Meta Tag Analyzer

Some time ago I wrote about the importance of having a short and pertinent title tag (you can read it here).
The title tag might be the most important factor on the header of a site, but all the other meta tags (description, keywords and author) should also be considered. They will not make a huge impact on your search ranking but every little help should be used to fine tune your blog.
Meta Tag Analyzeris a very helpful tool for understanding your meta tags. All you need to do is to type the address of your site and it will report the status of the page, the number of keywords, the relevancy of the title, the quality of the tags and much more. Check it out.

Social Bookmark Buttons

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Most of the mainstream websites, let alone blogs, are starting to use social bookmark buttons on their sites (the image on the right comes from BusinessWeek). While those buttons are not a guarantee to hit the Digg or Delicious front page they certainly help people that want to share your articles, making it possible to bookmark them directly from your site.
If you are not using those buttons on your site yet I suggest that you give it a try. There is a site called iFeedReaderthat automatically generates the buttons. All you need to do it to select the bookmark services that you want to include, provide details about your blogging platform and the site will generate a code that you can copy and paste inside your blog structure.
By the way make sure you avoid including all the available social bookmarks, you do not want to spam the reader with too many icons. Choose 2 or 3 of them and place them in such a way that it will not disturb readers that are not concerned with social bookmarks.

Is your blog cross-browser compatible?

People usually design a website or a blog for one specific browser, and that is the browser they use to navigate. Should they load the site on a different browser, however, it is probable that some unpleasant surprises will appear.
Most of the new websites are based on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a technique that allows developers to have more control over the look and feel of the pages, making sure that the elements are consistent throughout the site.
Unfortunately not all browsers interpret CSS commands on the same way, creating discrepancies such as misaligned sidebars, overlapping text and the like. The only way to solve the problem is to test your website on the many different browsers that people might use to access it.
Now, installing on your computer a version of every single browser out there would be time consuming, to say the least. What if you could find a service that takes screenshots of your site in different browsers and report them back to you?

That is exactly what Browsershots.orgdoes. All you need to do is to type the URL of your site, select the browsers you want to test and wait some minutes to see the screenshots. The service includes all the versions of IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera and you can even select different screen resolutions.