Bookmarking

Everyone who has used the internet has seen those little icons, that look like kids drawings, at the bottom of some website – ” bookmark it “. What exactly does that mean.

Bookmarking is a way you can save your favorite site or that site that you discovered when doing a bit of surfing. It is also a way you can tag a site that you think your friends should check out. Bookmarks can be managed also. In other words you can divide it into files or folders, this is a great help when it comes to finding the site again.

Every time you take a look, bookmarking sites seem to be breeding like rabbits, I am not sure how many sites there are now, but at last count I found 50 major bookmarking sites. For webmasters it can help get a lot of back links, increase your traffic and best of all it’s free.

Market Downturn ?

How will the global downturn in the financial world affect the world of virtual real estate ? Will it be like the housing market and see the prices of homes around the world dropping by up to 30% or will it survive the present turmoil ?

On a brighter note, there have been sales of $4 million at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York  ( a auction of domain names ) and another million in after sales associated with the conference, but in general sales seem to be down, with only a dozen five figure sales at the end of September and the first week of October. The top ten for this period were all .com domains. The highest price paid was for bluecollar.com selling for $28,750.

Maybe the sales at the conference affected the market, but I think sales in general are down, but we will have to wait and see.

Free Web SEO Tools

I have just been looking at www.freewebseotools.com . I was very impressed to find what was available free. It offered all types of free information. A few of the tools available on this site :

Website rank checkers, which include, fake rank checker, site rank checker and search engine position checker.

IP tools – Reverse IP, ping script and firewall scanner.

Header/tag tools – http header extractor and meta-tag generator.

Misc. tools – URL shortener, website status checker and browser details tools.

Source code tools – source code viewer, html encrypter, website speed test and domain whois retriever.

Keyword-based tools – keyword density checker and keyword click value tool.

Search engine preview tools – spider viewer, search engine listing preview and text website viewer.

Website submitters – automated directory submitter.

Link based tools – link popularity checker.