New server!

Nov 15 post a comment

So, PageRankAlert.com is growing fast, and to accomodate its needs, it has been moved to a brand new, dedicated server.

There has been a downtime of approximately 1 hour during the server move, but now everything seems back into place. :)

PageRank crisis

Oct 11 8 comments

It seems like the so-called crisis is affecting not only the financial markets, but also pagerank values!

We've been registering a lot of pagerank changes these last days, and most of them have been to adjust the pagerank to a lower value. Usually 0, or -1, that is, no pagerank at all!

Anyway, this isn't something you should worry too much about, as we've seen many times that getting a lower pagerank value gets followed on the next days with a recovery, and sometimes with an improvement on the pagerank. As if it was getting impulse to jump, you know :)

What about you? Have you noticed this change on your listings? Does it affect the number of visitors you're getting on your sites?

Ten thousand pages

Oct 09 post a comment

So, the day has come and PageRankAlert has finally reached the psychological 10.000 pages barrier!

After 2 years and a half of existence, what started as a small personal project to keep un updated list of the pagerank changes on the sites I maintain, has grown to attract many more users.

Both bots, the one that checks the pagerank, and the meta data spider, are now very busy trying to maintain up to date all those 10K pages day after day.

Let's keep growing up!

Controlling the spambots

Oct 04 1 comment

A few days after I launched the new PageRankAlert blog, it was visited by some kind spambots trying to sell us lot of medicines we don't really need.

Now I've set up a spam filter that will hopefully have these spambots under control!

So... in case you see something weird these days, you can't comment on the blog or you're mistakenly identified as a spammer, please accept my apologies and write to pagerankalert@gmail.com to have it solved.

And... if you're a spambot reading this, please submit some of your spam here so I can test it really works :)

Thank you for all the links

Oct 02 2 comments

The PageRankAlert community seems to be growing lately, there have been a lot of new users sign ups and the number of URLs this application is tracking daily has increased a lot, we'll soon pass the 10000 URLs psychological barrier :)

And so has increased the number of blogs that are talking about PageRankAlert, saying that they found it useful. I'm very happy to see that this small personal project that I started for my own interest in keeping the pagerank of my URLs monitorized is now useful for more people around the world.

Here are some links to other sites that are talking about PageRankAlert:

http://www.aleeya.net/seo-and-sef/page-rank-alert/aleeya/

http://webunleashed.projectweb.gr/2008/08/pagerank-checker/

http://www.webmasterlibre.com/2008/09/29/%C2%BFque-tal-os-ha-ido-con-la-actualizacion-de-pagerank/

http://codeodyssey.se/blog.aspx?id=429

http://www.techtear.com/2007/04/14/pagerankalert-el-historico-de-los-pagerank/

http://oloblogger.blogspot.com/2008/10/estar-al-dia-pagerank-alert.html

Thank you!

Google Dance?

Sep 28 3 comments

Yesterday, (saturday 26th september 2008), PageRankAlert.com registered a lot of pagerank changes during its daily routine check.

According to the wikipedia, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_dance#Google_dance , a "Google dance refers to the period of time when Google indices are tuned. This will often cause both a fluctuation in index size as well a significant change in a web site's search result position."

Are we on a Google dance now? The PageRankAlert database can be a good measure of this, as it registers every change and its date... it looks like a new interesting feature to implement soon!

Delta bug fixed

Sep 28 1 comment

Yesterday, PageRankAlert.com suffered from a little bug on the "delta" icon (that little arrow that shows if each page has increased or decreased its pagerank). Nothing serious, it just didn't update in some of the cases.

It has been fixed now and all pages are shown correctly.

Spidering

Sep 22 post a comment

So, after a few weeks, the web spidering module is ready for action!

Today I have launched another bot that will be scraping all the submitted websites, in order to get its title, description and keywords.

I hope this will help you find similar pages based on similar keywords. Say, for example, you were interested in pages about "Barcelona"? Here is the listing:

http://pagerankalert.com/keywords/229/Barcelona

Do you want to see which pages are marked as "SEO"? Just go here: http://pagerankalert.com/keywords/501/seo

You'll have a tag cloud with the top 100 keywords here http://pagerankalert.com/keywords, and you can also see the particular keywords of a web site from its data sheet. Just click on one and you'll get more pages with those keywords.

If you've got any comments, suggestions, things you'd like to be implemented in the near future, just leave your ideas as comments on this blog.

Follow the PageRankAlert bot at Twitter

Sep 12 post a comment

Twitter is an interesting new platform that allows people to stay connected through the exchange of short text messages.

But it's not only useful to connect people, it can also be used to connect *bots* with other people (and other bots, as well).

So, if you want to be informed of the URLs that the PageRankAlert bot is indexing, you just need to follow it at Twitter:

http://twitter.com/pagerankalert

What features would you like to see?

Sep 12 3 comments

Hi everybody!

PageRankAlert.com has grown quite a lot during the last months. What started as a small experiment and a tool intended for a few users has now a big database that contains more than 9000 URLs, (tracked daily!) and more than 41000 Pagerank changes!

We're also quite a lot of people (258 users is the latest count) so first I wanted to thank you all for all the URLs you've submitted so far.

So... it's time to keep growing. This project has now become a part-time job for me so I'm planning of adding some exciting new features on the next weeks.

First, I've started with a blog, because it's very important to be able to tell you what's going on here, and to receive as much feedback I can from all of you.

Now it's your turn! What features would you like to see added to PageRankAlert.com? Just tell me anything that you would consider useful, what would you add or what would you change.

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