Author: Arné Klopper

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Are you new to the whole marketing your blog area, and don’t really know everything about SEO, or are you looking for a tool to give you suggestions of what is needed or wrong with your website.

You can try out WebSite Grader, which generates a reports and suggests improvements you can make, like reduce your keywords, or reduce the number of images on your landing page.

Visit http://website.grader.com and enter your URL and get a complete reports in a couple of seconds.

I found this report quite complete and covers a wide variety of factors.

Here is a short extract of the areas covered in the report:

• Header Summary
• Image Summary
• Interior Page Analysis
• Readability Level
• Domain info
• Google PageRank
• Google Indexed Pages
• Last Google Crawl
• Traffic Rank (Alexa)
• Inbound Links
• DMOZ Directory
• Yahoo! Directory
• ZoomInfo
• BlogAnalysis
• Blog Ranking
• Recent Blog Article
• Social MediaSphere summary
• Competitive Intelligence

The report that was genrated for my site can be publicly found here.

You can now use this tool to also analyze your competitions’ details as well.

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Wow, I’ve never seen a blog post explode like Chris from IMods’ post regarding the poor developed IEC website which apparently cost the tax payer around R 3 000 000 !!

I’ve just seen that even Helen Zille is now looking at this issue as well.

You definely have to check out this post.

I’ve  been using Digsby for about 3 months now, and I must say it really is AWESOME!

Even Abner, who is the Network Administrator and general Mr. Know-It-All-about-Everything at the office have joined almost all the social networking groups that has to do with Digsby.

The reason why I’m re-posting about this little application is just to re-itterate the awesome-ness of  it.

All your Social networking, Email and Instant Messaging in one little application, and don’t forget about Twitter.  There is also some cool widgets that can be customised as well for your blog or website.

Today I found myself frustrated with Adobe Acrobat Reader when reading up on poker, and trying to read an ebook that I’ve received from one of my friends on some poker strategies that is involved in the game.

Today in my lunch time I wanted to start reading through this ebook, so got through about 3 chapters(reading on my PC) and then closed down Acrobat Reader.  When I opened up Reader again, it went to the start of the PDF document which is around 240 pages.

How frustrating especially when you read ebooks to remember the page number everytime.  Adobe Acrobat Reader does NOT come with a bookmark feature, and thus my hunt began to find me something that could help me out. I thought whatever I will find will be a big 3rd party plugin or even a paid/trial-ed product offering.

But to my amazement Adobe Acrobat Reader support various Javascript functions and I found a Javascript which gives you the feature of adding 1 bookmark and returning to that bookmark.

All it does is adds a Menu item under Tools->Bookmark and voila, now you can Add Bookmark, or browse to the bookmark, simple as that.

Was Installation easy – VERY!

All you do is copy the .js file to the indicated folder and it just works on the next startup of Adobe Acrobat Reader.

For more detailed installation instruction you can visit this page, or get the javascript file directly from PDF Hacks.

Tonight saw the launching of my new free hosted service, which is a URL shorteniser that runs on my own script that I started to write a few months ago, called SHORT URL .  This system runs totally off a file system and is not dependent on any database.

This free service can be found at sURLs.cc

Obvious enhancements will be made as demand and usage increases on the site, so feel free to give it ashot.

News about layoffs at Google due to current economic situations are currently all over the internet.

Google are also closing down more of their services.  Some of the closures are:

• Google Notebooks
• Google Catalogs
• Dodgeball
• Google Video (what else could be expected after the YouTube takover)
• Google Mashup Editor
• Jaiku(future developmens of it)

Also don’t forget the Google Lively shutdown a few months ago as well.
Some of the products like Google Notebook will still work for current users but no new users will be allowed and also some finer features will not be available.

Here is a more detailed list of the upcoming closures planned.

A Green laser has been shined at Wayne Parnell’s Cap yesterday in a 20/20 game.

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Cricket Australia did apologise to the South African team as well, more can be read here.

I posted about Sex in an experiment to see if Sex really will bring more traffic to my blog, and herewith the results.

It appears that traffic increased almost 300%  as a result of only this one post about Sex, obviously the next day everything went back to normal though.

I could not derive exactly of where all the traffic came from, but most of the traffic came from agrigators, but not so much from search engines though.