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How to Score 99% in Website Grader
This story first appeared in ActiveRain. Cary, NC – There are a lot of helpful tools for analyzing your website – broken link checkers, SEO analyzers and so forth. Website Grader from Hubspot is one of the best (and most popular).
Read moreExporting Passwords in Sxipper
Sxipper is a fantastic utility for storing all your online passwords. Very intuitive and easy to use. But what about exporting the data so you have an back up?
Read moreBest Free Back-up Utility
Here’s another in our series of lab-tested, must-have free utilities for Mac nation.
Read moreManaging Passwords with Sxipper
As the usefulness of the web grows, we all have more and more passwords and user names. Some sites allow anything; others want 7 or more characters, upper- & lower-case, numbers. It gets baffling. But here’s a great utility for managing it all.
Read moreGoogle Keyword Tool
We’ve blogged about this before, but because keywords are so important, we thought we’d go into a little more detail. Keywords are nothing more than the most common terms people use to describe something. But choosing the right keyword can mean this difference between success or failure for your website. For example, we almost called [...]
Read moreHow to Create Favicons
Here’s another Web 2.0 tip for Boomers. Favicons (pronounced fave-IKONZ) are the tiny pics you often see preceding a web address in your browser bar. Here’s ours: In this post , we’ll tell you how to create your own favicons– it’s so easy, you’ll wonder why you waited.
Read moreHow to SEO your own Home Page
Part of our mission here at OCDC is explaining the web to digital immigrants such as ourselves. Search was a 6 billion dollar business in 2006 and is projected to grow at 12% in 2007. Over 1/3 of all purchases of goods and services starts with an internet search. Optimizing your Home Page for natural [...]
Read moreHandy utilities for the online writer
When we first installed WordPress, it came with some links pre-loaded in the blogroll. The first link was for a gent named Alex King, a software developer who co-founded Feedlounge. Turns out there’s lots of great info on this site; we especially liked Alex’s favorite utilities and add-ons for Mac & Windows. Lots of people [...]
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