4 Ways to Add Keyboard Shortcuts to Google Search
Last week we published a cheat list of 50+ Google and Yahoo shortcuts. Today I am following up with a smaller but also useful list...
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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 Google Treats Punctuation
Using punctuation in Google search results is the reason for constant misunderstanding and rumors. Meaningful punctuation, like the “#” in C#, hyphens and apostrophes can...
“Pushed” SEO Case Studies – Does “Old-School” SEO Still Work?
Google gets smarter and less easy to trick,… or does it only seem to? We’ve seen so many discussions that black-hat SEO is dying and...
How to SEO FireFox Right Click Context Menu
The FireFox context menu is one that appears when you right-click on any page in the browser window. By default, you are given the following...
Is Backlink Age an Important SEO Factor?
Apart from well-known characteristics of backlinks like relevancy, diversity, acquisition rate, etc, are there any other that might be considered as well? Some people wonder...
Find Local Blogs and Discussions to Build Links and Connections
Going local is one of the most effective ways to build links and connections. I have already looked at a few ways to search for...
How Huge Sites like CNN.com & Digg Are Integrating Twitter
Twitter is the first social media site the rise and evolution of which I’ve witnessed from the very start. I mean I remember how Facebook...
50+ Google and Yahoo Search Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
A shortcut in general is defined as “a route shorter than the usual one.” I find this definition the best one because it can be...
Over-Used Marketing Tactics May Still Work Like a Charm
I find it amazing how some tactics just never stop working. It seems literally everyone is using them and everyone says they are sick and...
Develop an Avatar Strategy for Social Media & Blogs
A lot has been said about avatar strategy already. However there is still something new to add. Choosing the right avatar is so crucial for...
2 Tools to Aggregate Comments Across Social Media & Blogs
I love reading Internet discussions. That’s a source of inspiration, news and post ideas. There are so many sites where people can share their opinions...
3 Awesome Multi-Feature SEO Toolbars Compared
SEO toolbars are highly useful utilities providing us with: Lots of useful SEO info at a glance; Quick access to more SEO tools and resources;...
How to Do Keyword Research for an Established Site
I’ve published my thoughts on keyword research for new sites numerous times; but this is the first time that I’ve decided to share my way...
Personal Branding: Me 2.0 Book Review
I have already reviewed one book previously, and thought that might be a good idea to share a new book with SEJ readers from time...
Compare Multiple Web Hosting Packages
As Internet marketer I often have to deal with various hosting providers and packages. I find it not easy at all to compare various services...
Discover Most Frequent Modifiers with Excel
Excel is one of my most favorite SEO tools. I use Excel for reporting, content planning, backlink research and keyword organizing. I discover new possible...
Where Can the Canonical Tag Be Actually Used?
Since canonical tag was introduced and announced, a lot has been said about it. Rand did a great ob summarizing its features and differences with...
SEMRush : Research Competitors’ PPC Tactics
SEOquake, one of my favorite FireFox SEO extensions, has been recently heavily integrated with SEMrush, an awesome keyword research tool I’ve reviewed earlier. The new...
How to Combine Google Search with Twitter Search
No one says Twitter search is better than Google; instead, it is different. You can’t compare them but you can combine them. This post looks...
How to Effectively Promote a Tool
You should have noticed that I can safely be called a tool junkie. I am no expert and I don’t like criticizing even rather a...
How to Promote Your Slide Show Online
Along with videos, a slide show is another great way to build and bait for links. Besides, taking additional advantage of your Power Point presentation...
Keyword and Topic Research with Wikipedia Visualization Tools
Like I said previously, Wikipedia provides a mine of data worth digging into when researching a topic. It is user-generated, well-moderated and heavily interlinked –...
Are Link Requests Dead?
In the era of web 2.0 email is not the only medium to get in contact with a person. People join social media networks, become...
QuarkBase Provides One-Page SEO Analysis
You may want to argue that one-page all-in-one SEO analysis tools giving a quick one-page analysis are useful at all (and I may agree to...
3 Document Search Engines to Search for SEO Documentation
A while ago I listed a few ways to find PDF tutorials, and later also shared my collection of SEO cheat sheets which showed that...
Want New Ideas and Inspiration? Start a New Project
A few weeks ago Loren announced that we had started a new project – Daily SEO tip, a blog featuring one SEO tip per day....
How Long Should the Page Title Tag Be?
We’ve shared tips on crafting a good page title several times on SEJ and each time we’ve came to conclusion that it is better to...
Honest Seduction : Post Click Marketing Book Review
I have been recently sent a book by three prominent bloggers and marketers: Anna Talerico, Justin Talerico and Scott Brinker, founders of IONinteractive. The book...
How to Search for a Term Misspellings on eBay
We have discussed recently the benefits of using misspellings in PPC or organic search optimization campaigns. Much earlier before that I’ve also looked at a...
Are In-Text Home Page Links User-UNfriendly?
We know from experience and based on common sense that links organically integrated in context and containing keywords work much better (in terms of transferring...