How to Track Competitor Search Engine Rankings with Raven Tools
Raven tools have a very handy SERPs tracking option that allows you to track rankings of multiple keyword sets in Google, Yahoo! and Bing. But...
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Ann Smarty is the co-founder of Smarty.Marketing, the SEO and AI visibility optimization agency, focusing on viral and Reddit marketing. Ann relies on her 20+ career in SEO to create custom search and AI visibility strategy for clients.
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Pixelsilk: SEO-Friendly Content Management System
Why would one want to use a content management system? The major benefits include: (1) the ability to easily create and publish web content with...
4 Tools for Advanced Google SERPs Analysis
I have already looked at most important factors to take into account when analyzing search engine results page; this week I am taking a bit...
Interact with On-Page Semantic Data with Operator FireFox Addon
Have you ever heard about microformats? If you still need someone to clearly explain what it is about, check out Joe Hall‘s post on development...
Featured FireFox Addon: See Which Software the Site Uses with Wappalyzer
Wappalyzer is a FireFox addon that shows you which software is used on the page you’re currently at. The add-on recognizes a lot of web...
3 Tools That Make Posting Links to WordPress Easy and Fun
WordPress is one of the most usable and convenient platforms to run a blog. But besides actually publishing your thoughts to the web, WordPress might...
Google in Real Life: Google Imitations & Installations
For some time now it has seemed to me that Google IS the Internet, and once the Internet is my life, Google IS my life....
3 Actual Uses of Twitter Lists
Twitter lists have been introduced just a couple of weeks ago and it is still not really clear to many people how the lists can...
How Inaccurate Google’s SITE: Operator Is and How to Fix It
SITE: operator is one of my favorite advanced Google search commands. It has always been a good way to tell how many URLs (approximately) are...
3+ FireFox Addons to Access the Page Text-Only Version
One of the first steps to take when analyzing on-page SEO (and accessibility) is looking at the text-only version of the page. This way you...
PicFog: Viral Post Inspiration w/ Real-Time Image Search
I’ve shared a few ways to search for images for “link-bailty” posts earlier. And today I have one more tool for that: PicFog. PicFog is...
5 Useful Yahoo! Pipes to Monitor Your Brand
After Yahoo! SiteExplorer and Flickr, Yahoo! Pipes is the third reason why I love Yahoo! so much. Surprisingly, I come across too many people who...
Research & Build Links with Followtopia Search Engine
I’ve been covering quite a few backlink checkers that can turn handy for competitive research as well as looking for the potential penalty reasons and...
3 Tools to Preview Search Results without Leaving Google SERPs
There can be numerous ways to tweak Google Search results page we’ve discussed before: you can remove re-directs from Google SERPs, combine Google with Twitter...
Firefox Friday: Research On-Page Keywords with KGen
“KGen” (Keyword Generator) is a FireFox extension that allows you to see what keywords are strong on the current web page. Overall, it’s a good...
Quickly Check Your Page in Other Browsers (FireFox)
Do you use FireFox but want to make sure your site looks good to the users of other browsers? Well, this is a good move,...
iWeavr: Look for Related Pages and Backlinks
For a long time now I’ve been looking for some handy and quick ways to see more related entries to the current one. Various types...
Google Monkey Splits Google SERPS into Columns
I have shared quite a few methods to tweak Google search results page: we know already how to remove redirects from Google SERPs, or how...
3+ Awesome Ways to Make Sense of FireFox Tabs
If you are an active Internet user (which I bet you are), you probably always have numerous open tabs in your FireFox at the same...
Track Keywords & Brand Names in Comments: BackType Alerts
Backtype, the web comment tracking service (where you’d better register to claim your comments and report fake comments) has a really nice feature that allows...
5 Useful Reverse Domain IP Checking Tools
There are a lot of people who are sure domain IP address, as well as domain IP neighbors, have nothing to do with SEO. I’ve...
Let’s Create an SEJ Firefox Addon Collection!
FireFox has a nifty option allowing its users to create their own public addon collections as well as subscribe to collections created by someone else....
Add Cool Features to Google Search with Google Bump
Google Bump is a n awesome Greasemonkey script worth giving a try. It adds some cool functionality to the Google web search: Main features include...
Use Multiple Keyword Research Services with KeywordSmash
KeywordSmash is a free online tool that lets you search every major online keyword research and content source as well as search a number of...
3 Most Useful iGoogle Hacks
My previous posts on SEO gadgets for iGoogle has shown that many of SEJ readers are using iGoogle on a daily basis. Hence I decided...
Is It a Good Idea to Block Visitors by Country?
There may be several reasons why one would want to block users from all countries except the targeted one: with large amounts of traffic this...
Reputation Management Issue: Fixing Google Suggest Results
Google reputation management has long been a well-discussed topic, it has never occurred to me there still may be anything new to talk about there....
Quickly Find out Which SERPS Page You Are Ranked
I love those tiny, less-known scripts that are fun to play with. Last time I shared one that highlights your domain within Google SERPs and...
Monitor Any Page with Website Monitor Google Gadget
Do you want to be the first to know when your site goes down? Or once your page goes off Digg front page? Here’s one...
5 Ways to Add a Search Sidebar to Google SERPs
No matter how much Google team tries, more often than not Google search results are not enough. We need to dig deeper, check various sources,...