Yesterday while I was looking at Digg.com, I found a very interesting little online tool. By simply entering in a domain name (or an IP), it allows you to see all other domains on that same IP. Although it’s not entirely accurate (which I can attest from my own personal testing), it does a decent job. Better than any other such tool I’ve seen before. I also found it seems to be more accurate for older domains.

In any case, it’s another tool that’s good to have in your arsenal

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I just found out today that Google is updating it’s index right now, so you can expect many domains to move up and down in terms of their Page Rank (Google PR). So far it looks like my other blog FollowSteph.com is moving up from a PR4 to a PR5 which is great when you consider that each PR differs in terms of web presence by an order of magnitude according to Google.

Here’s a little tool I found on Darren Rowse’s blog that helps give you an idea of what you’re Page Rank will be once Google is done the update:

Future PageRank Tool © SEO Chat

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Today I had the unfortunate first-hand experience of seeing a new form of blog comment spamming. On my other blog FollowSteph.com, someone posted a comment that contained a full article, including the “About the Author” section at the bottom of the article which had multiple links to the authors website.

This is the first time I’ve seen or heard of this type of blog comment spam which I’m going to refer as “Article Comment Spamming”. What’s also interesting is that the content of the article was in the same ballpark as my blog’s general topics (Business, Real Estate, LandlordMax - my company, and anything related to success), but was not fully appropriate for this particular entry.

This type of spam commenting is worse for more reasons than just the usual This type of commenting creates duplicate content on your blog, which penalizes you for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) purposes because the articles are replicated over and over. Remember that an article is more content than just a link to a spam related product, so duplication penalties will be greater.

It also has an added benefit for the spammer in terms of SEO. Although it’s further down on the page in terms of content (and hence less value), because of the shear size (in this case the article in the comment was longer than my original article) it can skew what Google and other search engines think your page is about! The benefit for the comment spammer is that their now getting links for the keyword they want, not you!

And on top of that, Google Adsense (or other contextual advertising programs) will potentially pull ads related to the keyword your spammer’s article is about. For some people, this can be a great detriment. For me personally, I just write and don’t really look at what Adsense pulls because my main revenue streams are elsewhere. For example, for FollowSteph.com my goal is to talk about my company LandlordMax Property Management Software, what’s happening with it, personalize it by letting people know about me, and so on. The Google Adsense revenue is just an added bonus.

In any case, be on the lookout for this, I suspect it will increase in usage as time goes on. It’s my belief that it’s worse than the plain old comment spam because it negatively effect you much more than just a simple link to a spam related product did , it can actually affect what the search engines perceive your page to be about!

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A very quick but very important tip, be very careful if you automate reciprocal link requests. I’ve gotten two this week for my company LandlordMax Property Management Software from my competitors! Yes, from my very own competitors. I don’t think they have any idea who they’re contacting…

Apart from the fact that they’re contacting me, their competitor, I’m going to assume that most of their link requests are going to end up on useless resource pages with hundreds or thousands of other links. This is not the way to help build your SEO value, or your traffic. Firstly, since there are already so many links on those pages, no one will ever find you, never mind click on you. Secondly, Google is starting to devalue “inappropriate” reciprocal links, or links from massive reciprocal link pages.

Bad for them, good for me! So today’s tip is be very careful if you automate link requests.

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I just came accross a very interesting and powerful tool that isn’t really publicized by Wikipedia. They have a search tool where you can quickly and easily search for all references to your domain within ALL the Wikipedia articles!

I tried it out with for the domain Google.com and got the following results within seconds as you can see from the screenshot below.

This is a great tool for two reasons.

1. You can see if you have any links on Wikipedia

2. You can see if your competitors have any links on Wikipedia

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