Css at it's best

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www.CSSZengarden.com, an oldie but goldie, is a great resource for anyone who's into the design side of the web. using pure CSS some of the examples that are shown are simply stunning - and if your looking for HTML design inspiration it's a great site to drop by on from time to time. For now - check out http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/188/188.css&page=1 - sure it's lurid - there's a lot of green but......wow!

Time Magazine's 50 Top Websites of 2007

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With the plethora that is the internet these days - selecting websites for a top 50 list could take literally for ever - however Time magazine have managed it.

Many old favourites appear - such as Youtube, Last.fm but loads of new cool ones - oh how the web has developed over the last 10 years!

Out of interest - the 50 Worst websites is here

Google search explained

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Understanding how Google works is one of the fundemental steps in achieving great SERPS performance - there's a lot of talk on forums such as http://www.webmasterworld.com/ about just how the google machine operates but very little is often official - merely speculation.

So it's with great interest that we pickup on Jill Whalen column over at Search Engine Guide. She was at a seminar which had Dan Crow, director of crawl systems at Google, as one of it's speakers - Dan went into some of the fundementals about the google machine - click the link above to check it out!

Create Social Bookmark buttons for your blog

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Social Bookmark sites like http://del.icio.us/ have been around for a while now - and used right can be a real source of some quality traffic. But if you have a site or blog you need to configure your site so that visitors can easily bookmark your pages.

This is where the handy site http://www.ifeedreaders.com/social-creator/ comes in - configure which sites you want your users to bookmark to - follow the creation wizard and hey presto - some neat code you can add to your site - automatically generating the links you'll need.

With support for blogger and wordpress it couldn't be easier - check it out!

Age of Domain and relevancy in SERPS

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In one of our recent posts on SEO Tools we posted a couple of links to some tools that you might find useful in your quest to push your site up the rankings - of these - we found the Age of top 100 Websites with Backlinks Tool particularly useful.

Age of Domain should not be overlooked in your SEO analysis - as it can be a key influence in determining rankings - Jim Boykin has an excellent article on the subject http://www.jimboykin.com/seo-new-site/ (also have a read of the talkbak to check out the wide ranging user views on the subject!!).

Whilst domain age will not kill off SERPS completely - we've had many a site produce search results whilst still being reactively new - I think it does matter when you start aiming for the more competitive keyword market and as such you'll for those of you with new sites you'll need to mitigate the issue with your SEO strategy.

SEO Tools

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Everynow and again you come accross a great site - with some really great tools - http://www.webuildpages.com is one such beast - go check out thier tools at the following link http://www.webuildpages.com/cool-seo-tool/ (scroll to the bottom of the page for the list of tools).

Heartily recommended is the Top Ten Analysis SEO Tool

Go check it out!