5 Tools for On-page Image Usage Analysis
Image optimization is both vital for “search engine friendliness” and web accessibility. Let’s look at a few top tools that can help you analyze both...
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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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Facebook Marketing Case Study: Creative and Popular Facebook Fan Pages
Some time ago I posted on the difference between Facebook group and Facebook fan page. I decided not to stop there and looked at some...
AideRSS: What’s the PostRank of Your Blog Posts?
AideRSS is a very handy blog evaluating tool that can help you understand and grade your blog posts. The service grades all your blog posts...
Myths and Truths About Google GrayBar PR
Toolbar PR is something many webmasters have no more trust in. The common opinions are: PR (change) often seems to have nothing to do with...
Track Hot Trends With Twitter Tools
Twitter is this year’s main buzz and so far it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. Millions of people spend hours micro-blogging on Twitter and...
How to Find SEO Competitor Keywords, Social Media & Backlinks
In the past I did quite a few posts on competitive research: How to evaluate your keyword competition; Tools for spying on competitors search marketing...
How Define: Operator Works and How To Get Included in Google Definitions
Google define:keyword (no space) advanced operator is a very handy (yet not very widely used) way to quickly find the word meaning. However the algorithm...
Link Building for E-Commerce Site : It’s Not All About Paid Links
Last week e-Commerce link building was discussed at WebmasterWorld Forums (also reviewed by SEroundtable). Why is it actually more difficult to build links to an...
SEOmoz Linkscape : New Backlink Checking Tool Reviewed
Last week SEOmoz announced the launch of their new backlink checking tool Linkscape and I felt I couldn’t help (briefly) reviewing it at our (already...
3 Ways to Customize Google Search in FireFox
I search Google daily (min. once per hour, I guess). However I don’t just type in words and go through the results. As an SEO,...
How Google Might Differentiate Between Trust and Authority
A very insightful thread at WebmasterWorld discusses how Google might distinguish trust and authority notions and how they might influence the algorithm. In a very...
How To Diagnose Your Site with Google Advanced Search
While John Mueller did a great job explaining how to analyze your website with Google Webmaster Tools, I thought I could outline a few tips...
7 Myths and Educated Theories Behind Sitewide Links
Like with many other burning SEO questions, there is no definitive answer as to whether sitewide links are good or bad. If we for just...
Google, Techmeme & Megite : Comparing 3 Popular Meme Trackers
With all the buzz around recent Google Blogsearch relaunch, I thought that would a good idea to look at most popular blog meme trackers available...
Stale vs Fresh Document as Defined by Google
Google highly values the “freshness” of the content. But how does Google defines it against the “staleness” of the content? Google’s Historical Data Patent reviewed...
Hosting a Contest for Link Building and Buzz
Most of link building / linkbaiting techniques are used so often that they lost their effectiveness long ago. Unfortunately, hosting a contest is one such...
4 People Search Engines – Looking for Someone Online
Like reputation management, people search is rather a hot topic. Nowadays you can find almost anything about anyone online. Surprisingly, dedicated person search is not...
Micro-Site Strategy for Link Building and Brand Awareness
Creating a network of micro-sites for the sake of link power manipulation is a controversial technique; hence it has become risky to interlink your own...
3 Ways to Visualize Your Search History With FireFox
If you are like me, you spend most part of your day browsing the Internet; that results in plenty of great pages and ideas flashing...
3 Tools to Generate and Manage Keyword Phases
Dealing with huge keyword lists is time consuming and often you can’t do without (semi-)automation. While most of the work is usually handled through notepad...
17 Useful SEO-Related FireFox Quick Searches
Last time I posted a tutorial on creating quick search (“smart keyword”) bookmarks in FireFox enabling you to quickly search any site or search engine...
Build Links and Manage Reputation with your Resume
I already had a few words to say on indirect link building where you promote pages that link back to your site. The technique appeals...
URL Shrinkers – When, Where and Why to Use Them
Last week Jane posted a must-read overview of various URL shorteners and WebproWorld.com forum thread discussed the SEO benefit of TinyURL and similar services (there...
FireFox Extensions to Learn Domain IP Address
First of all, I do not mean you should use all these extensions, of course. This will slow down your FireFox immensely. Choose the one...
Handle Your Site Footer Wisely
As a sitewide element (head logo is another one already discussed), footer used to be a widely used way to both interlink your own pages...
3 Guides to FireFox Quick Searches (Smart Keywords)
I have said numerous times that FireFox is an awesome SEO tool in itself. Therefore I pay so much attention to customizing it to make...
6 Ways To Export Your Backlink Data in Excel
You might have noticed that I love tables in general and Excel in particular. Once you view any data in Excel, you notice things you...
Get Indexed and Ranked in Google News
Google News can bring tons of traffic and boost your site performance. If you own news site and consider it “newsworthy”, getting included in Google...
Everything You Should Know About Dmoz
A large thread at WebproWorld forums discusses facts and myths about Dmoz (Open Directory Project) and I thought it should be summarized (and expanded) here....
The Collection of SEO and Web Accessibility Tools
Like I previously pointed out SEO and web accessibility should come hand in hand. So here is the collection of web accessibility tools (similar to...