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See your blog standings in different Social Media using this tool

Kyle — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:49:48 +0000

I’ve been a user of WebsiteGrader before because of it’s great status reporting of your blog. With just your domain name being asked you’ll be given results of your backlinks,pageranks,meta data, etc. But then I just realized that they’re giving inaccurate data if google updates or if your backlinks increased in a short period of time. The cool thing is that I found a replacement tool for website grader and it’s called Pageboss.

If you are a web master you will definitely love this tool because it outperforms websitegrader in many ways. The time it takes to analyze a site is fast enough to not being pissed off and it gives lots of data which you can compare to your competitors. The only thing that does not work in their tool is their alexa rankings, it keeps on telling your rank as zero which is very odd. But overall the site analysis is the best, It gives Twitter,Friendfeed,Technorati,Digg and othe social media performance of your site. It also gives the total number of backlinks in Google and Yahoo’s perspective and your blog’s standing in it. It’s free to use so you can just analyze other sites till your fingers bleed. All I can say is that it’s the best tool available in website analysis right now so use the service and use it to maximize your advantage.

Free Sites and Blogs that allow you to run your Adsense ads

Kyle — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:18:28 +0000

If you’ve been looking for some blogs that allow your adsense ads to run in their platform there’s a few sites that offers that kind of service without your account getting banned. There are many blog hosting services nowadays but many of them doesn’t allow you to monetize your content. Suck though! Anyway I tested several of this platforms and you can register to it without having much problems.

1. Blogspot – This is my all time favorite in terms of free hosting. You can easily integrate your adsense code in your blog because of it’s easy interface. Managing and configuring the looks of the ads is very simple to do because of widgets. Just drag and drop and you can alter the position instantly.

2. Tumblr – Tumblr just like blogspot is also one of my favorite blogging platform. Aside from quick posting and ease of use, You don’t need to worry anything. But putting adsense ads has some complexities behind it. Anyway it’s still a good blogging platform that allows adsense ads to run in your blog, Here’s a tutorial i digged out on how to add adsense codes in your blog. You need a little html/css background but it’s worth learning it.

3. I.ph – You probably do not know this blogging platform but I.ph is one heck of a blog. It runs using Calliope CMS and it’s one of the blogs that can rival blogger when it comes to user-friendliness. Adding adsense is very easy to and you don’t need to tweak any codes just to add one. You only need your publisher I.d. and you’re done.

4. Weebly – Weebly is not a blog but a site creator. It’s one that you call WYSIWYG site makers if you want to make professional looking websites. Although Weebly is a site creator you can also make a blog inside your site. Other than that you can make static pages and widgets. Adding adsense ads is also easy but the drawback is that you’ll be having shared revenue to weebly.

5. Yola – Thesame as weebly, another site creator which is very similar to weebly’s feature.

6. Squidoo – Your pages are called Lens in which you can expand and customize. You cannot add adsense to your Squidoo lens but you can set it up in such a way that you and squidoo will share revenues with their ads. The share is 50/50 and traffic is really high if you have nice content.

7. Hubpages – Hubpages are really hot these days and people use it too advertise because of high traffic probability. The concept of hubpages are very similar to squidoo, the only difference is that your pages are called Hubs. Adding adsense code is done by yourself and it’s relatively easy but you have to understand that you and hubpages share adspace so you might see your adsense ads or hubpages’ own ads.

RSS Desktop Reader to help you keep up to date.

Kyle — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:34:03 +0000

If you are having trouble on keeping up to date to the latest news on your favorite site then of course you gotta use the RSS feed of it. The only thing you have to do is use those free RSS aggregators around like Google reader, bloglines, etc. Now the problem is that you’ll be visiting those sites once in a while, checking if there’s something new. If you are the typical news fanatic who’s not that patient to not keeping up to date or the kind of a guy who’s playing mmorpgs waiting for the coolest item to be released in the game then SharpReader is the application that you should be keeping in your arsenal.

The simplicity of the application is just phenomenal. Just input the feed address and do some litte configurations then you can sit and relax. The only thing that doesn’t work for this one is that it only works in the Windows platform. You can freely download it at Luke Hutteman’s site and If you want to know some of it’s features here’s a list of it.

Handles all RSS versions, ATOM 0.3 and 1.0, modules like dublin core, content:encoding, xhtml:body, etc.
Advanced threading support allowing you to view connected items together in a threaded fashion. SharpReader detects and shows connections between items if they have same link, if one item links to another, if two items both link to the same external webpage, or if an item has comments (for feeds supporting the standard).
Group subscribed feeds into custom categories.
Feed settings like refresh-rate and purge timeout can be set per feed or per category. Category-wide settings apply to all feeds in that category that are still set to “Default” for the setting in question.
Dialog-less way of subscribing to new feeds – just drag a link from your browser into SharpReader, or enter the url into the address-bar at the top.
Feedster integration to easily search weblogs and newssites for specific terms, and even subscribe to such a search to be notified of new results.
Support for proxy-servers and proxy authentication.
Reduces bandwidth by using HTTP Conditional GETs and gzip/deflate encoding.
Minimizes to the system-tray.
Systray popup when new items arrive (can be disabled on a per-feed or per-category basis through the properties pane).
Easy keyboard navigation to go the next or previous unread item.
Import and export your subscriptions using OPML.
Filter items.
International Character-set support.
HTTP Authentication support.