Google Global

Google Global Firefox Extension V2

Whats New?

* View paid and organic search results as they appear in different cities.
* View paid and organic search results as they appear in different regions.
* Open all results from countries, cities and regions in multiple tabs for easy comparison.
* View paid and organic search results from a specific IP address.
* View paid and organic search results from any US ZIP code.
* View paid and organic search results from different language results pages.
* Custom advanced saved searches.
* Firefox V3 compatible

How to Test Your Blog Offline

Test Your Blog Offline: Install Wordpress on Your PC

- some great info from Rosalind Gardner.

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Hello and welcome to Retroogle

Retroogle: Hello and Welcome to Retroogle

- I just found this interesting site looking back to the early days of search engines.


As a contrast, have a try of Wolfram - it's a really new search site with a different way of doing things!

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Faster Blog loading

Image via CrunchBase

How can I make my blog load faster? - Blogger Help

The speed at which your blog loads is critical to attracting more readers to your blog. If your blog takes a long time to load, many readers may leave your blog before they have the chance to read it. Here are a few tips and tricks that will help your blog load faster and attract more users:

Posts

Your blog's load time can be affected by the number of posts you display on your main page. You can easily edit the number of posts displayed of the main page from the Settings | Formatting tab. You can then select the number of posts you want to display on the main page. We recommend displaying 10 or fewer posts on the main page.

Third Party JavaScript and Links

For optimal blog load speed, we recommend using Google/Blogger widgets, JavaScipt and links. However, if you need to use third party JavaScipt and links, your blog will load much faster if you put all JavaScript at the bottom of your blog. If you have third party JavaScript and links in your sidebar, put them in at the bottom of the sidebar.

Images and Media

The more images, videos and other multi-media you have on your blog the longer it will take to load. However, images and other multimedia are important to attracting users to your blog, so it is important to optimize the load speed of your images and media. Here are a few tips to increase the load speed of your media:

* Decrease the size of your images or use thumbnails that link to the full-size image.
* If you use third party images, consider uploading them to Picasa Web Albums via the Blogger post editor.
* If you have a large number of images to display, you can upload all your images (from a vacation or event) to a Picasa Web Album and link to the album in your post or sidebar.

Other suggestions

* If you've added any custom CSS to your blog, make sure you put it at the top of the page.
* The most important content of your blog that catches readers attention should load the quickest. To help you identify which items are taking the longest to load you can use Stopwatch. To use Stopwatch, enter your blog's URL into the text box and click "Start StopWatch". Stopwatch will then open your blog in a frame and will record the time it takes for everything on your blog to load, including images, videos, widgets, etc. Take note of the items that take the longest to load and modify them appropriately using our suggestions.

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Penzu - the Private Online Journal

Penzu : Free Private Journal and Diary

Penzu: The best free private journal on the web.


Start, Write Away!

Extremely fast, intuitive, and easy to use! No need to log in - get your thoughts out instantly and log in later to save to your account.

Penzu was designed as a private journal first. You can write freely and never worry that someone will read your entries.

Add images and bring your entries to life! With our unique image insertion, your pics won’t get in the way of your writing.

Want to share what you are thinking? Send your entries to others. And if you want to keep your identity a secret, just click Anonymous!

With instant filtering search, you can find what you are looking for as quickly and easily as a desktop application.

Never lose your entries again! Your work is saved as you type, so you never have to worry about saving.

Why Keep a Journal?

Live Longer......

The world’s oldest man, Tomoji Tanabe, still keeps a daily journal at 112 years of age. Could that be his secret?

Be Healthier......

Hundreds of studies have shown that regular expressive journal writing can improve your physical and mental well being.

Get Smarter......

Studies have also shown that keeping a journal can not only boost your “working memory” but your grades too.

Look Back into the Past.......

Crystalize moments and preserve your memories for ever. Look back into time and see what you were thinking!


A daily diary, expressive journal, and travel journal are just some of the ways you can record the story of your life.

Don’t know where or how to start? Having trouble writing? Visit our Getting Started guide to get some tips on journal writing.

Kurt Cobain, Anne Frank, Che Guevara, and Sylvia Plath are just some of the famous people who kept a journal. They left behind their life stories which have become international sensations.

Because of Anne Frank’s diary, we got a glimpse of life from a different perspective. Get inspired by excerpts from some of the greatest stories ever told.

Use Zemanta to enhance your blog

Zemanta is an interesting plugin for Firefox that finds content relevant to the post you are writing. You can then simply select and paste in the bits that you want, and they can be news stories, images, articles etc.
It will also suggest tags for your post, and works with Wordpress, Blogger, and Gmail. I have used it for this little post - and it can automatically add hyperlinks to keywords too!

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How To Get 52% Opt-In Page Conversion

Another gem from the Warrior Forum:

".....master copywriter Ray Edwards case study on "How did Frank Kern managed to get 52% opt-in page conversion for his website."

I've personally circled(green) the key points that Ray has identified as the secret of Frank's squeeze page




Here's why this page converts like crazy according to Ray:

1.The format of the webpage
2.The "hand written" arrow pointing down
3.No more NAME but ONLY email to join the list....."