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GoDaddy Domain Registrar

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Ready for a website? Got a niche? Get your URL!

Register a Domain

The place to register your web address.


Host a Domain

The place to put all of your web files.

Affiliate Links

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Google PageRank

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Google PageRank imageI am sharing this Google pagerank checker because until about 4 or 5 months ago, I didn’t really understand the whole Google pagerank numbering system.

I thought if you had a page rank of 1, that meant you were number 1! However, that isn’t how it works. If you have a pagerank of 1, that’s 1 out of 10! Being 1 out of 10 isn’t as exciting as being number one right?

Use this nifty tool to see what your business or personal website’s Google pagerank is.

Check Page Rank of any web site pages instantly:
This free page rank checking tool is powered by Page Rank Checker service

That’s my number! -> Check PageRank Kinda puny, but it’s only a place to start.

It just means we have some work to do. :)

Wired Magazine Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web really gives you some good info on how the whole Google Algorithm/Ranking system works.

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Mr Tweet Error Message

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

So, last night I was checking out Mr. Tweet & I got this error:
Mr. Tweet  Error

LOL! I was so entertained by it, I wasn’t even annoyed that it didn’t load my page right away! (It fixed itself soon after.) But HAD to share! :)

full view on twitpic: http://www.twitpic.com/13rgt4

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Fun with Photos

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

In class, we were assigned to find an image editor for a website project, and if we couldn’t find one then we are to use Microsoft paint. (Ew.)

Well, I already had two websites lunapic and picnik I previously posted about that are online photo editors where you could do all kinds of nifty edits and special effects.

I decided to look up other free online/no download editors and I found two more fun sites for profile pics and what not.

Be on the cover of a magazine!



fakemagazinecover.com

Upload your photo and play with the Photo Trix.


fototrix.com

Photo Trix aren’t just for kids. :D Even grownups can have fun with these photo special effects.

These could be fun for

  • Facebook
  • Myspace
  • Twitter Avatars
  • Blogs
  • Websites
  • Fansites

Just thought I’d share. Have fun!

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Ultimate Collection of Free Stock Photo Sites

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

See the bottom of this post to read about why I am reposting it here.
Originaly Posted by Softalize . com, originally titled: “16 Ultimate Collection of Free Stock Photo Sites”
April 14, 2009
Today I bring a fabulous collection of sites where you can get nice images and photos. I have made a list of sites where to search for amazing and quality photos and images. So no need to waste your time with old images and photo sites that do not work properly. Just have a look at these sites, and do not forget to share your comments with us.
Some of the sites listed offer free stock photos only for personal use, All photos are the property of their respective authors check their policy before using their collection.

Everystockphoto

Everystockphoto

 

Photobucket

 

Onexposure.1X

Onexposure.1X

 

EyeFetch

EyeFetch

 

Stock.Xchng

Stock.Xchng

 

Stockvault

Stockvault

 

Photo.net

Photo.net

 

Life

Life

 

PopPhotos

PopPhotos

 

PBase

PBase

 

Openphoto

Openphoto

 

Freerange

Freerange

 

Free digital photos

Free digital photos


Please NOTE: I do not own this post. I copied this information from another blog that has been down for a while now. I had it bookmarked in my browser because I would often search for free or cheap photo stock for blog posts. For reasons unknown, the Softalize site suddenly became unavailable since early this year. So I decided to go ahead and quote word for word the entire post and share it with you since I had found it so helpful.

This is Google’s cache of http://www.softalize.com/2009/04/14/16-ultimate-collection-of-free-stock-photo-sites/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Jan 27, 2010 21:10:51 GMT. These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: http www softalize com 2009 04 14 16 ultimate collection of free stock photo sites

PLEASE READ the disclaimers before downloading and using anyone’s images on anything for your business!

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Find It Quicker

Friday, January 22nd, 2010
save ur time

Learn these search engine “tricks”, and you’ll save yourself some time! These shortcuts work on almost any search engine, but they definitely work for Google. This information is helpful for market research, office calculations, personal and people searches, file searches and website backlink lookups.

Filter Searches

For words that have multiple meanings read the following short article: narrow-down your search results.

Perform Calculations

Read this next linked short article for a better way to perform calculations in the Google search field

Specialized Search Tips

Click here for more great Google search tips from Jenny Gallaher including:

  • Tracking flights
  • Locating packages
  • Movie showing times
  • Finding files (e.g. PDF’s, Excel spreadsheets or even PowerPoint presentations)

and more! Jenny wrote the preceding articles; and kept them short, sweet, and to the point. I like how she never rambles. She’s one of the best time saving VA for sure!

BackLink Search Tips

Find how many websites are linking back to your website.

On Google search for:
[links:www.yourdomain.com]

On Bing & Yahoo search for:
links: www.yourdomain.com

This will simply give you more accurate results than simple doing a search on www.yourdomain.com.

Happy Searching!

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Moving WordPress

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Move WordPress from a subdirectory to website root

This example should work for any WordPress deployment, this article describes how to move WordPress on IIS 7 using ASP.Net

Benefits

  • Move WordPress
  • Preserve old links and permalinks
  • Preserve old images and uploads in posts and pages
  • Notify crawls of change with HTTP Response 301 Moved Permanently

This configuration will allow you to move WordPress to a different directory within your site and maintain you old links, permalinks, images, and uploads. All of the content will move with WordPress, this will just setup redirects to the new location. Each time an old link is used a HTTP Response 301 will be issued, this will help update search engines and backlinks. Custom HTTP Response 404 handling will be used to issue the HTTP Response 301.

Steps

  • Setup HTTP Response 301 Moved Permanently using ASP.Net (default.aspx)
  • Modify HTTP Response 404 Not Found handling using IIS 7 (web.config)
  • Modify rewrite rule to exclude old path using IIS 7 (web.config)
  • Update WordPress settings in database using MySQL
  • Update WordPress posts in database using MySQL

HTTP Response 301 Moved Permanently using ASP.Net
example default.aspx

<%@Page Language=”VB” %>
<%@Import Namespace=”System.Uri” %>
<%@Import Namespace=”System.Web” %>

<script runat=”server”>

Sub Page_Load(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs)

Dim sUrl As System.String = HttpContext.Current.Request.RawUrl

Dim bChange As System.Boolean
bChange = False

If sUrl.IndexOf(“?404;”) > 0 Then
sUrl = sUrl.SubString(sUrl.IndexOf(“?404;”) + 5)
sUrl = sUrl.SubString(sUrl.IndexOf(“//”) + 2)
sUrl = sUrl.SubString(sUrl.IndexOf(“/”) + 1)
Else
sUrl = “”
End If

If sUrl.IndexOf(“blog/”) = 0 Then
sUrl = sUrl.SubString(5)
End If

Response.Status = “301 Moved Permanently”
Response.AddHeader(“Location”, “http://www.domain.com/” & sUrl)

End Sub

</script>

Web Server/IIS updates
example web.config


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?/>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<httpErrors>
...
<error statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="/default.aspx" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
...
</httpErrors>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="WordPress" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="/*" ignoreCase="true" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" pattern="blog/*" matchType="Pattern" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="/index.php" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

WordPress updates
example MySQL synax


/* Update WordPress siteurl attribute */
update database_name.wp_options set option_value='http://www.domain.com' where option_name='siteurl';

/* Update WordPress home attribute */
update database_name.wp_options set option_value=’http://www.domain.com’ where option_name=’home’;

/* Update WordPress upload_path atribute, this is a local path */
update database_name.wp_options set option_value=’C:\\Inetpub\\website\\wp-content\\uploads’ where option_name=’upload_path’;

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Finding My Center

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Freeing Up Resources

I am finally consolidating all of my randomness and some of my test blogs to darkbluesun.com. This site needed an overhaul for New Years. Now that I work at Virtual IT Assistants, I can use darkbluesun for my “everything else” posts. It’s good to have my personal space back! In the process, I have freed up the following sites and simply added a few more categories to my blog.

Blogger

  • socialcomplex.blogspot.com
  • talkshowwisdom.blogspot.com
  • hayleegirl.blogspot.com

Google Sites

  • sites.google.com/site/businessparallel
  • sites.google.com/site/socialnetiquette
  • sites.google.com/site/workfamilyparallel

(Note * Google sites are difficult to find names that aren’t taken.)

Webnode

  • sybil.webnode.com

WordPress

  • backwardthinking.wordpress.com
  • hindsightblind.wordpress.com
  • xtremebaking.wordpress.com (I am keeping my mom’s blog at xtremebaking.blogspot.com)
  • socialcomplex.wordpress.com

Why did I have so many all over the place? Darkbluesun was the site I used for consulting. As you can guess I had to keep as much none business content off of it as possible. This year, my new year’s resolution: “To find my center, and stay focused!” LOL, it’s gonna be a good one!

I am so excited that this new format also allowed me to bring in all my girlie games!

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My Site Reviews from Linkreferral

Monday, September 7th, 2009
Site Reviews

“Good resources! Easy to navigate.
simple and clear. Keep up the good job!”

Pauline Cheong

healthpendant.blogspot.com/

“You have a nice site. The design is simple and clean. It’s cool that you have integrated your
link referral reviews into your site. I don’t feel that there’s anything that needs changing. I wish you luck.”

Helen

loveswagbucks.blogspot.com/

“I can definitely learn from this site and i chose it to be a later to use reference in my favorites list. It helps me to understand tips
about adsense and google. Gives me understanding of other resources yet to be discovered.”

Frank

allaboutmypiano. blogspot. com

“Really professional site! I think the design and layout are great, it loaded fast,
and it was easy to navigate. Also it seems to get your message across in a clear and efficient way. Nice work.”

David

workathomehome.info

Get your own reviews, free traffic at

Link Referral

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URL Shorteners

Monday, August 17th, 2009
bitlylogo

The verdict is in!
Bit.ly is my favorite
URL Shortener.

What is a URL Shortener?

The best way to describe it is to use an example.

Gotta long URL?

Here’s one: http://www.virtualitassistants.com/inbound-marketing-university/

Now if I wanted to tweet and share this URL in twitter, the address would take up 64 of the 140 characters allowed for my message! That doesn’t leave much room to tell you what the link is about.

What if you could type in: http://bit.ly/IMUinfo and get to the same place? Well that is why so many people use url shorteners. (Beware though, as you could imagine, this can also be a bad thing because someone mischievous could hide unsafe links. Be careful of what you click on!)

All I have to do is go to bit.ly to shorten and share, type in the address I needed shortening. I also chose “show options” and gave it a custom name. Hit “shorten” and voilà! A shorter, and easier to remember URL.

closeup

Thanks to bit.ly, the URL is now: http://bit.ly/IMUinfo.

Note: The thing to remember when choosing a custom name for a website is that it is case sensitive. So, if you go to http://bit.ly/imuinfo it won’t work. But this is a good thing! if someone already had: http://bit.ly/IMUinfo , then I could use http://bit.ly/IMUINFO.

Now, the reason why bit.ly wins my vote: I can log in and see the traffic for each my shortened links. I use twitterfeed to automatically change my blog post URLs to bit.ly addresses for twitter updates (because of the 140 character rule). When I log into bit.ly I can see how much traffic my blog posts are getting from twitter!

 

history

Make sure you sign in to bit.ly before you shorten any links you want to actually track.


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