Archive for the ‘The Toolbox’ Category

Geek Out: Google Domestic Trend Charts

Here’s a cool resource for economic freelancers (or for anyone who is interested in real world charts and graphs): America’s past economic performance, as demonstrated by trends in Google searches, adjusted for search volume.
The first page shows a couple of fascinating charts: the first is the “Google Retail Index and Clothing Store Sales” [...]

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Great Advice for Managing Stress

Words of Wisdom!
“Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over. So, if I find that some particular thing is causing me to have stress, that’s a warning flag for me. What it means is there’s something that I haven’t completely identified perhaps in my conscious mind that [...]

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Print Calendars FREE

Here’s a favorite site I’ve been using for years for printing free calendars (hearkens back to the early days of the internet–lots of geeky, free things). Why buy a calendar when you’ve got printfree.com?
Click Here, newbie.

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Backup Your WordPress Blog!

Web site backups may be boring, but they’re essential to good web hygiene. Here’s the official WordPress guide to backing up your blog (and yes, you MUST back up both the site and its associated database).
Here’s how.

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How to Find Incoming Links to Your Site

Another great service from Google: here are a couple of methods for finding incoming links to your site.

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Google’s Webmaster Central Blog

Here’s an indispensable link for bloggers: Google’s Webmaster Central Blog.
This handy tool will keep you in the loop regarding Google’s spiders and their policies about site indexing for Google searches.
Help make the internet a better place by cleaning out any comment spam or other nuisances that might be costing your blog precious [...]

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