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Check Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) for your URL
2007-10-18 13:27:00
Shoemoney has a useful tool to check your Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) for Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Alta Vista. See how your URL ranks for certain terms. Here's the SERP utility page.
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Removal from Google's Index
2007-10-04 19:23:00
Yesterday, I received an email from Google regarding some questionable content on my website. I operate a small classified ads site, so the majority of my content is free ads.The Googlebot found an ad with some hidden text (text using the same color as my site) on the site. Actually, it wasn't the exact same color but the Googlebot found it anyways. After further investigation, I found 3 more ads out of 40k that had some more funny looking text. Also, there was one ad that used a "dash" but it was actually a url -- very tiny font.I guess I could have cleaned up those pages and then later resubmit for Google re-inclusion, but I simply deleted them.Here's what Google said to me followed by the hidden text gibberish."Google Search Quality noreply AT google.com> wrote: Dear site owner or webmaster of freeadlists.com,While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that were outside our quality guideline...
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Keyword Density Analyzer
2007-09-30 15:09:00
Here's a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tool you can use to analyze the keyword density in any web page. It measures the ratio of keyword or keyphrase to the total number of words on a page. This is an important aspect for SEO. One to seven percent is considered to be good.
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Which way is this silhouette rotating?
2007-09-28 19:52:00
Which way is this silhouette rotating? I've been told it's an optical illusion and it's always moving clockwise.I was also told if you see it counterclockwise, you're more scientific; otherwise, you're more artistic/creative.Most of the time I see the silhouette moving counterclockwise. How about you?If you didn't already know, you will have to double click the picture to get the animation.
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Validate your feed
2007-09-19 17:05:00
Many of us share our data via XML feeds. However, I encountered many times when I couldn't ingest a feed because it was riddled with errors. Feed validator.org is a site that allows you to validate a feed before sending it live.

10 tips for optimizing your blog
2007-08-31 14:38:00
Here's an article by WebProNews that is related to optimizing your blog. Here are 10 ways to optimize your blog. Most of the tips are for Wordpress. I've asked the author for tips relating to the Blog ger platform.
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Determine Backlinks and Anchor Text Pointing to Website or Blog
2007-08-06 13:38:00
Have you ever wondered how many sites were linking to your website or blog and then what anchor text was being used? I was checking FreeAdLists and discovered the anchor text was primarily referencing "forums." That's not exactly what I was expecting or wanting. I was expecting "FreeAdLists" or "Classifieds FreeAdLists" or "freeadlists" or something related.At any rate, here's the site to check your backlinks.
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The Dispersion of Social Media Networks
2007-07-03 15:48:00
The social media networks such as Bebo, Myspace, Orkut, Friendster, Facebook and others have contributed greatly in making the world a smaller place. I was a bit surprised to see which social media concerns dominated the different parts of the globe. From this social media map, there's still plenty of room for growth left.
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The Internet TIme Machine
2007-06-24 13:53:00
Go back in time and see what your favorite websites looked like a few months or even years ago. Archive.org has archives from 1996 to present and over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages. Here's the link for the Wayback Machine or type the following in your browser:http://web.archive.org/web/*/your URL.com/e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/*/yahoo.com/Ch eck out Google Nov 11, 1998 and Yahoo Oct 17, 1996
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Next Generation of Mobile Computers -- MiniTablets
2007-06-24 07:40:00
I found this interesting post by Michael Beck (digitalnomad) of Rugged Notebooks.Military and industrial interests are always looking for ways to leverage technology, and these mini-tablets might be the answer. For a light infantry soldier or a company field worker, someone who might have to "hump" in challenging climates (heat, humidity, etc), weight and durability do count. When I served, I had what was considered ruggedized communication devices in my rucksack and I often felt like a "beast of burden.?I wouldn?t have minded carrying a more ?soldier friendly? communication device like the one shown to the left.
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Who Stumbled your Site on Stumbleupon.com
2007-06-22 14:11:00
There is an easy way to see who is stumbling your site. Here's the URL to check.http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www. yourURL.com
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