Sunday, September 21, 2008

Top 30 social bookmarking sites

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Looking for more alternatives to Digg? try this great link for 30 top social bookmark links

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social30

Friday, November 2, 2007

Colors Colors everywhere...

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With website design one of the most troublesome parts is coming up with a color pallette that looks good

For those wanting a helping hand check out www.colorschemer.com which offers great help in choosing pallettes with some great examples and a lively forum to boot.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

The webs most important Google resources

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Bearing in mind Google's prominence in search (it's hard to believe that there are others sometimes) it's a little unsurprising that there is a glut of websites relating to SEO, SERPS, etc - but from all these which ones are the best? - well check out our list of the webs most important Google resources. Got more? Comment away!


Webmasterworlds Google World Forum - Search, Adwords, Adsense and more - Highly active forum - if it's google it's here.

Matt Cutts Blog - Head of Googles webspam team and for many SEO's an insider at the googleplex - a must read!

Google's Adwords Keyword tool - Looking for keywords for your site? what better to use than googles own keyword tool.

Googleblog - Google's very own blog on blogspot - the latest happenings and developments from the people in the know.

SearchEngineWatch - not just google but a fix for searchengine junkies.

Googlesystem - Unofficial news and tips about google

Google Trends - What's hot and what's not from Google themselves

Blogoscoped - More unofficial blogging on the googlemeister.

Ranking factors - An exhaustive look at google ranking factors

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

6 alternatives to Digg

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Following our post on http://www.totalwebsitetoolkit.com/2007/10/list-of-social-bookmarking-sites.html. Here's our list on 6 upand coming social bookmarking sites as an alternative to Digg.

While we still love Digg - it's ever more difficult to get on the frong page and given it's wide interests maybee not so great for niche publishers. So as an alternative why not give these six a try.

1/ http://www.dailyhub.com/
2/ http://www.sk-rt.com/
3/ http://www.ttiqq.com
4/ http://smallbusinessbrief.com
5/ http://www.qoolsqool.com
6/ http://www.sphinn.com/

Saturday, October 6, 2007

List of Social bookmarking sites

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While most webmasters will know of sites like Digg, stumbleupon etc - did you know there are actually masses of Social bookmarking sites out there. Now we all know that Digg is notoriously difficult to get noticed on (but it can provide some decent traffic through Digg searches) so the other social bookmarking sites (certainly niche ones) should offer a more reasonable target.

The ever wonderfull http://www.searchengineguide.com/ has an excellent piece on social bookmarking sites and links out to a variety of lists rounding up some of the best ones out there.

Check the link here http://www.searchengineguide.com/laycock/010829.html

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Optimizing your site for Yahoo

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With so much focus on Google these days it's easy to overlook some of the other search engines. Eric Lander over at http://www.searchenginejournal.com has a timely look at how to optimize for the revitalized Yahoo search.

Yahoo seems to be looking at integrated search, incorporating Flickr, Yahoo videos, Yahoo local. There's no doubt that Yahoo still has a significant market share to warrant an SEO plan - for more info check the link - http://www.searchenginejournal.com/search-optimization-guide-for-the-new-yahoo-search/5740/

Monday, October 1, 2007

Flash MySpace themes

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For those challenged by creating an intresting and artistic myspace profile check out http://lovemyflash.com/. Whilst it may not make your Myspace page the most interesting out there it will certainly add some pezazz to your looks.

With some great free templates written in Flash - combined with simple instructions to get you up and running in no time lovemyflash is a great find.

Our favs include

http://www.lovemyflash.com/layouts/55.html
http://www.lovemyflash.com/layouts/160.html

Go Look!!