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Heatmaps are helpful for visualizing keyboard usage, click and mouse movement behavior of your visitors. To get these data web masters have to add a code snippet to their site, usually JavaScript, that enables tracking of mouse and keyboard actions.

The ViewFinder Heatmap service works without JavaScript but is based on Artificial Intelligence research. You simply enter your website address and a heatmap is generated to point out the areas that are getting most of the attention. The heatmap generated for SEO Expert Blog looks as follows:

Have you ever thought about producing a podcast, just for the fun of it or maybe as a marketing instrument or both? Using modern technology it's not too hard to record your own voice and make use of one of the many podcasting services. That does not mean that producing a good podcast is easy, but there is a very easy way for you to offer your RSS feed as a podcast.

This video introduces the SEO for Firefox extension by Aaron Wall, which displays many useful marketing data while you browse the web, e.g. Google PageRank, Age, Links: (Yahoo! Linkdomain), the number of times a URL has been bookmarked on Del.icio.us, an estimate of the total number of links to a site from blogs using Technorati, Alexa rank, and many more. This extension can be a very valuable SEO tool.

Believe it or not. Using the jQuery library developing JavaScript applications can be fun. Once you are familiar with jQuery, you can quickly develop Web applications for a rich user experience or for a poor one, as you like it.

The jQuery API Browser is a useful source of information on and documentation for jQuery and a good example showcase of what you can do with jQuery.

The Search Engine Decoder is a tool that displays the relationships of various major search engines. Use this tool to see which search engine supplies and receives its primary and secondary search results, directory search results and paid results to and from which other search engines.

You can also display ownership relations and the Nielsen Netratings (percentage of all web searches) for each search engine.