Is this target unreal? or do you need several years to get such a high ranking?
… we will see, a new blog claimed at Technorati is starting around rank #1.500.000

After a lot of blogging and several inbound links your blog is starting climbing. Today I checked the last blog in the Technorati top100: Currently you need more then 2800 unique links from other blogs to get there!

Between Webdigity members there has started today a little race: “which of their Blog will reach the Technorati top 100.000 as first”

Maybe it’s interesting to guess how much links a blog needs ;)… check here the forum post.

Today I noticed a new feature on the Google homepage: Extra tabs to get new space for more Google gadgets, modules or RSS feeds. Maybe is this not the biggest invention but it will speed up your default page if you group frequently used modules or gadgets on a second tab. Maybe you like to add one of my own Google Modules; the RSS feed of this Blog or the some PHP script release information.

I noticed in this swicki blog post some tips about how to optimize your buzz cloud for your website:

For example, it’s possible to use a parent html block element to resize the width of your buzz cloud. But there are more possibilities while using CSS: I re-styled this buzz cloud to get some mouse-over effects with the colors from the website:

#swicki a {
color:#4088b8;
}
#swicki div a:hover {
color:#F15A22;
}

You need to add an ID to your parent container element.

“The 100 Lists Web Directory” is offering links from the homepage to website owners with the 10 highest bids. Some webmaster would say that’s a good chance to get PR5 link from a busy website directory. As one of the first customers I hold some of these links for only a few dollars over several months. Until last week: My links are removed from the main page by some higher bids. I did two times a higher offer before I decided to don’t pay anymore to get this “hot” listing again.

Today I found some interesting article on the weblog from Info Vilesilencer, some important information to get an answer about how much you should pay for a paid directory inclusion. There is also a list of recommended low cost link directories (I didn’t test them yet).

The value of a directory listing is based on different factors like links on a regular websites. What is the PageRank and is the link SEO friendly? But for a paid directory inclusion there also are other factors important: Is the price a one time payment and will this directory still exists over a few years?

With a high submission fee it will be more difficult to decide to submit a website then with a lower fee. If you’re not sure, then submit your website for free to one of many SEO friendly directories.