Killer Tech Tips

Pagerank Checker is an extension for Google Chrome that shows the Google Pagerank of the current website.
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As more and more blogs come into existence, an increasing number of scraper sites are created to grab our content with an intention to make some quick money. It is important to deal with online plagiarism by tracking and shutting down such scraper sites immediately so as to prevent them from getting high SERP positions. Here are three tools that might help:

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If you’ve been blogging for quite a while, you should of heard of Windows Live Writer, a desktop blogging client from Microsoft that lets you manage and post stuff to your blog easily. It’s a hell of an app for bloggers, and it is a big productivity booster. There are plenty of plugins available for Windows Live Writer as well. They can be used to add new functions to the already powerful Windows Live Writer.

Let’s take a look at some Windows Live Writer plugins that could replace some standalone programs. These plugins may not stand up to the features offered by their equivalent standalone counterparts, but they do the simple tasks pretty quickly and effectively.

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This little site up at Muzicons.com lets you upload your favourite song in MP3 format, and create a widget that can stream it over to your blog’s visitors. Just upload your MP3 song, customize the looks of the MP3 widget and choose an icon to portray your emotion or feelings. That’s about it. Not much of a productivity thing really, but it’s a little tool to add some fun and emotion to your personal blog or website. Visit Muzicons

Google AJAX Feed API seems to be the quickest way to embed an RSS Feed to your website or blog. Embedding the RSS Feed is quick and simple if you use that tool, and it should just take a few seconds for you to do that.

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Bloggers are probably going to love this tool. It’s a bit addictive, and does its job perfectly. FeedCompare.com lets you compare FeedBurner subscriber numbers of up to four blog feeds in a row.

Just go to the site, and key in your blog feed’s URL and those of your competitors, and it’ll show you a neat graph listing the growth in FeedBurner subscribers of your blog feed against others. You can compare the stats for a month till two years.

Please note that you should have the FeedBurner Awareness API enabled for your feed so that the tool can access the stats.

Visit FeedCompare

This is a guest post by technology blogger Rakshit Khare from Aarambh.

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This is a guest post by Sumesh (see end of this post for details about him)

Writing quickly and efficiently (without compromising on quality) is one of the challenges that every writer faces (blogger in this specific example). Computers can be notorious in causing distractions, what with all the hundreds of desktop applications, various websites/services and music.

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While browsing around the menus in Office Word 2007, I stumbled upon the ‘Publish’ option, and I was thrilled! Well, it’s actually possible to publish to your WordPress blog from Microsoft Word 2007 itself. That is so cool! And it’s not just WordPress, supported platforms include Blogger, SharePoint, Windows Live Spaces, TypePad, etc.
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Hey, what’s more exciting than getting huge organic traffic from Google and other search engines to your blog? Every other day, you write posts. Not every post gets noticed. Not every post is picked up by Google. Not every post gets the fame it deserves.

Here are some tips to optimize your blog post a bit for search engines if you’re looking for driving some traffic from Google and other crawlers. Try these, some day one of your posts will drive tens of hundreds of visitors via organic searches.

Though I’m not an expert in SEO, I can give you a few tips based on what I’ve learnt in the last year of blogging. Here we go!

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