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...
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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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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...
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....
SEO Differences Between Google and Bing
Cuil founder Tom Costello has published an interesting article (discussed at WebmasterWorld forums) sharing his findings on the differences between Google, Yahoo and Bing search...
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...
Featured FireFox Addon: Search Any Site with Google
It is funny I am so used to Google search that I no more bother to look for any site search field. I just go...
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...
FireFox Addon: Monitor the Page Size with “View Dependencies”
A long time ago I listed a few web-based tools to check a web page size and why it matter for SEO. Today I am...
3 FireFox Addons to Unite Multiple Google Services
Google provides an overwhelming number of services – it is quite natural we keep looking for the ways to unite those we use in one...
Check and Monitor Your Rankings with KPMRS
I have reviewed numerous rank checkers as well as SERPs trackers and ranking comparison tools in the past. But that’s always great to have a...
How to Use Google Desktop as a Keyword or Reputation Monitoring Tool
Apart from many customizable features, there is one awesome option Google Desktop offers: web clips gadget that allows to monitor any RSS feed. 1. Use...
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,...
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...
Optimizing the Page Search Results Snippet: On-Page Tactics
Page title is the most visible but not the only element which can make your page listing stand out in SERPs. Your page search listing...
3 New Cool Twitter Search FireFox Addons
As much as I love Twitter search, I find it funny that there’s not really an overwhelming number of FireFox addons to tweak it. Apart...
LogoBee: The Huge Collection of Customized Logos for Your Inspiration
This post was sponsored by Logobee A unique and catchy logo is a must if you are planning to build brand awareness. It is also...
Glydo FireFox Addon Discovers Related Articles & Tweets as You Surf
I have covered previously a few tools that search for related content by analyzing the content on the given URL. Today’s tool does pretty much...
Making the Most of the Press Release: Getting the Idea Viral
A press release is one of the promotion methods that (almost) survived the web 2.0 evolution. The only thing that changed is the focus: while...
8 FireFox Addons That Unite Multiple Social Media Networks
Social media networking is both exciting and overwhelming. Hardly can you choose one network to monitor: on average one social media user seems to choose...
SEO Q&A: How to Prevent Google from Crawling AND Indexing a Page?
One of our valued readers sent in a question asking why one of the site pages he blocked with Disallow Robots.txt directive is still returned...
Interview with Brian Carter on TweetROI and Overall Marketing on Twitter
Last week we reviewed a new smart Twitter monetization service called TweetROI. This week we are discussing it with one of the creators, our very...
Tools to Easier Access Google Translate
I’ve been previously reviewing some useful tools to help with international browsing – obviously, the best and the most powerful tool for that is Google...
Learn Your Blog Readers’ Opinion with ProProfs Polls
I have previously over-viewed best free web-based software allowing to easily create online surveys and today I decided to focus on a new player –...
Best Tools to Explore Which Questions People Ask in Your Niche
Listening to what your readers are asking is the most effective way to: Brainstorm awesome link baiting ideas; Enhance your keyword research; Get new content...
Top 3 Google Gadgets to SEO Your iGoogle Home Page
There are surprisingly too few worthy gadgets that can be added to iGoogle home page, this post looks at 3 of them you may find...
It Is Almost Official: Link Exchanging is Still Worth It
It has been a lot of talk about whether link exchanges are still worthwhile or not. Most reputable SEOs publicly declare the tactic is just...
SEO Implications of Web Developer FireFox Toolbar
I have already reviewed some great SEO features of FireBug FireFox extension – and today I am looking at another awesome multi-feature addon. Web Developer...
How to Extract Any Web Page Information and Export it to Excel
Some tools are just so awesome that I can’t imagine I haven’t used them by now. My recent discovery is just awesome and I can’t...