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Exact Factor Alerts You When Your Search Rank Improves
12:45AM Kevin Purdy | Free alert service Exactfactor tracks search engine results by key words, and can email anyone interested in how any web site is doing in the battle for the top Google, Yahoo, or Live.com spot. After signing up for an account, you enter one or two web sites and key words to track them by. You’ll see an instant report on the site’s ranking on each search site, and can hit “Get alerts” to be e-mailed when that site improves, declines, or hits the front page of the search results. If you’re looking for ways to juice your standing in the world of web search (or bury something unfortunate), check Tamar’s guide to managing your online reputation. Exactfactor [via Digital Inspiration] More »
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WikiDashboard Makes Wikipedia Edits Easy To Track
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Wondering who’s making those seemingly random changes to your company’s Wikipedia page, or just curious to see what happens to celebrity pages when scandal breaks? WikiDashboard pulls out information on user actions from the mass-edited encyclopedia and lays them out on a time-scaled chart. Enter a Wikipedia page, click on any of the edit graph notches, and you’ll see what change was made. It makes better sense of the often dense and cryptic edit listings, and lets you better gauge if someone’s got a specific axe to grind, and find out when they’re grinding it. WikiDashboard [PARC via Open...] More »
Build a Powerful Reputation Using the Internet
4:00AM Tamar Weinberg | Become known as an expert in any industry by utilising the tools available to you online. In a particular example illustrated by weblog Dosh Dosh, an art student want to market her skills and become known as an expert in her area of study. It’s not that difficult to develop some sort of presence online nowadays, but to become an expert, you need to do a little more. Dosh Dosh writes: To achieve this goal, you need to develop visibility and industry connections. For people to talk about you, they first need to know that you exist. And so it is important to develop visibility in all the right places through an online persona. Building credibility requires establishing a home base online, participating in communities, initiating media outreach, and creating ventures to develop your net worth. Also, to see additional tips on how to manage your online reputation once your presence online is known. How to Use the Web to Build a Powerful Reputation in Any Industry [Dosh Dosh] More »
Manage Your Online Reputation
4:00AM Tamar Weinberg | Are you happy with the results people get back when they Google your name? If not, there are easy ways to monitor and guide what information is published about you online. Two years ago we covered how to have a say in what Google says about you, and more recently, and how to track down anyone online. But a rash of social media sites have arisen that give you more tools to help you manage your online reputation and become more findable. Let’s take a look. More »
Host Your Domain with Free Apps
4:00AM Gina Trapani | Want your very own web site address, but don’t want to mess with pay-for hosting packages or server configuration? Today you can buy a domain name for around 10 bucks a year (or less) and map it to a variety of free web-based apps for no-mess and no-cost hosting. Typical commercial web hosting starts at around $100 a year and comes with clunky webmail and apps you have to set up yourself. Instead, you can have a full-featured web site with multiple spacious email accounts, blog or static web page hosting, and other services for free. You don’t have to lease server space or run your own server to have your own URL. Let’s take a look at how you can set up a complete domain name backend for free. More »
