Building backlinks to our site is important to ensure that readers can come to our site through the backlinks. On the other hand, having backlinks means  that you are important for that topic. At least that is what search engine thinks. That’s why a page that has more backlinks tend to rank higher in search engine compared to the one with less backlinks. Another SEO tips there. Backlinks are important to attract organic traffic.

Two methods to build backlinks are reciprocal link exchange and buy links. Reciprocal link exchange means that you ask other site owners to trade link with you. That means both of you can increase backlinks. What a good partnership tactic. Besides that, you can also buy links from other site owners. You can do that but try to do it under the radar before you get caught and de-indexed from the search engines.

Once you already build backlinks to your site, how to ensure that the links remain at those sites? Do you need to check them manually? The approach is acceptable to check few backlinks but to check hundred of backlinks, I am sure it consumes lot of time. That is the reason I have compiled five backlink checker that can monitor your backlinks. Some of them cost a little but I am sure you will benefit from the tools compared to monitor the backlinks manually.

Tool 1: Backlink Monitoring

• Check that the page hosting your link is accessible
• Check if the page hosting your link is duly followed by search engine bots, meaning that the following tag does not contain the "nofollow" value <meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />
• Check that the link is displayed on the page
• Check that your link does not have a nofollow rel attribute (rel="nofollow")
• If you like, an e-mail can be sent automatically to the webmaster who does not display your link on his page. Otherwise, you can do it manually
• Save the report to your control panel
• Visit http://www.backlinkmonitoring.com/ for details

Tool 2: LinkVelocityTool

Get backlinks information from your site and also your competitor sites. This can ensure that you are not missing any links opportunity that can make your competitor leave you far away in the SERP. Check it out at http://www.linkvelocitytool.com/.

Tool 3: Backlink Checker

Backlink Checker Utility provides the best SEO tool to find advertized website backlink status to the various publishers website for overall analyzing website back link status. Website back link checker tool is helpful for Webmasters and website owners to check the backlink links to a website or web page. Inbound/inward links finder application wizard finds the overall status of user’s website back-links on the publisher site for evaluating popularity of the website on various search engines.

Website link checker tool alerts to web owners through an e-mail notification and sound alerts if backlink not found or link removed from the web pages. Affordable inbound link finder program examines all type of links including live links, dead links, not found links for overall visibility, performance of the web pages on Google, Yahoo and other popular search engines. Visit http://www.backlinks4me.com/ for more info.

Tool 4: BackLink checker utility

BackLink checker utility is the leading solution for checking the backlink status of advertiser’s website on publisher’s website. Link checking software sends an alert email notification if link is unavailable, link not found, link removed or advertiser’s page not displayed on publisher’s site.

Inline backlink checker utility sends email notification to the publisher email ID if backlinks removed, links are not present or advertiser’s webpage is unavailable on publisher’s website. Back Link monitoring software detects the availability of different type of links such as direct links, JavaScript links and any other type of links on publishers’ website.

Inbound backlink checker tool finds the anchor text backlinks and Generates link status report in HTML or TXT file format for future reference. Simple procedure helps technical as well as non-technical person for easy operation of software in a user-friendly wizard style interface. Visit http://www.recoverdata.in/recovery-data/backlink-checker.html for more info.

I rarely heard about Malaysian that expertise in open source development. That’s why I am quite shocked when I know that JomComment developer is a Malaysian. For those who do not know, JomComment is a commenting system plugin for Joomla.

By default, Joomla does not have built in commenting system. And commenting system that available for free is not good enough. I always get spam comment by using free comment plugin. In contrast to those commenting systems, JomComment has better features. Besides its good design, a lot of Joomla user is willing to pay for JomComment because it reduces spam greatly.

Who’s behind JomComment?

Actually, I already know the man behind JomComment before I knew JomComment. If you have come across a user in JoomlaMy community website, I am sure you would know a guy name Azrul. However I only know that he is a developer for JomComment once I tried to find the best commenting system for Joomla since a lot of Joomla user recommended it. For now, I believe that most Joomla user acknowledge JomComment as the best commenting system for Joomla.

Possible Customers

Although most Malaysian never know Azrul Dot Com, it actually has a very high Alexa ranking (below 25’000). If Azrul Dot Com is a blog, I am sure that it will be list in top 10 blog in Malaysia. Just imagine how much traffics that Azrul received daily by just being a Joomla web application developer without the need to post articles like blogger. Furthermore, another network web site of him (JomSocial) has a very high traffics too. I feel damn jealous about him. Just imagine the number of possible customers that Azrul Dot Com could get daily.

Slashes & Dots Team

I do not know whether Azrul Rahim develop JomComment by himself or not but right now Azrul already has his own team that called Slashes & Dots Sdn Bhd (situated in Mid Valley, Kuala Lumpur) . Whether it is blogging or even web developing, a team is really important since it will make planning and production at ease. In Slashes & Dots, there are

• Business Development and Marketing
• Accounts and Operations Manager
• Marketing and Sales
• A few software developers
• A few graphic designers

By having  a team that has all of those positions, there is no wonder all of Slashes & Dots plugins such as JomSocial, MyBlog and NiceTalk have great functionality and nice design.

So, who said Malaysia can’t? As long has you have the determination, the road to success will always open.

Tired of the default Joomla template? Don’t worry because there are a lot of websites that provide Joomla templates for free. Although they are free, most of them are still beautiful, clean and SEO optimized.

Siteground (view)

Joomlart (view)

Themebase (view)

Joomlashack (view)

Best of Joomla (view)

Joomladesigns (view )

E-Bay has become a brand in buying and selling goods online. However, there are still many auction or classified websites that have its customer too because of their uniqueness. For example, at E-bay we can find many categories but for a unique website, it only contain one category. Then they make a subcategory based from the chosen category.

To do an auction or classified site from scratch is a hard task and cost thousands. Fortunately, there is a few developers out there that sell auction and classified scripts for an affordable price.

PhpProBid: (Visit website)

• For me, this is the best script to make an auction website because there is many templates and modules available for this software.
• Moreover, if you want to have your own module, many programmers out there are already use to PhpProBid script. I am sure your auction site will look professional and neat by using this script.
• There are many features available at PhpProBid admin panel. You can make a store for a user for a price. You can visit their website for demo.

VBay or VB easy auction:

This mod only works for VBulletin forum only. If you have VBulletin forum, you can use this mod to integrate auction feature in the forum.

Really nice since you do not need to install different script for auction and then needs to do a lot of work to bridge the user between forum and the auction site.

Other scripts that worth to be seen:

• Geodesic Solutions
• AJ Auction
• PHPAuction