Want to announce a Blog? Why don't you try the free Allscoop RSS feed software. When testing I didn't get one single spamy email back from my automized announcement.

Using Allscoop RSS feed saved me 2 hours of work, that I needed announcing a blog manualy. Less then 5 minutes and I was all set.

A simple click on action brings you to all blogs you listed so far. A click on + allows you to add your blog.

Complete the form an click on okay. Click on the + again and select all the blog engines you want to announce your RSS feed to. Then select the feed you want to announce.

Allscoop rss pro starts to submit your feed.

Some blog engine will require you to manualy fill out some additional information.

After completion you'll get a report telling you where your feed has been added, or it's expacted that your feed will be added.This includes:

• Yahoo, BlogStreet, Syndic8, NewsIsFree, DayPop, Feedster, BlogDex, Popdex, Moreover, RDF-Ticker, BlogDigger, Bloogz, HeadlineSpot, Diarist.Net, easyRSS, NewsXS, Feeds Farm, Newstrove, Sourceforge, FeedPlex, Feed Shark, Blogwise, Boing Boing, Rub Hub, Fyber Search, Technorati, Postami, WeBlogAlot, Feed24, Ice Rocket, Swoogle, Blogz, NewsMob, Complete RSS, 4GuyFromRolla, Feedzie, Loomia, Truth Laid Bear, Rocket Info, Rocket News etc.

Running a german seo blog looking for editors looks attractive to blog spamers. But hey, aren't blog spamers more or likely SEO's? In my eyes, yes, as they spam blogs for their seo purpose. So well, in all my blogs I have disabled certain functionality loved by blog spamers.

One of those comes unsurprisingly out of the ringtones business. When ever I get spam attacks, I still check the url's and domains they want to populate.

The ringtones site I came across is simple cheap javascript cloaking having a PageRank 6 on google. How comes?

The content of the site is not realy something you would do, if you want to stay in the online business. For the big pitty there is even nothing offered for Sony Ericsson Mobile phones. Damn, my father, my mother, my sister, my wife, my brother in law and of course myself all use Sony Ericsson. Gosh, you just missed 6 potential clients by your freaken cloaking page as we all love ringtones. But hey, we do them ourselfs.

Actualy all the page does is a redirect (javascript) to http://paysefeed.net/search/?id=701&q=ringtones. Sorry, but why should I be redirected, if I found a search engine result?

The source of the page contains another funny part.

Domain deleted<br>Reason: ABUSE - GB abuse code #1932

What the hack is that? Can I have it as a ringtone? Kind of a song "You're a damn spamer, yeah and got some spam sms...." I'll sure buy that song if available.

Reason why the site has pr 6 are 7000 Blog comments that have been placed. Potential growing if not stopped before.

So dear blog owners, block spamers abusing your comments and trackbacks.

Want to see all information of webpage within your Mozilla Firefox web browser? Try out the free plugin Search Status 1.17. You'll get information like

• Google PageRank
• Alexa Traffic Rank
• Nofollow Links
• Link report
• Meta-Tags
• robots.txt
• WHOIS information
• Keyword density
• # indexed pages within the search engines
• # backlinks known within the search engines

Optilink is a nice tool that allows you to do link analysis for websites. It helps you understand why certain websites are popular for certain terms, all based on link building, not simply content or meta-tags.

Within Optilink you decide which searchengines you want to track. If you want to see the alexa rank for each linking page. If you want to see the google PageRank of each linking page. If you want to messure inbound links aswell. Optilink is a java based link analysis tool used by most well known SEO's. The interface could look better, but hey, it's not a design tool. Data can be exported, but only half as good as with LinkSurvey.

Some screen shots

Ever wondered since when your competitors maintain their website? During my daily surfing I came across the webconfs seo toolset.

One of the offered tools allows you to enter several domains and get their whois registration dates compared. It's not something that enhances your SEO success, but hey, it's worth trying it out once.

Does your website use a favicon.ico? If no, you should get started as this icon is like your logo in the bookmarks of those that bookmark your site.

Creating a favicon.ico online is free and easy. Select your logo....

and get it converted to a favicon.ico

Download it and place it in the root directory of your website. Go generate your favicon and enjoy.

Linkpopularity is one of the keys to search engine marketing success. Wouldn't it be nice to have a tool that compares your website with your competitors?

LinkSurvey allows you to generate customizable reports. Simply enter the websites you want to analyze.

Select search engines you want your report to be run on.

Hit the play/start button and your linkpopularity comparison report will be generated.

Besides the integrated basic report you can export all data to excel and customize it in anyway you need.

I use LinkSurvey basicaly on all my clients and their competitors. The tool is worth the USD 49.00.

Note: Using software that runs automized queries into search engines might violate the guidelines and rules of search engines.

Since August 31st WebSite Clinic (Switzerland) and Suchmaschinenmarketing.Com, organisator of Search Engine Marketing Conferences in Switzerland, started a study about search engine marketing usage in companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

So far over 900 companies participated on the study.

Requirements for participating companies

• Based in either Switzerland, Germany or Austria
• Website online
• Fluent in german to fill out the forms