No doubt, when you search for copied content of your blog you usually use CopyScape. They are the leader in checking plagiarism after all. But using their free search I usually get some false results & for unlimited searches you need to purchase their premium account. So it is not bad to look for one or two free CopyScape alternatives that can search for stolen contents from your blog all over the web. [...]
Several months back I wrote about Tynt Tracer, a free service that lets you get a backlink automatically from your copied content. Recently they have changed the name of the service to Tynt Insight & it seems they have added more features. And for a limited time they are allowing you to use the Pro features for free. Free means free, without any credit card required. [...]
Not long ago, before my blog went down, I was looking for some free advertising. I got a chance to put a 150×100 banner on a sidebar of a blog. I was looking for a quick & simple way to create one. BannerSketch was just that kind of service. With easy five steps you can get your banner in no time: [...]
I have previously written a post about updating Twitter automatically with every new blog post that you make. I was using Feedlr service & quite happy with it. But recently I noticed that my last blog post wasn’t showed in my Twitter update. So I checked Feedlr & saw it suspended. I visited the Feedlr blog. There I found that Feedlr was having repeated posts problem due some bugs in the code. The admin of Feedlr is now planning to rectify the code & migrate the site to the Google App. But it will take time. [...]
While browsing I have found this cool free tool that can get something out of your blog scrapers. Go & register your site with Tynt Tracer. You will get a line of code that you have to add before </body> tag of your blog page. You can easily find it in WordPress by going to footer.php file. Now run “Test My Script” to see if it has been correctly installed. You are done. Now when a blog scraper copies any part of your content a link back to your site is added to the copied content. The linkback can be removed manually. But very few scrapers would care to see & do so. Check the stats & find out who copied from you.
Yes, I don’t mean adding PDF file, I mean embedding. Obviously you can easily hyperlink a PDF file. But the user has to download it or open it with Adobe Reader from the browser as a separate file. What about embedding a PDF widget where necessary? Readers can see the PDF directly from your site or blog post. They can even resize the widget to full screen to read it & come back again to your site. Also there is option for downloading the file. Acrobat just do that for you. Sign up for a free account there. Upload your PDF. Now copy the embed code & paste it where necessary. It’s quite simple. Here is an implementation. [...]
It can be useful if you have more than just a blog. Think you write a blog under a particular niche. Sometimes you write a few articles about the same topic in EzineArticles & other article directories. You would like to share all of these with your readers. Even you may want to share what you read or bookmark on social bookmarking sites about the matter. Just go to RSS Mix & enter respective RSS feeds into the box. Click “Create!” button. You will get a single RSS feed that will combine feeds from all of these sites.
I am talking about Ritecounter. I wonder how many of you have ever tried it. Let me clarify one thing first. It is more than just a hit counter. It’s an awesome visitor tracker. I don’t want to get into the details about the features as they are to many to write about. Instead I am adding a screenshot of the features list: [...]
Do you know you can get a feed rank for your blog or site that offers RSS feed. This numeric system is created by RSSMicro & no way affiliated with Google. Just like PR, it checks your feed with a unique algorithm & assigns a grade number out of 10. You can get the code to show your FeedRank in your site.
See my current FeedRank image:
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If you are having trouble installing CGI proxy script in your server, then use this free installation service. Just give your FTP username & password. It will check the server for CGI & PERL module support with a test script & then will install CGI proxy in the url you specified. You have nothing to do except clicking your mouse button for a few times. [...]