How to Use Site Maps

As always SEO Book is one of the best resources for Search engine Optimization.  Check out the article on Sitemaps, the Do’s and Don’t’s at SEOBook Blog SEO Book Sitemaps XML

Google Chrome Themes

If you’re wanting to add a little color to your Google Chrome Browser, check out the Themes available at Google Chrome Themes

Google Chrome Dog

Google Chrome Clouds

Google Chrome Gnomes

Web Browsers for Dinosaurs

Both of these pictures are Dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs

Internet Expoler Dinosaur

IE 6 Dinosaur

I have heard and even met some people lately who are back in the stone age with their browsers, really they are web browsers for dinosaurs and as you know, the big old fossils are long gone.  Unbeknown to some people, the web jhas also moved on and using old Browsers just don’t work with all the new web applications.

The major ossil in question is the Microsoft IE6 browser, it needs to be upgraded as soon as or really you will not be able to visit a lot of sites.

Here is an article Browser Battle

Moziila

Rebol Tutorial – How to Use

Rebol is a cross platiform programming language, it is lightweight and helps create small sized web apps.  If you want so straight forward simple Rebol Tutorials, here is a great site Rebol Tutorials

Here is information about Rebol on Wikipedia

WordPress Tutorial How To Do A Blog Post

Here is a Simple WordPress How to Do A Blog Post, it includes images and is designed for people with good basic gweb skills and average common sense.  It is in PDF format so it is viewable across formats and Browsers.  It’s Free.

View this document on Scribd

Tony Hogan SEO – Byron Bay and Northern Rivers

Tutorial – Manage Email Accounts at Your Domain with CPanel

Here is a video on How to Manage Your Email Accounts via CPanel at Your Domain

Manage Email Accounts 

If you are hosted at Hostgator, you may also need this to help you out, 

Setting up Email Outlook Eudora

Google Webmaster Tools Video

I am surprised only 3,700 people or so have seen this video, it was published in January 2009.  Google Webmaster Tools Video

It’s recommended by Matt Cutts, check out Matt’s Blog

How to Import RSS Feed Into Ning Social Network

A number of people I have spoken to are a little confused about how to get RSS working with our Social Networking Site, so I have written a very easy to follow set of steps at our Ning Social Network.

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Here are some simple instructions on:

How to Import RSS Feed Into Ning Social network

Visit Web Bling @ Ning

This will enable you to view your Blog in Ning Social Network

Tweeter – Learn How to Use It Properly

Here is a worthwhile article about Twitter.  Yes Twitter Mania has gotten out of control but it’s worthwhile stopping for a moment and sorting through the hype and instead of just signing up and saying,  “It didn’t work for me”, take a look at how to use it effectively.  A lot of people quickly tire of a web tool if they don’t don’t investigate it properly and use it effectively.

So here are a couple of sensible articles ProBlogger Twitter

Twitter with Ezine Articles How to Drive Traffic to Ezine Articles

Simple Twitter Tips on How to Drive Traffic

Twitter Image

Or Go to The Twitter Blog for the Latest

Mailchimp URL Shortening Tool

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The Chimps from Mailchimp, the guys that also gave the Web Universe Survey Monkey, have created a tool similar to TinyURL for shortening Web Addresses.  It’s called EepURL it integrates very nicely with Twitter, check this out Twitter Integration.  You may find this tool very useful in situations where an input box has a limit on the amount of characters you can input, or when a URL is so long that it covers a couple of lines.

How to Use Twitter Tutorial

Here’s a very clear simple Twitter tutorial, to get you started and up and running, to remove the mystery.  It’s created by Diana Freedman at a Blog called U Stand Out.  

To see the Tutorial, go to U Stand Out

Marketing on Facebook Youtube Tutorial Part 1

This is a Youtube Video  which might be of great interest to people who wish to use Facebook for Marketing.

As  I realise that most people have no interest in making money on the Web and are more interested in using Facebook strictly for socialising, very few would bother about something like this

New Search Engine Cuil

  

Cuil Search Engine

 

I wonder how many people are aware of the new search engine called Cuil. Cuil is supposedly larger than Google, that is a very interesting statistic. For information on submitting to Cuil go here to this link Cuil

Here is the link to Cuil Search Engine Cuil

For Frequenty Asked Questions go here to Cuil FAQ 

CUIL PHILOSOPHY: The Internet is getting bigger and more disorganized every day. Cuil’s goal is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet—not just part of it—and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results.

NOTE: I would be watching Cuil with great interest.  AOL search engine and others use Google as a backend, but I’ve noticed that Cuil indexes and displays its responses very differently to Google and does not give importance to the same things as Google.

I am currently testing how it works, what it lkes and what what it doesn’t rate.  Already I see a massive difference.  

Internet Explorer Users check out Add Cuil Serach Provider

Fire Fox Users check out Add Cuil Search Firefox

Here is a more indepth article about Cuil when it was launched last July CUIL Article

How to Install Tweetfeed Widget Tutorial in PDF

A Simple Tutorial for non Techie people to look, act and feel Techie      

A number of people have trouble making sense of How to Install a Tweetfeed Widget at WordPress.  

As I hate seeing people suffer and to alleviate unnecessary pain,  I have created a simple tutorial in Acrobat Reader Format, click on how-to-install-tweetfeed-widget-at-wordpress2to download or view the printable PDF Tutorial 

NOTE:  This is for WordPress Hosted Blogs, NOT ones at wordpress.com

Blogcatalog Purchases Tweetfeed

Of great interest to the Blogging world is that the very cool Blogcatalog has just purchased tweetfeed

Tweetfeed

What’s a TweetFeed?

• A customizable page that displays related Twitter activity live.
• A way to keep track of what is happening on Twitter that interests you (and share it with friends).
• A super-easy way to create “tweet walls” for conferences and events!
• Whatever you want it to be.

  To set up a Tweetfeed Account go to Tweetfeed.com 

Create a WordPress Blog Tutorial

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Every now and then people say they want to get onto the Web and have some sort of presence.   Here’s a simple tutorial on how to get started with a WordPress  Blog.  I wrote it a year or so back, I will be adding additional SIMPLE Tutorials on working with WordPress.

Feel Free to distribute this a a complete document.  This is Copyright and I ask that you don’t edit the document or claim it as your own.

Click on the link to download or open the Create_a  Blog Tutorial ,  it is in the Acrobat reader format.

What Web Tools Do You Use?

We often make assumptions about what tools people consider as the most important when it comes to developing Web Content.  I’ve listed a number here and I’m curious which ones people cant live without.  For me, the most important would heve to be WordPress Blogging software.   And of recent times, since one of my main computers has died and I’m waiting on my Adobe CS4 to arrive for my Lappy, I’d have to say I’m staring to crave for the old Macromedia product Fireworks.  I don’t particularly like Photoshop.  But many people love it

So what can’t you live without?

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Concentrate hard 😉
2. Think about what is the most important tool
3. Tick one from the list, if it’s not there
4. Click The Vote Button

Thankyou

NOTE:  You’ll notice there is an input box for additional tools

Keyword Suggestion Tool

Here’s a great little online tool useful to Web Designers who don’t wish to waste their time building websites about Uzbekistani  Camels or such things as the Campanula robinsiae.  It’s a no brainer tool to help with Keyword Suggestions.  It runs online at the following web address Keyword Suggest.  

There is also Wordtracker the industry standard professional tool at Wordtracker website.  The old Pixelfast / Overture tool was very good but has nowbeen swalled up by the Yahoo Search crew . 

If you want to be a web designer, start to develop a set of useful tools.