Just added! A wonderful “page strength” tool to test how strong the seo is of any one page of your site! The link for the page strength tool can be found in our blog master tools section. Here’s the link to the page so you know where to find it again if you need it in the future! This is an awesome tool, and the site that it is from is also very good. 
Some of you may still wonder how you can propose a Link & Blog Challenge with other members. One of the easiest ways is to consider key words that your blogs have in common. As you look through our members blogs, think of key words that relate to both of your blogs, or that could be used within a blog post to create the relevancy and tie your post subject matter together.
Building links with relevancy has significant importance. Receiving incoming links from sites with page rank is of course everyones dream, but linking with relevancy is also a very beneficial focus, and why Link & Blog began. If you haven’t already been over there, the Google webmaster help center features some great advice for link building.
You may be asking, “So what really is a Link & Blog Challenge?”
Obviously we already know what a link, a blog, and a challenge are as they stand separately,
but what happens when you put the three together?
LINK: First you must have a desire to link to other blogs, regardless of their popularity within the search engines, regardless of their rank. The exception of course would be blogs that are offensive to the readers or to the search engines, but that’s a topic for another day. If we all only wanted to link to the big dogs, the little dogs would never get anywhere. In the long run we will be rewarded by the search engines by linking not only to other blogs, both big and small, but most importantly by linking with relevancy.
BLOG: Second, we all know how to blog, or maybe you came here to learn how to blog. If you are ready to blog then you are ready for a challenge!
CHALLENGE: The third component is where the fun comes in. I think the The American Heritage Dictionary says it best with their 4th definition of challenge, “A test of one’s abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking.”
Wow! That says it perfectly doesn’t it! So we put those all together and here is what we have, and the common goal we all share:
We have the desire to link to other blogs, regardless of their popularity, but with the important goal to create relevancy between the blog posts we link with. This is for the benefit of our readers, and for the benefit of practicing good seo (search engine optimization). In order to do so, we present one another with a challenge, which will test one’s abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking!
So there you have a Link and Blog Challenge! Are you up for a challenge? If so, isn’t it time you contact one of our members and present to them a Link & Blog Challenge?
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When you create a Link and Blog Challenge it’s very important that you remain focused on the topic or niche of your blog. Why?
Since we are all interested in building good SEO (search engine optimization) for our blogs, I decided to provide you with some great links for SEO tools. I will add links to this post in the future for our reference. Here’s how you can easily find this post in the future to refer back to it:
In our left sidebar simply locate the Category titled: “Blog Master Tools” and you will then be able to locate this list. Please let me know too if you have some suggestions on sites to add to this list! For starters, here’s the beginning of our SEO Tools link list!
Google Analytics
A terrific tool with many eye openers about your site. My only disappointment with this service is the fact that they do not provide enough details in regards to the referer when the visitor came to your site from an organic search result, and even if it was from a search in Google! 
Google Blog Search
Read about Googles Blog Search service
Google Blog Search Ping
To add your blogs to the Google Blog search index, you’ll want to use their ping service
Google Rankings
Note: You will need to contact Google to obtain your API key to use this tool
