How to quickly find out if a link is “DoFollow” or “NoFollow”
If a link on a web page points to your website and it does not contain a “rel=nofollow” attribute, it may help you in getting Google PageRank juice for your website; so, it is useful from the SEO point of view. If a link does not contain a “nofollow” attribute, it is generally referred to [...]
Open source web analytics software for your website
If you’ve a website or a blog, you’d be interested to know the visitor statistics. Many of the websites use Google Analytics for collecting such visitor statistics. If you want an alternative to Google Analytics, you may consider the free and open-source Piwik web analytics software that can be installed on your own web-server. [...]
Daily changing Quotations for your website or blog
You can easily add dynamic quotations on your website or blog that can automatically change every day. Moreover, you can customize size (width and height), color scheme and style of the quotations displayed on your site so that it can blend well with the design of your website. What you require to do is to [...]
WOT – Browser add-on for safer browsing – warns about risky sites
There are several free online services offering you information about the safety of the website about to be visited by you. I’ve written about some of these services earlier: McAfee Site Advisor and Google Safe Browsing. These services depend mainly upon various algorithms to check the safety and security of a website. On the [...]
How to make a WordPress blog “DoFollow” by removing “NoFollow” attribute
If you’ve a WordPress powered blog, you may be aware that WordPress has the default setting of “nofollow” in the comments section. This means that if a visitor makes a comment on your website and mentions his website URL, the link to his website in the comments would (by default) be “external nofollow”. Here, [...]
How to configure Google Public DNS on Windows 7 computer
In an earlier article, I’ve described the release of Google Public DNS (Domain Name System) that can be automatically contacted by the browser to convert web addresses such as “www.google.com” typed by you, into the IP address of the web server on which that particular website is hosted, for example, “74.125.45.100” for “www.google.com”. In [...]
How to use Google Public DNS on Windows XP computer
Google has released its Public DNS (Domain Name System) that can be automatically contacted by your browser to convert web addresses such as “www.google.com”, that you type in the address bar of the browser, into the IP address of the web server on which that particular website is hosted, for example, “74.125.45.100”, which is the [...]
Google introduces Public DNS for faster web access
When you type the address of a website in the address bar of your browser, such as “www.google.com”, that website is loaded in your browser. However, to enable you to visit this website, your browser first contacts a DNS, the short form for “Domain Name System”, to find out the IP address for that [...]
Find free online information from McAfee Site Advisor if a website is safe to visit
There are millions of websites on the Internet. You may be visiting some of these websites regularly, however you may also be visiting some sites for the first time every day. Not all the websites on the Internet are safe to visit. There are several websites which are unsafe / dangerous since they may [...]
Find out with Google if a site is safe for browsing
When you browse the Internet and try to visit a new site, you’re not sure whether such site is safe to browse. There are many rogue sites on Internet that can spread viruses, malware and spyware. You have to be always cautious while visiting a new site that appears to be suspicious. If you have [...]