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The Morning Post
I finally received from Helmy a free copy of the book which the cover was done by me. Well, to be precise, it was just my photography with ITNM’s own template, but I’m really proud of it. To get the crown effect droplet was not easy and it took me and my husband hundreds of shots. You can read the process of taking the photo at my other blog.
About the book
The Morning Post is an English translated version of Hujan Pagi by Datuk A. Samad Said published by ITNM.
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Ken
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Google PageRank
The past years have saw Emila’s Illustrated Blog having rated 5, 4, 3, 0 and 2 by Google PR. From the trend, you can see it was a downward trend. Recent updates saw EIB being blessed with PR3 again. Frankly, I don’t really care. I used to be so upset when my PR was down because I was doing paid reviews with Pay Per Post (PPP) and to be able to get more opportunities (opps), I need to have a good PR. With PR2 previously, opps were really hard to get. But over time, I managed to get over it and even stopped doing paid reviews for PPP.So What is Google PageRank (PR)?
Google PR is a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders; Larry Page and Sergey Brin. PR is assigned by Google which represents to relative importance of a web page. The PR for a web page can vary between 0 and 10. A higher PR number will help you to score better in your SERPS, which will bring more visitors to your web page.
PageRank reflects the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that they believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.
PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. Google have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and their technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page’s importance.
Here’s a tool to check your Google PR as well as Alexa ranking:
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Spiffy
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Alexa
I dunno, when I view my Alexa details; it has information of other company, for which i have developed a website, a year ago. Previously, I put upload the website into my domain for the company to preview their website. My blog has default setting for permalink (just numbers like this
(https://emilayusof.com/?p=123), and since the company has the about page, I’m very sure that the Alexa bots crawled to look for about page on my blog.Anyway, I’ve deleted the website preview soon as I handed it over to the company but I guess by then, Alexa bots have taken into account the about page. I tried to update and change the information but to no avail, if you have any idea on how to change this info, please do let me know.
Anyway, since I’m at this, let me talk about Alexa.
What is Alexa?
Alexa is a search engine currently owned by Amazon.com. It is a popularity based ranking which is achieved by loading Alexa toolbar on your browser. The toolbar installed provides you with certain additional information about the sites you are visiting. For example, Alexa automatically conducts a search when you type in the URL of any website. When you submit the URL, you will get generated information about the site.You can find info about its Traffic Stats, Contact Info, Demographics, Traffic Rank, Reach, Pageviews, Where People go on the URL, Where People COme From by Countries, Traffic Rank by Countries, Etc.If you need to look at how your website or blog is doing; just go to Alexa.com. You will find ‘Site Info’ tab just below the header. Click on it and you’ll be brought to a page where you can look up for Keyword search and Site Lookup. Type in your URL in the Site lookup box and hit Go button. You should be able to view your website/blog’s information.
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Munira
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Technorati
I have been using Technorati for quite sometimes already and before WordPress has made the incoming link available via the dashboard, I use Technorati to keep track of who’s linking to me. I’m still using it.
If you need to check out who’s linking to you directly via their posts, this is a great tool to begin with. Asides from that, It also helps increase the visibility of our blog. So if you’re a newbie blogger, this is a way to get your blog know across the blogosphere.
So what exactly is Technorati?
Technorati is the leading monitor of the world of weblogs and is a search engine for blogs.Why do you need an account with Technorati?
Technorati is a real-time search engine that is the largest source of fresh information about the global and local conversations going on all across the Web. Technorati.com has indexed millions of blog posts in real time and surfaces them in seconds and it has become the definitive source for the top stories, opinions, photos and videos emerging across news, entertainment, technology, lifestyle, sports such as that which mentions a compound bow, politics and business. Technorati.com tracks not only the authority and influence of blogs, but also the most comprehensive and current index of who and what is most popular.
So basically, people who search Technorati are looking for good information, and if they can find you and you can provide that information they are looking for, you will be one giant step closer to getting a customer, client or subscriber.Join now
Interested? Joining is free! Just register yourself first and go on to Frequently Asked Questions to read more on how to claim your blogs, etc. JOIN NOW!
And if you already have Technorati account, do favourite me if you like my blog (just click on my dolly on the right) or click here: FAVE EMILA. Thanks heap!
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Munira