Every Saturday we will hunt down the best of the best blog articles in the past week and serve them up for our visitors and fans. Do you have something worthy for our Sharks to feed on?

The Bait Bucket – Writing, Self Improvement and Health

Fetching Friday – A weekly series authored by Kristi at Kikolani.com. This week has many surprises that will sure spark a feeding frenzy for many readers. One of the articles I found interesting was the Twitter Marketing eBook Review. This is a must read weekly article.

The Relationship Between Success and Failure – Jonathan the author of Advanced Life Skills provides a great article on self improvement. As I stated in my comment – “A challenge to me is something outside my comfort zone and I test myself to see if I can adapt.”

Family & Blogging — Who Comes First? – Ching the author of this blog really puts things into perspective. This blog is a must read to understand the importance of how to share time between blogging and family.

Grammar Helper: Farther vs. Further – Joanie the author of CornerScribe explains and compares the difference between these two words. I am sure we all have our own words we tend to use incorrectly.

Tasty Technology Bytes – Tech Stuff, SEO, Security

Robot txt mystery unraveled – The San Antonio crazy man John Sullivan gets techie on us with this eye opening article.

Firefox 3.5 Final Version Released – Download Now – Gennice the author of Gnoted takes you through some of the added features and performance improvements for Firefox 3.5.

I Set Up A Posterous Site – Todd the author of Todd’s Tips  explains how you can make posts to your blog, Facebook, Twitter, and many other services simply by sending an email.

Multi-threaded Stack Class for PHP – Authored by David Hopkins over at SemLabs. This is a PHP class to quickly download single URLs and stacks of URLs using multiple threads.

Giveaway of the Day – PDFZilla 1.2 – PDFZilla is a desktop application that quickly and accurately converts PDF files. Thanks to my friend Fool for finding these great keepers! To get your free copy visit http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdfzilla-1-2/.

We Need a Bigger Boat – Marketing, Business and Making Money

Teen Entrepreneurs are Taking Over the World – Jennifer the author of Connect with your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology writes about this phenomenon of how more and more teens are becoming business savvy.

Oh, you do eCommerce too? – Matt the owner and author of Mattched IT provides valuable information on what a business should know about ecommerce.

Hook, Line and Sinker – Odd stuff, Humor and Ramblings

Protecting Your Comics – This is more of a tip on how to protect your valuable collection of comic books. If you are a collector, this is a must read to keep your investment protected. Thank you for sharing James!

Trophy Catches – Arts and Entertainment

A beautifully wise passage by Kahlil Gibran – Bren the author of Mystic’s Thought Garden always finds the treasure chest.

Your Bark is Bigger than Your Byte – Animals and Pets

Should You Let Your Dog Play in Creeks and Lakes? – Hart the author of PetLvr.com shares this safety tip about dogs who love water. I never thought about this before, but thanks to Hart, I have a better understanding.

Week in review at TechJaws

Free Keyword Suggestion and Popularity Tool
Firefox 3.5 Under The Hood
How Well is Your Blog Working?
Many SEO Experts Don’t Know Jack

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We all love link juice and a little recognition. The articles that we feature on Saturday Feeding Frenzy are from people who have commented and who I interact with on StumbleUpon and other social network sites. TechJaws is a Dofollow blog that averages over 1000 unique visitors per day.

Self SEO offers a free Keyword Suggestion Tool – Keyword Popularity Tool.

This keyword suggestion tool will help you with choosing the right keywords terms and or phrases for your website. You can see which keyword combination’s are more popular and also get ideas for more keyword combination’s. Those keyword popularity results are extracted from two sources – Keyword Discovery and Overture.

What I like most about this tool is that it provides the number of daily searches for the particular keyword. In the image below I typed in the keywords “Internet Security” to see how many daily searches are performed for those keywords.

Visit the Keyword Suggestion Tool and give it a try.

Note: The data is not 100% accurate, but it will give you an idea which keywords are more popular than others.

What’s so different?

We welcome all the neat features, but what I appreciate the most out of 3.5 are the greatly improved speed and stability.

There’s more!

Speed: The 3.5 version of Mozilla Firefox is noticeably faster than its previous version.

Privacy: When a Private Browsing session is enabled, computer users can surf any site at all with no trace remaining when they exit the site.

Music and Video Support: Firefox 3.5 now supports HTML 5 audio and video elements, users can watch video and listen to music directly in a Web page, without launching any plug-ins.

Session Control: If Mozilla Firefox crashes, users can choose which tabs to resuscitate, a feature previously available through the Session Manager add-on.

Awesome Bar: The location bar -dubbed the “Awesome Bar” by some perhaps overly enthusiastic developers – has been made even more, well, awesome in Mozilla Firefox 3.5. Previously, you could simply type the name of what you were searching into that field, foregoing the search box altogether, and a Google search page would show results. Mozilla has tweaked the search functionality in the browser so surfers can show only bookmarks by using an asterisk after a query such as “Channelweb *”, or show only tags by using a plus “Channelweb +”. Thanks to http://www.crn.com for spelling this feature out!

As you can see its freaky good and freaky fast!

Download your copy of Firefox 3.5

Technology has rocketed in the last 30 years as the Walkman has evolved. Sony has sold 385 million Walkman machines worldwide in 30 years as it evolved from playing cassettes to compact disks then minidisks — a smaller version of the CD — and finally digital files. Apple has sold more than 210 million iPod machines worldwide in eight years.

I remember the first cassette that I purchased from Sam Goody was Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti. I played that tape until it stretched. I know many of us used the pen to fix loose tape rewinds, but hey we were innovative and some what creative. It definitely beat 8-Tracks.

The original Walkman was as big as a paperback book, and weighed 390 grams (14 ounces). It wasn’t cheap, especially for those days, costing $340. You can get a Laptop for the money.

Happy Birthday Sony Walkman!

When did you buy your first Walkman? What was the first cassette you purchased?

This widely circulated new photo shows an Air Force F-22 Raptor aircraft participating in an exercise in the Gulf of Alaska June 22, 2009 as it executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis.

The visual phenomenon, which sometimes but not always accompanies the breaking of the sound barrier, has also been seen with nuclear blasts and just after space shuttles launches, too. A vapor cone was photographed as the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission rocketed skyward in 1969.

Source: Live Science – Commentary by Frank J.

Name: Antivirus Agent Pro
Version: 1.0
Publisher: Antivirus Agent Pro
Risk Impact: Medium
Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Behavior: AntivirusAgentPro is a misleading application that may give exaggerated reports of threats on the computer.

AntivirusAgentPro – Removal Instructions

The following instructions pertain to all current and recent Symantec antivirus products, including the Symantec AntiVirus and Norton AntiVirus product lines.

1. Disable System Restore (Windows Me/XP).
2. Update the virus definitions.
3. Run a full system scan.
4. Delete any values added to the registry.

For specific details on each of these steps, read the following instructions.

Mozilla plans to issue Firefox 3.5 final version tomorrow, according to Firefox director Mike Beltzner. The version has been delayed for several months, but it will be here in 24 hours? We hope!

Mike Beltzner gives a quick preview of what’s new and exciting in Firefox 3.5, coming tomorrow from Mozilla.

Firefox 3.5 comes with a load of new features–5,000 total, according to Mozilla. Among the major ones: built-in video; local storage to enable richer Web applications that can work even with no network connection; a private browsing mode; geolocation to aid Web pages that can benefit from knowing a user’s location; and faster performance loading pages and executing Web-based JavaScript programs.

“We’ve added technology we think upgrades the Web itself,” Beltzner said.

Get ready to get even more foxy tomorrow!

The tool reports on the following details:

• Your web server
• Your RSS feed
• If your blog is indexed by Google
• If your blog application is supported gzip compression
• If your blog supports client caching
• If WP Super Cache is active
• If your feed supports caching
• If your blog is a self-hosted WordPress blog

More details:

• Web hosting company
• Server support link
• Server hostname

There are so many details that you may find boring, but hey, it’s worth checking if your blog is working well.

Visit http://ismyblogworking.com and give it a try.

Proof – First off, review the SEO consultant’s website and portfolio if they have one, which they should. How well are these websites ranked in Google? Are they doing well with keyword phrases and or terms relative to the sites niche? These are the most obvious indicators to measure the effectiveness of Search Engine Optimization.

You don’t know jack!

There are many so-called SEO Experts that think they know it all, but many just chirp what the other big birds are saying. They know the lingo and nothing more. It’s the old saying – you can talk the talk but can you walk the walk?

I visit a couple of well known SEO forums daily to read what other SEO folks are saying. It seems that many of them discredit Alexa as inconsistent, and a meaningless way to measure a websites performance (see example here). Alexa measures a websites ranking based on the people who have the Alexa toolbar installed. If 10 million people have the toolbar installed and you are ranked at 50K, this means you are in the top 5%. If there are 100 million people who have the Alexa toolbar, you would probably be ranked at 500K, which is still in the top 5%.

It’s the SEO folks that discredit Alexa because their website is performing poorly with Alexa ranking. It’s there way to find excuses to avoid being called out for the obvious – YOU DON’T KNOW JACK!

There are many bloggers who pay close attention to the basics of SEO. These same people are passionate about what they do and they need a way to measure their effectiveness.

Let’s look at a couple of websites that just celebrated their one year anniversaries.

Kikolani.com – A blog that has an Alexa rank of 57K and a Google Pagerank 4. This blog is only 13 months old and look how well it’s performing. Kristi, the owner and author of Kikolani.com will tell you she is not an SEO expert, but she is probably more capable than many of the so-called SEO experts.

TechJaws – TJ just turned one on May 26, 2009 and is currently ranked at 45K in Alexa and has a Google Pagerank 4. SEO is part of my profession along with Ecommerce Marketing. It’s something I am passionate about and have practiced for over a year. I have consulted for friends and I am proud of the results we achieved.

SEO is not a set it and forget it concept. You have to stay in touch with the latest from reliable sources who know what SEO is and how to improve on it. Matt Cutt’s comes to mind, as he is the god of SEO. I would be an expert as well if I worked for Google in his capacity.

Definition of Google Pagerank

Google Pagerank – Is based on the amount of backlinks or incoming links to your website. If the website linking to you is Dofollow, Google counts that as a vote for your website.

Check out this article – A List of Dofollow Blogs to Improve Your Pagerank

Tools to measure your websites effectiveness

http://website.grader.com/ – Website Grader is a free SEO tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors.

http://www.majesticseo.com/comparedomainbacklinkhistory.php – Compare domain backlink history.

I know this will stir up some controversy, but that was my intent, to call out the people who should just keep quite and listen to the real experts of SEO!

Every Saturday we will hunt down the best of the best blog articles in the past week and serve them up for our visitors and fans. Do you have something worthy for our Sharks to feed on?

The Bait Bucket – Writing, Self Improvement and Health

Fetching Friday – A weekly series authored by Kristi at Kikolani.com. Kristi uses tasty bait to land some of the best blog articles that are featured in this series. This is a must read weekly article. If you missed any of the Fetching Friday articles, you can visit the Fetching Friday link at Kikolani.com.

Michael Jackson’s Death & The Rise of Social Media – The biggest story of the week was the death of Michael Jackson.

9 Ultra Useful Writing Sites – A nice list of useful sites for writers. You may want to subscribe to these sites as well.

Who Needs Approval? – The author Jonathan of Advanced Life Skills puts things in perspective. I am sure you will agree with many of the points he makes.

Tasty Technology Bytes – Tech News, SEO, Security

Video Preview Of New Features in Mozilla Firefox 3.5 – Check out what’s new in Firefox 3.5. The video provides details on new features and so much more.

Foolsville 2.0 – This blogger catches the best free tech stuff on the internet. If you’re looking for free stuff, visit this blog today.

If Facebook Nails This, Twitter is Toast! – YourSeoSucks pulls no punches and really has the knowledge of a true SEO Pro.

New Tween Video Games from Ubisoft – new video games for kids and tweens that will be going on sale this fall.

We Need a Bigger Boat – Marketing, Business and Making Money

So you want to be rich? – There was no way I could leave John off the Saturday Feeding Frenzy or I would never hear the end of it. Here’s some reading material and resources that I know you will reap benefits from.

Hook, Line and Sinker – Odd stuff, Humor and Ramblings

Lines from “Whose Line” – A look back at some of the funniest shows on TV. I am sure this will put a smile on your face and bring back some old memories.

Trophy Catches – Arts and Entertainment

Have a Little Cheese with the Whine – One of my favorite sketch artists and a very close friend. Susie is a very creative and passionate about art and music. She also loves her Corona beer.

12 Monkeys Stencil Graffiti - You will find many great sketches and articles from this blogger.

A Stringer of Art and Photos – Bren sends me many artistic photos and images. She is one of my favorite StumbleUpon friends.

Your Bark is Bigger than Your Byte – Animals and Pets

Differences in Priorities: How to Cope with Less Passionate Pet Parents – Hart the author of PetLvr.com provides many tips on pet care and so much more.

Week in review at TechJaws

Hackers Prepare to Capitalize on Michael Jackson Death
A List of Dofollow Blogs to Improve Your Pagerank
Invisible Browsing – Secure and Anonymous
How to Unfollow who are not Following you

Want to be featured in Saturday Feeding Frenzy?

We all love link juice and a little recognition. The articles that we feature on Saturday Feeding Frenzy are from people who have commented and who I interact with on StumbleUpon and other social network sites. TechJaws is a Dofollow blog.