Twitter

When I first saw Twitter I was confused about how the heck it's getting so popular. Well, I signed on and to be honest with you, I'm still confused about all the hype this program is getting.

What is Twitter ?

Twitter is a free micro blogging/social networking programming that let's other people read what you're doing or other updates that you might have at the moment. So basically Twitter is like email but without the spam.

SEO and Twitter

For Seo purposes, Twitter is great for bringing traffic to your blog or website. You can post deals and coupons that you're offering, but I only see this being effective if you have a lot of followers. Many other companies are seeing the popularity in Twitter and are finding ways to implement the service with theirs. For instance, EzineArticles has an option now where you can input your Twitter login info into your profile. Whenever you submit an article to EzineArticles and it gets approved, your article will also be posted as an update on your Twitter with a link to the original article.

Where Can I Find a Twitter Badge for My Site?

A Twitter badge is an interface where you can paste onto your site, and every time you post an update on Twitter, the same update gets pushed onto your site. Go to the here to get your Twitter badge.

Pictures on Twitter

If you want to send images on Twitter instead of text, you can use a free online program called TwitPics. Just use the same login info from your Twitter account. If you're on FireFox you need to get the GreaseMonkey addon, after that immediately go here to install the GreaseMonkey script. To send an image on Twitter, just email the image to your newly created TwitPics email, and within and your image will shortly appear on Twitter for everyone to see.

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Yahoo Merchant Store Form Script Fix Instructions

Contact Us Form Fix For Your Yahoo Store

Effective January 24th, 2008, Yahoo Merchant Stores had a security update to their pro forma script. This update affect Yahoo Store Owners from receiving contact emails from their customers. You can try and follow their instructions on how to update the pro forma script or you can try and follow my instructions below.

1. Log into your store editor and click on your "contact us" link on your home page. (note: this fix is for contact us pages with forms)

2. Click on Edit on your store editor while your on your contact us page.

3. Under "Object properties", go to the Caption section where you should see some coding.

4. Look for the script :

form method="post" action="http://.stores.yahoo.net/cgi-bin/pro-forma"

5. Replace that script code with this new script code:

form method="post" action="http://.stores.yahoo.net/cgi-bin/pro-forma"

**note** replace with your store account name: yhst-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

You can find your Store Account Info in the Store Control Panel under Site Settings.

6. Once you've replaced the old script, hit update in your store editor and publish your site

You should be able to accept emails again!

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Google's Knol Has No Dupe Check?

Google's Knol was built to rival Wikipedia. But many have claimed that people are scraping content off their site and posting them as a "knol". The worst part is that with the same content written on Google owned Knol, the person scraping the content is ranking higher than the site where the original content came from. Now I know it's still in it's beta stages but is Google favoring it's own sites over others? Can't wait to see how this will unfold a year from now.

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I'm Already #1 For "SEO Guru of Orange County!"

#1 for SEO Guru of Orange County - And My Blog is Not Indexed In Google Yet!

So I started this blog yesterday and today I typed in SEO Guru of Orange County, and I'm in the #1 spot! But wait, my site hasn't been indexed by Google yet! So how was I able to reach the top so fast? The answer is BlogCatalog. BlogCatalog is a blogger social network/blog directory that introduces your blogs to a blogging social network. I submitted this blog to BlogCatalog yesterday and now it's ranked #1, but if you type in "jack-nguyen.blogspot.com" in Google's search box, nothing comes up. So that's why it's important post your blogs in blog directories and social network sites.

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Top SEO Plug-Ins for FireFox

Top Seo Plugins for FireFox

Here's a few plug-ins that makes my life a whole lot easier when I do seo analysis on sites, etc. You don't have to download all of them, just check each one out and see which one you like best:

1. SEO Quake - I use this plug-in everyday and whenever I don't need it, just click the icon at the bottom right hand corner of your screen and it turns off until you turn it back on. The great thing about SEO Quake is that its freeware! Anything that's free is OK with me!

2. SearchStatus - This was one of the first add-ons I've used to highlight each no-follow links are highlighted in pink for ease of visibility, great for analyzing nofollow directories and social bookmarking sites.

3. Google Toolbar for FireFox - This should have been #1 because when you initially download FireFox, you're probably wondering why you don't see the Page Rank bar at the top. That's because you have to download the Google Toolbar because you know who thought of the whole Page Rank theory? You guessed it.....Google.

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Who Is Jack Nguyen?

Jack Nguyen - SEO Guru of Orange County?

Jack Nguyen is the SEO Guru Of Orange County. Ok, So that statement might be stretching it a little, but his goal is to hone his SEO skills to become better in search engine optimization. As Jack struggles on the traveling path of becoming the SEO guru of Orange County, the purpose of this blog is for everyone to learn and study SEO so that they too, can also become SEO gurus! So kick off your shoes and relax your feet, party on down to the Esca......uh nevermind.....Enjoy the blog courtesy of the SEO guru of Orange County, Jack Nguyen.

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Seo Guru Of Orange County

Calling myself the SEO Guru Of Orange County is quite a stretch, But Im willing to take the challenge and go toe to toe with the real SEO gurus of Orange County.

Why I Want To Be The SEO Guru Of Orange County

The reason why I wanted to become the SEO guru of Orange County is to not only prove to myself, but to prove to everyone else that I do know what I'm doing. Although I still consider myself a student of SEO, I feel that this blog would be a great addition to the internet for seo news. This blog will not only cover search engine optimization topics, but will cover any topics that interests me such as fishing, pets, poker chips, fitness, cool gadgets, jokes, etc.

What is SEO?

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is knowing how to rank your site on the first page of the search engine results page (or SERPs). The great thing about seo is that it changes and you must learn constantly to keep up with your rankings. There are tons of information out there online that you can learn from, and hopefully I can add some useful information on SEO. Hopefully I can one day rank number one for the SEO Guru Of Orange County!

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