What is Google Query Expansion? Cases and Examples
Let’s face it, Google knows better what you want to search and find. Their search suggestions, related queries and query expansion are three major ways...
Google Now Searches through Scanned Documents
Who would have thought that the day will come that even documents which were digitized through scanning can now be search by Google’s powerful search...
Opera’s Metadata Analysis Tool Could be a Treat to Web Developers
Just like the sea of content on the web, there is immense mix and mash of technologies that go into creating web sites. HTML, CSS,...
3 Awesome Wikipedia Tools and How They Can Be Useful
Love it or hate it, Wikipedia is a widely used, vigorously discussed and actively updated reference resource. The “usefulness” of the tools listed below is...
5 Tools for On-page Image Usage Analysis
Image optimization is both vital for “search engine friendliness” and web accessibility. Let’s look at a few top tools that can help you analyze both...
AideRSS: What’s the PostRank of Your Blog Posts?
AideRSS is a very handy blog evaluating tool that can help you understand and grade your blog posts. The service grades all your blog posts...
Yotify : Scouring the Web for Notifications That Matter to You
A new web service that started in September takes an interesting approach towards the information overload problem on the web. Yotify takes an approach that...
Open Letter to Google : Why Have You Taken Away my Google & GMail Accounts?
UPDATE : Since writing this and contacting some Googlers, my Google account was unblocked at 2 am last night, EST. Thank you Google for the...
Google Profiles Now Indexable in Search Engines
Call them Google versions of business cards, Geocities 2.0 or call them what you will, I consider Google Profiles to be the building block to...
Google Says: We’re Ok and We’re Definitely Fine
Amidst the ongoing economic and financial turmoil and beating industry analysts’ predictions and forecasts, “miraculously” Google still managed to pose some considerable growth as reported...
How Define: Operator Works and How To Get Included in Google Definitions
Google define:keyword (no space) advanced operator is a very handy (yet not very widely used) way to quickly find the word meaning. However the algorithm...
ANTI versus PRO – Two very different Approaches to Solve a Conflict or Issue
If you do not like something, then you have two options to do something about it. Either you decide to do something AGAINST it or you decide to...
SEOmoz Linkscape : New Backlink Checking Tool Reviewed
Last week SEOmoz announced the launch of their new backlink checking tool Linkscape and I felt I couldn’t help (briefly) reviewing it at our (already...
Google News Testing New Vertical Format
Google News is testing a new vertical format which seems to be reminiscent of Yahoo One Search and more of a mobile device driven format...
How Google Might Differentiate Between Trust and Authority
A very insightful thread at WebmasterWorld discusses how Google might distinguish trust and authority notions and how they might influence the algorithm. In a very...
How To Diagnose Your Site with Google Advanced Search
While John Mueller did a great job explaining how to analyze your website with Google Webmaster Tools, I thought I could outline a few tips...
Google, Techmeme & Megite : Comparing 3 Popular Meme Trackers
With all the buzz around recent Google Blogsearch relaunch, I thought that would a good idea to look at most popular blog meme trackers available...
Ask.com Parses More Data, Gives Answers in Search Results
Ask.com is making its presence felt in the search engine market by introducing two new features of its search engine recently. News.com is reporting that...
Social Media Management: The Role of an Agency or Service Provider
If you work for an online marketing agency the following scenario is probably not uncommon. A client comes to you wanting to help shape the...
Stale vs Fresh Document as Defined by Google
Google highly values the “freshness” of the content. But how does Google defines it against the “staleness” of the content? Google’s Historical Data Patent reviewed...
40,000 Reasons the IM Charity Party at SES San Jose Was a Success
Not only was IM Charity Party the best party at SES San Jose, but thanks to amazing sponsors like ACS SEO, We Build Pages, BOTW,...
Defining SEO Information Environments Through RSS
I have been pretty obsessed with the topic of Information Environments as of late. From their structure, to the way that we let them interact...