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Get back the old address bar in Firefox3

Old addressbar in Firefox-3 after adding addons

If you don’t like Firefox-3 rich results in address bar (what is actually called the AwesomeBar), which nearly cover my computer screen when it drop down. You can use the Old address bar extension in Firefix-3 by just adding this addon.

(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/6227).

Which only display URLs. Just look screen shoot images here, you can find difference in old addressbar and new addressbar in Firefox-3.

The rel=”NOFOLLOW’ attribute in a link has been used on blog and forum sites to block the Google spider from following a link to its target page, and hence blocking the passing of PageRank. This is in an effort to reduce link spamming.

You can use the NOFOLLOW attribute to your advantage on your site to channel PageRank to your most important pages. Here’s the syntax:

For more information click here

Don’t try to use all of your keywords on the home page - rather focus only on your Primary Keyword Phrase and your best Secondary keyword. Use your products or service pages to focus on the more specifiec keyword.

You will likely want to use the plural from of your keywords. However, you need to verify this using Keyworddiscovery or Wordtracker (keyword find, suggest website)  as sometimes the singular form of a word is searched on more often.

Google treats hyphenated words as two words: “house-plans” is the same as “house plans” on Google. However, works connected by an underscore or slash, such as”house_plans” and “house/plans” are treated as a single word “houseplans” currently.

google is not case-sensitive, so HOUSE PLANS, House Plans, house plans,and HoUsE pLaNs are all treated the same.

Create Your Own Smart Bookmarks

Firefox Bookmarks

Firefox keeps a record of sites you visit often, and generates a list of “Smart Bookmarks” that you can create your own list of smart bookmarks using custom queries instead of URLs as well. Right-click on the Bookmarks toolsbar and choose New Bookmark. Use a descriptive name for the bookmark, and under Location, enter one of the queries below (whichever suits your fancy, or tweak them to get the results you want):

• For your 10 Most Visited Sites:
Place:queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=10 Read the rest of this entry »

Know Where You’re Going, I mean redirects
You can set Firefox (I have done this for Firefox3) to tell you when the site you’re viewing redirects to another site-sometimes you may end up far from where you want to be. To enable this, go to Tools > Options (or Edit > Preferences if you’re using Linux) > Advanced. Under General, check the box against Warn me when sites try to redirect or reload the page. Henceforth, you’ll get a warning bar every time a site redirects you.

What do MUA, MX and POP3 mean? How is your e-mail delivered? More on these…

How does e-mail really work? What pathways are followed, which protocols are used and how it gets delivered to joe@domain.com and not to jon@domai.com is not really understood, despite millions e-malling everyday.

Local Deliveries

Let’s assume that your e-mail address is name@domain.com and you are using an e-mail client like Outlook or Thunderbird to send and receive e-mails. This is known as Mail User Agent (MUA). For sending mails, the MUA users Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to a mail Transfer Agent (MTA) like Gmail. In some cases, if the user is directly using the Web mail interface, the MUA does not come in the picture. Read the rest of this entry »