LinkedIn Introduces One Click Endorsements: so you can give them and request them from your contacts. This is much easier than getting recommendations. You don’t have to write anything to do endorsements; just
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Add linkedin Endorsements with one click
Get a free monthly report on where your web site ranks for the key word phrases you are targeting. You can select 2 from these three: Google, Bing, and YAHOO. You see month to month your changes up or down. If you want to be in the top 10 on the SERP (search engine result page), you have to work at SEO search engine optimization, add fresh content, and evaluate your results.
WebPosition.com will email you a report each month telling you where you stand.
They say:
WebPosition: Measure the Impact of Your SEO Efforts
Monitor the effectiveness of your search engine optimization efforts with WebPosition®, the innovative online SEO tool that provides key, in-depth reporting data on your search rankings. Quickly and easily track keyword performance, position changes and trends in your search engine placement with customizable views and automated reporting.
Optimizing a site for better search engine rankings requires constant monitoring and continual adjustment. But how do you know what works, what doesn’t and what changed? WebPosition® Reporter offers you an easy way to measure how your search rankings change over time, giving you greater insight into how your SEO efforts impact your position on major search engines.
WebPosition.com reports on search rankings
Just like many users, I have created and lost my bookmarks in my Internet explorer as I have upgraded, switched to new PCs and browsers. That is a pain when it happens. I now use IE, FireFox and Chrome. Why?? I try all the new toys to see what I like best for what. I use them for different things. Since I have several PCs, virtual machines, a server and a Mac…. wouldn’t it be nice to have the same bookmarks across all that??? and have them all update when I make a change on any of them???
Xmarks does that and more! It is a free tool to keep your browser bookmarks synchronized across browsers and/or different machines. It is a free tool with many other features. It will let you rate sites and see the most popular new sites. It was formally know at foxMarks
Xmarks Bookmark Synch screen shot
We all search Google regularly. Why not use a few more options to do better searches. Are you looking for PowerPoint??? use filetype:ppt or maybe include Synonyms, just, use a “~” in front of the word. These 12 tips and examples in this Hub Spot blog Post are great!
12-Quick_Tips_To_Search_Google_Better
Read the full list here
One of the features I have enjoyed since FireFox 2 and IE 7 is the tabs. You can open additional web pages on different tabs and then move easily between them. My tip this month is when you see a link on a site or in an email you can right mouse click (RMC) to get the menu and select “open in a new tab”. this will leave the current tab as is and create a new tab for the target of the link.
RMC on link in FireFox to SAVE AS A NEW TAB
RMC on link in IE 7 or later to SAVE AS A NEW TAB
Online printing is getting cheaper. You upload a pdf and do your setup online I was using Kinkos for some color printing at about 50 cents each. I searched and found an online source for 9 cents each with a heaver paper. I will be using them again. They had no minimum order, same price all quantities, and no set up fee.
I printed 300 and had it shipped to my office for less than $30.00 total .
I used www.bestvaluecopy.com
Note: on some online printing sites you will get a higher price if you go directly to the site vs. look for cheap printing on a search engine and us that link. That did not seem to be the case with bestvaluecopy.com
BestValueCopy web site
It reports on SEO performance Is the site getting traffic? Does it have SEO problems? How popular is it in social media?
Find out the answers for free. Just enter your website URL and click Generate Report.
websitegrader.com
Unfortunately all hard drives eventually fail. Some last years and others fail quickly. I use and recommend Spinrite Disk repair software by GRC on all my PCs and servers. I run it on all new drives and then again yearly on all the existing drives. It can find bad spots, move the data, and mark the sector as unusable. Well worth the $89.
By operating directly upon magnetic storage media at a level below any installed operating system, this major milestone release of SpinRite is able to operate on all Windows XP NTFS formats, all DOS FAT, all Linux file systems, Novell, Macintosh (if temporarily moved into a PC) or anything else — it can even be used to repair and recover the hard drive from an ailing TiVo!
SpinRite Disk repair and maintenance software
For a long time I have used Alt-Tab to quickly switch from one program to another. Works great in XP and Vista. I use my left thumb on the alt key and tap the tab key to select the program I want then release. In Vista they added the live images of the open windows. You can add the larger images of the ALT-TAB in Vista to XP via a free add in from microsoft called PowerToys for Windows XP Professional … Alt-Tab Replacement. In addition to seeing the icon of the application window you are switching to, you will also see a preview of the page. This helps particularly when multiple sessions of an application are open.
In Vista they added the Alt-Windows-Key to give you a live and larger images of the open windows.
My tip is that with either ALT-TAB or AL-WINDOWS keys, you can also use the mouse to click on the window you want. If you have a lot open this is very convenient way to get to just the right screen. Also in the ALT-TAB view, as you move the mouse over the preview screens, the name of the program is show at the top of the page.
Swiftpage Email offers a free service to check your email. The Swiftpage Spam Check will read and scan your email message just as a spam filter would. It will evaluate your message for possible spam infractions and then send back a response to your email address. A score based on the possible spam infractions along with a description of each spam infraction will be assigned to your email. The Spam Check classifies your emails into these four categories: safe, questionable, high risk, and spammy.
Use it at http://www.swiftpage.com/support/spamcheck.htm