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Review: MainType 4.0 Font Viewer and Manager

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Website: www.high-logic.com/font-manager/maintype.html

I don’t perform as much web development these days as I do strategy, SEO and PPC, however, when I do develop websites, and more specifically a client’s logo, finding the best font to use can sometimes be a daunting, frustrating task…mostly because there are so many of them. Personally, I’m a font geek so I have over 3,300+ fonts on my computer.

MainType 4.0 font viewer helps take the frustration out of managing your fonts. It is packed with tons of intuitive features that make fonts simple to find, preview, organize, install, and print.

High-Logic Product Description

MainType font viewer is the only drag and drop font manager that offers a straightforward and easy-to-use interface to help you find, preview, organize, install and print your fonts.

It includes features for novice users who just want to view and install fonts as well as advanced features for graphic designers and typographers. In order to find the right fonts for your needs, the software includes views and quick search functionality. The software contains a font information panel that allows you to compare multiple fonts side-by-side and reveals important typographic data. The “groups” panel helps you quickly organize all your fonts. Nice touches are drag and drop capabilities and the ability to insert characters into background applications.
MainType works with TrueType, OpenType, TrueType Collections, and Postscript Type 1 fonts. To assist you in finding the fonts that best suit your needs, MainType has a fast and instant preview within the main font panel. You can browse your whole font library as well as define your own custom views.

MainType font viewer supports all seventeen planes defined in the Unicode character database and displays all characters grouped in Unicode blocks. MainType allows you to generate an HTML-based overview of any of your fonts, and print outstanding reports of your font library.

Features and Benefits:

Load, install, and uninstall fonts
Preview and browse fonts without installation
Full Unicode support
Character grid with Unicode block navigation
Print and print preview your fonts
Support all popular font formats and more: TrueType, OpenType, TrueType Collections, Postscript Type 1 fonts
Insert characters into background applications
Font export wizard generates a HTML-based overview of all your fonts
Easy backup and restore your font library
The software runs on Windows ONLY

Useful Links

Website: http://www.high-logic.com/font-manager/maintype.html

Manual: http://www.high-logic.com/maintype/manual/

Tutorial: http://www.high-logic.com/font-manager/maintype/tutorials.html

Forum: http://forum.high-logic.com/

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Lastly, I thought I might write about how a person can install Fonts on their computer:

Click on “My Computer” folder
Click on “C” Drive folder
Click on “Windows” folder
Click on “Fonts” folder
Copy and paste additional fonts into this folder
That’s it!!!…How simple was that?

If anyone is interested in obtaining my entire list of fonts for free, just contact me and I’ll email you back.

R.E. Ferguson

R.E. Ferguson January 2, 2012 Article Marketing Tools, Fonts, SEO Tools font manager, font viewer, font viewer review, maintype

Review: The Best Spinner

OVERVIEW

Hands-down the BEST built-in thesaurus with hundreds of thousands of entries added by REAL users writing real-world articles!
The fastest, easiest interface for spinning articles and creating unique content with lightening speed.
Unlimited nested spinning — go as many levels deep as you want. Different color coding for up to four nested levels.
Fast individual article rewrites with the built in “word replacement” functionality.
Full-sentence and paragraph spinning.
Allows saving “Favorite” synonym lists for terms you commonly use in your articles — and replaces them ALL with one click of a button.
Allows using all users’ “Favorite” synonym lists to really kick-start your article spinning!
Generates up to 250 spun versions of your article at a time into a ZIP file or automatically generates one spun version on screen that you can copy to the Windows clipboard.
Export to virtually any other spin format for compatibility with other systems.
Display article word count and uniqueness percentage.
The thesaurus updates constantly as the thousands of users work in the system.
Supports thesauri in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. The word lists are very small for these languages right now, but the languages are supported.

REVIEW:

I do a great deal of article marketing and in the course of all my efforts, article spinning is a daily task that use to take a large part of my day.

With the Best Spinner, that time has been cut literally by 300%.

The Best Spinner has all the best practice features that any SEO worth their salt needs in an article spinner: ability to spin variations by sentence, ability to spin variations by individual words, a vast thesaurus, ability to export spun sentences…just to name a few.

I would recommend the Best Spinner as a staple to any SEO’s toolbox.

FREE TRIAL:

Yes, for $7

PRICING:

$77

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www.thebestspinner.com

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R.E. Ferguson March 12, 2010 Article Marketing, Article Marketing Tools, Reviews article marketing reviews, article marketing tool, best spinner, best spinner review

The Long Tail – What it is and How to Use It

If you’ve studied statistics, you may recall what “Long-Tailed Distribution” is…where the tail of the curve is extremely long when compared to the head of the curve.

The long tail phenomenon explains that if a consumer was given unlimited choices, everything becomes available, which is exactly what happens with the expansion of the Internet. For article marketers, it refers to the distribution of keywords or keyphrases that are used for Internet searches in a particular niche or market.

That means the head of the curve is one broad keyword. It has high content, demand and competition but a low target audience. The middle of the tail, is about a 2 to 3 word keyphrase and will have moderate content, demand and competition as well as a moderate target audience. The Long tail is a 4 or more word keyphrase that has lower content, demand and competition, yet a much higher targeted audience.

That means if you write articles based on the long tail, those articles have a better chance of appearing at the top of search results! Understanding and writing for the long tail is incredibly beneficial and effective because it puts your articles in front of potential customers, subscribers, or clients that are looking for that specific product or service at the exact moment they’re ready to take action.

Don’t just write for the long tail. Our recommendation is to write between 20-30 percent of articles for the head of the tail and 70-80 percent for the mid to long tail. The reason you do this is because you never know when an article will turn into a golden nugget. You want to have as many articles as possible covering a very wide range of keywords or key phrases to maximize your exposure. Writing for the long tail is a great practice to incorporate into your article writing ritual because it allows for you to get your articles higher on search results and in front of people who are ready to take action.

R.E. Ferguson February 11, 2010 Article Marketing, Article Marketing Tools, Keyword Research, SEO long-tail keywords, long-tail marketing

Review: Power Article Rewriter

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Power Article Rewriter is a very powerful article rewriter (a.k.a spinner) that lets you create lots of variations of the same article or text. Simply select the text you want to rewrite, enter alternate versions with the help of the built-in synonym suggestion tool and you can spin 50, 100, or 1000 versions of the article.

Review:
I use this tool each and every single time I “spin” an article. It is a necessary tool for any article marketer. Quite possibly the best article marketing tool on the market.

Free Trial: Yes (15 days)
Price after trial: $67 (well worth it!)
Website: www.powerarticlerewriter.com

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