Apart from the reason that content is weighed most heavily by Google, all other so called “methods” are temporary. In the beginning there was the “fill your site with invisible keywords” method. The point of this was to create a huge chunk of text containing keywords, and setting its visibility to none. This means its still in the code, so Google sees it, but users don’t. Try that now and you’ll get a ban in seconds. Then came the meta tags period where people used to give huge-long descriptions and lengthy meta keyword lists. While not such a ’sin’, it won’t give you what you’re looking for.

My point is that everyone wants to cheat search engines and while it is of course a possibility, its only a matter of time before they get ahead of you. If you’re lucky you fall back a few hundred places, if not, you’re banned. As with every other business you have to work at it. I mean gHacks has 4,851 posts right now, over almost four years, that’s about 3.5 posts every day. Not all are written by Martin nowadays, but I bet he started the blog alone, and up until not too long ago he had a day job.

So if you want to go instantly to number one, you really need a great idea, like Twitter, Remember The Milk and so on. Otherwise you will have to keep at it. if you’re passionate about what you’re doing, you’ll find so many little successes on the way. When I started my own blog, Hack Your Day after about a 5 days if you typed “Hack Your Day” into Google I was at number 8-9, Hack a Day, Lifehack and so on were in front of me. After a month or so I was at number 1. This is of course of no use at all, but still a small victory, showing I’m doing something right.

If you’re doing a project on the web, especially a blog, keep in mind that you won’t be successful in a matter of days, it will most like take years if it ever happens at all. Hey, if it was easy, where would the challenge be?

Related posts

• Blogging Tips (10)
• Wordpress SEO: Advanced Nofollow (3)
• Wordpress 2.8 (5)
• Webmasters: Search For Links Posted On Twitter (3)
• Web CEO Free (1)

I did find the Split Browser extension for Mozilla Firefox which does exactly what I wanted. It allowed me to split the screen anyway I wanted it to split.

I could split the content area vertically or horizontally, and split those areas again if wanted. I’m happy with two websites that are next to each other vertically but you could theoretically split the content area in four windows or even more.

The author of the extension has a screenshot at the extensions website that shows a content area with about 20 websites. This is of course just for demonstration purposes, no one would really split the content area in that many parts. I think the limit is four different areas, probably more if you run really high resolutions.

Using the extension is no problem at all. Once you have installed the Split Browser extension and restarted Firefox you see that the extension added a new entry to the right-click menu. The entry is called Split Browser to and it appears on websites and on links.

The options are to split the browser above, right, left or below which actually loads the same website again in the space that you have selected. If you choose right for example it will split the content area that way that the same website is loaded again on the right side of the previous one. You are free to decrease or increase the size of every website in the content area.

If you wanted to create a new area in the second half you would right-click in that half and select below for example to part it again.

I personally think that this is a must have extension for everyone who is having a blog for example. Switching tabs to view information that you need is no more. Great !

Related posts

• Split The Firefox Browser (5)
• Zoom In on Images in Firefox (6)
• Webslices and Activities ported to Firefox (5)
• Web of Trust: collaborative online security (7)
• Use the Foxtor Extension for anonymous surfing (6)