Archive for July, 2007

Web design rules for quality content and back-links

Posted in July 21st, 2007

If you want your site to be successful you need back-links. The best way to achieve this is quality content, readable by both people and search engines. This is done by web design following rules. The four critical Web Design Rules describes in detail the major of them. In summary they are:

Easy to read
Simple navigation
Consistent [...]

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Technorati search tags for WordPress

Posted in July 19th, 2007

If you use WordPress and wish your post to stay at or near the top of Technorati list, than you must tag it. This is easily achieved by plugin called TagalizeIt. It allows you to put search tags on your blog. The plugin is fairly easy to install and works fine.
The major advantages are:

Basic [...]

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IP Address Lookup

Posted in July 17th, 2007

Using IP address lookup you can find where your visitors come from. To find IP address location you may use free online services. You will get:

Geographical location of an IP address
Country
Region
City
TimeZone
Currency
… and many more

Here are some links for IP address lookup:
http://freelabs.info/IpToCountryOnLine.aspx
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation
http://www.ipgp.net
http://ip-lookup.net
http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/iplocation.asp
Have fun

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Mozilla Firefox Download

Posted in July 16th, 2007

Mozilla Firefox is worldwide used web browser primary because of it security. In addition it is fully customizable to your personal preferences and will improve your online experience. Currently Firefox 2 is available for free download.
Go to Mozilla Firefox download page.

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Google Operators

Posted in July 15th, 2007

Google operators such as link:, site:, related:, info:, cache: and many others are used to modify search query or to perform a different type of search. Using them you can get specific information about website such as incoming links, cached version, etc. or refine your search to get more relevant results.
Go to Google Operators page [...]

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Technorati Widgets

Posted in July 15th, 2007

If you use Technorati and wish to get the most of it, you may be interested in Technorati library. It contains various widgets, such as browser plugins, applications, utilities written by third party authors, such as you.
More on this at http://technorati.com/widgets

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How to Get Listed in Technorati

Posted in July 12th, 2007
by peorex in How to

Even you tag and ping your blog properly, it is possible to still not get your blog listed in Technorati. And this may continue a long time, with no obvious reason. When I searched the web about this topic, I found http://www.optiniche.com/blog/204/technorati-listing with a very good explanation on Technorati listing.
There is a possibility for [...]

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Ping list

Posted in July 11th, 2007

My ping list looks like this:
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
You can have these services automatically updated if you use WordPress.
To do this do the following:
1. Login as admin
2. Go to Options -> Writing
3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page. There is a text that says something like:
Update ServicesWhen you publish a new post, WordPress automatically notifies the [...]

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Tag URL syntax

Posted in July 10th, 2007

How tag URLs look like? The syntax is:
<a href=”http://yoursite.com/tag/yourtag” rel=”tag”>YourTagText</a>
The part rel=”tag” means that this URL is a tag for the post and is taken into consideration by the spiders (crawlers).
More on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)

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.DS_Store hidden files

Posted in July 9th, 2007

When I download Ultimate Tag Warrior I was faced with files called .DS_Store and wonder what they are, are they important, can they just be deleted and so on. An excellent answer on this is available at http://code.jalenack.com/archives/what-is-ds_store and after reading this I just delete them, without harm.
.DS_Store (Desktop Services Store) are hidden files created [...]

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