Despite all the new and more or less established collaboration and sharing tools, the one I use most of all is Google Docs. Yes, it is still buggy but I have found it to be the fastest and the most reliable. Besides, on the plus side I never need to login to it (as I …
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Some content you create and publish on the web is too great to be used only once. No, I don’t mean republishing here. What I mean here is leveraging your best content by giving your readers the ability to save or download it in an alternative format. I haven’t experimented with this tactic for too …
As an active Internet user, I browse hundreds of pages daily. Sometimes I have dozens of tabs open and I have to switch quickly between them. To enhance my productivity I am now playing with a couple of screen-splitting tools that are aimed to help me: Quickly compare search results (of various (local) search engine …
Jordan already did once an awesome post on optimizing your “Thank-you” pages; this article is going to be more specific: it looks at various ways to get your blog commenters even more enrolled. People who have found your article worth commenting are more likely to get even more enrolled; People who comment are your most …
I have already shared my opinion on the variety of various Robots.txt checkers and verifiers: be aware of them but use those with caution. They are full of errors and misinterpretations. However I happened to come across one really good one the other day: robots.txt checker. I found it useful to use for self-education in …
I have once shared a web-based tool that allows to view “technologies” behind any website (like server information, widgets, etc). This week I am sharing another similar tool. W3Techs is a nice little addon that creates a technology report of any website. It provides less information than BuiltWith we saw earlier but very often a …
Last week I had some great time speaking to Apture representative who encouraged me to go ahead and give their tool a try at SEOSmarty.com. Before I share my experience with you, go ahead and see the service in action at my site (scroll a bit and notice a well-branded bar above the screen allowing …
Our good friends at Wordstream have some fun contest for you and some awesome prizes as well! And the good news that we have partnered with them to bring even more fun! Participating has never been easier: just like BOTH Wordstream Fan Page and SearchEngineJournal.com Fan Page at Facebook and become eligible to win the …
Last week we featured interview with Scott Hendison of SEO Automatic and it prompted me to go ahead and try their free SEO tools. The Instant SEO Review was my first choice because I like comparing various on-page SEO analyzers and all-in-one diagnostics tools. This one stands out for a couple of reasons: It doesn’t …
Raven Toolset is designed the way that you would never need any other SEO tool. This post shows you how it guides you through the whole keyword research process: 1. Get Keyword Suggestions Research words with Wordtracker: Wordtracker is yet another tool you can gain access to via Raven tools dashboard. It allows to set …