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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Google is kindly enough to try contact you i such case, when they about to throw your site out of the index because your site is malware infected or even is a malware distributor. In such one unlucky case you get the Malware Notification. Normaly this Notification goes to following addresses of your domain.

• abuse@
• admin@
• administrator@
• contact@
• info@
• postmaster@
• support@
• webmaster@

Therefore you are good advised to listen to at least one of them on your own domain.

The Malware Notification Mail points you to some affected URL’s (In my case there where two). Alterantive the same information could be found in Google Webmaster Tools

As next, you have to investigate the cause of this notification and clean your site. In best case you should find and fix the bug which was used for infiltration.

As you maybe remember my side was already attacked in the past, so I do not wander as much that such thing happen. Also in my case i did found the modifications on some post, where commented iframe with a linked to a bad site with and .php script was included. Maybe just some tracking or something like that. I wonder if such construct works still in any modern browser, but I’m not expert in such.

However as I think I also have found the source of the problem. I do not exactly understand how could it work in my case. But i seems to be the bad Trojan (By Antivir): HTML/Crypted.Gen.

Dancho Danchev describes a similar case. Maybe someone can tell me how exactly it worked in my case.

However. Now I have the newest version of WordPress, newest Version of Plug-Ins and clean posts. I have notify Google through Google Webmaster Tools to check my site again. Hope they’ll do it in the nearest time.

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Calender and Car

Furthermore I realized that I need again my small personal calendar, Google online calender is not enough. After using it more than 1,5 years I realize that its comfortable to plan long term events with google online calendar, but maybe not so comfortable to plan activities for the next day or even for today.

I also noticed that it is also good to relax more often. So it is not good to drive 50 minutes to work by car. Driving car efforts brain activity. I prefer to drive fast, so driving deserves the biggest part of my attention, the other part is listen to the radio or slips And that not good. It is better to travel by subway, where you brain can be used for other things like thinking about mission of a day to be more effective, thinking about things you normally don’t’ have time too, cause you work to much or just sleep

So think twice and be effective, good luck!

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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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What Google thinks about subdomains

Michael Wyszomierski answer this question in Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:

“What’s the difference between using subdomains and subdirectories? When it comes to Google, there aren’t major differences between the two, so when you’re making that decision, do what works for you and your visitors. Following PubCon, our very own Matt Cutts … on his personal blog. In addition to those considerations, if you use Webmaster Tools (which we hope you do!), keep in mind that you’ll automatically be verified for deeper subdirectories of any sites you’ve verified, but subdomains need to be verified separately.”

Google say it does not matter what you use for them, gives you only some more headache with using of Webmaster tools, but they refer to Matt Cutts – highly cited CEO Guru.

What Matt Cutts thinks about sub-domains

Mat Cutts says in his Subdomains and Subdirectories article:

“My personal preference on subdomains vs. subdirectories is that I usually prefer the convenience of subdirectories for most of my content. A subdomain can be useful to separate out content that is completely different. Google uses subdomains for distinct products such news.google.com or maps.google.com, for example. If you’re a newer webmaster or SEO, I’d recommend using subdirectories until you start to feel pretty confident with the architecture of your site. At that point, you’ll be better equipped to make the right decision for your own site.”

Even Google lies, we know that also Matt Cuts believe, that it does not matter what you use, but subdirectories are easier to maintain.

Conclusion

So this is a very good situation, when subdirectory and subdomain has no relevance in SEO sense. We can arrange them semantically and forget to consider strange optimisation rules you can find on the world wide web. Therefore i think sub-domains should be used to satisfy the following:

• Separating of Responsibility. E.g simon.zambrovski.org domain is part of zambrovski.org family’s domain. So when Simon does the administration for his subdomain, maybe his Grandpa does it for the zambrovski.org
• Separating of Subject. Subject must be in some own hierarchy. So e.g. Google.com of cause owns their product adsense.google.com witch is good example of separation Subjects.

In other cases i would use subdirectories.

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But the most interesting i found the interview of Sergey’s parents.

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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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