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...
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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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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...
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,...
Search Wikis and Encyclopedias with Wiki.com
An online encyclopedia (expert knowledge database) or a wiki (user-generated knowledge database) can be an awesome help in essential tasks you come across daily: (1)...
How to Subscribe to Your Twitter Stream with Google Reader
Since joining Twitter I’ve been looking for ways to effectively follow my friends there and last week I found something hilarious which I must share...
Organize Your FireFox Browsing History : Firefox Friday
History Tree is a new FireFox addon that allows to effectively visualize your browsing history. It shows your browsing history as a tree of tabs,...
Search with Just One Click with Quick Search
Quick search is a fun Greasemonekey script that adds a few one-click actions to selected text: On highlighting any terms on a page, you’ll be...
Taking Advantage of Idioms Dictionaries
I have taken a look at how free web-based dictionaries can be useful for keyword research. Now, there’s one more way to use those (and...
Featured SEO FireFox Addon: Super Search
Super Search is a valuable option for real search addicts. It’s handy addon that combines over 160 of the people search and web search engines...
Interview with Eric Rogge, Senior Director of Marketing at Exalead
Exalead is one of those “smaller” search engines that continue to pop up here and there no matter what is going on in the search...
How to Find Similar Sites with Tags
I have been looking at various ways to find similar sites to the one specified: there are tools that analyze visitors’ behavior and generate the...
Research Niche Questions with Hunch
There was a post a while ago discussing how and why to explore which questions people ask in your niche. We have agreed that it...
7 Ways to Customize Your Google Search Results Page
For some Google’s simplistic interface is its best advantage. Others may think it is too boring. This post looks at some ways to beatify Google...
Using Reverse Dictionaries for Keyword Research
I have previously listed several online dictionaries that define any word you specify. That’s so-to-say the direct process: you give a word and its definition...
Best Way to Compare Google, Yahoo and Bing: Blind Search (Poll Included)
A while ago I wrote a post reviewing 3 tools to compare Google and Bing search results. Blind Search slipped in the comments (many thanks,...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...