9 Sep

A little cocktail of links today, based on a few things that have interested me recently. The odd photo of fruit was meaning fruit cocktail, and link cocktail. A tenuous link, but I liked the photo.
These tips include a NoFollow/DoFollow indicator tool for Firefox, news about context-advertising in PDF documents, issues with Google and Feedburner transfers, how to forge your earnings without using photoshop (and why you shouldn’t trust ‘proof’ of earnings), plus a few other resources from blogs I read regularly.
A simple and lightweight tool for firefox highlights links with red if they are no-follow, and blue if they are do-follow. Basically it’s a do-follow link detector, available as a firefox add-on. I found it via Shanker Bakshi’s site when he linked to me for being on the do-follow list.
Dan Scocco at Daily Blog Tips mentions some issues users have been having when migrating Feedburner feeds to Google. Issues include long downtimes, manual transfers and issues with lost data.
Sparkplugging CEO links to a funny video of how you can completely falsify your clickbank earnings using a simple one-liner javascript snippet in the location bar of the browser.
Some interesting news about work being done by Yahoo and Adobe with adding adverts to PDF documents. Essentially the adverts are context-sensitive and interesting aspects in terms of limiting the document to only being readable when connected to the internet. Dangerous territory in my opinion.
Some other articles I liked:

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5 Responses for "Link Cocktail: NoFollow Tool, PDF and RSS Ads and Earnings Proof"
Thanks specially for the Firefox add - on on do-follow/no-follow link. I was looking for it foe sometime now- specially to use on forums.
I have also downloaded your PR update Mod and will use it on one of my directories.
Thanks for the info. The no-follow tool is nice. SEObooks SEO plugin for Firefox also offers some functionality like that, but the one you mention looks better. I personally use Firebug, with the inspector mode.
The trouble with the other extensions is that they offer too much functionality. Good-enough is a great strategy.
Thanks for the tip on the NoDoFollow plugin. I’ve actually been using a tool from Quirk.biz that reds out any nofollow links AND provides a bunch of nice SEM tools on the bottom bar of firefox. Might be an alternative you’re interested in checking out:
http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
Yep, I used to use that add-on, it’s actually really good as an all-round tool.
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