Here are some interesting names that came up in today’s drop list, get them while they’re hot – dictionary word domains today, folks!
If you’re running a tight schedule, publishing-wise, and you need your RSS feed to reflect the actual timeline of the release of your articles, FeedBurner might seem to lag somtimes. Other reasons you might need to make FeedBurner update quickly are for podcast feeds, feeds being used for alerts or notifications … I’m sure you know better than me what you want to use it for!
This is because, by default, FeedBurner pings your feed on a 30 minute interval. In order to increase this interval, you must direct FeedBurner to do so. Navigate to the Ping FeedBurner submission form and enter your FeedBurner feed URL; FeedBurner will immediately synchronize with your actual feed and continue on with a much more real-time watch on it.
How to increase conversions in just 45 minutes!
Redesigning a website, or even a single page, can be a tedious and time-consuming process. Re-opening a project that you so happily completed can take major mental willpower. However, improving a website doesn’t need to take weeks, or even days. I’m a believer in baby steps: making incremental progress, small victories, minor adjustments with big results.
Using microformats to improve local SEO performance.
Microformats are gaining popularity, and if you’re not using them, you should be. Google’s introduction of Rich Snippets in May 2009 is just another indication that microformats will continue to gain popularity. And as more sites make use of this structured content, small businesses can capitalize on the use of microformats to help feed relevant information about their business to other websites by using microformats.
Employing the 80/20 mantra for increased effectiveness.
By doing an 80-20 optimization of your website — whittling your pages down to the 20% of things that produces 80% of the results — you’ll not only have a simpler site that’ll convert better, but you’ll have less work in developing and managing it since there’ll be less to think about.
Analyzing your reach and traction has become job one in the social universe as pretty much everyone and their grandmother sign up for the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and now Google Plus. (Yes, my grams is on Google Plus.) So how do you stay on top? Well, for a quick overview of your social metrics, you can use the Wildfire webapp, which offers a myriad of features at just a few keystrokes and/or clicks.
Measure Your Performance
Use the Wildfire Social Media Monitor to glean insights about the growth of your social media fanbase on the leading social networks. With daily tracking, you have visibility into growth trends small and large.
Track Your Competitors
No company is an island. Gauge your social media success against others in your industry by comparing your follower bases across the leading social networks. Quickly find out if you’re gaining traction or leaving your competitors in the dust.
Receive Alerts
Whether you’re just starting out or already an expert in social media, Wildfire’s alert system will inform you of meaningful trends and activity that’s relevant to your social presence.
TIMELY.IS is an amazing new Twitter application that analyzes your most recent tweets (well, the last 199 of them, to be exact) and measures them against the retweet rate of your followers to give you a statistical analysis of what YOUR best “Tweeting Times” are throughout the day. It compares both native and classic retweets as well, if you’re aiming to acquire one type of status forwarding or the other.
You’ve probably seen the Google Plus One button (a button that allows users with a Google account to instantly recommend a website’s content to their social network) fairly often in your daily internet dealing the past month as Google has been rolling it out on their own and select partner websites; but this week it spread like wildfire after Google went public and started to allow webmasters to place it on their own websites.
Google Plus One was launched with AddThis, the social bookmarking scriptlet that is a must have for any webmaster nowadays. In order to add it to your existing AddThis setup, you need to add the addthis_button_google_plusone (google_plusone for those using the WordPress plugin) to your configuration. It’s early enough to take advantage of the bandwagon as the use of Google Plus One continues to spread virally.
Read more about the Google Plus One Button or install the Plus One scriptlet on your website!
We recently made a change to the Remove URL tool in Webmaster Tools to eliminate the requirement that the webpage’s URL must first be blocked by a site owner before the page can be removed from Google’s search results. Because you’ve already verified ownership of the site, we can eliminate this requirement to make it easier for you, as the site owner, to remove unwanted pages (e.g. pages accidentally made public) from Google’s search results.
Once you’ve requested to have a URL removed from the search engine’s result pages, your account will be flagged for a 90 day grace period, during which you can revoke the removal request. Google will continue to spider your website but not display it in results page during this period.
For permanent removal, you must ensure that one of the following page blocking methods is implemented for the URL to be removed:
For more information, read more about Easier URL Removals on Google Webmaster Central.
If you’re between a rock and a hard place coming up with a name for your brand, product, or website, why not let it be auto generated? Is your business name memorable enough to survive a nipple pinch? I don’t know, but Name 5 Fish sure as hell has a solid, SEOable domain name.
While definitely not considered a best practice, and it is definitely looked at as not the whitest of hat by some, the technique of breaking out of the Google Images “frame” (modal window over your website showing just the image) and showing the entire content of your website is becoming more and more popular. I’m going to say it’s OK, since both Facebook and Google employ this technique.
If you find yourself with the need to implement a frame breaker (which does work on “frames” from other websites, such as HootSuite and Digg) it’s fairly simple, you just need to add the following JavaScript code to your <head> tag:
<script type='text/javascript'>if (window != top) top.location = self.location</script>
Unless you happen to think of a bad-ass domain name (that is still available for registration) by yourself, the best chance you have of getting a rock solid domain name, for use or sale/trade, is to watch recent domain expiration lists. More specifically, the daily domain expiration lists. I’m not talking about The Domain Name After Market from GoDaddy, where increased interest in a domain name usually results in the non-acquisition of said domain name. I’m talking about drop lists from registrars of domains that are actually expiring and are available for immediate registration through whichever registrar you please. Searching for and through these domain expiry lists can be a bit meticulous, though, so I’ve compiled a resource of links that you can bookmark and save for future reference.
Expired Domain Name Search Engines & Dump Lists
Curated Periodicals of Expired Domain Names
Do you curate a periodical list of expired domain names or know of a good expired domain name search engine to add to this list? Message me on Twitter, my handle is @typelife.
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