Website Load Speed
Check and compare website load speeds. This site, Webmasterkit.info apparently only beats not for profit websites in speed but still beats e-bay in load time. Add as many websites as you’d like, one per line.
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Archive for January, 2009
101 Ways to Improve Your Web-Presence
Some tips are better than others but overall it’s a useful checklist
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Build a Clickmap to Track Clicks
Learn how to create a click map (or download the files) showing where people clicked on a webpage
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Get More Traffic to Your Blog
Starting a website is just the first step and probably the easiest. Now you need visitors, this is the hard part.
Here’s a very good article covering some of the best ways to get traffic to your site. There are no quick ways to get and keep visitors but by following as many of the tips in this article you will be off to a good start.
A chance popular posting to a social networking site could bring hundreds of visitors in a few days, but to build up a good stream of regulars can easily take a year or more so be sure to love what you blog about.
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SEO Cheat Sheet
Above you will see one panel from the SEO (search engine optimization) cheat sheet PDF available from seomoz.org
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Domain Name Generator
Enter a prefix, suffix, minimum and maximum length and this webtool will tell you what names are available. Admittedly, most of them will be useless, but in the above example, had smartlearner.com been taken, smartslearner.com would be a pretty good substitute URL.
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Create an Online Poll
Easy-poll gives you an easy way to create online polls. They promise that “Everything on our offer is completely free of charge ! No banners and visible advertising !”
From the site:
A simple and brief sign-up procedure.
Two sorts of polls: a yes or no poll and a multiple-choice poll.
Professional and always free questionnaires.
Technical support.
