Optimize Your Web » plugin http://www.optimizeyourweb.net enhancing your net experience Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:44:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Top WordPress Plugins http://www.optimizeyourweb.net/2008/10/25/top-wordpress-plugins/ http://www.optimizeyourweb.net/2008/10/25/top-wordpress-plugins/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:15:35 +0000 admin http://www.optimizeyourweb.net/?p=150 People have made wordpress plug ins for everything, but there are certain ones that every blog needs. The following plug ins are compatible with WordPress 2.6.1:

Askimet – http://akismet.com/ and use your WordPress API key http://wordpress.com/api-keys/
aLinks – http://alinks.headzoo.com/ – Automatically links keywords
All in One SEO Pack – http://semperfiwebdesign.com/ – Add SEO techniques to your blog. Change your settings once, get the benefit each time.
cforms – http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin
Google XML Sitemaps – http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/
Sociable – http://yoast.com/wordpress/sociable/
SRG Clean Archives – http://www.idunzo.com/projects/clean-archives/
**Replace Smart Archives on nickswitzer.net

Subscribe to Comments – http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/
WWW Redirect – http://www.justinshattuck.com/wordpress-www-redirect-plugin/
WP-Cumulus – http://www.roytanck.com/2008/03/15/wp-cumulus-released
or Another Tag Cloud Program

Optional Plugins
FlickrRSS – http://eightface.com/wordpress/flickrrss/
Exec-PHP – http://bluesome.net/post/2005/08/18/50/
LinkXL – http://www.linkxl.com/wp_plugin/ – for TLA

This is just a quick little list, if you have any questions or want some advice, please contact me.

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  • Aging Tabs – Makes unused tabs fade with age and highlights the selected tab.
    • Great for people who bog down their system with their endless tabbing and want a quick reference to see where they can free up some memory by closing an old tab.
  • Better Gmail - Enhances Gmail with a compilation of user scripts and styles.
    • If you use Gmail and Firefox then you must try this addon and get the most out of your Google mail.
  • ColorZilla – Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.
    • If you do any type of web design, photoshopping, or anything related, this addon will help you quickly grab any color from any picture or site.
  • Delicious Bookmarks - Access your bookmarks whenever you go and keep them organized.
    • This is a great addon for anyone who uses delicious bookmarks, which if you bookmark on multiple computers or want to share bookmarks with peers or friends, this is a must.
  • Download Statusbar - View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar.
    • If you are tired of having the default status window, this one is easily customizable to allow small notifications of downloads.
  • FireFTP – FTP client.
    • Enough said. Since Firefox does not render FTP connections correctly, this will do it for you.
  • IE Tab – Enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Firefox.
    • Great for those sites that were not optimized for Firefox or that require IE. I don’t enjoy those sites, but have this as a little work around. (An example is the stattracker program for Yahoo! Fantasy Sports).
  • SEO For Firefox – SEO Information inline with Google and Yahoo! search results.
    • Enabling this addon in the bottom right of your browser and do a search on google. This gives you all sorts of great information about the sites along with a Keyword analyzer.
  • User Agent Switcher – Adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser.
    • Can be used to hide your User Agent information that can be see in website analyzers such as Google Analytics. Also, you can pretend to be an indexing bot like GoogleBot and see if you can view some things only GoogleBot is supposed to see!
  • Web Developer – Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
    • You can see more things than you probably want to with this addon, such as css, image properties and lots more.
]]> http://www.optimizeyourweb.net/2008/09/15/top-firefox-plugins-addons/feed/ 2 How to Get Your Website or Blog Indexed http://www.optimizeyourweb.net/2008/08/27/how-to-get-your-website-or-blog-indexed/ http://www.optimizeyourweb.net/2008/08/27/how-to-get-your-website-or-blog-indexed/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:04:13 +0000 admin http://www.optimizeyourweb.net/?p=104 Needing to get your website indexed? Well below is a list of the top search engines and their corresponding urls to get your site submitted. While all of these allow you to manually ask to be indexed, the exact time of your index is not certain and it is also not certain whether manually adding your website will have it crawled faster. But it cannot hurt right?

Google

Google has the majority of the search market, so it should be number one on your list.  Click the follow link to submit your site to Google. http://www.google.com/addurl/

Yahoo

Next on the list of popular search engines is Yahoo!  They hold about 20% of the market compared to Google’s 65ish%.  But any avenue to get to your blog is a plus!  If you would like to get your website added to Yahoo! to get crawled by their robots, please visit the link http://submit.search.yahoo.com/

dmozAnother good site would be the Open Directory Project, also known as the dmoz!  For this one, you must navigate to the correct category that you would like your website added and then click “Suggest URL” at the top.  Click here to read about adding your site to the dmoz. http://www.dmoz.org/add.html

We can’t forget about the Giant software company now can we?  MSN has loyal followers and also has those that use hotmail for their personal email.  So make sure to also add your site to their submission form so it can be indexed also.  Use the link http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx

Alexa is a very good Web Information website that has a good way of analyzing websites similar to that of Google’s page ranking.  To get your site added to them, visit the following link: http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters.

Lastly, we need to have a sitemap already created.  We can do this with our blog by using the Google Sitemap plugin (which is one of the vital plugins we will see soon in the “Top WordPress Plugins” article).  It asks you to add it in what might be a confusing way, but I’ve provided an example.

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.the URL of your
sitemap here.xml

Example:
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.optimizeyourweb.net/sitemap.xml

After adding your site to each one of these, you should feel confident that they will soon be indexed by each and everyone one of the previous sites soon!  Once indexed, the only thing you should work on is relevant content!

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