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Do you Have problems getting your site indexed by search engines like google and yahoo ? vBulletin has a few small tweaks that if set correct, can make a significant difference in your search results. I’ve outlined a number of tweaks in the Tweak vBulletin for SEO category that will take you less then 1hr to edit.

Recently we’ve been working on a new project, it’s our Quality Link Directory. We’ve already added 300 back-links and are just waiting for the next google update. We’ve also been working on a new Pixel Page to help Support vBulletin Setup.

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Portable Bookmarks is a feature available for Windows where you can keep your bookmarks on a portable USB drive and then transfer or synchronise between any computers that you will be using. This software is a mobile version of the professional bookmarker Link Commander. The bookmark manager allows you to find your favourite sites no matter which computer you are using, it is all saved to the portable bookmark manager. Each bookmark is link verified and you can choose which browser you wish to use when you select the bookmark you wish to use. The portable bookmark manager comes with full UNICODE support and allows you to save your bookmarks in any language.

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The next Google PageRank update seems to be underway and you might be looking for some tools to check your pagerank. Well, I found DigPagerank, a PageRank checker tool. This is one great SEO tool which enables you to check your pagerank (PR) to over 700 different Google datacenters. It’s actually very easy to use. Just type the URL of the site you want and choose from which range of Google Datacenter IPs you want to check. One thing I liked about this tool is the way it displays the pagerank results which is AJAX-driven.

Visit the site at http://www.digpagerank.com/ and see for yourself.

After you’ve done some link building and SEO (search engine optimization) for your site, you may wonder how you can you can actually know and evaluate which sites has been linking to your site as far as the search engines are concerned. There actually tons of backlinks checker tools out there but i personally use BacklinkWatch. Using this tool you can check a complete details of links pointing to your site which is very important in determining the value of a link. Check results include information about the quality and quantity of your site’s backlinks and the anchor text link, pagerank, and total outgoing links from the page where your link is at. It also enables you to view which links contain the “nofollow” tag.

See the tool in action at http://www.backlinkwatch.com.

Yesterday, I was searching online on how to convert 3GP video to other format. 3GP or Third Generation Platform is a video format found on most camera phones. I wanted to convert these 3GP files on my phone so that I can just save them to my computer, play them with Windows Media Player and upload them later on to YouTube. I think I must have downloaded and tried 5 different media conversion tools before I found the one that would work for me. I found Deskshare’s Digital Media Converter which really does what it says. The program is actually very easy to use. With a simple easy-to-follow wizard, you can simply select the files or folders where your media files are located, choose the format you want them to be converted into, and just let the program do the conversion for you. Digital Media Converter v2.76 is a very powerful software which can save a lot of time and can do all the media conversion work for you. It can convert all the files in a single operation, unattended. The best thing about it is that it can convert a lot of different digital media from one format to the other. A Complete list of file formats it can support can be found at http://www.deskshare.com/dmc.aspx

Don’t take my word for it download the trial version and see if for yourself. The full version costs $39.95 USD only. It includes a lifetime technical support which is pretty neat. All registered users are also entitled for free program updates.

Digital Media Converter runs under Microsoft Windows platform including Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and the new Windows Vista.

Here’s is a wonderful Link Price Calculator you can use to estimate the price of a link from a particular site. If you are a webmaster and actively buying and selling links, this tool will help you determine the approximate price you should be paying(if you are buying links) or charging(if you are selling links) per month for a text link from a specified website.

This tool is very easy to use. Just type the url of the site and it will provide you a price estimate based on several factors like PageRank, Alexa Traffic Rank, Page Visibility, Yahoo! page backlinks, and Outboud links.

Visit http://directory.celebritycontest.net/link-price

A while back I was browsing the web for a good broken link checker and I came across a good one from Smackdebt. This link checker will scan all your pages for broken links and check your internal links, external links and also compute fetch time for all pages on your site which is important if you want to know how long it takes for your pages to load.

With this bad link checker, you will be able to find 404 errors, page not found errors as well as several other errors on your websites. The beauty of this link checker is the fact that it checks links site wide and not page by page. You do not have to install any software on your computer. All you do is enter your url and hit the submit button and the link checker will check for bad and broken links.

This free link checker will be able to find and process html links and display them with a neat layout. It takes the link spider several minutes to gather information from your website and display it meaningfully. If you have been exchanging links, at a glance you will be able to tell broken links and correct them before your rankings are hammered in Google.
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Flickr has been a favorite by many photographers and users alike not just for uploading photos but as a photo management and sharing application. It's a great tool for members to show off their photos to the world. With thousands of photos uploaded everyday, Flickr released "The Most Popular Cameras in the Flickr Community" gathered from members over the last year. According to Flickr, the most popular camera among Flickr members is the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT. Canon PowerShot SD400 is the most popular "point and shoot" camera and Sony Ericsson K750i is the most popular camera phone.

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I found this nice tool from PCNames.com. It looks like an AJAX-based domain checking tool. It can show you the availability of a domain instantly as you type. There's also the "whois" button next to the domain resuls that are unavailable so searchers can get more information.

Perfect Market Technologies, Inc., a Snap.com company, announced today a nice mouse-over widget, Snap Anywhere™, which enables readers to preview external sites.

PASADENA, CA – November 14, 2006 – Perfect Market Technologies, Inc., operator of Snap.com, today announced the immediate availability of Snap Anywhere™, a free set of services that deliver cutting-edge site preview and search capabilities to website owners, bloggers and web publishers looking to deliver a more informative and “sticky” user experience. Building on Snap.com’s innovative, visual approach to presenting web search results, the Snap Anywhere offering is comprised of two services – Snap Preview Anywhere™ and Snap Search Anywhere™.

Much like the Snap.com web search engine, Snap Preview Anywhere allows anyone visiting an enabled site to get an immediate glimpse of hyperlinked pages, without having to navigate away from the current page. Snap Search Anywhere gives visitors the ability to perform a Snap.com web search directly from an enabled page. Both offerings provide content publishers with a quick, easy and free way to retain site visitors while offering a much richer user experience.

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