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iPad Peek : Test Your Websites for iPad

Want to see what your website looks like on the iPad? Get a load of iPad Peek, a new web-based emulator that shows you how any site renders on the new Apple device.

Click on the black frame above the browser to switch between landscape and portrait modes. You can also test your web forms by mouse-typing on the virtual virtual keyboard.

Top 20 SEO Blogs

I love rankings, what can I say. After I published the “Top 20 Blogs About Blogging” list I thought that someone would replicate it for the SEO sphere. But no one did, so here we go again.

This list was made using pretty much the same algorithm (only small modifications were made, mainly due to the fact that SEO blogs are more popular). Once again the list should be useful because it is based on objective factors. There are many “Top SEO Blogs” lists around the web, but most of them are based on the preferences of the author.

Top 20 Blogs About Blogging

The "Top 20 Blogs About Blogging" list ranks blogs according to their Google Pagerank, Alexa rank, number of Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority.

Each of the four factors range from 0 to 10, where 10 is the best score. The maximum total score for each blog, therefore, is 40. There will be monthly updates. Below the table you will find the details about the algorithm (check also the Top 20 SEO Blogs).

Page Rank & Link Quantity Calculation

The following chart is based on the Google pagerank calculation for how Google calculates the PageRank (PR) of an individual page and what is required for certain pageranks. You can use this table as a guide and an estimation of how many links you need to get to achieve a certain pagerank score.

Duplicate Content PDF

When you install the Joomla System the PDF and Print icons shown in the top corner of article pages is effectively duplicate pages in your website. When a search engine looks at your website it scans the title, meta desc, meta keywords and page content.

Unique Content Is Not “Unique”

I was reading a recent entry on visibility over at the seomoz blog last night and in it was the tried and true suggestion of making your site stand out (both visibility wise and algorithmically wise) with content.

Avoid the 3 Top SEO Time Wasters

Too many people focus on the wrong things to achieve Search Engine Optimization (SEO) success. They end up wasting precious time. Here's how to get the maximum ROI on your time invested in learning SEO.

Add Images to your Google, Bing or Yahoo Sitemap

At Attitude Agency we use sitemaps for all of our websites, these are invaluable for SEO as they act like a contents page for a website making it easier for Search Engines to crawl and index pages on your website. Yesterday Google announced that you can now include images to your websites sitemap.

Sitemaps are invaluable for SEO as they act like a contents page for a website making it easier for Google to index pages on your site Google now let you include images to your sitemap.

How to get More Design Work from Existing Clients

Have you ever thought how much easier it would be to get more work from your existing design clients than trying to look for new ones?

Everyone always says when your quiet give your existing clients a ring just to see if they have any design work for you. I guess you could be lucky and call at just the right time but I have another idea you could try.

Everyone is Hiring!

The economy seems to be in the media spotlight and we are all sort of scared shitless. Yet, I wonder, how bad is it? They say you never really know till it hits home. Well, until recently no one I knew lost their job; actually most people I knew were getting new jobs (with much higher salaries). But alas, a friend of mine recently lost their job. However, within six minutes of telling me this, I was able to forward on more than half a dozen leads for companies hiring for their position within a two km radius of their apartment here in Bucharest. So, how bad can it really be?

If you work in the web space, they are hiring. And by they, I mean everyone! Heck, we just brought  new guys in sales here at Attitude. From information architects to designers to developers, from copywriters to project managers and everything in-between, they are hiring! From small shops to large media corporations, they are all hiring!

This feels much more like a "reality check" than a "recession". For all those who are hard working, talented and work in an industry that thrives, there seems to be no worry, no lack of jobs. But for those that were lazy, didn't keep up their skill set, didn't strive to be better, stayed with the same dead-end company or those that thought "blogging" was a career path; this might just be a reality check more so than an issue with the economy.

Everywhere I look people are trying to point out the negative, but I have to wonder, are companies failing because of a bad economy or simply because of better competition? Are the layoffs really only a result of a bad economy? Doesn't better competition have a little something to do with these outrageous numbers? For many organizations with layoffs, many of their direct competitors are growing. Isn't there some Darwinism here? We have had presented to us the layoffs but are those numbers off set by the number of hires?

Digg has a 10% layoff while Mixx grows their team by almost 50%. Circuit City closes all of its stores while Best Buy opens many new stores. Microsoft is down by 5% while Apple has a $10 Billion Dollar year! Google goes down by 1% while search competitors grow significantly in the last year. The Financial Times struggles in print while Fool.com grows significantly online, even moving into a brand new headquarters.

Can the "economy" really be to blame? If you can't find a job, are you really even looking? Is everyone hiring, just not hiring you? Maybe it's not the economy, maybe it is you?

I don't mean to come of as insensitive and I very much feel for anyone who has lost their job recently, especially those with families. I just wonder where the disconnect is; if everyone is hiring, shouldn't the number of people looking for jobs be decreased; what happened to good old supply and demand?