Basic Web Tools

If you have a website, whether it be a wiki or a blog, etc., then you better go to the Google Webmaster Tool site and get to know how it will enhance your site. Why is it important? It makes your site more search-engine friendly (actually more Google-friendly).

Get Google’s view of your site and diagnose problems See how Google crawls and indexes your site and learn about specific problems we’re having accessing it.

Discover your link and query traffic View, classify, and download comprehensive data about internal and external links to your site with new link reporting tools. Find out which Google search queries drive traffic to your site, and see exactly how users arrive there.

Share information about your site Tell us about your pages with Sitemaps: which ones are the most important to you and how often they change. You can also let us know how you would like the URLs we index to appear.

If you haven’t been using this free feature, it’s time to head on over there.

Music based social networking site Imeem announced last Monday the acquisition of digital rights and content management company, SNOCAP. Their deal will provide Imeem access to SNOCAP’s content identification technology and digital registry, while expanding the tools available to artist and music labels. And together they would build on that work and would give independent artist’ new ways to promote and sell their music.

Third of a three-part post (doesn�t that sound like a movie?).

This is related to the second post but works mostly for sites that has subscribers such as e-zines and newsletters. In this case, instead of linking articles or posts to a partner, you go directly to advertising. Find another internet marketer with the same influences. If you�re marketing a Web tool site, then look for sites that complement your own. Send the web master an e-mail requesting each other�s solo ad. Once he or she agrees, you both then urge your respective readers and subscribers to subscribe to the other�s e-zine.

Source: MarkFlavinBlog

I just love open source!

And now, MTOS (Movable Type Open Source) is an open source project for a GPL-licensed version of Movable Type 4.0. It also serves a resource community for Movable Type developers.

Like the Movable type 4.0, MTOS will contain all its features plus some improvements and other bug fixes.

No worries on the themes, plug-ins, themes, templates, designs and API�s of the MT4 as they will all work with the MTOS.

Like most open source projects, MTOS has a reliable built-in support for an unlimited number of blogs and authors plus a sign-in with OpenID.

Technical support for MTOS is provided by community members.

Paid users of MT will enjoy more benefits added by Six Apart. These will include better technical support and custom add-ons like themes and plug-ins in the future.

MTOS can be downloaded at movabletype.org.

Source: Read/Write Web

Part two of three posts on marketing your website.

Consider your site as a business and get a partner. Going on a joint venture can provide double resources for both of your sites. You promote his site by linking to his or he can promote yours via the same thing. Both of you can come up with other ways on how to do this. This ensures that if a user out there visits either of your site, then it is a certainty that the other also gets one. Yes, even the Web is a cut throat business so it is wise to remember to maintain good relations.

Source: MarkFlavinBlog

Sure all you have is a personal website, but let�s face it. The reason why you made one, is to make it public � so that other people can know about you (or a make believe you). If this is the case, then why not widen your readership? A little marketing can sure help.

One of the simplest things you can do is to write articles. If you�re a prolific blogger with a lot things to say about any topic under the sun, then this should be easy for you. Submit your articles to article archives and directories and link them to your site. By doing this you can make your site widely known (not to mention huge traffic on your site).

Source: MarkFlavinBlog

Yep there is such a thing as a psychology of colors. It mostly practiced in commercial establishments such as supermarkets and restaurants. For example, the reason why those popular fast food chains choose yellow, orange, and red for their color theme is because those colors make you hungry! Hmm� if this is the case, then why not employ the same science to your own Web site?

Here�s the color code which you can mix and match:

White: Easy on the eyes, perfection, peace, purity, sense of professionalism
Red: warmth, hunger, and excitement
Yellow: Happiness, vibrant
Green and blue: Calmness, content
Black, brown, grey: Serious, Somber

Source: Free Webmaster Tools