SEO for Blogs
There are plenty of articles on search engine optimization for websites but here’s one that deals with SEO techniques specifically geared to bloggers who want to blog as a business.
Archive for October, 2008
Run your own ad server
If you want to sell ads on your website you might be interested in OpenX. Here’s what the excellent DownloadSquad.com had to say about it.:
OpenX is an open source ad server that you can install on a web server to provide a complete ad management package for your web sites. The software lets you create entries for advertisers, ad zones, and campaigns. You can also apply a whole slew of filters that will do things like show one ad to a visitor in the US and another ad in the same spot to a visitor from Germany.
Crop, resize and batch process your Jpegs
This great freeware application helps you crop as many images as you’d like, all at once
Go through an album of images, crop or rescale them as you want them to appear and let it do the work for you.
They also claim that there is there is no quality loss from re-compression as it doesn’t re-compress it.
Flowplayer Flash movie player
Flowplayer is a very nice, free and fully customizable Flash player.
Some of it’s features, from the site:
Progressive downloading, server side streaming, long play features, playlists, hardware accelerated fullscreen mode … Everything you’ll need to provide rich user experience.
Real time domain search
Domize is a very fast real time domain search that shows available URLS related to what you type in as you type it.
Web Portfolio
Indxr is a free and very clean looking PHP web portfolio with an online admin panel to easily manage your media.
Configurable interactive maps
Fantastic configurable and clickble interactive Flash maps. Choose a map (world, continents, countries, etc.) and configure the data to overlay any information or links you choose.
From the site:
DIY Map is a clickable, zooming map written in Flash and colored by data from an external text file.
The external data file makes it easy to customize and update state colors, add points, and use the same Flash file many times in the same Web page with different data sets.
