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Free Online Encyclopedia Britannica Access for Bloggers

Encyclopedia Britannica has been around for centuries. It has been the leading resource of cataloged information until the internet came along and Wikipedia was born.

They recently released a program called Britannica Webshare which let web publishers (bloggers) access Britannica information for free. The service which normally costs Seventy Dollars ($70) per year can now be accessed and linked to any by website approved by Britannica.

You can sign up for the free access by giving your URL and a description of your site. Britannica will then review the information that you have submitted and will grant or deny you access in their pages. Once approved, you will get exclusive access to the online encyclopedia and you can link to Britannica’s full version articles. Visitors clicking on your Britannica link gets access to the article but is not allowed to browse other Britannica pages. Users can also embed widgets like the one below. You can get the widgets here.

The Britannica information is invisible to the web meaning that they are not indexed by search engines. Only paying customers have exclusive access to the pages. So if you have a website or a blog and want to have free and exclusive access to Britannica information, just sign up and tell them a little something about your site.

Tip: Once you are a member, you can also get custom information from Encyclopedia Britannica in your Google search results. Results from Britannica will appear on your top searches once this is enabled.

Tags: britannica, encyclopaedia britannica, encyclopedia, Google, website, wikipedia

The TinyURL Preview Feature

As many of you already knew, TinyURL is a website that converts long URL’s (Uniform Resource Locator) into short ones which makes posting URL’s more convenient for the sender and recipient. Aside form effectively making extremely long URL’s short, what is great about this particular tool is that the created “tiny” URL will never expire. This means that you can keep archives or post it in websites and blogs without having to worry about your created tiny URL to cease functioning.

Another use of this service is the ability to hide the true objective of the URL that you are sending. You can easily surprise anyone with a website using this service. With all good things having its bad side, TinyURL can also be used to trick people in viewing embarrassing, annoying (Rick Roll Videos and the likes) and NSFW (not safe for work) materials which could get someone in trouble or cause a heart attack. The result of this is that people will become hesitant in clicking a TinyURL generated links.

The preview feature will allow users to take a peek on what is hiding behind the TinyURL generated link and what site does it link to or what kind of media (video, image, docs, etc). To enable this feature, just head over to the TinyURL website and look for the preview feature on the left sidebar and click the enable feature link (or head over to this link). Once this is enabled, every TinyURL link you click will redirect you first to the TinyURL website and give you an idea on what kind of site you are visiting. For this feature to work, your browser’s cookies must be enabled. This will allow your browser to remember that it should preview the URL coming from TinyURL first before jumping right into the link.

Tags: not safe for work, redirect, tinyurl, uniform resource locator, URL, website

Ecocho: The Green Search Engine

Ecocho is an eco-friendly search engine that promises to grow up to two trees for every 1000 searches made using their site. The green search engine team claims that using Ecocho will not alter or slow down their search. It allows you to search between two search engine giants (Google and Yahoo) who have given their support to the Ecocho project.

A thousand searches on Ecocho allow us to buy enough carbon offset credits to remove 1 ton of CO2 from the atmosphere. This works out at two trees spending a year sucking CO2 from the atmosphere as they grow, which makes us very happy.

Ecocho aims to contribute seventy percent (70%) of their revenue back into carbon offset credits, for the growth of trees. The carbon credits are provided by Global Carbon Exchange (GCX) and KPMG. If you want to help Ecocho in saving the environment, be sure to make your searches using their website. You can also add the Ecocho search bar to your sites by copying the codes which can be found here.

Tags: carbon cycle, carbon offset, ecocho, environment, Google, search-engine, web search engine, website, Yahoo

Website Grader For Better SEO

Website Grader is an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tool that you can use to evaluate your website for free. It will generate an automated report and tips on how to optimize your website better for search engines.  All you have to do is type in your URL and Website Grader will grade your site depending on your SEO juice.

A website grade of 93/100 for www.orangeinks.com means that of the hundreds of thousands of websites that have previously been evaluated, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 93% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, including search engine data, website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.

Website Grader reported that Orange Inks have some SEO flaws that should be taken care of. Among them are: Having too many Meta Keywords tag (should only be limited to 10 or less Meta Keywords and I have 20); Too many images found (the tip is to have fewer or smaller images. Sometimes simply resizing your images will make them smaller in size, and your web page will load faster );  Two of my images don’t  have alt Text; And last but not least is that my domain will expire in less than a year. Website Grader suggested renewing the domain. The reason for this is that Google and other search engines may penalize websites with domains that are set to expire soon. Many spam sites are often registered for short periods of time.

If you are looking for some SEO tips to help you make your website more search engine friendly, Website Grader might just be the tool that you are looking for.

Tags: grader, SEO, tips, tool, website

Culinary Seductions: Come on cooking guys.

Its Love Month once again and I was trying to browse and look for something interesting online when Stumbleupon gave me a page which catches my attention. They say that “a way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” and indeed it is. Women always try hard to please their partners, mostly through culinary arts. Cooking the best meals that would make men drool over is one of the women’s way to catch their partner’s attention.

How about changing the idea. Women aren’t born just to be stuck in the kitchen and forever do the cooking for their partners. Women will be far happier and felt loved if you guys stay in the kitchen, prepare a sumptuous meal and set a romantic table for a special date at home. Come on cooking guys, time to make your way to please your partner. Better yet, make it your courting trick if your still on the process. Here’s a website which will help you a lot do the trick. Culinary Seductions described as “the guys guide to cooking for girls” is the answer to show your talent. This is a website not just concentrating on showing the best recipes there is. What’s catching here is how they offer these recipes in the most seductive ways they can.

Recipes described as “how you can tease her taste buds” is divided into: Dishes/Courses, Difficulty (easy, not so easy, advanced, iron chef), and Moods (candied, decadent, exploding, heavenly, luscious, nutty, sassy, saucy, scrumptious, sensual, sexy, snugly, silky and wild). It offers the best ways, tips and advices on how to get the best cooking results and the most romantic meal that you can offer for your better half including the table settings, lights and music. It also includes eye catching pictures and videos which will add to the best aftereffect.

Valentines Day is coming over, early this week, prepare something special for your loved one.

“A good, home cooked meal could be the key to opening her heart, and closing the bedroom door,” says the website owner.

Tags: cooking, culinary, food, seductions, website

Starting Your Own Blog Site Part 1

Choosing a Domain

When choosing a domain always go for the .com. People tend to remember the dot com easier rather than the dot net or dot org. It may be worth a couple of dollars more compared to the other extensions but if you are going to make it big in the online business then this will benefit you more than you know. Some companies have spent millions of dollars just to get the .com version of their domains after they made it big just because they didn’t want to spend a few dollars when they bought the domain.

When choosing a name for the domain, think of something short. Don’t get your hopes up for single word names because most of the more popular words we are using are already taken not unless you have invented a word that you think will work then you can give it a go (an example of this is the billion dollar worth typo “google”) . Try looking for two words or three for the name of your domain but don’t go over four words. You will end up with a domain name that is hard to remember or too long to type. Get a catchy name that you think that others will find it easy to remember and one that will work for you, after all it is your website.

You may also want to think about not using your name for the domain name. If you are planning to sell the site in the future then having your name as the domain will lower your chances of making a sale.

You can visit www.who.is to check the availability of your domain name and you can find out the owners of the taken domain names in this site.

When you find the right domain name that will suit you, then you can register at name.com or www.GoDaddy.com
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Tags: Blog, domain, godaddy, name, website