Showing posts with label Tools and Services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tools and Services. Show all posts

November 2, 2012

Analyze and Manage Your Twitter Followers with Tweepi




Are you on Twitter? Technically, Twitter is a micro-blogging platform to communicate and engage with others people on the platform. Generally, we use Twitter to tweet 'cause tweets can't tweet on elsewhere though some social networks starting to follow Twitter techniques on their platforms too ;) I'm just kidding.







October 18, 2012

Report Low Quality Backlinks to Your Website with Google Disavow Links Tool




Have you heard of the term "Backlinks" or "Inbound Links"? They has the same meaning. Backlinks are incoming links aka hyperlinks to your web pages. For example, if someone adds a hyperlink on their article which points to one of your blog posts, then he/she linking back to your page. Simply, it makes a connection with your blog. Usually, we mention a link in a blog, website, forum or whatever web page if it's important to the topic we have been talking or like to recommend it for visitors. Aren't we?







October 8, 2012

Use Images to Find Information on the Web with Google Image Search




Would you agree if I say Internet itself is a information resource? The Internet is build up of interconnected networks connecting billions of users worldwide. As Internet flooded with information, unlike searching information on a book, finding information throughout the Internet is a very, very and very difficult task. How do you find information on the Internet? That's where Search Engines start to play the main role of the story. We all familiar with search engines and use to find information everyday. Basically, to find information, you would enter some relevant keywords or terms in the search box and hit enter waiting for matching search results to explore and find the necessary details you need to find. What if you wanna search details of an image you have seen on somewhere or stored in your computer?







September 10, 2012

How to Set Up Google Analytics for Your Website




Would you mind researching about your visitor preferences? I mean user tracking. Well, if you are think about what pages attract most of your visitors, it will help you in future to decide which topics, content, products or services can grab more attention when introducing new products, services or when generating fresh content to grab more user attention. In that case, statistics of your site visitors can be really helpful. Most probably you would like to know how many of people exploring your pages.







September 8, 2012

Learn Web Development Technologies Yourself at W3Schools




What you have been doing online? Probably, you have been looking out for news, doing shopping and general stuff online. But it's quite different if you are a blogger or person deals with the back end of a website. There you need to be knowledgeable in web design and development technologies. If you are really into web designing and development, or made the choice to start your career in that pathway, you may have enough knowledge about them. But if you are a newbie to web, how do you gonna start with?







September 3, 2012

Share Your Computer Screen Instantly with Screenleap




Have you ever wanted to share your computer screen with your friends? You can find many different kind of software tools to share your screen with your friends or someone else. Yeah, it's that simple. But when it comes to sharing screen, mostly, both parties need to have same software tool installed on their computers. So, it may need some time to prepare, complete initial requirements and setting up. But what if you can share your computer screen with friends instantly without installing any software tools?







August 30, 2012

Find How Many Fake Followers You Have on Twitter with Fake Follower Check




Are you on Twitter and rocking with other tweeps you follow or followed by? Twitter is a place where anyone can follow you unless you protected your tweets. It doesn't matter if the followers count on your Twitter account goes higher and higher everyday, isn't it? It means you are being more popular and others would love to see what are you tweeting all day along. Probably, you may right about the attitude of being followed by many number of people. But it's another aspect of the story. Do you know what's the other side of the same story?







August 24, 2012

How to Add a Feedback Tab for Your Website with Get Satisfaction



This tutorial only applicable for Get Satisfaction's legacy application.


If you believe in what you are good at in business, you will enjoy serving your readers or customers with your whole heart. If you are an individual managing the site, your website structure, design and content depends on your own preferences. Even if it's managed by a team, it will take the collaborative approach. Mostly your changes will depend on the intuition, knowledge, sense and ideas or feedback you get from the end users.







August 8, 2012

Shorten and Track Your Links with Google URL Shortener




How do you share content found on a website or blog? Mostly you don't wanna copy and paste whole bunch of content you find in the source page. However you can do that if you share via email. But rather than sending content, you would prefer to share link or URL of the source content. If you are sharing links on micro-blogging sites such as Twitter, sharing whole link won't leave you much room to include your intended message as they impose character limitations in messages. Well, you can't send an URL partially. What if you can shorten the URL you sharing into few characters and able to find how many of users actually clicked on your shared link?







July 27, 2012

3 Great Twitter Stats to See How Effective Your Twittering Is




You can spend a lot of time on Twitter but how effective is that time being spent? There are many ways to analyze your twitter stats but what ways are the most effective?  There are over 50+ ways to analyze your Twitter stats but do you need all 50? Of course not, I have gone through them to pick out the best FREE ones available for you.







July 17, 2012

How to Configure Google Services for Your Domain with Google Apps



Google no longer offers free Google Apps accounts, but paid solutions.


Do you have your own registered domain for your blog or website? Having a registered domain matters as it increase visibility and identity of your brand online. When you purchase a domain name, you will get few services along with the domain name you prefer too. A few personalized email accounts, extra storage, website creation tools, online photo album are some cool features available in domain registration packages. If you need more features, you will have to pay for them. What if you can get some additional features / services for no cost?







June 29, 2012

How to Add a Contact Form to Your Website with ContactMe



ContactMe has been shut down.


If you have a blog or website, you know that the interaction between you and your visitors can bring new opportunities. In general, people love to know who's behind the blog or website, and likes to inquire or provide feedback. If your blog or website is representing a business, brand or organization, providing a way to contact is essential. Do you have a contact page implemented for your readers or customers to contact you?







June 19, 2012

Drive Traffic and Get Insights for Content Being Copied on Your Website with Tynt Publisher Tools




The content you publish on your blog or website can be really helpful. I know, your content matters most to you too. Your blog / website visitors interact with your content and when they find them interesting, they will go extra mile and share it with their friends and followers too. Talking about sharing, you may have implemented sharing tools to make sharing easy. As it link back to your original content page, it helps you to get more visitors on your content.






June 6, 2012

How to Configure Your FeedBurner Settings




Have you heard of blog or website feeds? Mmmm... I hope most of you know and using FeedBurner to manage your raw site feed. It's the reason you wanna know more about FeedBurner settings and stop by here, right? However every website doesn't publish a site feed, but mostly blogs do publish feed automatically.






June 3, 2012

How to Create an Online Support Community with Get Satisfaction



Get Satisfaction no longer offers new free support communities.


While managing a blog / website, you have to interact with your visitors. They can be readers, potential customers and so on. It doesn't matter what type of content, product or service you deliver. In order to improve the satisfaction of your users / customers, you have to provide a way for them to contact you, for any assistance, inquiries or to gather user feedback. Have you thought about it?






May 31, 2012

How to Find Best Times to Tweet with Tweriod




How are you getting on with Twitter? I hope you almost familiar with the popular micro-blogging website and been sending tweets around. Yet you might have noticed that Twitter stream flowing pretty faster and tweets get buried very quickly. Do you think your tweets reaching out most of your followers?







May 24, 2012

How to Translate Your Website with Google Translate




How many people are on your blog or website right now? All the readers visit your site may have similar interests and with the intention of making use of your blog or website. Absolutely, you may try to write in your native language or if you think beyond, you will come up with an international language as your site language. But do you know how many of them comfortable with your language used in your blog or website? Some may just leave your site just because of the language. You can track your visitors by region and offer same content in different languages if you wish to. But it may need more effort and that may consume lot of time for you. However don't do it. I don't think anyone will try it too. Due to language differentiation, some people may not able to make use of your site though you have got very useful information. Wouldn't you mind offering your content in their preferred language?







May 18, 2012

Translate Your Blog into Different Languages with Google Translate in Blogger




What is your native language? It could be English, French, Sinhala (which is mine) or any other language you speak. When it comes to blogging, you can write your posts using a preferable language after deciding your audience. But if you are not good with languages, you have to write using a language you speak. Else as you address people around the world, mostly you may try to be fair and come up with an international language to be convenient with most of your readers. But with or without your knowledge, some people still doesn't go easy with it. Not every person good at every language. In such a scenario, would you mind make use of a translation service for your blog?







May 16, 2012

How to Filter Inappropriate Web Content with OpenDNS




You and I both know Internet is not a safe place even we spend most time on it everyday. Some of us just use Internet to pass time with friends and family, another may research and make use it for study purposes and most of people today define it as their livelihood. What else can you think of? I can't imagine or count how many opportunities it has made for people. It's amazing. Now it's just not a resource for people as it has already embedded with human lives. However as you surf through Internet you have to concern about your privacy and security. We have already discussed about web browser applications that helps you to improve privacy. Internet is consist of different types of websites. As you surf Internet, you might never wanna land on what you call "crappy" websites or wanna get rid of them as much as possible. However you don't have authority to remove such websites exist on the web. But would you like to filter or block them to prevent landing on them even mistakenly?







May 10, 2012

Analyze Your Website Performance with Google PageSpeed Online




If you are managing a blog or website, one of your goal would be providing a better user experience for visitors land on your pages. It may cope with many different activities on the aspect of webmasters, such as generating quality content or offering useful products, designing and styling pages with HTML and CSS, adding relevant gadgets or widgets useful for readers, displaying relevant advertisements or so on. Further you will add more scripts such as to track users to forecast strategies and identify user preferences. However as you add more and more styles, scripts, widgets on your pages, soon they will get heavy and happen to load slowly than ever before. Now you know what I'm talking about. Your page performance will be decreased and it will occur bad user experience for visitors. Would you like to get rid of unnecessary stuff on your pages and improve site performance?