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Pagerank Extension For Google Chrome

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Pagerank Checker is an extension for Google Chrome that shows the Google Pagerank of the current website.
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May 15th, 2009 at 7:24 am

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Three Tools To Track and Defeat Content Theft

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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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April 16th, 2009 at 1:30 pm

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Three Windows Live Writer Plugins That Could Replace Stand Alone Programs

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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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Written by Shankar Ganesh

April 8th, 2009 at 8:34 pm

How To Embed an RSS Feed On Your Website or Blog?

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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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June 9th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

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Top 7 Useful Adobe AIR Applications for Bloggers

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

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 15th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

Distraction-Free Writing Environment With Q10

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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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Written by Shankar Ganesh

April 14th, 2008 at 9:00 am

Post to Your Blog from Microsoft Office Word 2007

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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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March 29th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

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Optimize your Blog Post for Google – Tips that you might not have heard

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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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Written by Shankar Ganesh

January 25th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

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