Best Way to Compare Google, Yahoo and Bing: Blind Search (Poll Included)
A while ago I wrote a post reviewing 3 tools to compare Google and Bing search results. Blind Search slipped in the comments (many thanks,...
Michael Jackson Birthday Celebrated by Google
Google has put out a special logo today to commemorate the late Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday. It’s a bit intriguing that Google has chosen to...
Inheriting a Website That’s Been on a SEO Honeymoon
To follow-up on my last SEO honeymoon post, I wanted to mention a few points that expand it a little and consider this scenario from...
SearchBastard: Must-Have FireFox Addon for Search Addicts
SearchBastard is a new (still experimental) addon that allows for a huge number of cool features for search addicts: Search multiple search engines with one...
How to Do Keyword Research with OneLook Wildcard Search
Keyword research is the long multi-step process that involves finding possible keyword phrases, synonyms and related terms, estimating the keyword difficulty and potential, and even...
Yahoo Video Search Gets In-Line Play Back
Yahoo’s Video Search just got a new feature that will keep you glued on the Yahoo Video SERPs for a longer time before leaving the...
Yahoo to Acquire Arab Site Maktoob
In a rather surprising move, Yahoo announced that it intends to acquire Arab site Maktoob. This is the first time that Yahoo is acquiring an...
How to Remove Redirects from Google SERPs
Let me first explain why you need the tools described in this post. Google uses redirects to link to each page from its results page....
Have You Optimized Your Crawl Equity?
Sites with hundreds of thousands of pages, or even millions, may not ever get all their pages indexed. This is because of a concept sometimes...
SEO Terminology: Boilerplate (How Google May be Treating Repeated Content)
SEOs have been discussing how Google may be giving different treatment to different page elements based on their location on the page. Identifying so-called “boilerplate”...
WikiWix: Additional Help with Your Keyword Research
You may question the reliability of Wikipedia articles but what is for sure is that Wikipedia’s targeted internal interlinking model makes it is great for...
Lawsuits & PR Nightmares: Why Employees Need Social Media Guidelines
How have companies with more than 1,000 employees been faring with employees and their social media use? According to multiple recent studies, it appears that...
Google Tops User Satisfaction Index
Report of the recent American Consumer Satisfaction Index showed that there are more satisfied Google users now than there were last year. The report also...
How to Highlight Your Site Listing in Google SERPs
Do you feel inspired each time you see your site within Google SERPs as you search? I bet you are! Here’s a quick tip on...
Matt Cutts Joins the SES San Jose SEO Site Clinic
Google’s Matt Cutts has made a surprise appearance here today in the SEO Site Clinic at SES San Jose 2009 along with Web Guerilla’s Greg...
Google Reader Rolls Out Some Good Features
Google is really so into “social” right now. Aside from introducing the social gadgets for iGoogle to everyone, it is also enhancing the sharing features...
Social Media: White Hat vs. Black Hat
I am on a panel today at SES San Jose called Social Media: White Hat vs. Black Hat. The description of the panel is as...
Is There Such a Thing as a “Virtual” Backlink?
We know how much Google depends on external links for assigning some value to a site and a page. And because we all know that,...
Google Sponsored Ads Get Closer to Organic Results in SERPs
Have you noticed anything new with the way Google is displaying its paid search ads on its SERPs lately? According to the Periscopix blog, Google...
Sitemaps and Internal Links – the 10000 Page Test
Just because someone with a huge following claims this or that, isn’t good enough for me when it comes to knowing whether to implement some...
Interview with Sarah Blow of TweetMeme
Tweetmeme is one of the most popular and smartest Twiiter-based services. It’s well-known “Retweet it” buttons are used throughout the Internet. So today we are...
Think Twice Before Changing Your Site URL Structure
With the flood of SEO tips you come across here and there it is easy to become paranoid and screw your site up in an...
Social Media Rock Star: An “Interview” With Musician Michael Wainwright
“Come On…I’m Talking To You…Come On” Tears For Fears “Shout” Social media professionals endlessly debate tactics and best practices in this developing realm of communication. ...
How Many PPC Ads Should You Test?
There are many essential ways to improve your AdWords account’s performance, but one of my favorites is ad testing. When I review people’s existing AdWords...