touch it – disable it!

My blog don’t sets the nofollows per default, so you are wellcome to leave your comments!

Resources

WordPress Plug in that disables rel=”nofollow” in comments – use it!
Three solutions how to visualise rel=”nofollow” in firefox
Some basics about Googles PageRank

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