PageRankAlert.com

PageRankAlert.com has a twitter account, too!

As an experiment, it has been posting every single update on the pagerank of every site tracked, but from now on this wild twittering activity has been disabled, and we'll only be twittering important stuff: basically, announcing new posts on the PageRankAlert blog, and daily stats.

You can find PageRankAlert on twitter here:

http://twitter.com/pagerankalert

Hi everybody!

I'm happy to announce today that PageRankAlert.com has had a heavy redesign, which, I hope, makes it much simpler to use (and a little more elegant as well).

Some of the new redesigned screens include:

• Front page With a simple search form: enter your web address and get details from your scraped page instantly!


• Page details reorganized with tabs Now you can see the basic data for the page (PageRank, title, description and keywords), or go directly to the PageRank evolution graphs, or the list of similar pages.


• Reorganized watchlist Browse your watchlist with the tabs that provide direct access to your whole list, uppers, downers, by PR from 10 to 0, and export as CSV. Adding pages is just a click away.

And this is only some of the improved interface! There are more things inside, just have a look at the site and I hope you find it useful!

Do you have any suggestions about how to improve PageRankAlert.com?

What would you like to be changed to make it better? Maybe you'd like to see a new feature?

Sending feedback is easy! Look on the right side and you'll see a "feedback" button. Click it and you can send us any ideas, and vote for existing ones.

Thanks!

So, today the site has been down for a few hours due to technical problems while upgrading the server.

I apologize for this, the good news is we're back online!

So, PageRankAlert.com is only 3 years old but it has seen quite a lot of things happening on the Wild Wild Web... mostly PageRank changes :)

At the time I write this post, PageRankAlert.com has registered 106.191 PR changes, for 38.610 distinct URLs. That's around 2,75 PageRank changes for every URL.

And that also means a lot of email alerts have been sent for FREE to thousands of webmasters like you.

Now it's a good moment to celebrate it. If you find this service useful, please remember I have to pay the bills and this site is on a dedicated server that costs money every month!

Please consider making a donation to help support this site alive!

Thanks!

RSS feeds have been added to the listings by keywords, so it's easy now to be notified when a new page with the keywords of your interest.

For example, if you want to be notified when new pages are discovered with the "seo" tag, you just need to click on its RSS icon and add the feed to your favourite feed reader.

Now you can track your PageRank changes through RSS!

It's as easy as clicking on the RSS icon for each page you're interested in tracking, and add it to your favourite feed reader.

You'll probably have noticed that big ad on the sidebar offering a $50 discount when signing up for web hosting on Dreamhost, right?

Well, sure, you've seen it. Just to be sure. :)

OK, OK, enough kidding! I just wanted to insist a bit on this hosting, let me tell you some of their advantages:

• 500 Gb disk space to store your files!


• 5 Tb of bandwidth per month!


• PHP, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python...


• Unlimited MySQL databases!


• Have your own jabber server


• SSH access


• Subversion repositories


• Unlimited subdomains


• One-click installs to automatically install popular software like Wordpress, phpBB... and update them whe a new version is available


• Streaming media

I've been using Dreamhost shared hosting for years, and I still have there many websites. I'm totally happy with their quality/price ratio, for a shared hosting they're superb! (honestly, I don't use it for big-time production servers but I do use it for my personal blog, some small projects, subversion repositories and even remote backups with rsync).

So, if you want to sign up for this web hosting, remember to use the PAGERANKALERT promo code when signing up to get a $50 discount on all your plans.

But... wait, there's more!

I also have 5 additional Dreamhost Invitations, special promo codes that give you:

• 2 Tb of disk space


• 20 Tb of bandwidth


• $150 off a 5-year signup or $200 off a 10-year signup!

So, if you're reading this and you're really interested, hurry up and contact me at pagerankalert@gmail.com to send you one of these special invitation codes... only 5 left!

Hey! I just deployed an exciting new feature on PageRankAlert.com that I would like you to try out and give me your feedback!

Now, you can see similar pages for each one tracked. Just go to the data sheet of a page (click on the magnifying glass) and, below the page data, you'll find a listing of similar pages, based on the keywords and title of the page being shown.

For example, if you go to the data sheet of Ruby on Rails, you'll find other rails-related sites, some web developers and hosting companies.

This way, you can find other related sites that may help to improve your PageRank in many ways: you can study your competitors and try to improve your site, or you can even contact them and exchange links so you build a solid network of similar sites.

Well, I hope this new feature is useful to you, if you've got any comments about this, just tell me!

So in october we were tracking 10.000 pages and now, 3 months later, the list has grown to more than 20.000 pages, being tracked daily for PageRank changes.

I want to thank you all for your submissions, and I'm glad to be of help to so many people out there. Keep submitting, and remember there is no limit on the list of pages you can track.

And also remember that this is a free service for everyone! Of course, a small donation would be great from time to time, to help maintain this app running, as it requires more resources every day and well, I have to pay for the server :) Just click on the "Donate" button on the sidebar and you can donate the quantity you feel it deserves this service.

Thanks!

Today I received an email from Paolo Leonardi, webmaster of http://www.manualissimo.it/ , complaining about the image captcha on the URL submission page.

He was right, this was not really needed as there is already a captcha on user registration, and it stopped him from using the site without someone helping.

So, I've removed this captcha, hoping the site will be more accessible now.

I still need to replace the one on the registration page by another captcha with audio support. Maybe recaptcha.

There's a common belief that you can only track up to 100 pages on your PageRankAlert.com watchlist.

But, the truth is: you can track AS MANY PAGES AS YOU WANT!

There is just a limit of 100 pages that can be submitted at once, but you can add 100, then another 100, then another 100... :)

So, PageRankAlert.com is becoming more popular everyday, and there are now plenty of blogs and directories that are linking us!

Today I wanted to thank the review on MakeUseOf.com, where they explain very well what this service is about:

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/pagerankalert-track-page-rank

Hello, visitors from FeedMyApp and KillerStartups!

Today we've been listed on FeedMyApp and KillerStartups, and we're receiving many, many visits and new user registrations from there.

There have been some scalability issues due to that, but this has helped me detect the bottleneck and implement a solution for that.

PageRankAlert is back to normal now... :)

You asked for it, you've got it!

I've added a new feature that was requested by many users: listings that show which of your watched pages are increasing their PageRank, and which ones are decreasing this value.

So, you can know which ones of your sites are going well on your SEO performance and which ones need a little more promotion.

I've also redesigned the interface of the site. Now you'll see the main menu on the right, with links to your pages by PR value.

The listings show also a thumbnail for each site, along with its description and keywords, so you can browse similar pages.

I hope you like the new features! If you find them useful, please consider making a donation to help maintain this site alive!

Thanks for your feedback!

As a way to enhance the visual aspect of PageRankAlert.com and provide more information about the sites tracked, I've added website thumbnails to the data sheets.

The service I'm using is http://www.thumbalizr.com and it seems to work fine and integrate very well with the rest of the site through their easy API.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

To avoid being flooded by robots trying to register as users on the site, I've added a simple captcha to the sign up and "add pages" form.

So, sorry for the inconvenience, but it's a small price for a better site for all of us!

Pagerankalert.com has been online since 2006, and it has grown to include nearly 15.000 URLs that are checked daily for pagerank changes, for a growing group of users.

Since then, it has been offered as a free service for every user, but maintaining a project like this is time-consuming and requires paying monthly costs for the dedicated server hosting.

I want to maintain this service free for everyone, but I would like to ask you for your help now.

So, every time you find this site useful, please consider making a donation to help maintain the site. It's fast and secure with Paypal.

Just click on the donation link and choose how much you would like to contribute to the site.

Thank you so much for your help!

Donate now

So, by popular demand, a new feature has been added to pagerankalert.com

You can now download the full pagerank listings for all your tracked pages.

Just go to the "My pages" section and you'll find a download link. This will let you download a listing on CSV format, which is simply a text file with comma-separated values that you can open in your favorite spreadsheet application.

Pages are ordered by PR value; you can reorder them as you want using your spreadsheet application.

If you find this feature useful, please consider supporting the site with a paypal donation!

Some people found a little bit confusing those "PR -1" values.

What did this -1 mean? It just meant that the given page had no pagerank at all.

You see, pagerank values go from 0 to 10, but it's a different thing to have a pagerank value of 0 than not having a pagerank value at all.

Having no pagerank values is a common state for new sites, which havent' yet been indexed by Google. And sometimes, an URL that had already been indexed and had a positive PR value, can see how its pagerank value is deleted temporarily (normally, to return to a higher PR value).

So now, to clarify things a bit, pagerankalert.com will show these -1 values as "NO PR", meaning just that: the state where the page hasn't got a pagerank value at all.

Hey! It seems like Google has given us a surprise by changing the pagerank to a lot of pages!

And most of them are for better. I've seen my pagerank increased on most of my sites.

What about you?

I've integrated uservoice.com on the site... just click on the "feedback" tab you see on the right side and you'll be able to submit suggestions to be implemented, and vote for the ones you consider most important to be implemented first.

Also, if you find a bug, you can submit it as well.

I've copied there all the suggestions you've made so far from the blog. I'll be implementing them soon!

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. :)

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?

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!

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 :)

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

http://www.bloggeros.org/2008/12/saber-cuando-hay-google-dance-con-pagerankalert/

http://www.johnzarate.com/saber-cuando-hay-actualizacion-del-pagerank-google-dance/

http://pixelco.us/blog/pagerankalert-siguiendo-nuestro-pagerank/

http://www.opcionweb.com/index.php/2009/01/02/enterate-del-google-dance-con-pagerankalert/

http://girlyblogger.com/saber-cuando-hay-google-dance

http://www.maestroalberto.it/2009/01/06/pagerankalert-ti-informa-dei-cambiamenti-del-pagerank/

http://vincechiosa.blogspot.com/2008/12/pagerankalert-sito-che-vi-avvisa-ad.html

http://www.urlfan.com/site/pagerankalert_com/533157.html

http://www.antoandreu.com/2009/01/07/page-rank-alert-conoce-tu-page-rank/

http://www.sitiogeek.com/como-calcular-tu-pagerank/

http://roget.biz/pagerankalert-pour-etre-prevenu-quand-votre-page-rank-change

http://www.enlazandoweb.com/2009/01/05/page-rank-alert-te-avisan-cuando-suban-el-pr-en-tu-web/

http://ilonet.fr/r377-tre-prevenu-automatiquement-lorsque-votre-page-rank-change.html

http://www.araquebelagua.com/2009/01/07/monitoriza-tu-pagerank/

http://www.feedmyapp.com/p/a/pagerankalert-track-your-pagerank-changes-and-receive-alerts-by-email/7926

http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/pagerankalert-com-track-your-pagerank-changes

http://ravivooda.blogspot.com/2009/01/pagerankalertcom-track-your-pagerank.html

http://www.codigogeek.com/2009/01/29/pagerankalert-te-avisa-si-cambia-tu-pr/

http://bitelia.com/2009/01/29/pagerankalertcomrecibe-notificaciones-de-cambios-en-el-pagerank/

http://alt1040.com/2009/01/pagerank-alert-te-avisa-cuando-un-sitio-haya-cambiado-de-pr

http://www.guiabreve.com/pagerank-alert-te-avisa-de-cambios-en-tu-pagerank.htm

http://totusmund.us/pagerank-alert-para-los-paranocos

http://www.exactlimon.com/pagerankalert-date-cuenta-cuando-tu-pagina-web-cambie-de-pr/

http://carlos-soler.blogspot.com/2009/02/pagerankalert-notifica-cambios-de.html

http://www.summarg.com/foro/posicionamiento-web-f50/pagerankalert-te-avisa-cuando-cambias-de-pagerank-t4124/

http://www.desarrolloweb.com/de_interes/pagerankalert-alertas-cambios-pagerank-1425.html

http://www.incubaweb.com/9907/webmaster/pagerank-alert-te-avisa-de-los-cambios-de-pagerank-por-email/

http://soler101.blogspot.com/2009/02/pagerankalert-notifica-canvis-de.html

http://www.seoprofesional.com/pagerank-alert/

http://blogdavidrodriguez.piensaennaranja.com/2009/03/06/saber-si-tu-web-cambia-de-pagerank/

Thank you!

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

Also check out this blog's RSS feed to stay tuned for more news!