Finding blogs with decent PR

I have been marketing a client's site recently by posting to blogs and forums on their behalf. Finding blogs on topic is not so difficult if you use Blogsearch from googlebut finding blogs with a reasonable PR to pass link juice on has not been easy until now.
Last week, I did a trawl around to see if there was any software that would make finding high PR blogs any easier and came across the free version of FastBlogFinder. This only allows you to see 50 blogs for any search term, so I have decided to upgrade to the Gold version. It is definitely worth trying the free version - download it today.

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SEO Tools

I'm not normally one for buying suites of tools that claim to do all your SEO work for you, but I do spend an awful lot of time testing the freebies and trials to judge for myself whether anyone is close yet to what I would define as the ultimate toolkit.


This week's trial is for Web CEO which I have seen around for a while


First impressions are that this is a fairly impressive toolkit for those who don't have in-house tools already, and would seem to suit a small business who is looking to do internet marketing and seo but hasn't necessarily the technical expertise to develop the required software and tools.

I would never use automated submission software anyway, so that part isn't necessarily of interest to me, but I am interested in testing the validity of the potential link sites it has thrown up, as well as some of the more in-depth features this suite appears to have.

Even on first glance, the features list is pretty impressive, and once you start playing around, it seems to get better rather than worse!

This is just day 2 of playing with it for one of my clients, so I will report more later on in the trial, but it's free, so what have you got to lose? Download it and try it yourself and let's compare notes!

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Is your software legal?

The Government has given Trading Standards the power and duty to enforce copyright laws on businesses' software, and a pilot has started in Cardiff where TS can enter business premises and check the licences of all software being used.

Whilst the majority of businesses will be unaffected by this type of law, there are bound to be some who are unknowingly or unwittingly breaking the law using downloaded copies, borrowed versions of software etc. The pilot in Cardiff may lead the way to a national scheme, so FAST have produced information to help businesses ensure that all the software they are using is correctly licensed.

Whether this is a good spend of £5million to protect software companies rights, rather than protecting consumers and businesses from dodgy software can only be debated, but at least the program is designed to prosecute only when software copyright infringement is deemed to have been done intentionally.

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