Free Online Favicon Generator:
http://www.favicon.co.uk/ is quality free online favicon generator site that uses your uploaded image. This free tool creates icons to be used for websites when a site added to favorites or the desktop.

Tip of the Season:
Ever wanted to have a translated version of your site without paying fees for translation services?

Automatic translate a website using the .htaccess file as follows:

View result: http://www.google.com/translate_c?hl=pt&sl=en&u=http://ogdenian.com

How to stop whois.domaintools.com from causing a content duplication penalty with your website:

I found http://whois.domaintools.com/ogdenian.com copying my content on their site upon the “site profile” page after testing my homepage on http://www.copyscape.com/. The later would cause a duplicate content penalty in the search engines, hence making my homepage drop in the search engine result pages (SERP’s). So I block the ip address for the site by using the following code in my .htaccess file ( I obtained the ip’s from my site stats file and a little research ):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^66\.249\.([0-9]¦[1-2][0-9]¦3[01])\. [OR]order allow,deny
Deny from 66.249.16.*
Deny from 66.249.17.*
Deny from 64.246.165.*
Deny from 216.145.16.*
allow from all

I can’t stress enough how important it is to have original unique content on every page of your website.  Duplicate content is the number one reason why a site doesn’t rank well in the search engine result pages.

HTML5
I received a couple of emails from those worried about the impact of html5 on their websites. Firstly, it will be a long time before they have an active version html5 that is cross browser and/or multi operating system friendly. I love the idea of a cleaner streamlined html code coming into existence and it will be easy to incorporate the new functions regardless of what the changes are. So, have no fear.  Moving into the next phase of the internet will be a challenge and rewarding at the same time.
 
Here is reading material for all those interested in HTML5:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5
http://dev.w3.org/html5/html4-differences/

As always, feel free to contact me if you have any questions or need help with any of the later items.

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This newsletter has many useful links to resources that will help your company website grow in popularity.

Paypal Update:

www.paypal.com has changed the way they handle Adobe Flash “Buy Now” links. Your payment links will have to be updated to the new method if your site uses the obsolete method. The easiest way to tell is if you get a Paypal error message when clicking on a “Buy Now” link. Contact me if your site(s) need to be updated.

Keyword Suggestion Tools:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/?seed=web+design&adult_filter=remove_offensive Embedding keywords in your website’s copy is very important to your search engine results.

Press Release Sites:

Press releases are a great way to market your site and well worth the time.

Business Wire
PR Newswire
PRWeb
24-7 Press Release
PR Zoom
PR Leap
I-Newswire
Webwire
ClickPress
PR.com
PR Log
eReleases
MarketWire

Other Great Free Services:

www.Animoto.com free 30 second video maker.

http://www.000webhost.com/  - Free webhosting no ads

www.yelp.com - a free localized business directory with reviewing capabilities.

http://listings.yellowpages.com/ - get a free listing for your business.

http://www.localeze.com - get a free business listing.

http://corporate.yellowbook.com/advertise/ - get a free business listing.

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The following are my internet picks for this season:

Cool site for publishing your own books:
With (myebook.com), we’ve made it possible for anyone to upload, or create from scratch; beautifully simple or adventurously complex page designs and covers online, in no time. What’s more, you can publish your book with a single button and release it to the world before the (virtual) ink’s dry! You can create as many publications as you want. And it’s all free.

A cool local business search engine:
(http://www.thinklocal.com/) is a search engine for local businesses. With over 17 million U.S. business listings we’re committed to connecting our users with the businesses they are seeking in their town.

A cool professional networking site:
(http://www.mysolutionspot.com/) A free professional networking website.

A cool tool to research people:
(http://www.pipl.com/) There are various reasons why you might need to search for people, you may need to find a lost relative, an old flame, a classmate or a business contact – but if you are using a search engine such as Google or Yahoo to search for people, you have probably realized by now that it might work in some cases but in most cases it won’t. Pipl’s query-engine helps you find deep web pages that cannot be found on regular search engines.

Add your business to Google Maps:
(www.Google.com/LocalBusinessCenter) Local Business Center Listing with stats.

A cool royalty free music site:
(http://musicbakery.com/) A great site to purchase royalty free music to use on your site.

Great news for e-commerce sites:
Google adds “Parameter Handling”
(http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=147959) to reduce duplicate content in Google’s index and make a site more crawlable by search engines. Read the page to understand the new feature in Google’s WebMaster Tools.

A cool tool for collaborating with others on tasks:
(http://workspace.office.live.com/) – a free service to share individual files up to 25 megabytes with 5 gigabytes of personal space to store files. It can also be used for collaboration projects with Microsoft applications.

A cool tool for sharing files with others:
(https://www.mesh.com/) – a free service that allows one to create a mesh (Live Desktop) which includes any devices you add and the folders you choose to sync and share. It comes with 5 gigabytes space to access and share across multiple platforms and computers.

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Social Bookmarking is an implementation of the latest method of saving bookmarks to public websites. Backlinks can be loaded with specific keywords within the actual bookmark. Also, this is a great way to get visits to your web site from your target audience. Just search Google for the term “social bookmark sites list” for more bookmark sites to submit your site to.

Add ogdenian.com to your online bookmark site:

Social Bookmarking Drives targeted traffic to your site and helps create oneway links and popularity.

Example: I signed up at stumbleupon.com. I created bookmarks to key pages of my site and add appropriate keywords. I then made my bookmarks public. When anyone searches for my keyterms on stumbleupon.com, I come up in the results, they visit my page hence making my site more popular and driving targeted traffic to my site at the same time. I get hits every week from stumbleupon.

And there are many, many bookmarks sites that people use.

The Ogdenian Newsletter is here to help anyone with an online presence better their internet rankings and to extend the functionality and usability of their websites.

Get a Free Yellow Book Directory listing:
I called 1-800-929-3556 and my business was given a free white section listing and also listed under three business section headings. The Yellow Book is a phonebook that is delivered in over 1000 cities nationwide in the US. Also ,they automatically put me in the online version at www.yellowbook.com 

Free Business Directories:
http://www.hotfrog.com/
http://judysbook.com/post/0
http://advertising.superpages.com/spportal/index.jsp

Great plugins for wordpress blogs:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eshop/ - a robust paypal shopping cart solution.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-auctions/ - a great paypal auction solution.

Security for wordpress blog platforms:
I saw this and remembered when the Brazilian Spy Kids hacked my blog a few years back.
The new WordPress “Firewall Plugin” blocks suspicious-looking requests to WordPress. You may download it here: http://www.seoegghead.com/software/wordpress-firewall.seo

Send a large file to anyone, anywhere, up to 300MB for free!: www.sendspace.com

HTML coding:
There is a new tag that stops search engine duplicate content penalties within the same site and allows one to set a preferred version of a site page. Just add something like <link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.original.com/original-content.html”>
in the section of the page with duplicate content.

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