Uppity is a FireFox extension that allows to go up one directory level in the URL of a webpage. This way it allows to do “reversed” browsing: from the deep page to the home page. How can this tool turn
Tags:extensions, folder, list, research, search-engine, seo, tool, toolbar, usability, userFor those who value Google’s often delayed toolbar pagerank, Google is giving you all a nice New Year’s Eve present – the annual page rank update. It seems Google is now making this an annual gig as it also made a toolbar pagerank update the same time last year. Let’s see now, the last time Google had a Toolbar PageRank update was last October . So it looks like a New Years 2010 pagerank update is just about the right time since many site owners are probably expecting it to kick off their New Year 2010. So, with that I’m officially greeting you all – Happy New Year. May all our sites’ PageRank reach new heights next year! But for SEO workers, we all know that Toolbar PageRank is not really that relevant anymore because this page rank is oftentimes delayed and does not really give site’s real-time page rank. But if you still value the Toolbar PageRank, check out your site’s page rank now and see if it got bumped up. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Toolbar PageRank Updating for New Years
Tags:2010-pagerank, annual, google-toolbar, often-delayed, real-time-page, search engine news, search-engine, seo, toolbar, toolbar-page, tools, update-the-sameThe order of battle for Google this week seems to be on URL shorteners. This has been quite a trend on Twitter and Facebook with various third-party URL shortener sites offering this kind of service. But while others offer it as a stand-alone service, Google is taking the URL shortening thingie on a different approach – via Feedburner and Google Toolbar . As mentioned by the a post from the Official Google Blog , Google’s URL Shortener is offering a service based on the following: Stability: Google’s scalable, multi-datacenter infrastructure provides great uptime and a reliable service to our users. Security: As we do with web search, shortened URLs are automatically checked to detect sites that may be malicious and warn users when the short URL resolves to such sites. Speed: At Google we like fast products and we’ve worked hard to ensure this service is quick. We’ll continue to iterate and improve the speed of Google Url Shortener. To use Google’s URL Shortener, you need to have either Google Toolbar. When you share a website or blog via the Toolbar and you selected Twitter, the link will automatically be shortened when posted as a tweet. It works similar to other URL shortener that you have already used in Twitter before. The shortened URL always begin with “http://goo.gl/” For Feedburner, the URL shortener feature offers something else aside from letting you share links. You can try this out by going to Feedburner Publicize Tab’s Socialize service. Then add the Twitter account to which you would like to post items from your Feed. After doing this, you can either start sharing all your feeds to Twitter or customize which feeds you want to share to Twitter and how exactly you want them to look like when you send them as a tweet. Google said that URL shortener is currently being tested yet. Hence it was rolled out as a feature of Google Toolbar and Feedburner. But they are planning to make it available as a stand-alone product once they’ve proven it to be useful. I’m pretty sure it will soon be available on a wider audience pretty soon. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Introducing Google’s Own URL
Tags:customize-which, facebook, feedburner, google-toolbar, official-google, search engine news, search-engine, seo, shortener, taking-the-url, toolbar, tools, twitterThis could be Bing’s last hurrah for the year, as Microsoft launches Bing Maps in beta while at the same time announces a new Bing mobile app, a new toolbar and a visual search experience in the coming days. While all these new features seem pretty exciting, Bing Maps beta which runs on Microsoft’s Silverlight looks to be the most promising. Feature-rich Bing
Tags:Business, facebook, microsoft, mobile, search engine news, search-engine, seo, silverlight, toolbar, visual-searchHave you ever heard about microformats? If you still need someone to clearly explain what it is about, check out Joe Hall ’s post on development trends that will impact SEO . Microformats look for a new way to format markup languages. Essentially, they offer a new standard for identifying important information. There’s one really nice FireFox addon that uses Microformats to analyze the page content: “ Operator ” is an extension for Firefox that adds the ability to interact with semantic data on web pages, including microformats, RDFa and eRDF. It can turn really useful for spotting the essential microformats used on the page. Once you install it, you’ll be able to see the toolbar that can be toggled using View > Toolbars > Operator Toolbar . (Useful tip: To make the tool hassle-free, find the checkbox in Options that causes the toolbar to auto-hide when there is no data on the page). The toolbar breaks data found on a page into the following sections: Contacts; Events; Locations; Tagspaces; Bookmarks; Resources. Here are a few examples of what each section stands for: 1. Try visiting your Twitter profile page. The tool will extract your contacts: 2. Now, go to Delicious home page and watch the tool extract all tags (you can search each tag on Flickr, Delicious, Technorati, etc): The tool offers a few really cool features: Its “Highlight” feature allows you to find the tag by choosing it in the drop-down; The operator can be accessed via the status bar icon (the button can be added via the Operator options dialog. Check the box that says “Display icon in status bar”) or the toolbar bar icon (The Operator toolbar button can be added to your Firefox toolbar by selecting View > Toolbars > Customize). You can add or delete data formats to be displayed. In the Operator options panel, there is a Data Formats tab. This tab has a listbox that contains all the data formats that will be displayed. You can use the New button to add data formats and the delete button to remove them. You can also change the order in which the data formats are displayed. You can also add or remove actions taken for each data format. In the Operator options panel, there is an Actions tab. This tab has a listbox that contains all the actions that will be displayed. You can check or uncheck the checkbox to determine what actions are displayed in the Operator menus. You can also install user scripts to add optional functionality. The tool was reviewed under SEJ policy . Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Interact with On-Page Semantic Data with Operator FireFox
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