Saturday, November 29, 2008

Tools for Blogging

I found this this resources from a very informative blog about social media, I decide to share this on my blog to share more the information that I discover. This is a collections of useful and free tools for blogging that everyone can use to check the everyone's blog performance and enhance the blog ranking. Let's try this tools and explore and see what this tools can do.

Search Engine Tools

Domain Checkup Tools

  • Alexa Traffic Rank Checker - Instantly check your website’s Alexa traffic rank.
  • Reciprocal Link Checker - Make sure your link exchange partners still have your links. You may check it with this tool.
  • Domain Name Availability Checker - Check whether the domain name you have in mind is still available for registration.
  • Domain Whois - Get more information about a domain name with this tool.
  • Broken Link Checker - Use this tool to detect and correct broken links in your website.
  • Domain Name Lookup Tool
    - The Domain Name Lookup tool lets you find out more about domain names
    including Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, number of backlinks,
    age of domain name etc.
  • IP Locator Tool - The IP Locator Tool helps you determine the country of origin of certain IP address.
  • Link Price Calculator Tool - The Link Price Calculator estimates how much you should pay and charge for a link in certain pages of your website.
  • Ping Test Tool - The Ping Test Tool lets you check for an active connection.
  • Reverse IP Lookup Tool
    - Reverse IP Lookup Tool lets you search for domain names hosted on
    your IP address. Just enter a domain or an IP address to get a list of
    domain names that share the same IP address.
  • Server Status Checker - Use this blogging tool to instantly check for the status of any website.
  • Website Speed Checker -
    Check the loading speed of your website with the Website Speed Checker
    tool. Too slow? Perhaps you need to optimize the page or move to a
    faster server.

HTML Blogging Tools

  • Source Code Viewer - This tool lets you see how a website is scripted and coded.
  • Meta Tag Generator
    - Meta tag generator helps you create a functional meta tag you can use
    in your blog. Google don’t use meta tags but there are still some
    search engines that do.
  • Meta Tag Extractor - Find out what meta tags are used by your competitors with the Meta Tag Extractor tool.
  • Link Extractor Tool
    - The Link Extractor Tool will enable you to extract links from a
    specific web page with associated anchor text, HTML code, attributes
    and Google pagerank
  • HTML Optimizer Tool - This tool lets you optimize your HTML code to make your website load faster.
  • HTTP Header Extractor - The HTTP Header extractor extracts the HTTP Headers of a server. Find out exactly what your browser reads.

Miscellaneous Blogging Tools

  • Browser Detail Tool
    - Use this tool to find out your IP address and hostname, your browser
    details (User-Agent, Cookies Enabled, Java Enabled , JavaScript Status,
    Screen Width & Height, CPU class/type, Screen Colour Depth, Window
    Width & Height) and browser headers.
  • Google Adsense Calculator - Google Adsense Calculator predicts changes in your earnings depending on Impressions, Click Rate and Cost Per Click.
  • Google Adsense Preview - Google Adsense Preview tool will display some sample ads targeted for your website by Google Adsense.
  • Link Shortener Tool - The Link shortener is a tool that lets user to make a long web address short and easy to remember link for that web address.
  • List Cleaner Tool - The List Cleaner Tool will give you the capability to clean and remove duplicates from a list in a matter of seconds.
  • md5 Encrypt Tool - The md5 Encrypt Tool is a simple online converter tool to encode any inputted text to md5 encryption.
  • Unix Time Converter
    - The Unix Time Converter is a useful tool when dealing with UNIX
    internal time formats. You can use this tool to convert UNIX internal
    time formats to a date or Vice versa.
  • .htaccess URL Rewrite Tool - The .htaccess URL Rewrite Tool will convert your long and dynamic address into a short and search engine friendly URL.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Idea about Social Bookmarking


Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organized, searched and manages bookmarks of the web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata. This system allows to save links to web pages that they want to remember and they want to share. This bookmarks are usually public or private, its up to the users prefers and shared only with specified people or groups, inside a network or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view there bookmark chronogically by category or tags or via search engine.

In many ways, the information gathered by social bookmarking services is like the wild, young sibling of the web directories. But now, every web surfer is a potential editor, licensed to categorize and recommend all kinds of web sites.

These are top of the list Bookmarking sites:

Furl
Netvous
Del.icio.us
Ma.gnolia
Bluedot
Yahoo’s MyWeb
Blogmarks
Google Bookmarks
Technorati
Propeller
StumbleUpon
Reddit
Mixx
MyBlogLog
Kaboodle
Bloglines
Newsvine
Blinklist
Clipmarks
Mister-Wong
Dzone
Tailrank
ShoutWire
Simpy
Spurl
Spotback
MyBookmarks
Yahoo! Buzz

The Web 2.O



The term web 2.0 is a picture that describe the evolution that changing the trends in the use of World Wide Web and web design that encourage to enhance creativity, secure information, communication, collaboration and functionality of the web, This concept has led to development and evolution of web culture communities and hosted services such as social networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs and folksonomies. The term was born after the first O’Rielly Media web 2.0 conference in 2004.

Although the term suggest a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specification, but rather to change in the ways software developers and end-users utilized the Web according to Tim O’Rielly.