the Web... it's kind of my thing!

jQuery makes it easy to determine if an element in your DOM exists.

if ( $('#elementID').length ) { // do something }

A long discussed topic as a factor in the infamous algorithm is domain age. This factor may cast a gray shadow over a new website and their ensuing launch because of the fear that the domain "isn't old enough" to be ranked by Google.

Domain age is a factor in the Google algorithm but shouldn't be a key factor in your SEO equation. Google tries to use their data on when they they first crawl and/or see links to you site to determine the age factor. Relying on what WHOIS data that is available is some loose ground in terms of Google's crawl.

All this comes back to what your site is and how you create content for it. So keep your resources to build good content that people want to link to and Google will find and rank your site. Don't poor all your money into that 9 year old URL from the site auction and then just plop some content online. Focus on content, first and foremost.

Use the "inanchor:" and "allinanchor:" operators to see which of your competitors have obtained keyword rich links to their site. This will help you analyse their link building effectiveness on keywords you target or should be targeting.

If you do an indexation search on Google you can only get 1000 results deep, or to page 100. An odd stat to uncover since most searchers don't make it past page 3 of any given search query SERP (Search Engine Results Pages).

An alternative to this issue is the utilize Google's search operators and begin your query with "site:" or "inurl:". This will limit your results to the requests site.

To accomplish this we will need a few things:

Your customize Tumblr URL

Your Evernote Site Memory button Code

A hosted jQuery source.

Getting to Your Customize Theme Page

We will need to edit your Tumblr theme to include the Evernote Site Memory button and add some jQuery to manipulate the showing and hiding of the button where applicable.

To access your Tumblr Theme code got to the customize URL (http://www.tumblr.com/customize) or click "Customize" in the right hand column.

Click the "Theme" link on the customize toolbar to open your Theme HTML context. The Theme HTML is where we make the magic happen.

Evernote Site Memory Button

In a new tab go to the Evernote Site Memory Button Builder. On this page you can build you site memory button. Evernote has provided a few different options to fit into various layouts. After you build your button copy the code from the Button Preview section.

My tumblr site uses the following button code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.evernote.com/noteit.js"> <a href="#" onclick="Evernote.doClip({contentId:'post',providerName:'Andrew Epperson\'s blog'}); return false;"><img alt="Clip to Evernote" src="http://static.evernote.com/article-clipper-vert.png" border="0" /></a>

Take your copy of the code and insert it into your Theme HTML at the desired spot. Wrap the site memory button code inside of a div with and id of "enClip". We will use this id for the jQuery. The code should like this:

<div id="enClip"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.evernote.com/noteit.js"> <a href="#" onclick="Evernote.doClip({contentId:'post',providerName:'Andrew Epperson\'s blog'}); return false;"><img alt="Clip to Evernote" src="http://static.evernote.com/article-clipper-vert.png" border="0" /></a></div>

We now need to give our post content the id of "post" that we are declaring in the "contentId" parameter of the Evernote clip javascipt. Assign the div that contains your posts elements the id of "post". Yes on the homepage this will create duplicate IDs which should be unique, but the HTML will still render and Evernote requires an ID and not a class for this purpose.

Using jQuery to Show the Button

Now we want the Evernote Site Memory Button to show an the individual post, but not on the homepage with multiple post. This is desired because of how Tumblr repeats posts in the theme our post id of "post" is repeated on the homepage and the button wouldn't know which id to pull content from.

Within your <style></style> tag add the styling to hide the "enClip" div and any other styling that is required for layout on the page. My css looks like:

#enClip {float:left; padding-right:10px; display:none;}

Now we add our jQuery library and code to show the button on the individual post pages. Add the following code before your tag (replacing YOURURL with your Tumblr blog username:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"> <script type="text/javascript"> $(function() { var wl = window.location.href; if ( wl != "http://YOURURL.tumblr.com/" ) { $("#enClip").show(); } }); </script>

The above code checks to see if the URL does not equal the path to your homepage. If it does not match then we show the enClip div that contains the Evernote Site Memory Button.

Google now shows you personalized search results all the time, even when you are not logged in. Results are personalized based upon your last 180 days of Google activity as tracked by the linked cookie in your browser.

You will see the 'predicted query' as the keyword in your Google Analytics, as indicated in a recent post by Google.

After about a month of use, I have found Evernote to be catch all for items I need to / should remember. I mostly find myself using the desktop application and iPhone app, but the Firefox plugin and DM on Twitter are also great tools for the quick shot items.

Items often stored in my Evernote include:

snippets of code

tip and tricks

meeting notes

To quickly adjust the number of results on your Google search results page add “&num=100” to the end of the URL. This number doesn’t have to be 100. If you wanted 50, just replace the number.

The answer is unlimited. You can have as many users admin a Fan Page as you want.

Q: Twitter User Stream. What is that?

A: In short, "User Streams provides real-time updates of all data needed to update a desktop application display". A detailed explanation can be found on Twitter's dev site.

I have been on the private beta testing of this API for a few weeks now, and I must say... real-time twitter feed in my TweetDeck is awesome. The open beta testing date hasn't yet been announced, but is suggested to be available soon.