pr toolbar from google

One of the first things I do when setting up a new computer or reloading an old computer I own, is to get the Google PageRank toolbar. It gives me a quick idea of the credibility of the site that I’m browsing. I also install Alexa Sparky for Mozilla, as that’s my browser of choice.

Where do you get your Google Toolbar, and once It’s installed how do you enable the PageRank function. I download the app from toolbar.google.com , and as far as I’ve seen that’s the only real place to download it.

PageRank Enable Toolbar

As for enabling the pagerank feature, if it’s not enabled by default. It should ask you to “enable advanced features” after your install. Select “enable” and the PageRank bar should be placed on the Google Toolbar.

If the image is still not present then right click the Google Toolbar in your browser window, and select “Google Toolbar Options” then click the tools tab, then put a checkbox in PageRank. Then click “Save” and close the bar.

That’s it, you know how the Google PageRank toolbar, and can better determine the validity of a website by checking it’s page rank. Let me also mention that newer pages (like this post may be) will have no PR as Google tends to update PageRank every 4 or so months.

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The 2011 Canadian 1 oz Silver Wolf is a limited edition coin produced by the Royal Canadian Mint. They are limiting the production to just 1,000,000 coins, so they are fairly rare. The regular Canadian Silver Maple leaves produce between 3 and 5 million coins a year.

Silver Canadian Timber Wolf Coins are part of a 3 year Canadian Wildlife Coin Series that the mint is going to implement. Demand for silver is up, so if you are going to buy or pre-order you most likely want to do so know.

I’m personally waiting for the price of silver to drop a bit before I buy anything else, or at the very least wait and see if it holds at the current high for a 6-8 months. If it does, I might buy some anyway.

What do you think about the coins? They are .999 pure just like the maples. They have a $5 face value just like the maples. They come in monster boxes of 500 and tubes of 25. I think the maples look a bit better, the Wolf side of the coin looks a bit messy, not nearly as crisp and clean as the lines on the maple. The eyes look a little sloppy as well, but I imagine it’s hard to make a furry timber wolf out of silver.

I also wonder what the other5  animals in the series are going to be?

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google local search

Google in the last year or so has been focusing very heavily on local search results. It has even spilled over into their auto-suggest features. What does this mean to you and your website?

Well it depends on your services and products really. If what you offer is plumbing, electric, pizza delivery, and the likes, then yes this will effect you substantially.

BT Yahoo! Broadband

BT Total Broadband is the United Kingdoms largest ISP and currently serves over 4.5 million broadband users. Yahoo has recently teamed up with the UK entity to form BT Yahoo!.

As a member of this service users get premium access to yahoo services that would otherwise cost them out of pocket.

Members can choose to use either Internet Explorer 8, 7, 6 or the BT Internet Browser. Either one will get the job done, but people have do have their preferences.

http://www.btyahoo.com/internet/prices

At the time of this writing you can sign up and get the first month of service for just £1. Assuming you are happy and keep the service you will be billed £15.99 a month thereafter. You can do what you want and it includes 150 hours a month, or 5 hours a day.

They also offer a Pay as You Go plan that is 1p per minute, as well as a 5.5p setup fee. This option great for persons not wanting to use the internet often. If you check your email once a month this might be for you. If you travel a lot and are not sure when you’ll be this would also be prime.

Both packages include up to 11 email addresses, pop-up blocker, decent parental control features, virus protection, and 2GB of storage.
You can get prices and see more here
If are already a member log in here

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Yahoo Nofollows

Here is a quick question for you to think about. Does Yahoo obey NoFollow tags? I think the answer is no, they do not, and here is why.

The basic point of the rel=”nofollow” tag is to prevent sites from passing linkjuice to external sites. This is most often implemented in blogs and forums as a method to prevent spammers from gaining ranking by simply posting for the sole reason of boosting their search rankings.

Google it seems does not count these links as valid, but Yahoo does. How can you find this out? Well you can do this by checking the backlinks in the search engines results using certain syntax, or by going to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=yourdomain.com

You will see listed in the yahoo site explorer links from pages that have obvious nofollow tags. That’s about all the proof I need right there.

The next question would be, does Yahoo count these as valid links when giving out search results. This one is a bit more tricky, and I’m not sure if the links count. According to what data I’ve seen in the past few years I would loosely say “yes”.