Those web sites that highlight some terms to give you little micro-web site pop ups that describe what that word is about are pretty cool. Butns is a service that will enable you to do the same in a number way different ways.
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Use Google Docs for Easy Site Form Management
Did you know you can make a pretty good web site form with Google Docs? I have done so with both my Web Hosting Show ask a question page, and also the Web Hosting Show’s web hosts on Twitter page too.
How can you do the same?
Tried of Search Engines? Try a Find Engine!
Tired of using your classic search engines? InstaFound claims to be able to remove the search from the search engines out there. How is this done? It helps you avoid the time wasting you do now with regular searching by taking you to the page you are looking for right off the bat.
So how does it work? The InstaFound web site works by taking content from sites like Google, Yahoo, Bing and more and combines each result to give it a site score. It then uses the best score to decide which page they should show you.
Free Google Analytics Training from Google
Want to learn how to use Google Analytics better?
While checking out what it takes to become an authorized Google Analytics consultant, I stumbled across a series of videos online that anybody can use to get to know their own Google Analytics account a little better.
I am still debating if I will or if I will not take the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) test, however it is good to know these tutorials are here for people in the world who just want to become a more knowledgeable Google Analytics user.
How the Internet Works Wallpaper
Ever forget how the Internet works?
Now you can be reminded every single day, thanks to this wallpaper from VladStudio.com.
The Real Secret to Tech Support
Having worked in the world of support for many years, this “cheat sheet” just made me giggle. The xkcd web comic series has pretty much hit the mark when it comes to how you can really solve 95% of the problems out there.
Get Clicky – An Alternate Web Analytics Suite
I have to say, I really love my Google Analytics, however, with that said Clicky web analytics does look like a pretty sweet competitor. They give you the chance to monitor, analyze, and react to your blog or web site’s traffic in real time.
Playing with the demo, you can see that the interface is much better looking than anything else out there in the web analytics market.
If you want to check out how it compares to “the other guys” they have a nice table to help you do that too. Some of the things it has that others do not include:
- Real time goals, conversions, and campaigns
- Track custom data for every visitor (usernames, cookies, etc)
- Widgets to put on your web site
- Works with visitors who have disabled JavaScript
- FeedBurner RSS stats integration
Clicky isn’t a stats package I have tried out myself yet, however – after checking out some of the features, I am kind of itching to give it a shot. Sign up for free and let me know how does it stack up against your favorite web statistics program?
Another Domain Information Tool
Looking for a way to get an entire social web site profile of your domain name via one simple online tool? Buildstats is another domain information tool that does just that. All you do is insert your domain name, and then you will be taken to a page with tons of information about that previously entered domain name.
Some of the details you get per domain include:
- Number of pages indexed via the various search engines
- Page information
- Your rank via Pagerank, Technorati, QuantCast and more
- Social popularity and graphs
Here is the example search I came up with for mitchelaneous.com:
It is a simple web site, that does it’s job well. Check out Buildstats.com to lookup information on your own domain name of choice.
Search Engine Webmaster Tool Collections
Where Google used to be alone in giving you tools to see how they are indexing your web site, each of the three big search engines now have their own set of webmaster tools.
The newest kid on the block, Bing gives you access to keyword research tools, a robot.txt validator, and a HTTP verifier tool right out of the box. Once you get your site listed, you get details like your domain score, feedback on any crawl issues Bing might have had on your site, your top five pages and a lot more. I have to say, Microsoft really impressed me with their tool set.
Poor Yahoo!, does have a site explorer, and it does pay to sign up and list your web sites on it – just to confirm that Yahoo! is watching you. The problem is that they don’t offer much when it comes to tools you can really get much use out of. Also, why do they think I want a badge to show everybody how many people are linking to a page?
Google’s webmaster tools selection is still top dog as far as features and ease of use. They give you a wide selection of diagnostics tools, your top search queries, keywords, subscriber stats, and more. You can also add a new tab to iGoogle to get instant access to all the tools they provide right on your start page.
Which webmaster tools set does the best job? I think Google still wins hands down, however Bing’s selection of tools for webmasters is rather impressive. I am afraid though, that puts our friends at Yahoo! in third place. With that said though, I suggest you sign up for all three so that you can keep tabs on how well your site is being indexed in each.
Merge Multiple Feeds with FeedStitch
Have multiple RSS feed sources that you would like to merge into one? There are a number of different services that can get this done for you, however FeedStitch is a new one that has caught my eye recently.
What is new here? Well they cover the basics, for sure. With HTML, RSS, and JSON they make it easy to republish the data however you want. To get started, all you have to do is select your feed type, and click “Add Feed”. You can also store your feeds in manually created groups too. The feed types they support right now are:
- RSS Feeds
- Twitter Accounts
- Flickr Photos
- Delicious LInks
- Twitter Search
- Tumbler Micro Blogging
- and GitHub
To use the service, all you need to do is login with a pre-existing Google, Facebook, or some other open identification service, and get to adding your feeds. It is really easy to use, and might be my new favorite service for merging multiple feeds into one. You can try it out for yourself at FeedStitch.com.
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