How Long Does It Take Google to Rank a New Website?
How long does it take to achieve targeted rankings in Google? That’s probably the most popular SEO question. And to an exoerienced SEO it may...
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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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3 “Reversed” Search Engines That Search Without Keywords
Very often you don’t even know which words to use to find what you need, all you need is a bunch of “similar” sites and...
Semanti: Enhanced Social Search Experience
Semanti is your new search assistant and enhancer. It connects your social life and your browser-based collection of information (bookmarks) to search as well as...
How to Preview Your Google SERPs Listing
Here’s one handy tool allowing you to play around to get an idea how your page listing might look within Google SERPs (well, actually, I’ve...
Cash Motivation: Getting the Users to Participate
Users are the most important “elements” (forgive me the “impersonalization“) of any websites (especially social media ones of course): that’s them who build content and...
TweetROI: “Return on Influence” Twitter Monetization Model
TweetROI is a newly launched project aiming to monetizing Twitter with the utopia idea behind it: TweetROI unites influencers with marketers and protects the authentic...
Interview with Microsoft Bing’s Rajesh Srivastava, Principle Group Manager, Bing
Bing was launched by Microsoft as a consolidated search engine brand and technology which the company hopes to compete side by side with Google. Bing’s...
Interview with Fraser Kelton of Glue, New Promising Social Network
This week we feature the interview with Fraser Kelton, working at new and exciting social media project Glue, developed by AdaptiveBlue. 1. Please share your...
What If Google Profiles “Lazy” or “Selective” Outlinkers?
The topic of your link neighbors is well discussed. It goes without saying that: a backlink from a resource linking to only reputable sites is...
SEOpivot: Find Your Site Most Promising Keywords
SEOquake addon developers continue to impress us with always new awesome tools. This time they are launching a new one called SEOpivot. This tool finds...
StumbleUpon Tip: Use Google to Choose the Best Category and Tags
Sharing stories on social voting and bookmarking sites both grows your social media profile power and enables you to reach your audience. Surprisingly enough, being...
How to Track Your Reputation or a Keyword in Multiple Resources via One Unified Feed
We have way too many resources to track today: thousands of blogs, social media networks, forums – somewhere someone may be talking about you and...
3 Cool Greasemonkey Scripts That Improve Microsoft Bing
I already listed a couple of great Greasemonkey scripts combining Bing with Twitter: This time I am following up with more cool Greasemonkey scripts for...
How to Turn Your PowerPoint Presentation into a Video for More Exposure
Are you a frequent speaker at search conferences? Getting prepared for the search conference must take plenty of time and effort. Well, here is a...
How to Find More Sites by the Same Owner (For Free)
First of all, let me start with a little disclaimer that I doubt about the ethics of the tool reviewed below. I for one recommend...
Link Building Worksheets – Organize Your Campaign
I have said numerous times how much I love using Excel to get better organized. And using it for managing your link building campaigns is...
Buying and Selling Social Media Profiles?
Last week I stumbled across an interesting service that allows to buy-sell social media accounts. It is called Assetize and apparently functions as an auction....
4 Tools to Track Flickr
I have previously looked into ways to track Youtube – today I decided to share some cool tools that allow to track Flickr in a...
Get More Organized with RememberTheMilk
I have already overviewed some ways to get more organized with Google calendar, and I am now planning to start the series reviewing advanced free...
TouchGraph Google Browser: Visualize Relations Between Relevant Sites
I have noted a few times how Google’s RELATED: advanced operator may be useful. Today I am reviewing a tool visualizing how this operator works....
3 Tools to Extract Related Words from Google SERPs
Google SERPs consist of the page titles and search snippets generated based on your search query. The words used throughout the SERPs (excluding the search...
How Much Weight Do Keywords in the Domain Name Still Have (Poll)?
There is no denying the fact that keywords in the domain used to be a very powerful way to be the first in Google SERPs...
Test Your Site Usability with Loop11
Loop11 is a user-experience testing tool: it allows anyone to conduct user testing on any kind of the web interface. What’s more, it is completely...
The Page Title in All Caps? Fail or Win?
It has always been a tricky path to make your page listing in SERPs stand out based on something else except for unique and catchy...
Yasni – Feature-Rich People Search Engine
Nowadays people search is as hot as never before – with so many social media networks people join to develop online connections and manage reputation...
3 Tools to Compare Google and Bing Search Results
Ever since the launch of new Microsoft’s search engine Bing, people have been actively comparing it to Google (to have some fun just try this...
3 Free Live Traffic Trackers for Social Media Campaigns
No matter how far you can go customizing the best (per my opinion) free traffic analyzer, what it really lacks is live traffic reporting. I...
5 Useful Firefox Addons for International Browsing
If you are a non-US Internet user or just have to deal with multi-lingual or international sites, you should find the following addons useful: Google...
Microsoft IIS SEO Toolkit Available for Download
Today, Microsoft released IIS SEO Toolkit Beta – downloadable for free through the Microsoft Web Platform. The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit helps Web...
Does Google SafeBrowsing Prove “Bad IP Neighborhood” Theory
We all know about and probably use Google Safe Browsing tool – the best idea is to use it to identify one of the reasons...