If you’ve ever come across a web site that you wanted to write about you know how difficult it can be to keep referring back and forth between the site and the posting page of your blogging software of choice. If you use Firefox, blogging from a web browser is as easy as ever once you install the ScribeFire extension.

ScribeFire opens a publishing window from within your browser that allows you to blog while viewing a web page therefore not requiring you to go back and forth between browser windows while posting. Features include both WYSIWYG and HTML coding options, drag and dropping of formatted text from pages you are browsing, easy image uploading and insertion and it supports all major blogging platforms including Blogger and Wordpress.com. If you run multiple blogs, ScribeFire allows you to setup accounts for each and includes easy bookmarking to your del.icio.us account and Technorati tag insertion from within the posting window.

Once you use it you’ll wonder how you got by without it. You can download and install the extension here and if for some reason you have yet to join the Firefox revolution, you should try it now as well.

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I just had to drop another quick comment about a submission I received today. As you might imagine I get a lot of weird, funny, and often times ridiculous sites submitted that somehow expect to make the cut for inclusion in the directory. Each morning I weed through the obvious MFA (made for adsense) sites, the sites that somehow missed the fact that this is a blog only directory, and those that think keyword spamming will somehow endear them to me.

Then you have sites like I had this morning.

Now I am not going to discuss the merits of hiring an SEO firm to help you get better search engine placement, that is your personal choice. What I am going to comment on though is the SEO tactics used by this SEO blogger.

I have been running websites in one form or another since 2000. And while I am in no way an expert on search engine optimization, I do know enough to understand a few basic techniques that almost all reputable SEO firms agree on. If you choose to use directories as part of your SEO and marketing campaign, make sure your submissions use relevant titles and descriptions. Looking at the submission above, would you even consider going to this individual’s site for SEO tips?

This submission gives me another opportunity to harp on those that submit here and any other directory for that matter. Most directories worth submitting to give you space for a nice 2-3 keyword rich (but not spammy) title and several hundred characters to use to describe your site/blog. Use them!

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