Okay, I am going to say it again and again “I am a lazy blogger”! I really thought I would be posting more often but it is the opposite that happened. Can you imagine, it has been more than two weeks since my last post! Unacceptable..

So, I thought one good post would be one about my blog stats and hopefully I will be more keen to post my thoughts. I am not out of ideas if you are thinking that might be why I am not posting, I have millions of stuffs running through my mind waiting impatiently to be in a post here. Blame me… I am lazy, but I have also been working a lot lately, time is a big problem too. Ah! If only my dream could come true.

1. Alexa

a. The Challenge
Unfortunately everyone failed to reach top 100 on Alexa for Mauritius, let’s declare the closest to 100 as the winner… that is ME! Okay okay, I am kidding. I just wanted to add, I really enjoyed trying to figure out how to get in top 100, it is just that Alexa had a bad timing for the update.

b. My Rank
Just after the update my Alexa rank dropped from 243,656 to 349,749 but I just checked it is now 222,618, that’s better than before the update. I hope they did not go back to the old stats
It feels good to see that I am ranking under 100k in many countries and I really did not know that most of my traffic comes from the United States, I thought it was Mauritius.

Cool!

2. Blog Stats

Yay! I reached 4k unique visitors today. It is not exact but that is what Counterize II says (since I installed it)

And as if reaching 4k uv was not enough, I won 367 entrecard credit from Andreas, drop your card there and get a chance to be the lucky one next time.  Great Friday evening, after all these goodies I will surely have a great week-end!

I was checking the PageRank (PR) of a few websites today and just thought about mine for a minute, I know I had PR1 in the past (yes! when I had nothing on the blog) but now it is gre, blank, nothing… not even a PR0! It shows grey on the google toolbar

I am not worrying about it, in fact I don’t care at all about how google will treat this blog but it just made me wonder. I checked on a few tools just to be sure.

DigPageRank.com

Here’s what I get on DigPageRank.com
A few showing “OFF” and some “N/A”

Jaydean.com.au PR Tool

What’s interesting about this tool is that you get historical data for backlinks, google PR and Alexa rank for the past weeks.
Here’s the link to my report.
Funny here is that it shows my PR as -1

*offtopic* my alexa rank is getting better day by day

PRChecker.info

This tool also showed my PR as N/A but explained a bit why my PR might not be available yet.
Taken from the page:

(1) the web page is new, and it is not indexed by Google yet,
(2) the web page is indexed by Google, but it is not ranked yet,
(3) the web page was indexed by Google long ago, but it is recognised
as a supplemental (Supplemental Results) page,
(4) the web page or the whole website is banned by Google.

1 - My blog is not so new, it’s more than a year old and even if I haven’t been posting, I installed wordpress since day one. My homepage is indexed but not www.rubeina.com/index.php This is probably the reason, let’s wait and see. But why does google treat the main url and the index page as 2 pages when they’re both the same thing?

2 - Explained in #1 already

3 - I am not in google supplemental, all my content is fresh and original (I don’t copy paste, I don’t have to fear duplicate content either)

4 - Banned? Me? No… It would be cool if I was, I’d have a cool time trying to find out why I’ve been banned. J/k

Hmm, you guessed it right! I am not just showing off my measly PR-1, there are a few tools I’ve shared that you might find useful

Almost all the posts I see around about Firefox add-ons for SEO are those to help check backlinks, analyze website a god knows what other things firefox add-ons can do. I thought it would be cool to put together some of the best firefox add-ons that can help with submissions. I am going to list a few that I find very useful and saves you time. Let me make it clear, some of the add-ons I am going to list here are not necessarily SEO tools just random add-ons that I found and think they can make the job of the “submitters” less stressful.

As you might have guessed already, the add-ons will help you with your submissions, whether directory or article submission

1. InFormEnter

Allows you to fill up details you will be using frequently, this way you won’t have to type the same thing or copy/pasting over and over again. How it can help you with your directory submission? See below:

Read more about InFormEnter add-on here or install now.

2. Autofill Forms

This one has almost same options as InFormEnter, you fill up your required details and you’re done. No need to type or copy/paste!

Read more about Autofill Forms add-on here or install now.

3. Paste and Go 2

Ah this one is a little gem, saves you the “paste + enter” when you type a link in the address bar, thanks to a friend to let me know about this one, very useful add-on.

Read more about Paste and Go 2 add-on here or install now.

4. Abdubtion!

Allows you to take save a whole page as image, really helpful for those who have to take screenshots often.

Read more about Abduction! add-on here or install now.

5. Screengrab!

Another add-on that helps you takes shots of the page you’re working on, you can take shots of just the part you are seeing in your browser window or the whole page.

Read more about Screengrab! add-on here or install now.