Make Firefox Faster at Forever Geek

If you're not using Firefox, you really should be. Tabbed browsing, speed and security are what you'll get out of it! And now you can go even faster (assuming you have broadband).

Make Firefox Faster at Forever Geek:

try this "power-user" trick to make it download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. It's only useful for broadband users, so if you're still on dial-up you can just skip this one for now.

Link popularity checks for your blog

I'm always trying to make sure I'm keeping on top of who's linking to me. The really nice part of Marketleap's Link Popularity Check (the only one of the popularity check's reviewed that I liked) is the comparison of your site to others. It's nice to see that my site is above the limited presence.

A Consuming Experience: Link popularity checks for your blog:

Bloggers are always interested in "Who links to me". Link popularity checkers show how many other sites the main search engines say link to your blog, with links to view the search results listing those sites. Some tools even show how popular your blog is (judged by links to you) compared with major Websites, and with some you can, if you really want to, compare your blog's link popularity with your friends' blogs', or indeed any other particular sites you choose.

This post reviews a few free link popularity check tools, and also there are forms to try checking your own blog's link popularity

Why Bloggers Don't Need SEO | Performancing.com

Now this is something I've never seen before in a recommendation. But it really makes sense when it comes to blogging. If you want more people to come to your blog, then they have to come from somewhere, and hopefully in a positive way.

Why Bloggers Don't Need SEO | Performancing.com:

Blogging, and blogs are all about human referals - I mean, the kind of traffic sent to you from other blogs, as a recommendation, which all links are, though there is such a thing as a negative recommendation of course.

The most valuable link you will ever get is a positive recommendation from an authority blog in your niche - mostly. This means a link in the body of a post, not on a links page, or in a blogroll, but a genuine recommendation, or positive reference to your blog -- preferably to a single post, not the homepage.

With that, you get:

* Traffic - real people, predisposed to liking your blog
* New Feed subscribers - Gold
* More links - Yep, links breed links, and so do Feed subs
* And guess what? You'll also get Search rankings

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Wondering about social bookmarking? Want to know what del.icio.us is? Wonder no more and head on over to beelerspace for a useful howto on how to make it happen for you.

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A beginner's guide to The Next Big Thing

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Why would you want to do that? Bookmarking and tagging can be good for your site! Take a look at what performancing has to say on the matter:Tag Marketing for Traffic, Links and Rankings | Performancing.com

BaseBlogging Accounting for Bloggers

Not only is it Christmas season, but don't forget it's almost tax season as well. There are some very good points being made in the baseblogging.net, which is normally a sports blog.

BaseBlogging Accounting for Bloggers:

The easiest structure is a sole proprietorship, and in this event they basically do nothing. All of their income and expenses are reported on Schedule C of their Form 1040. This is probably the recommended version if the blogger is making a small amount of money from their blog. Once you get into the thousands of dollars and especially if you have a network or several people writing for you, it might be time to put something a little more formal into place.

I never, ever, would have thought of this for my sports blog. I wonder...

he general rule for a valid deduction is that it has to be ordinary and necessary. I know this sounds pretty grey, but unfortunately it is. Things like baseball books, publications and annuals would definitely be valid deductions. If you have MLB Extra Innings, then that would probably qualify as well, as would MLB TV on MLB.com although here we’re getting into the grey area. XM radio, which now has audio feeds of most MLB games, could also be considered a business deduction.

Oh, looks like I'm not going to qualify this year:

The other thing to keep in mind is what the IRS calls “Hobby Loss Rules.”

All very good advice. I'd take a look, if I were you.

Ken's Meme Deflector: XBlogThis!: An Extended BlogThis! Button

Ken Dyck has created a xblogthis extension of the Blog This! Button from blogger. You can use it to put multiple quotes, automatically create tags and it automatically insert's the author's name, too. I created this post using the tool. It seems to work pretty well.

Ken's Meme Deflector: XBlogThis!: An Extended BlogThis! Button:

The post it generates is fairly straightforward. For a title, it uses the title of the page you are blogging. It begins the post with a link to the page, using the title as the link text, followed by any text you have highlighted on the source page, wrapped in double quotes.

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Increase your blog traffic

Blogtraffic.org is in beta right now and they're willing to make a deal. While they are in beta testing stage you can get 500 credits per referral! Cheatproof IP checker means we will be packed with genuine surfers within weeks! They have a 1:1 traffic exchange and a 30 second timer.