Given the recent announcement by Google to take a more nuanced approach to Nofollow links with new attributes of “ugc” for User Generated Content and “sponsored” for compensated links I’ve updated some of our bookmarklets.
Earlier this week I released a new version of the colour links bookmarklet and now have completed the upgrade of the Links On Page bookmarklet to version 2.6.
Given Google’s recent announcement (Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of links), I’m updating a few of my bookmarklets to handle the new sponsored and UGC attributes.
This first bookmarklet is used to highlight links on a page, colouring the nofollow ones pink. Now we also colour those marked “sponsored” or “ugc”. There are subtle colour changes between the three, but they’re all shades of pink. The rest of the links are green.
You’ll find the updated highlight links bookmarklet here.
See also the support pages for more information on sponsored, UGC, and nofollow:
Qualify your outbound links to Google
Over the years I’ve published many versions of the Serps Bookmarklet. Recently Google have changed their HTML of the results pages so I’ve updated the bookmarklet, and added a new feature.
Content King have produced another of their vast posts –
Ultimate Guide to Controlling Crawling and Indexing.
This covers everything from crawl budget and depth, meta robots directives, canonicalisation, Hreflang usage and more.
Here they feature contributions from around the SEO community from:
The always excellent ContentKing have published another of their in-depth articles.
The post, The Ultimate Robots.txt Guide to Improve Crawl Efficiency, features contributions from:
A robots.txt file is one of those tiny little elements of technical SEO that many sites get wrong. Bookmark that article and save yourself from some avoidable headaches.
So many sites let themselves down over simple matters where they force the user to jump through hoops.
I’ve just booked a train journey, something that is difficult in and of itself as rather than have one central booking system for National Rail each time you purchase you’re taken to the local train company and have to learn their checkout system, complete their unique registration process and finally, hopefully, checkout.
Continue reading “Points of Failure”
The SEO Bookmarklet has got a little long in the tooth, so I’ve updated it On-page SEO Bookmarklet.
The output now uses the Bootstrap theme, and has a useful textarea to cut and paste the on-page results.
Continue reading “On-Page SEO Bookmarklet Updated”
The lifetime value of a customer is perhaps the most important item of data you can collect about your business. It is in clear monetary terms how much each customer is worth to your business.
With it you are able to decide how much to spend on all advertising, customer acquisition and customer retention.
Without the customer lifetime value you are at the mercy of the profit margin on the average order value which for most companies will be significantly less and complicated to calculate.
Continue reading “Customer Lifetime Value – Your Business’s Most Important Statistic”
Shelley Hitz of Author Audience Academy has very kindly provided a testimonial of my programming services.
It was a pleasure working with her on the TitleWave tool and I’m truly delighted that she’s so happy with the end result.
I recently had the great pleasure of working with Shelley Hitz of Author Audience Academy to create a book title idea generator called TitleWave.
At her site, Shelley offers a training course and community site for inspiring authors to get their book written and published within 30 days.
She had seen my previous Title Generator for TweakYourBiz. I’d based that upon my own Topical Brainstorm tool.
Shelley wanted a new web-app more focused for her audience that would generate book title ideas and such like based upon multiple inputs rather than just one keyword I’d done prevously. This would allow her to create more complex and richer titles and subtitles for her clients. We also needed the ability to upload new templates so she can continue to easily add seasonal ideas.
We were also mindful of the needs of a modern audience so we developed the tool using the Bootstrap framework, this allowed us to create a tool that would work well on mobile and tablet in addition to the desktop.
Shelley has published over 35 books using her ASCENT method, so if you’re an aspiring non-fiction author, head over to her site to see how she can help you publish your book.
