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So, I used Blog Talk Monitor to create this post, and wow! I found some very cool stuff for you to try. Well… one site you’ll have to wait a while for, but it WILL be awesomely cool when it “arrives.”
But first things first… I found an article on Blogger Breath entitled, “50 Blog Tools to Help You Blogging.” Well, I’m all for that, right?
I looked at all 50 tools, and of those, I found a bunch of cool Web 2.0 sites that you’ll love. Three of them were really, really cool.
The first one is DomainScour.com where you can plug in a keyword for your niche and it comes back with all the available domains. It also gives you some creative domain hacks like Blog.ging.com. Yeah, not good for biz, but interesting.
However, DomainScour is still in alpha and it didn’t work for me, but I’ll go back. Do you know how hard it is to come up with a blogging domain? Me & Tellman sat on the phone for about an hour trying to come up with something cool for about an hour one Saturday last year and bupkiss. Every cool domain we came up with was taken. I finally figured Blogging4Boomers.com would be a good one; he disagreed, and there you have it. I agree with Tellman most of the time, of course, but it was just impossible to come up with something that hadn’t already been taken. So, when Domain Scour gets it together, it will be a very useful service.
The next site I liked was GenFavIcon.com which takes any image and turns it into a Favicon. Kewl. I think I’ll change mine. Since this was so easy to do. Very cool.
And finally, the most indubitably cool site is WebsiteGrader from the same people that give you TwitterGrader . This blog got a 95.4, though the .4 doesn’t show in my sidebar. Still, not bad, eh?
I was thrilled to find that I have 1,763 inbound links. And this particular blog is only a bit over a year old. Yes! It also gives you on-page SEO evaluation and shows you how you’re doing in the blogosphere. Interesting stuff.
The only problem is that some recommendations for improving my blog were things I can’t control, but others, I certainly can, which will help me in the SERPs. Very, very cool.
My advice? Wait for DomainScour, get yourself a cool favicon and see how your site ranks. It certainly can’t hurt, right? And imagine how it might help.
Not too shabby, huh? I love Web 2.0! It’s the most fun I have online.
If you want to see a whole bunch more cool Web 2.0 stuff, just go to http://GotoWeb20.com and have fun!
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November 15th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Thanks for sharing the link to those 50 blogging tools. I just have a look and I’m very impressed by those tools. Recently, I found quite a number of bloggers are using Blog Talk Monitor. They have great feedback after using it and I would love to try it out too. Thanks for sharing your feedback and those tools you’ve tried!
November 15th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
I have a blog about web 2.0 and I find your blog very useful.
For sure I´ll come back again.
About the Favicon issue, I´ll use and suggest http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/ , which is a good alternative and is what I use in my blog.
All the best.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Wow! Those were some great resources, I love the website grader! Just so you know, the gotoweb20.com link did not work for me.
I’ve been thinking about doing blogging online, I’ll have to take advantage of all these!
How are you buddies with Tellman? That guy’s a genius!
November 17th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Hey Sapphire,
I’m glad you liked the post, and sorry I gave you the wrong link. Here’s the right one:
http://www.go2web20.net/
I work for Tellman. I’m the content manager at Overcome Everything!
– Pat
November 25th, 2008 at 6:31 am
I’ve been thinking about doing blogging online, I’ll have to take advantage of all these!
How are you buddies with Tellman? That guy’s a genius!
November 25th, 2008 at 10:48 am
@smith -
Hey Smith…
I work for him. How’d we meet? I joined his coaching program. Now, I’m part of the coaching program that I paid for more than 2 years ago. It’s pretty amazing when I think about it.
And you’re right… Tellman Knudson is totally a genius and a really great guy.
– Pat