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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 »

One of the many new features introduced in the iPhone 2.0 update is the ability for the iPhone’s calendar app to recognize multiple calendars you have in iCal or Google calendar. If you sync your calendar to your iPhone through USB, you may notice a bug where the colors displayed in the iPhone calendar don’t match up with the colors in iCal. Although this appears to be a bug that Apple will have to fix, there are a few homemade workaround solutions you can try if you’re as meticulous about your colors matching as we are. Read the rest of this entry »

The new iPhone’s GPS service has brought forth a variety of location-based apps in available in the App Store. One of the most natural fits for this type of service is the ability to locate nearby places of interest, such as restaurants. Today, we’ll tell you about two very useful apps for finding good eats, and both are available now in the App Store as free downloads. We’ll also tell you about another free app, this one’s web-based, that condiments compliments the native apps. Each is unique in its own way, offering a strength not found in the others. We find that having all three available on our iPhone 3G is better than any one of them, until of course, someone can create the killer app that combines the best of all three into a single iPhone app.

First, we’ll tell you about the one that is probably the least useful of the three, but the most fun to use. UrbanSpoon offers an interface that resembles a slot machine. You flick each roller to select a preference for food type and price. Read the rest of this entry »