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How you people know the blog you are visiting is a popular blog? I use certain parameters to know the popularity of a blog like Google page rank, Alexa Rankings and Technorati Authority and its rankings. In today’s post, I will talk about ways to increase a blog authority and rankings on Technorati.

1. Technorati Account - First of all if you have a blog, create an account on Technorati and claim your blog there to start increasing your rankings and authority on Technorati.
2. Dofollow Blogs - Find a list of dofollow blogs by making a search for ‘Dofollow blogs list’ on Google. Also if you spend some time on webmaster, Internet marketing or search engine related forums, you will be able to find many list of dofollow blogs. Sitepoint, DPforum, SoChat, webproworld are some of big discussion forums about internet marketing, search engines, seo, blogging and affiliate marketing kind of stuff.
3. Link Exchange - create a big list of top bloggers in your niche with their contact information. When you have the list, send them the e-mail request explaining that you are willing to exchange link with their blogs. When you do it, try to be as much polite you can and don’t send the same e-mail format to all bloggers in your niche. Create a general e-mail format and then give it the personalized look by filling the information like blogger’s name, blog address, blog title, favorite post etc before sending it to each blogger.
4. Social Bookmarking - create a strong profile on top social media sites and submit your latest blog posts there. I would recommend using Digg, Mixx.com, Sphinn and stumbleupon if you are specially looking for ways to increase your Technorati authority and rankings.
5. Site & blog list - create a list of websites and blogs that are linking to you and then ping all of these URL’s one by one using Technorati Pinging form.
6. Content updation - write quality content on your blog and keep the posts coming to your blog on regular basis. Once you have added a new post to your blog, don’t forget to ping Technorati.
7. Guest blogging - use the blogger’s list that you created in step 2 and ask them you are willing to write a guest post on their blogs. In most of the cases, they will allow you for guest blogging. When you write a guest post for any of blogger in your niche, you will be able to get a quality link for your blog and also will be able to increase your Technorati authority as well.

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There are hundreds of extensions available on Firefox, but I’m including only those extensions that I find useful as a Seo blogger. And if you don’t have Firefox, you can download it from Mozilla Firefox official site for free.

1. Google Toolbar - Google Toolbar for Firefox gives you many facilities including:
   • Google Search Box
   • Access your G-mail account with a click
   • Google News with single Click
   • Google Page Rank
   • Google Cached Snapshot of the page
   • Back links for a webpage on Google
   • Spell Checking on a form you filled in
   • Language Translator
   • Youtube Search
   • Weather Report
   • Google Map
   • Search History
   • Google Suggestions
2. SearchStatus 1.25 - SearchStatus extension shows the following information about a page in our Status bar
   • Google Page Rank
   • Alexa Ranking
   • Compete Ranking
   • Meta Tags
   • Keywords Density
   • Highlight Keywords
   • Shows Whois Infomation
   • Robot.txt file
   • Index pages on Google, Yahoo & MSN
   • Back links in Google, Yahoo & MSN
3. Check page Links - LinkChecker 0.6.2 was developed by Kevin Freitas and is still working on it to improve it further. LinkChecker is the best tool available today to find the broken or dead link on a webpage.
4. Seo for Firefox - Aaron Wall from SeoBook.com has created a great tool for seo and internet marketing experts. This seo tool for firefox from Aaron have lots of valuable features including:
   • Google Page Rank
   • Google Last cached Date
   • Domain age
   • Links from Del.icio.us
   • Yahoo Links
   • Links from .edu sites
   • .gov links
   • Yahoo links for a particular page
   • Edu links for a specific page
   • Technorati shows links for a domain from blogs
   • Alexa Ranking for a site
   • No of Cached pages in Google
   • Supplemental Results
   • No of links from Dmoz open directory Project
   • Bloglines links
   • Links from Wikipedia
   • No of links from Yahoo Directory
   • Whois information
5. Web Developer 1.1.6 - has lots of useful features useful for web developer and a seo. Some of Web developer features includes:
   • Cookies information
   • Javascript and Java disable
   • CSS view
   • Form details on a webpage
   • Image attributes
   • Outline Frames, links, headings, Tables
   • Window Resize options
   • Page View Source
6. User Agent Switcher - User agent is a great extension that allows you to check a website like a Googlebot. Typical use of this agent switcher is allowing access to websites that restrict access based on the browser being used.
7. FireFTP 0.97.3 - is a free and secure client FTP from Firefox which gives easy access to FTP servers. With file uploading and downloading, we can do directory comparison, Filtering, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing with Fireftp.
8. ShowIP address - ShowIP extension gives us the IP address of a website in our Status Bar like shown below. This is particularly useful when we need to check if multiple websites are hosted on the same IP. Right Clicking on the ShowIP icon in our Status bar will display Whois information with other stuff.
9. Live HTTP Headers - This extension from Firefox enables us to view the HTTP header sent during page load. This is really useful for developers and Seo’s to check 301, 302 redirect or 404 errors during page load.
10. CustomizeGoogle -
    Customize Google Extension allows us to make the same search that we made on Google on other search engines like Yahoo, Ask, AlltheWeb, Live, Lycos, Technorati, Wikipedia, Bloglines etc.

Which Firefox extensions are your favorite?

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Alexa.com, a Subsidiary of Amazon.com is used for monitoring the traffic of a website. Alexa.com offers alexa ranking for website which is calculated on the basis of people visiting a particular website with Alexa toolbar installed. To speed up alexa rankings in the long run, focus more on quality content generation which will bring large number of people to your website.

Experience with Alexa

I started this blog three months back and so far have great success with Alexa rankings. In three months time, I have been able to bring its Alexa from 2,100,000 (initial Alexa ranking) to 200,000.

The only solution to improve the alexa ranking of a website is increasing the number of visitors who are using Alexa toolbar. If you are getting large number of visitors to your website and none of them have Alexa toolbar installed, then your website will not have much alexa rankings. And if the most of people who visit your website have alexa toolbar installed, then your website will have great alexa rankings.

I have created a list of tips you can follow to increase alexa rankings for your website:

1. Alexa toolbar installed - Install the Alexa toolbar and surf your website with the browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox) where you have installed alexa toolbar.
2. Alexa Ranking Widget – install alexa ranking widget on your website like I have installed on my Make money online: SFM blog in sidebar. When this alexa ranking widget is available in your website, every visit to your website will count as a positive vote towards improving your overall alexa ranking.
3. Motivate others - motivate your site visitors, friends, fellow bloggers and webmasters to use alexa toolbar.
4. Firefox SearchStatus Extension - install alexa toolbar or SearchStatus ‘Add-ons’ in Mozila Firefox on all system in your office and set your website address as their default homepage.
5. Blog about Alexa and its ranking system - blog about Alexa, alexa toolbar, its ranking system and ways to improve rankings will create a lot of interest among bloggers and webmasters who are wiling to improve their website alexa rankings.
6. Work on Forums - Devote some time on webmaster forums and spread your website link their in your signature section. Most of the webmasters have alexa toolbar installed. So when they visit your website will help improving your alexa rankings.
7. Content about seo & blogging - write content about seo, blogging, social networks and spread it in forums and social networks like Digg, del.icio.us, Reddit, Propeler, Mixx.com etc.
8. Using StumbleUpon - submit your website/blog stories on StumbleUpon which will bring lots of traffic to your website and thus will have some positive impact on your alexa rankings.
9. Directory & search engine listings - Submit your website on Dmoz, Yahoo and other popular web directories. Once you are approved on Dmoz directory, you will be automatically included in Alexa directory. With this submit your website on popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Lycos, exactseek.com etc.
10. Traffic exchange programs - Work on traffic exchange sites and submit your website details there. One can find the list of traffic exchange sites on Google.com by making a search for ‘Traffic exchange’ in the search box available.

You can download Alexa toolbar from here and for Mozilla Firefox SearchStatus Add-ons from here. If you follow these simple tips, you will see great increase in your alexa rankings.

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Text Link Ads is the targeted traffic and link popularity ads firm located in NY. I have been working with TLA for more than a year now and have so far earned thousands of dollars from its link popularity program.

Text Link Ads are really helpful for the site owners who are willing to gain top rankings in search engines as they offer static link and that also on the choice of your sites.

Use for Advertiser

TLA is a great market place for the advertisers who are willing to purchase some quality and targeted links for their website. Advertisers find it really easy to buy links from here because their whole process is really simple.

This service displays its publisher’s sites by categories and orders them with their Alexa Rankings, their link popularity and their monthly prices. As an advertiser, you have to choose the targeted category and chose a website for purchasing link according to your budget and requirements. Once you have found the website where you want to advertise, click on ‘Buy’ check box and click ‘Add to cart’.

If you are new here and want to try Text link ads, then you can get $100 in free links.

Use for publishers

As a publisher, TLA is a service that helps you make some money from your website by selling link space on your website for a week or month. You can sell its link side wide or even for individual pages and also can decide how many of its ads you are actually willing to sell. You also have the option whether to accept or reject a particular link offer that is being made to you.

As a publisher, you can use Text link Ads Calculator to know the value of a link for a website which depends upon where you are going to place it and also whether you are offering the link side wide or single page. You will be able to make maximum with your link ads when you place them in your left sidebar and the link value decreases when you move towards the right on your website or blog.

As a publisher, you can make more money with it by referring other publishers and Advertisers to it. You will be paid $25 when you refer a member who sign up on Text Link ads and add the TLA script on his script on his/her website for seven days. You will also be paid when you refer an advertiser on here.

Which Sites are accepted

There are many factors like Google Page Rank, Alexa Ranking, RSS subscribers that plays an important role when it comes about submitting your website on Text Link Ads. You have greater chances of being accepted here if your site has Good page rank as well as Alexa. Don’t try to submit a fresh new website or a site that has Page rank less than 3 as in that case your site will mostly be rejected there. According to me, your site has greatest chance of being accepted here if its page rank is greater than or equal to 4 and has good Alexa rankings as well.

Payment System

There are many payment options that TLA is offering to the publishers. As a publisher, you can accept your payment via Check, Paypal or Payoneer. I have so far used its check and paypal paying methods. But my choice is paypal which is a convenient and fast method for accepting and sending money.

So Try TLA

As I have told you, I have been able to make thousands of dollars from TLA within a year time. I know many publishers who have even been able to make more than thousand dollars from TLA every month. For many publishers, text link ads in one of the main source of income. I even noticed while checking the earning stats for some of marketing experts sites, they have been able to make more with Text link ads than Google adsense i.e. their TLA earnings have been much higher than what they made with Google Adsense in a month.

So there is nothing wrong in trying Text link ads.

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