A Few Helpful Things Stuck on My Firefox Tabs; Time to give my computer a break!

I haven’t shut my computer down in 5 days now because I’ve got too many tabs open on Firefox. In an effort to give my iMac a break, I’m going to just post a few of the many interesting finds that made their way into the 27 tabs I had open across 5 browser windows. Tabs are great in theory, but this constantly happens to me . . . I am yet another victim of “Multi-Browser Tab Syndrome”. Maybe I should start a 5 step program for others like me.

How do you handle the tab obsession?

Here are a few of the useful things I had open: (ahhhh . . . it feels good to begin closing things down!)

• How to Fix Your Rankings in Yahoo and Google by Neil Patel, discusses an extremly interesting idea I never thought of: contacting the search engines to find out why your site is ranking poorly. It is more complicated then that and you should read the article to get the details.

  This is particularly intresting to me because I’ve managed to do quite well in Google, but languish on Yahoo and MSN. Looks like its time for an email!

• Attracting New Visitors By Focusing On Long Tail Search Terms by Mitchell Harper covers how to pick long-tail keywords to focus your posts on in order to get good rankings.
• In another post by Mitchell, we are reminded that Every Blog Should Have An Accompanying Ebook. I haven’t heeded this piece of advice yet, but it is definitely in the works!
• Web Users Don’t Read Online by Randfish of SEOmoz
• 6 Things High Ranking Websites Have That Yours Doesn’t written by Julia Hyde

• Garmin Gps Updater - Not something most of you will care about, but my GPS has 2 year old data and I’m trying to figure out if there is a way to update the firmware . . . I hate entering an address on it that “doesn’t exist” - LAME. When I get back to this link, maybe I’ll figure it all out.