This amazing free SEO analysis website deserves more than just a feeble fleeting tweet lost among all those 500 lb. canaries on Twitter. The mostly nontechnical website owners in our local Etailing group really liked it. Why? Because it not only flags SEO issues, but it tells you in non geek what you can do . . . → Read More: SEO Automatic: awesome free SEO analysis
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I was recently reading Guy Kawasaki’s blog post on how he uses Twitter. I was thinking, sure, Twitterfeed is great because it tweets my blog posts as me, but it would be even nicer if my awesome readers had a button to tweet my blog post as them in one click, i.e. without the brain . . . → Read More: When Monkeys Fly Out My A$$ OR My TweetThis Hack  22 comments - (Comments are closed)  Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security, Monetizing  automate, bird, dorkage, flying monkeys, followers, Guy Kawasaki, hack, kadavy, monkeys, monkeys fly out my ass, orifice, plugin, Richard X Thripp, slideshare, tweet, tweet this, twitter, twitter replies, twitterfeed, Wordpress { “pipe_id”: “52c9a16ff593ec43760f996b6e6b5a16”, “width” : “490px”, “height” : “400px” } This is a yahoo pipe that gets fed my twitter name, goes to the public twitter feed, finds my “friends” who have provided geographical locations, and uses that data to map them. Yahoo pipes are amazingly visual ways to build mashups. If you don’t . . . → Read More: Map Your Tweeple (twitter friends) Comments are closed Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff Andy Murd, badge, blog, embed, feed, followers, friends, georss, javascript, map, mashups, password, pipes, third party, tweeple, twitter, username, visual, yahoo pipes I found this dancer somewhere. Look at her. Do you think she is going clockwise or anti-clockwise? Can you make it go either way? Can you do it at will? Or do you think the animation actually reverses (maybe even randomly with a bunch of tricky backend wizardry?) What it is supposed to mean: . . . → Read More: Right Brain or Left Brain or do you care? 14 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Multimedia animation, BRAIN, clockwise, computer tricks, dancer, left brain, perception, reversal, right brain, silhouette Here’s an interesting little very soft-core bit of geekery: Typealizer.com. Toss the URL of any blog or twitter profile into it and it analyzes the writing and tells you what type the author is. According to Typealyzer my twitter stream is ISTP, while both this blog and my food blog come out ESTP. According to . . . → Read More: Typealyzer — Psyche out that blog 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies analyze, artifact, dominant tendency, extrovert, feeler, INTP, introvert, intuitive, ISTP, judger, Meyers, myers briggs instrument, Myers-Briggs, perceiver, personality, profile, scales, sensor, stream, tendencies, test, thinker, twitter, Typealizer One of my web developer friends evolved her own custom CMS several years ago, when there the opensource CMS’s (a la Drupal, Joomla, et al) were not nearly as good as they are now. In the past few years many of her clients have wanted to start blogs. Writing her own blogging module seemed a . . . → Read More: Using Blogger as a front end Comments are closed Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff blog, Blogger, blogspot blog, cacheing, client, CMS, content, dashboard, database, Drupal, homespun, local, module, multi-user, multiple, opensource cms, PHP, placeholder, reinvent the wheel, server, styles, template, update, web developer, web interface, Wordpress, Wordpress MU A truly creative piece of Youtubery. And come on, this is very very geeky, and the geek actually has a nice voice! 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Humor, Geek Stuff, Multimedia a capella, CA, creative piece, geek, geeky, John Williams, nice voice, star wars, tribute, youtube This post is pretty far out in left field, as were regular UPC bar codes when they were originally developed. Did you know many Nokia mobile devices come with a 2-D barcode reader? . . . → Read More: 2-D Barcodes for your mobile device 16 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff, Hacking and Security, Multimedia 2-dimensional bar codes, bar codes, barcode reader, barcode scanner, cell, code readers, crossword puzzles, ecard, format, hand held scanners, linear code, mobile, mobile device, nokia, opensource code, scanner, shirt, ticket, ticket business, UPC, upc bar codes, upc codes, validation Just having some fun with the morph generator at St. Andrews. I fed it a picture in of one of the coolest people in the galaxy, and look what it did. That first one is supposed to be a baby–EEK! it looks like Chuckie — where did they get that other row of teeth!!! . . . → Read More: Morph your face into something else 7 comments - (Comments are closed) Fun Web and Blog Goodies, Geek Stuff, Multimedia african, baby, child, east asian, face, images, morph, photo, racial, St. Andrews, teenager, west asian |
Not all dofollows are created equal
I comment on plenty of of blogs. I never noticed my comments scoring me serious incoming links on my WP dashboard, even from so-called “dofollow” blogs. That’s what dofollows are meant to do — increase your incoming link count, and ultimately bump your Google PR.
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