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IDrive-E: Sounds like a good IDEA

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Ever lost a hard disk with your precious data on it? I have several times. The first time was the most serious, the second or third times, I lost recent stuff only. But still having a disk go down means your files, pictures, data, addresses, favorites, music, etc.. all go with it! Frustrating.
IDrive-E is offering a service with lots of online backup features and enough space to save most of your work files, or important stuff, for FREE! With a small monthly payment of $4.95 you can get unlimited space for your backups. A year’s payment would certainly be cheaper than purchasing a new hard-drive, but there is an important additional security aspect: your data would be protected in an off-site location. If your house or work pc was stolen or damaged, as happened to a friend of mine, no problems, you’d still have your back up data set online.

In addition, you can make the space appear as a virtual drive with Windows Explorer. In other words, it would appear just like an ordinary drive, making data access easy, quick and convenient. When it comes time to restore your file(s), you can access any of the backup set versions that are stored, so you can make sure you have the right version.

For investorbloggers, backing up your data on a regular basis is a hassle, but a necessary one for the most part. The whole process can be automated, saving you time to focus on your business.

This post has been backed by IDrive-E.

Improve Your SEO: A quick action program

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This blog is becoming popular somehow. Up until now, this has been more or less a random aspect. Somehow this blog has shot up to nearly 1,000,000 on Alexa. But I’m becoming aware of a number of major shortcomings on this blog’s drive for boosting its ratings.

1. Autometa: Meta-tags for Technorati are important, I’m learning that I should fix these words and add them myself

2. Key words: I just analyzed my keywords via iWebTools only to find that the keywords in my blog are not well focused. Take a look at the list yourself:

11th actually additional also been blog blogging both business but can capital car click comments could count customers do don’t enough february get go good had have help hosting i if insurance investorblogger journal just kennethdickson know like list loans make making me money more my need new no not now one online opportunities our out own payperpost people phone post posted posts program provide quite read review see service so some something sponsors stats there those though time tools total up very way we website websites well which word words would you 5 6 9 2006 2007

I’m going to have to find ways to add the most important keywords into each blog post so that results are more effective.

3. The post slugs, the link slugs, too, the category titles and slugs: all of these need more focus at least in part, as a way to help improve the search ratings.

To do all of this on over 200 posts, numerous links, and nearly 30 categories could take hours. Mmm. Food for thought there.

These kinds of steps could improve almost any blog

Word Count Stats v0.41

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Word Count Stats is a very simple plugin for your blog. Its function is simply to count the total number of words posted in your blog. That’s it. Nothing fancy. The program installs and produces an extra tab on the ‘dashboard’ area. Once installed, you need to create a new post BEFORE you look at the stats it produces. (I forgot this, and it produced a bunch of errors!). The stats for my blog look something like this:

+ 40,751 total published words from 216 posts
+ 2,499 total unpublished words from 40 posts
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= 43,250 total all words from 256 posts
= 168 average words per post
49 (19.1406%) posts contain 300+ words
Max words for a single post: 835 words Good Articles: How To Earn Money From Your Web Site Or Blog on 2006-12-10 19:59:58

and it produces stats per month like this:

200608 – 13 posts 3,456 words
200611 – 9 posts 1,486 words
200609 – 29 posts 5,524 words
200610 – 2 posts 157 words
200612 – 60 posts 10,563 words
200701 – 74 posts 14,069 words
200702 – 28 posts 5,469 words
200703 – 1 posts 27 words

216 total published posts
40,751 total published words

so, for those of you who want to know how many words you have typed at the keyboard of your own blog, this is the ideal plugin! The current version is noted here:

v0.41 released Feb 5, 2007 5:46pm PST: TD Word Count v0.41 [.zip].

Just one suggestion for the developer: is there any way to make the stats viewable by visitors to our blogs? Oh, and a big thank you. It’s a great plugin.