Useful Firefox Add-ons

Here is a list of some very useful addons for FireFox (get it free here), listed in order of usefulness:

• SEOQuake - View the Google PR, Alexa Rank in this bar; the number of pages of this website that are indexed in Google, MSN and Yahoo are shown all at once.
  
• Cooliris - Preview another page from any page.
  
• AngleBracket - Get notified of new AngleBracket posts and breaking news from around the world, includes webmaster links. Customizable to include weather forecast, email notification, gadgets, and more
• Google NoteBook extension - Take notes to your Google NoteBook from any page.
• Measureit! - useful for measuring your screen in pixels
• IE Tab - View webpages with MSIE that is embedded in Firefox. Very useful for checking if pages work in both browsers
  
• FireBug - Error console with editing and debugging abilities
  
• ColorZilla - Advanced color picker letting you revealing the color code for the any element on the screen
  

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On PLR And Recycled Content

As Private Label Rights become increasingly popular due to their completely editable and resellable nature, what should webmasters and internet marketers take note of when gathering content for their websites?

Content, is king. This is true when applied to search engines and most importantly, your visitors. For an internet marketer who regularly provides helpful tips through email to his subscribers, he is pressed for information to provide to his prospects -- and turns to PLR content, which is often already 'recycled' two or three times before landing in the hands of the marketer, who then condenses it and presents it to his subscribers. But they have seen it before, somewhere, from someone else.

That's the case with PLR editing, what I call recycling.

But here's another thing about information compiling -- some people will say compilations are now original content; but more often than not, people have already seen this information before -- from different sources, just that now, the information is put together.

In both the website content and the email examples, your customer will slowly get tired of your 'original' information that he has seen somewhere else, and eventually unsubscribe, or in the website content example, he would forget about the website and never come back again.

If you have no original stuff, have none at all. It is a waste of your and others' time. Be creative, original, and informative. PLR should be your last choice for content.

Article Writing: Road to PageRank

Many people know of numerous ways to increase their PageRank, but ironically, because there are so many ways to do this, most don't know where to start. Of all the methods I've tried before to increase my PageRank, the most effective and least time-consuming method is - Writing articles. It is by far the most powerful PageRank increaser.

My PageRank jumped from zero to one in a week, and to two in three weeks. Before I had started writing articles, I had mostly said to myself something like, "Yeah, yeah, when I get more knowledge about the topic, I will write articles."

But eventually, still without a lot of knowledge, I tried writing articles. There was a month in which I didn't check the PageRank, because the Google Toolbar wasn't installed on that machine. One day, I used one of the online PR checkers and found out that there was PR2 on my website! I was shocked at the effectiveness of article writing.

For those who aren't familiar with the whole business of article writing, here's a short explanation: first, you write an article, then submit it to an article directory, such as ezinearticles.com (do a quick search on Google for 'article directory'); next, someone who has a website takes the article and puts it on his/her website as content -- but with your resource box. As more and more websites put the article on their sites, you now have hundreds of one-way backlinks to your site!

Writing an article about something you are interested about is the best. Keep the article between 300 and 500 words. And the critical part is to create an interesting 'resource box,' a box with a link back to your website.

Many people don't write articles because they don't realize how much they have underestimated it's power.

Here are a few tips for writing articles:

- Don't put many links to other sites in your articles. This increases the PageRank 'value' of each link on the page, including the resource box link to your own site.
- Make the article interesting. Website owners won't put the article on their site if they think the article is boring.

Try to realize that writing articles is a kind of 'investment' on backlinks to your website, then start writing your articles.