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Show off incoming links to your web site with Yahoo badges
Feb 1st
I just discovered a little tool from Yahoo Site Explorer. It’s a little badge that you can add to your web site and see how many other web sites are linking to you. (Indexed via yahoo, of course).
See my badge on the sidebar.
Basically you have two options:
1 – Track the number of links to the Page on which the badge is placed .
2 – Select the size of badge you would like to place on your web site.
If you want this badge for your web site, follow this link : Yahoo Site Explorer and select one of the two options and then pick up the code and paste it into your page of choice.
Best Firefox extensions – my selection (update)
Jan 30th
- Update - More extensions
Part 3 – Update January 30
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Cooliris Previews 2.1 – A simple and powerful way of navigating through Google search results and Google image searches!
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FaviconizeTab 0.9.7.2 – The width of the specified tab becomes small up to the size of favicon.
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McAfee SiteAdvisor 26.1 – A McAfee SiteAdvisor Firefox Extension for safe searching and browsing
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PermaTabs 1.4.0 – Create permanent tabs that don’t close, and stick around between sessions
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SEOpen 0.8 – Provides some basic tools to help with search engine optimization.
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Tab Effect 1.1 – Tab Effect Read the rest of this entry »
Blogg-Buzz – A Digg Like Site For Bloggers
Jan 9th
There are some great news for bloggers.
A new web site has been launched and it is called Blogg-Buzz, a web site similar to Digg.com, except no one will be banning bloggers who’ll be promoting their own stories.
This web site is exclusively for bloggers, so feel free to go there and promote your blog.
If you regularly visit Digg.com, you probably know by now that if you promote your own story, it’ll marked as spam and your web site will even be banned.
Example : JohnChow.com and PaulStamatiou.com .
Nothing like that will be happening here, unless you’re really spamming.
Now you’ve got an alternative to get your blog known.
The two people who worked on it, John and Shiva and few others who contributed to it for the past month will be happy to see you there and I am one of those people.
Hope to see you there.
For more info, visit John’s blog or simply go to Blogg-Buzz
A few SEO tips for bloggers
Dec 20th
Quick update :
I just change my title tag from displaying first my blog’s name and then the entry’s title to entry title and then blog’s name.
Sweet!
There I go… Everyone does it so why shouldn’t I do it too?
Here is the first tip.
Use short URL for your blog instead of a long one. You’ll do better in search engines.
As you know, yesterday I changed the settings on my permanent links from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to a custom structure url + /%postname%/ .
The reason I did it was simple. I want my web site to do better in search engines and the long url didn’t do any good. In fact it is too long for a search engine.
When submitting to search engines, do it once. Don’t get greedy by submitting your web site too many times. Befriend with the search engines and they’ll befriend you too.
If you didn’t use Seo Studio (Lite version) for your blog submission, then do it now or… you can use the Tecnixindo Submitter .
You probably know this one by now….Use specific words on your entry’s titles and do the same with the tags.
Example : Instead of “Freeware” use “Best freeware” or “Best freeware downloads”.
Tag links in your blog’s entries. For example, using Live Writer makes it easy. If you want you can “tag” a link or set it to “nofollow”.
When linking, try to include your most important keywords or keywords phrases into that link’s title.
Last but not least … Keep it clean!
Well, that’s it for now. If I think of anything else, I will post it up.
Technorati tags: seo tips, blogging tips
Snap.com – Image Search release
Dec 19th
Snap.com has just released their own version of Image Search.
Just like its normal search ( example: Best Freeware) , when the image results are displayed, you don’t have to click on them directly. You can use your mouse scroll button to roll over the images and they’ll be displayed on the right side.
See a Snap image result example here : Library images.
Try your search on Snap.com.