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Submit Sitemap.xml to Ask.com

First of all I would like to say Very Happy New Year 2009 to all my readers. I wish this new year will brings lot of happiness and success in your life..

Everyone SEO knows that Sitemap.xml is very important for robots for crawling your website’s pages. And most of the people knows that How to submit sitemap.xml into Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Still here again below I am mentioning the links of Google, Yahoo and MSN for submit your sitemap.xml

For GoogleGoogle Webmaster Tools

For YahooYahoo Site Explorer

For MSNWebmaster Live

You can submit your Sitemap.xml in Google, Yahoo and MSN though above links. And you have to create A/c for Submit your Sitemap.xml. But do you know? How to submit Sitemap.xml in Ask.com?? OK … OK … I am telling you…

Submit Sitemap.xml to Ask.com

For submission of Sitemap.xml in other search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN, we have to create login A/c. But for Ask.com, It is totally different. Here for Submit your Sitemap.xml into Ask.com you no need to create login A/c.

You can submit your sitemap through the ping URL. Here below I am mentioning the Ping URL for Submission of Sitemap.xml to Ask.com

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.xyz.com/sitemap.xml

After the successful submission of Sitemap.xml, you can see the Successful submission message from ask.com. you can see below screenshot.

I hope this post will be helpful to you in Submission of Sitemap.xml to Ask.com.

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My 10 Favourites Firefox Addons

Hey Friends, After long time I am again going to write new article for my readers. Because I was busy in other stuffs thats why I couldn’t get time to write blog. I am so sorry for that. But now I again started to write blog post and I will provide you useful post. Today I am going to share about My 10 Favourites Firefox Addons. Previosuly I posted article on 33 Useful FireFox Extention, which was very popular among all readers.

ChromEdit Plus

ChromEdit Plus is very useful Firefox Addons for checking nofollow links in any webpage. If you have installed this Firefox addons then you can see nofollow links in pink color.

Color Zilla

Color Zila is useful firefox addon for web designers. Color zilla is web color picker tool. You can pick color from any website.

FlagFox

Through FlagFox you can see a country flag depicting the location of the current website’s server and provides quick access to detailed location and webserver information.

FoxClocks

FoxClocks is showing you the time of different countries in your browser. It is very useful when you are working internationally. Through this addon you can see a time of any country by putting small clocks in your statusbar.

Google Toolbar for Firefox

Google Toolbar is very important for all SEO. I am using it regularly for checking Page Rank, use its search box, for checking back links and many more things. So that’s why it is my favourite

InFormEnter

InformEnter is very useful Firefox extension for the task of online form filling. This extension is very useful in your link building work. Though this extension you can increase the speed of your link building task.

ScreenGrab

Screen Grab is a firefox extension which will help you to take full screen shot of your webpage. It can take a screen shot of what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, a particular frame… basically it saves webpages as images.

Search Status

Search Status is very useful Firefox extension for SEOs. Search Status shows the Google PageRank, Alexa Rank and Compete ranking anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and other SEO tools.

Source Editor

View and Edit source of HTML element. Use the button on status bar to activate/deactivate and the double click or the context menu to edit source of the selected element.

Stumbleupon

Stumbleupon is my one of the favourite social bookmarking sites. So Stumbleupon toolbar is very helpful for me, when I want to do Thumb Up / Thumbs Down for any websites, Want to share any websites among my friends etc. So It is my favourite and necessary Firefox extension.

Here I just mentioned only those 10 Firefox extension which are I am using actively. I am also using other Firefox extensions. But those Firefox extensions are disable and I am using those only when it is require.

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33 Useful Firefox Extensions

Here I have listed 33 useful and important Firefox extensions for SEOs, Developers and Users.

1. ColorZilla:

ColorZilla is very useful extension for designers. With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily. And there’s more…


2. Search Status:

Search Status extension is very useful for SEOs. Search Status extension display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and Compete ranking anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and other SEO tools.


3.
SEO for Firefox :

SEO for Firefox is very useful extension for SEOs. It is very useful for competitor analysis in Google and Yahoo. Through this tool we can get the data like PR, Age of the Website, Links, .edu link, .edu page link, .gov link, Page links, del.icio.us, Technorati, Alexa, Cached, Dmoz, Bloglines, dir.yahoo.com and WhoIs of the website.


4.
RoboForm :

RoboForm is very Useful extension for link builder. RoboForm is Top-rated Password Manager and Web Form Filler that completely automates password entering and form filling. Features of Roboform:

  • Memorizes your passwords and Logs You In automatically.
  • Fills long registration and checkout forms with one click.
  • Encrypts your passwords to achieve complete security.
  • Generates random passwords that hackers cannot guess.
  • Backs up your passwords, Copies them between computers.
  • Gives you one set of bookmarks and passwords for IE, Firefox, Mozilla, AOL, MSN, Avant, MaxThon browsers.

5. Google Toolbar :

As SEO you all know about Google Toolbar. Google Toolbar is very useful toolbar for SEO. Through Google Toolbar you can check the PR of the website; also you can get the search result from google.com, Google USA and Search from any site. Also there is lot of facility available related to Google like Google Bookmark, Google Translation and more…


6. In Form Enter:

InFormEnter is another useful tool for link builder. Through this extension you can increase the speed of your submission work. InFormEnter adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted – no typing required. You can configure it to display your frequently used information such as name, email, address and whatever else you want to be available from the form menu.


7. Total Validator:

Total Validator is useful tool for SEOs and Developers. Total Validator provides true HTML validation (HTML 2.0 to XHTML 1.1) using the official DTDs, plus added attribute checking. So you no longer have to put up with the limitations of the W3C validator (no type checking) and tools like HTML Tidy which interpret the standards incorrectly (they don’t use the official DTDs).


8. FoxLingo:

FoxLingo is the ultimate language Tool! Web Page Translation, Translated Search, Auto Translation, Text Translation, Language Resources, Learning Languages, etc. FoxLingo supports 45 languages of the world. FoxLingo uses 34 free online web page translator services.


9. Web Developer:

Web Developer extension is useful for web developer. Through this tool you can Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools like CSS, Cookies, Forms, Images etc.

10. Del.icio.us Post:

del.icio.us extension Posts current page or link to del.icio.us. Adds an entry to the context menu and a button to the toolbar.

11. Digg This:

The Digg This! extension speeds up the process of submitting stories to the news website digg.com.

12. IE Tab:

This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.

13. Performancing:

Excellent extension for bloggers. Performancing, allows you to instantly blog comments you made to any of the major blog systems, or even your own (if your blog supports Moveable Type or WordPress).

14. RankQuest SEO Toolbar:

RankQuest SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Alexa Rank and Page Rank provided by Alexa and Google respectively ensures the popularity of the site. Once you download and install the SEO Toolbar you are only one or two clicks away from carrying out most of your day to day SEO operations.

15. StumbleUpon:

With StumbleUpon you can also connect with friends and share your discoveries, meet people that have similar interests, and check out what other people are discovering.

16. VideoDownloader:

Video Downloader is an extension that allows you to quickly download video files from video sites like youtube, google video etc. You can save the video and play it locally if you have the correct video player. You can usually download freeware video players for the various formats but you can also convert the video formats.

17. Link Counter:

Display a count of links of a web page and frames. Group and highlight links by type. Links type to count/group: empty, files, targets, anchors, feeds, javascripts, mails, ‘xfiles’, internal and external.


18. SEO Link Analysis:

SEO Link Analysis extension is useful tool for SEOs. This Firefox extension gives you a bit more information when opening such pages, it gathers the PageRank for the linking page, the anchor text used on the link, and checks whether the link is nofollowed or not.


19. PDF Download:

PDF Download solves the problems everyone has about handling PDF files with Firefox. Allows to choose if you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML), if you want to view it outside Firefox with your default or custom PDF reader, or if you want to download it!

20. Firefox Environment Backup Extension (FEBE):

FEBE allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up — It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can easily synchronize your office and home browsers.
FEBE backs up and restores your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, cookies. And much more.


21. GooglePreview:

Inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites and Amazon products into the Google and Yahoo search results pages. When you use GooglePreview and click on an Amazon link within the search results, you support me and the further development of the extension and back end if you actually purchase a product. The GooglePreview thumbnail system currently consists of 5 dedicated servers and generates 4.5 TB of traffic per month.

22. iMacros for Firefox:

iMacros is very useful extension for developers. It is useful for creating automated macros for online work like directoris submission gathering any data from any website etc.

23. Boost for Facebook:

Join the 100K+ Boost users and customize your Facebook experience with custom skins, 30+ special features, selectable options, pop-up notifications, an integrated toolbar, custom album viewers, hidden access and more…

24. Firefox Showcase:

Firefox Showcase is a Mozilla Firefox extension that will show all opened browser tabs as thumbnails. This view can be opened in a new window, tab or sidebar, and provides several functionalities to interact with them, like a find bar, zoom mode, keyboard navigation, multiple thumbnail selection or “drag & drop”.

25. Orkut Scrapper:

This extension helps Orkuting easier! . This has lots of features which enables scrapping easier. Some of the features are Toolbar ,Shortcut Link Access, Secret Scraping,Universal Background , Font Styles, Live Preview, Translation Tools, Support for Post/Profile Styling, Image /Flash/YouTube, Signature, AutoLogin etc.

26. Snap Shots:

Through this tool you can see the snap shot of any link in your browser. Snap Shots™ is now available as a browser add-on, so you can bring Snap Shots with you to the rest of the Internet, enhancing your browser experience with the right content at the right place and time. This extension is work with the Firefox, Internet Explorer and safari browsers.

27. Show IP:

Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom services by IP (right mouse button) and Hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard. This extension was formerly known as ipv6ident.

28. Inbound Link Quality Extension (ILQ):

ILQ (Inbound Link Quality) extension is very useful extension for SEOs. This tool give you the ILQ rating of the current site showing in your FF browser. This tool shows the number of inbound dir.yahoo, dmoz, edu and gov links the current site has.

29. Adsense Notifier:

Displays your Adsense earnings on the statusbar.

30. Live HTTP Headers:

View HTTP headers of a page and while browsing.


31. Greasemonkey:

Greasemonkey is an excellent extension for Firefox, which allows simple javascripts to be used on pages to alter the content.


32. Firebug:

Firebug is also useful tool for web developer and SEOs. Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.


33. Google Global:

Google Global extension now allows you to view organic and paid Google search results as they appear in almost any location on Earth.

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