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Tags in SEO PowerSuite

There was an interesting update today to SEO PowerSuite which adds tags to all the programs in the suite. If you don't know this Suite yet, you should check it out – it has many interesting features that allow you to do SEO work automatically, such as Rank and Link checking, getting links, looking at links and other factors for pages and checking your own pages for optimum SEO.

This allows you easily keep group keywords, pages or tag them with important information.  Looks very useful.

They have some screenshots that detail it in the article.

Check my review of SEO PowerSuite and Market Samurai if you'd like to know more about them.

 

 

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How to make users scroll down your page

Interesting article on How to make users scroll down your page.

The size of the page they demonstrate is impressive – 19 feet tall!

Turns out that it's important to make it clear that the page isn't over at the fold, and they show a few techniques for encouring users to scroll – such as avoiding horizontal elements that might indicate that the page is over, using a background for the sides, and others.

They also point you to tools to see how far your users are actually scrolling down, such as Clicktale.

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Directory Report

A directory report can be very useful in your daily work. Many times you need a record of the files about an account or a customer, the files on specific disks or a MP3 player. A system administrator may need a report to check how a disk is being used – is it full of documents, or are your users storing movies and games?

The classical way of getting a simple directory report is using the command line and using dir > file.txt , or one of many variations.

For more advanced directory reports, you can use STG FolderPrint Plus. You can print or export your reports to many formats, such as text, CSV, PDF or Excel.

You can see whole disks at once, and choose many different file filters, including name, extensions, sizes or dates.

There are specific reports available too, such as the file type report, compact output and CD Covers.

File Type Report

Check it out now – STG FolderPrint Plus.

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60 takeaways from Think Visibility Leeds

I hate to repeat myself, but I just received a new article from Wordtracker with more takeaways from a different conference.

Topics are Link Building, Social Media, Content Promotion, Video, SEO, Conversions, Domains, etc.

Recommended.

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SES London 2011: 301 takeaways and top tips

Very cool advice on SEO on this article.

I took a TON of notes from it.

Recommended.

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Print MP3 List

Print MP3 List page
Print MP3 List page

One of the many functions of STG FolderPrint Plus is to print mp3 lists, or export music lists.

It allows you to choose a number of fields, such as title,  artist, album, etc and include them when you print, export or view your file list.

You can also do batch Move/Copy of MP3 List- for example, if you decide that you want your music on a USB Drive in a folder with the Artist Name, then the Album name, you can do it in a few clicks.

You can also rename automatically using the MP3 Tags, which is very useful if your MP3 Player just displays a part of the file name.

One thing that all current books about web design reinforce is that different users should get specific landing pages. That is why the link above is to the new page specific to MP3 and Music. It's still very much a work in progress, but I have to say that I really liked how it looks with a 400 pixel wide screenshot image. The site was originally made (by me, using a purchased template) back in 2003, when the average resolution was 800×600, and 640×480 was still common.

On current resolutions, the screenshots look tiny!

I guess the next step is revising all product pages, and using STGThumb's Lytebox Album to show multiple screenshots using the same space.

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Improved WordPress performance with WP-Minify

I just installed WP-Minify and I just had to comment on it. Looking at my site speed graphs (which are now a factor for Google), I noticed that some of the worst performance comes in the blog section. Reading Web Performant WordPress I read about WP-Minify and decided to try it. The performance improvement is absurd. Testing on YSlow, it gets from a Grade F (41 HTTP Requests, 412K) to Grade A (4 HTTP Requests, 107K)! That's pretty impressive for a simple plugin install. Very recommended to anyone using WordPress.

5 out of 5 stars
Update: 26/Apr/2011
The current version of WP-Minify is 1.1.3. According to many reports, this version no longer compress JS files, and the latest that works properly is 1.04. What I have noticed here is even worse – if I try either version with the latest WordPress 3.1.1, I have to turn off CSS Minify on WP-Minify configuration page, or the blog gets completely messed up…


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New E-mail Newsletter

Some time ago, I decided to move the e-mail newsletter from PHPList – which is nice but very limited in features, as well as by my server – to Mailchimp.

I did stall it a lot, but this friday I finally sent the new newsletter .

Overall, MailChimp's system is pretty neat. They have nice templates, and it's easy to add Facebook's Like Buttons (and many other social sites), archives, and track links. Their reports are pretty cool, and not only show your Open/Click/Unsubscribe/Bounce rates, but also have click maps of what links were most clicked, as well as a per country map of where your e-mails were opened. There are many other features, most of which I didn't use yet.

However, the tracking system doesn't work well with how my extra domains (Folderprint.com and STGThumb.com) are set up. So both of these (which add to 87% of the clicks) failed. 🙁

I was able to fix this for the STGThumb link, but not for the FolderPrint link, yet. So, to any customers that got the newsletter, I apologize for the inconvenience!

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Link Building Evaluation

Wordtracker posted an interesting article about evaluating sites for link building.

Link Building is the process of getting links to your page to improving your rankings in search engines. It is quite important for SEO these days.

Factors discussed in the article include relevancy to your own site, fresh content, current link numbers, and standing on search engines such as Google and Alexa.

What I consider the easiest way to do a link building campaign is using Link Assistant. It has a lot of tools for finding the best link sources for your relevant keywords, and can show several of these factors for you. It also manages your link pages for reciprocal link exchanges, as well as checking if links pointing to you still work – including generating and uploading your link page.

Well worth checking out.

Wordtracker has their own tool for this, but Link Assistant beats it on price by quite a bit.

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GameInternals – Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior

GameInternals – Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior – a very interesting article about the mechanics of the enemies (Ghosts) in Pac-Man.