Published: Nov 01, 2007 - 12:26 pm
Story Found By: tamar 1564 Days ago
Category: Vertical Search
13 Comments
13 Comments
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Cool tool, but kinda hard to find with all the advertising!
Agreed. I had trouble finding what I was looking for. Anybody else appreciate the irony of all those Google ads, basically flogging PR? hehe
I must say this is one time that Im happy to be using AdBlock. ;)
Great tip Tamar. Thanks for sharing it.
Interesting look at the power of the Avatar. This story was submitted and recieved 8 sphinns. :)http://sphinn.com/story/11709
http://sphinn.com/story/11709 - that avatar scares me!!
Can we get off the fixation with PageRank once and for all?Its not a metric that you need to be following for SEO purposes.
@LocalHound: It may be the case, but IMO, the tool should have been submitted, not a blog post about the tool. On Digg, they call that "blogspam." Perhaps individuals thought that the blog post itself didnt add much value and people just wanted to go directly to the tool.
In that case, earlier today, the Sphinn article about setting your location in WMT would have linked directly to the tool and not to the SEL article about the tool.
Well, yes and no.The comments system of SEL is Sphinn, so if you want to comment, you have to submit it. Secondly, you need an account to access the specific tool. Lets assume that people dont have an account. Theyd have to sign up and log in before they vote? Sounds pretty cumbersome if you ask me.And finally, Vanessas post added value and showed how useful it is. Outright, that is not as clear. If you just submitted the tool and said "hey, look what you can do now!" without further explanation, youll probably lose the crowd. Description and use-cases are everything. :)This is a free tool and the description is pretty self-explanatory. The direct link suffices for those who voted. I dont think Im a rockstar submitter at all.
Just thought Id add that Im glad Tamar posted a link to the tool, the article about the tool is on a site thats blocked internally... which usually makes me not want to visit period.
Holy adsense batman! Id rather use the SEO for Firefox by Aaron Wall then you can see the pages page rank right in the search results with a site: command. You can then drill down into directories etc.
what a crappy tool... the pr checksum algo was cracked like 4 yrs ago, and even tough this tool shows PR10 for all ofmy pages... plus JohnWeb is 100% right