URL Trends – Cool Domain Tracking Tool URL Trends is a free tool from Joel Strellner which tracks how a domain does over time. Each month it tracks Alexa ranking, Yahoo! backlinks, MSN backlinks, & Google backlinks. The tool also compares the site to Google search results and keywords in the WordTracker database to determine …

Yahoo! My Web in Beta Quickly on the heals of Google’s personalized offering, Yahoo! offers a search storing system. My Web allows you to import your bookmarks, unless…My Web currently does not support bookmark import from this browser. “We currently Support Internet Explorer Favorites and Yahoo! Bookmarks.” “We are looking into extending support for additional …

Google AdWords Allows Site Targeting, CPM Rates, Click Here Branded Ads Marketers rejoice : Marketers using Google AdWords, rejoice! For ages, many of you have wanted the ability to pick and choose exactly where your ads would show up in Google AdSense contextual network. Now you’re getting it. Beginning today, some Google advertisers will have …

Google Advertising Professional Update Google offers free link AdWords coupons: Qualified Google Advertising Professionals receive sets of five credits worth $100 each. Non-Qualified Google Advertising Professionals receive sets of three credits worth $50 each. It also looks like there is a yearly quota of 60 credits. As you sign up more accounts I believe you …

Google Taking Action Against Automated SEO Software I just got an update email from Leslie Rhode of OptiLink : A few days ago, Google began to employ a “spyware detector” that will in some cases block OptiLink through the use of a cookie and a human visible “ransom note”. The use of Google from “normal” …

Google AdSense Tracking Referrals Google’s recent temporal and behavioral patent talks a decent amount about tracking advertising and site visitors. With AdSense they can also track the referrals which gives them another way to understand percent of market share and who your leading referals are if you display AdSense ads on your site. their ad …

WeBuildPages Search Combination Tool WeBuildPages tool # 9,347. Actually thats not its real name, but Jim makes a lot of good tools and shares them. His newest tool is a search combination tool. Essentially it allows you to get the search results for various keyword combination searches. For example, I could look for “seo, search …

Yahoo! Term Extraction API Tool The Term Extraction service provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger content. It is one of the technologies used in Y!Q. Google Blogoscoped created a free auto linker tool, which makes adding on topic outbound links exceptionally easy. Am betting some people creating fake blogs …

Why Small Paid Search Engines Are Usually Not The Answer I think I see a similar thread about once a month or so. What small engine provides underpriced traffic? Many people tend to be stuck on a product or service or marketing angle. We tend to view these as good and then place our problems …