49 Professional and Innovative Websites
If you're looking for a little design inspiration, this collection of 49 inspiring websites from inspiredology.com might be just what you need. Some nice sites I hadn't seen before. Worth browsing.
49 Professional and Innovative Websites (inspiredology.com)
63 Impressive Website Background Images
From website noupe.com, a nice visual gallery of 63 nice sites with great use of background images, as well as listings of resources and tutorials for getting the look.
Worth browsing for inspiration and some great resource links.
63 Impressive Website Background-Images: Trends, Resources and Tutorials
Use an XHTML Sitemap for Better Indexing
Use an XHTML Sitemap for Better Indexing
"As a Webmaster, one of the things you always need to be aware of is how well your the pages of your site are interlinked. This is a crucial factor in overall search engine performance, and simply assuming that your architecture is robust enough to handle this is definitely not the route you want to take."
The article shows how to do it and even provides a link to a handy sitemap generator (or the exact file if you happen to use the Cutline theme for Wordpress).
Really big list of website statistic resources
SEOmoz Blog | A List of Every Website Statistic Publicly Available - and I do mean a really big list. Good reference bookmark.
How to Measure the Success of a Blog
How To Measure Success of a Blog (120 Days in Numbers) - how to gather the numbers and what questions to ask to determine if your blog is successful or not.
Track Your Buzz
Tracking your buzz - how to track what people are saying about you, your site or your business on the web.
A comprehensive look at some of the services out there and how they stack up for tracking buzz, traffic, referrers and comments.
Blotter: Blog Popularity Plotter
Blotter is a services that will track and graph a blog's popularity over time, using information from Technorati. Simply add one line of code to your blog and then blotter will start tracking.
Settings for timeframe, graph type and graph size are easily adjustable just by added some values to the blog code line.
As a side story, this service was built using a new service called Dapper. Dapper is a sort of content scraping/aggregating backend service. Check out the demo to get a better idea.
A couple of build a better site links
How To Lose Google In 10 Days outlines some of the ways that sites can find themselves banned or dropped from Google and 7 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog
offers some tips on getting more visitors to a blog.
Toolurl.com Seo Tools
Toolurl.com is an Seo Tool for webmasters, offering up domains search, links popularity, whois lookup, keyword tools and rank positions, all at your fingertips via their website, a Google module or toolbar addon, or a 'coming soon' Firefox Extension.
Analyze your search engine traffic with 103bees
Search term analytics - more search engine traffic and revenues I 103bees.com - a new, free service that offers up detailed analysis of your search engine traffic, presumably to allow the website developer to fine tune their pages for search engines.
Eyetracking Data for News Websites
Eyetrack III - What You Most Need to Know - eyetracking data for News Websites analyzed. Interesting reading if you are interested in understanding how uses interact with websites.
Promote your website
So you've built it and now it's time to get the word out? A how-to, how-to promote your website.
What Search Engine Spiders See
dlperry.com What Search Engine Spiders See is a tool that will demonstrate how your site looks to search engine spiders. Useful to check for any webmaster.
WhoLinked
WhoLinked is a service that checks to see who is linking to your website and then provides you with an easy way to display this information on your website. Seems like it might be a nice alternative to Trackbacks, which are so spam-ridden these days that they are practically unusable.
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