15 Must have Modules and Tips for Seach Engine Optimization in Drupal

The list of add on modules for Drupal makes SEO easy.

• Page Titles - This module gives you control over the page title. It gives you the chance to specify patterns for how the title should be structured, and on content creation pages, gives you the chance to specify the page title rather than defaulting to the content's title.

• URL paths - This creates automatic path aliases for nodes, users, and category terms, eliminating the need to create them manually. This way, your site is more user and search engine friendly, and more descriptive about its content with less work from your side.

• Clean URLs - This tells Drupal to use "clean URLs", eliminating the "?q=" in internal URLs

• Find URL Alias - This is a small utility module to help you track down particular URL aliases.

• Global Redirect
  

• URLify - - This simple module that generates the path alias of a node automatically using javascript. The alias is generated from the title of the node.

• Pathauto - Thi module automatically generates path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, categories, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias. This allows you to get aliases like /category/my-node-title.html instead of /node/123

• Google Analytics - Track your visitors via Google analytics.
  

• Excerpt- This module allows you to enter a separate excerpt/summary/teaser for a node, which does not have to be a cut off version of the body.

• Meta Tags - Sets up keyword and other meta tags for each node.
  

• Scheduler - This allows nodes to be published and unpublished on specified dates

• Safe HTML - This module that filter the input before the content is stored in the database

• Search 404 - This module performs a search on the keywords in the URL instead of showing a 404 error.
  

• Digg This - This module adds a Digg this button to your nodes. If the story is not yet submitted to Digg a "Digg this story" button is displayed. If the story was already submitted a button showing the number of Diggs you received is displayed.

• Service Links - This enables admins to add links to a number of social bookmarking sites, blog search sites etc. Includes sites are del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, ma.gnolia.com, Newsvine, Furl, Google, Yahoo, Technorati and IceRocket

• Trackback - Adds TrackBack support to Drupal. Sending and retrieval of TrackBacks are supported either using POST or GET.

Google map your vistors

This is a free version, which only tracks the last twenty visitors. You can check out their example here.The instructions are basic with only two steps.

1) Copy and paste this JavaScript anywhere onto the pages you'd like to track:

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.gvisit.com/record.php?sid=xxxx" type="text/javascript"></script>

2) View your map with this URL: ( note, this is for my website )

http://www.gvisit.com/map.php?sid=9f24ad6cf34ed722181908d63eaaa11f

Psychometric Tests

Practice, practice and practice.... Here are a collections links where you can try those out.

• http://www.aptitudetestsonline.com/
• http://www.keirsey.com/
• http://www.practicetests.cubiks.com
• http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/
• http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/
• http://www.psychometrics-uk.com/psy01.html
• http://www.gamsat.co.uk/
• http://www.morrisby.com/
• http://www.ase-solutions.co.uk/support.asp?id=62
• http://www.gmac.com/gmac
• http://www.mindtools.com/
• http://www.shldirect.com/
• http://www.assessmentday.co.uk/
• http://www.careers.lon.ac.uk/output/page212.asp?node=645
• http://doctorjob.com/testingzone/

How to speak the letters of the alphabet

Letter	Code word	Pronunciation
A	Alfa (ICAO, ITU, IMO, FAA) Alpha (ANSI)	AL FAHS
B	Bravo	BRAH VOE
C	Charlie	CHAR LEE or SHAR LEE
D	Delta	DELL TAH
E	Echo	ECK OH
F	Foxtrot	FOKS TROT
G	Golf	GOLF
H	Hotel	HO TELL (ICAO) HOH TELL (ITU, IMO, FAA)
I	India	IN DEE AH
J	Juliett (ICAO, ITU, IMO, FAA) Juliet (ANSI)	JEW LEE ETT
K	Kilo	KEY LOH
L	Lima	LEE MAH
M	Mike	MIKE
N	November	NO VEM BER
O	Oscar	OSS CAH
P	Papa	PAH PAH
Q	Quebec	KEH BECK
R	Romeo	ROW ME OH
S	Sierra	SEE AIR RAH (ICAO, ITU, IMO) SEE AIR AH (FAA)
T	Tango	TANG GO
U	Uniform	YOU NEE FORM or OO NEE FORM
V	Victor	VIK TAH
W	Whiskey	WISS KEY
X	X-ray or Xray	ECKS RAY (ICAO, ITU) ECKS RAY (IMO, FAA)
Y	Yankee	YANG KEY
Z	Zulu	ZOO LOO
0	Zero (FAA) Nadazero (ITU, IMO)	ZE RO (ICAO, FAA) NAH-DAH-ZAY-ROH (ITU, IMO)
1	One (FAA) Unaone (ITU, IMO)	WUN (ICAO, FAA) OO-NAH-WUN (ITU, IMO)
2	Two (FAA) Bissotwo (ITU, IMO)	TOO (ICAO, FAA) BEES-SOH-TOO (ITU, IMO)
3	Three (FAA) Terrathree (ITU, IMO)	TREE (ICAO, FAA) TAY-RAH-TREE (ITU, IMO)
4	Four (FAA) Kartefour (ITU, IMO)	FOW ER (ICAO, FAA) KAR-TAY-FOWER (ITU, IMO)
5	Five (FAA) Pantafive (ITU, IMO)	FIFE (ICAO, FAA) PAN-TAH-FIVE (ITU, IMO)
6	Six (FAA) Soxisix (ITU, IMO)	SIX (ICAO, FAA) SOK-SEE-SIX (ITU, IMO)
7	Seven (FAA) Setteseven (ITU, IMO)	SEV EN (ICAO, FAA) SAY-TAY-SEVEN (ITU, IMO)
8	Eight (FAA) Oktoeight (ITU, IMO)	AIT (ICAO, FAA) OK-TOH-AIT (ITU, IMO)
9	Nine (FAA) Novenine (ITU, IMO) (No 'r' in spellings)	NIN ER (ICAO, FAA) NO-VAY-NINER (ITU, IMO)

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How to add Tags Cloud for Blogger

As shown in right column, the tag or label cloud epresents the number of items to which a tag has been applied, as a presentation of each tag's popularity.

Example of this is http://del.icio.us/tag/



The setup is fairly straight forward. Simply follow the instructions from:

http://phy3blog.googlepages.com/Beta-Blogger-Label-Cloud.html

It involved editing of the current template, just a backup copy somewhere before hand.

Things You need to know to hosts your own website

What is web hosting?

When you visit a website on your browser, what its doing is downloaded a page from the web server to you browser on your computer. A website is generally made up of many different web pages.

To host a web site, you will need somewhere to out your pages, so online users can browse your website on the internet. There are plenty of web hosting providers that will help you do that.

Any web hosting providers are connected to the Internet through high speed Internet connection. Some important services they will need to provide are:

• 24/7 operational time or uptime
• data backup and restore
• internet connection speed
  

What are the different types of web hosting?

There are different kinds of web hosting companies out there with different characteristics. The main types of web hosts can be organized into the following categories:

• Shared Hosting
• Dedicated Hosting
• Co-location hosting
• Reseller hosting

List of blog directories

Here you will find a list of blog directories. Free free to get your blogs listed.

• Blog Catalog
• Blogarama
• Blogwise
• Globe of Blogs
• Bloggernity
• Bloghop
• Bloghub
• Blog Universe

8 useful ClearCase Views Commands

Views in ClearCase are similar to a 'workspace' or 'working directory' concept from other source versioning system.   Typically developers would have more than one view for reference or comparison.   A special feature is the use of dynamic view, which provides real-time versions on the working directory.   However the trade off is the high usage of network bandwidth compared to the snapshot view. 

Create a new view
cleartool mkview -tag {view name} /{view path}/{view name}.vws

List view
cleartool lsview {view name}

Short listing of view
cleartool lsview -s {view name}Search view
cleartool lsview -region nt/unix -s | grep {view name}

Long listing of view
cleartool lsview -l {view name}

Set into a view
cleartool setview {view name}

Set config spec
cleartool setcs {config spec}Edit config spec
cleartool edcs

How to change favicon in google blogger

Don't like the standard default icon? Follow the few simple steps below to change it!

1. Create and upload your own favicon to a server.
2. From Blogger, edit HTML in Template settings.
3. Add the following code between the tags

<link href="http://location of your favicon" type="image/x-icon" />

Flash game of the day: Flash Element TD

With Warcraft graphics and units, this tower defense game really does a great job of emulating those great Warcraft TD games...

Screenshot:


http://www.novelconcepts.co.uk/FlashElementTD/play.asp

Submit Blog into Google Search Engine

1. First log into Google Webmasters Tools
   
2. Submit and verify your blog.
3. Choose meta tags verification method.
4. Go back to your blog and edit html from templates.
5. After the open head tag, inset the following meta tag to allow Google bots to crawl.

   <meta name="robots" content="INDEX, FOLLOW">

   
   
6. Also insert the meta tag given from Google
   

Flash game of the day: Onslaught 2

If you like tower defense games... this one even have combos for towers!

Instructions:
http://onslaught.playr.co.uk/about.html

Actual Game:
http://onslaught.playr.co.uk/index.html

A week in Seoul

Day 1: Got my cash converted in to Korean won. Feels so rich =)



Day1:

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Gmail Signature Generator

Creates a nice email image signature for your blogs, web pages or emails. I've mine done.....
and you?


http://gsig.brightdev.com/

New year, new start!