I’ve been tagged by Ilker with the 5 past posts meme…
Since my top posts are already in the Best Stuff Page, I’d like to bring some attention to some less popular posts that had some unexpected (to me!) success, and you may have missed
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Inspired by a post at DailyBlogTips, I developed a nice SEO tool: a Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator.

Check it out and let me know what you think about it

You know how it goes when you’re a blogger… you love to check your stats every five minutes.

But too often we look at the popular search terms that took visitors to our site, and forget about the less popular ones.
Our own long tail.

Digging into our own long tail can be effective in many ways:
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Going on vacation.

I’ll be back in a couple of weeks… stay tuned!

Some weeks ago we talked about tracking feed subscription with Google Analytics.
Wouldn’t it be nice to view every single mouse gesture of your visitors? Here’s the tool you need.

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I activated dofollow for comments and trackbacks.

That means that if you leave comments or link to one of my posts, the link to your site will be seen as a “vote” from my site to your by search engines, giving you some help for better ranking in SERPs. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you should read this introduction and a brief explanation on how pagerank works)
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Feedburner seems to have had some problems today.

The feedburner feed was not in sync with feeds and they had problems with the ugly chicklets (another reason to use my feedcount plugin).

Did you have the same problems too?

To me, you are still nothing more than a little blog who is just like a hundred thousand other little blogs.
And I have no need of you.
And you, on your part, have no need of me.
To you I am nothing more than a visitor like a hundred thousand other visitors.
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other.
To me, you will be unique in all the world.
To you, I shall be unique in all the world. . .

That’s what the Visitor told the Blog. Or what the Fox told the Little Prince?
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Rounded Corners are a must-have if you want to give your blog a nice Web 2.0 Look and Feel.
Here are some tips to add rounded corners nearly everywere without pain.

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Finally someone at Alexa found out that there’s a little browser called firefox.

Few days ago, years after the release of Firefox 1.0, an official Alexa toolbar for firefox has been released.

It’s called Sparky, and shows a small alexa stats graph in the bottom right corner of your browser.

It can be used to monitor alexa stats for the sites you’re visiting. Apart from that, it seems to be almost useless.

The lack of firefox support was one of the reasons why I never trusted alexa. I’m happy to know that their data can now be a little more accurate, if only people had a reason to add this toolbar to firefox.

get Sparky from mozdev