Widgenie empowers everyone, from bloggers to business people, to quickly visualize data and share it in many different ways. Now you can publish data in the places you already know and love, places like iGoogle, Facebook, Blogger, and even your own website. They combine all the power of an enterprise-level business intelligence platform and provide it in a convenient Web 2.0 widget. Best of all, you can do it all by yourself! And it’s free.

Widgenie’s one-click upload process makes it easy to upload your data to their service. Once the data is here, widgenie allows you to customize your data to only display the columns and fields you want to see. Best of all, when your data changes, it’s easy to re-upload your data so all of your widgets will have the latest information in real-time.

It’s really simple to get started, all you need is the Internet, a browser and an understanding of your needs. Are you:

• A blogger who wants to make their latest poll data pop right off the page?
• A marketing rep who needs to share sales figures without waiting for IT?
• A Sales manager who wants his team to update their own client data?
• A soccer coach who needs an easier way to display the most recent stats?

This could be useful for any one of you. Once your widgenie is free for the world to see, track its popularity and usage with our powerful reporting statistics.

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Posted by RobOusbey

As diligent Search Marketers know, it’s quite a good idea to get links from strong/trusted sites pointing to yours, and combine this with building a single link or two from a large number of smaller websites.

For some people, this second part can seem the most daunting – whilst there is a person you can talk to if you want a link on every page of timesonline.co.uk, there’s nobody you can call or email to get a link from every small website or blog. The difficulty of building such links is compounded when you realise that this work should be done using anchor text of the term you want to rank for.

Rand mentions domain diversity in this Whiteboad Friday post. Here’s a quick primer for increasing the domain diversity of your backlink profile.

1 – Linkbait

Build it, and they will come. And if it’s good enough, they’ll share it with other people by linking to it. This category includes any content created and published specifically to attract links. The various forms of linkbait cover perhaps the most popular techniques of getting a natural looking link from a wide number of sites that has been used in recent years. To make it extra useful, linkbait can work particularly well for targeting particular keywords – read more in the later points.

For a detailed primer in the ways of the ‘bait, you can’t really do better than SEOMoz’s Viral Marketing and Linkbait guide.

2 – Widgets

Since badges & widgets don’t fall under the description of linkbait used above, they can be considered quite distinctly. They exist to give value to the page they are embedded on. Links included within them typically take the form of a ‘credit’ that doesn’t need to be followed by a user to enjoy the widget/badge – but the search engines’ algorithms barely notice the difference.

Create something cool (and cool doesn’t necessarily need to be complicated) that people want to embed on their site, and you can watch the links roll in. This works particularly well for getting your branded terms in the anchor text.

3 – Press and Publicity

Great PR (or, in fact: terrible PR) can bring links to a site, without you actually having to create any specific content for the campaign. Make sure that your press / publicity mentions an official website; if people hear about your company in the media and the story is interesting enough to share with others, then you’ve increased the chance that they’ll link to your site at the same time. (Plus, each TV/radio/newspaper that covers your story may also link to you.)

4 – Affiliate Schemes

There are a number of question marks over the existence, technical aspects and transparency of ‘SEO friendly affiliate schemes’. However, a well thought-out scheme will benefit you as a retailer as well as your affiliates.

Allowing the affiliates to link to you from a variety of their sites, as well as from other blogs, forums, etc. will contribute to increased domain diversity for each of your product pages.

5 – Customer / User Outreach

Last year, Rand’s very first headsmacking tip was to ask people who’d bought from you, to link to you.

You don’t just need to be an ecommerce site to do this though. If you manage a forum or other site which people can register on, then drop them an email after their first post, for instance, with an invite to link to you. You may even consider asking your users for their website/homepage/blog when they first sign up, so that you can filter them, and only email people with a website. (Or, with a little more work, only email people with DmT > 2.0 )

6 – Have broad appeal

You can avoid reducing the number of potential sites that can link to you by being appealing to as wide a range of people as possible.

For example: if you’re a blogger, regularly writing about sewing, try dropping the odd post about knitting or other crafts, just to help broaden your potential for sites interested in linking to you.

Likewise: unnecessary NSFW content on your site is likely to reduce the propensity of other sites to link to you. (Of course, it might make others more likely to link, but there’s a balance you have to figure out.)

Getting the Anchor Text You Want

A couple of head-smackers coming up, but use these tips wisely to build relevance for the terms you want.

7 – Keywords in the URL

A significant proportion of links to any page will just use the page’s URL as the anchor text, so make sure that the slug already includes the keywords. (If you’re doing your on-page SEO properly, this should be a given.) Remember that if you’re going to create a short link (e.g.: for Twitter) then this link will get republished in a variety of places, so use a service such as bit.ly that lets you include keywords in the short link.

E.g., for the page http://www.example.com/products/shoes-and-clothes/trainers, you should probably try to use bit.ly/trainers

8 – Strong launch with good title

When a strong account launches your linkbait on any social media site, it gives it the best chance of getting seen by more people. A well chosen title can also increase visibility of your content within that site, but it can be even more useful than that.

When people link to your content, they may often use the title of the page. However, when linking to content they found through a social media site (i.e.: your linkbait pieces) they often use the same text that was used on that site. (This makes sense: if it was a great, well crafted headline, people should want to use it too.)

So: make sure your clever Digg/Reddit/etc headlines contain the keywords you’re after.

Finally: when I told my other half that I was going to write a blog post today about domain diversity, I asked her if she had any ideas how to get lots of people to link to your content. Her answer was “Put a picture of a kitten on it.” Well, it’s worth a shot, I guess…..

(Via Cute Things in Bed.)

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We are always in search of great free tutorials, resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Everyday we work hard to find new and useful stuffs for designers like you. Today, we have another great post related to design a beautiful website using stylish effects with CSS/jQuery. In this, we made a list of 21 Stylish CSS/jQuery Solutions To Beautify Your Web Designs. We obviously cannot cover all of the best available on internet, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share more CSS/jQuery tutorials and resources which our readers/viewers may like.  Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery

This is very beautiful thumbnail hover effect with jQuery tutorial using xHTML and CSS. If you switch up the absolute position coordinates, you can create various ways the hover effect pops out as well.

iCarousel

iCarousel is an open source (free) javascript tool for creating carousel like widgets. iCarousel is fully configurable. You can change any default option just initializating the class with an object in JSON.

Create a jQuery Graph Plugin

In this tutorial, author combine the versatile canvas element with the robust jQuery library to create a bar graphing plugin. In this first part, he is going to code the core logic of the plugin as a standalone version.

Styling and Adding Sort Options

This article consists of 2 parts: one is marking up and styling tags and the second is adding behavior to tag cloud using client-side script.

Uni-Form

Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, “modularize” it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms.

FancyUpload

FancyUpload is a file-input replacement which features an unobtrusive, multiple-file selection menu and queued upload with an animated progress bar. It is easy to setup, is server independent, completely styleable via CSS and XHTML and uses MooTools to work in all modern browsers.

Animated Menus Using jQuery

This tutorial will show you how to create beautiful animated menus using jQuery.

Improve form usability with auto messages

Animated auto messages are useful to improve FORM usability and Scriptaculous is a great framework to use in this case. In this article, you will learn how to improve form usability adding an auto message which appears and disappears with a nice fade-in and fade-out effect when an user select a field.

Unobtrusive Table Actions Script

An attempt at writing an unobtrusive (and fast) script that adds commonly required “actions” to data tables.

Control.Tabs

Control.Tabs attaches creates a tabbed interface from an unordered list of links/anchors that point to any elements on your page that have an id attribute. Since it attaches these behaviors to HTML that already has semantic meaning, it will degrade gracefully for browsers that do not support JavaScript, and is search engine friendly. It attaches in one line of code for simple use cases, but is highly customizable and can be used in a variety of edge cases.

Simple Page Peel Effect with jQuery & CSS

You have probably seen these forms of advertisings where you can peel a corner of a website and see a message underneath. It seems most are flash driven, but this one was developed using some simple lines of jQuery.

Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery

Tabbed content is a great way to handle this issue and has been widely used on blogs recently. In this article, author is going to build a simple little tabbed information box in HTML, then make it function using some simple Javascript, and then finally we’ll achieve the same thing using the jQuery library.

Create Vimeo-like top navigation 

In this tutorial, you will learn to create Vimeo-like top navigation. The base for this tutorial is simple CSS drop down menu based on unordered list.

Animate a hover with jQuery

Animate an image while hovering it and show the visitors information while doing that. It’s quite simple, you will make a list with a relative position, the image you will place with an absolute position, while hovering it you will give jQuery the command to give it a nice animating effect.

jQuery Tutorials for Designers

This article contains 10 visual tutorials intended for web designers and newbies on how to apply Javascript effects with jQuery.

Style Your Website’s Search Field with JS/CSS

SearchField is a simple lightweight, unobtrusive script that adds styling and behaviour to your search form fields. All you need to make SearchField work is a simple form field and 2 lines of code (links to css and js file) and you are ready to rock.

FancyBox 

FancyBox is tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style “lightbox” that floats overtop of web page.

Create an Image Rotator with Description (CSS/jQuery)

An image rotator is one great way to display portfolio pieces, eCommerce product images, or even as an image gallery. Although there are many great plugins already, this tutorial will help you understand how the image rotator works and helps you create your own from scratch.

Simple CSS + Javascript Tooltip with jQuery

This is simple and easy way to create a javascript tooltip with jQuery. Author break it into several sections: getting the mouse xy axis, anchor tag structure, how to hide default TITLE tooltips, css plus rounded corners box.

Create astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery

This is really useful tutorial to create astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery.

How to implement a news ticker with jQuery and ten lines of code

In this post, author is discussing to illustrate you how to implement a nice news ticker using jQuery and just ten lines of Javascript code.

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This is another post about useful wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.

In this post, I tried to list down 13 Simply Useful Wordpress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier. This list has few of the unlimited wordpress plugins introduction. I hope you will enjoy this.

You are welcome to share if you know and want to share more Useful Wordpress Plugins That Probably Are Essential and our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

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Wordpress Download Monitor

Download Monitor 3 is upon us. Download Monitor is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links.

Plugin Manager

Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from wordpress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.

Google Analytics for WordPress

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.

Search Everything

Search Everything increases the ability of the default Wordpress Search, options included Search Every Page, Search Every Tag, Search Every Category, Search non-password protected pages only, Search Every Comment and much more…

Advertising Manager

This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your Wordpress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Unsupported ad networks can be used as well.

Featured Content Gallery

Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more.

Subscribe2

Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.

Wordpress Automatic upgrade

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.

TweetMeme Button

The TweetMeme button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.

BuySellAds Wordpress Plugin

This simple plugin helps you easily integrate your BuySellAds zones and includes anti-AdBlock meaures to prevent AdBlock (and similar software) from blocking the advertisement.

Social Bookmarking for WordPress

Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully.  It will automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites.

User Community

A plugin to build user communities all around WordPress, mainly it’s around having a well integrated profiles system. This plugin will provide all needed functions and widgets to make it easy and flexible the ways to show all information about a user. Also, there is some user privacy settings to permit which information to show in the profile page.

Pretty Link

You can shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Unlike other link shrinking services like tinyurl, budurl, and bit.ly, this plugin allows you to create shortlinks coming from your own domain! Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host.

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Posted by great scott!

This week’s Whiteboard Friday comes to you courtesy of a few friends from the Twitterverse. We had Lindsay put out a call for WBF ideas via the @SEOmoz Twitter account and, among the suggestions, a few of our followers asked for tips on linking strategies and embedded content, so here we are, thanks to @mattlambert, @khughesrise and @seoaudiore (thanks, too, to everyone else who tweeted suggestions – we’ll try to follow up on many of those in the weeks to come, too).

Creating embeddable content like widgets, badges, or videos can be a fantastic link-building strategy for many reasons. In this video we’ll cover some of the big benefits to embed-based linking, as well as some of the challenges you may face in trying to get your embeddable content out there.