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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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 –...
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...
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...
EyePlorer : a New Approach to Semantic Search
EyePlorer developed by German company Vionto.com visualizes knowledge graphs (k-graphs) derived from Wikipedia content that can be interactively explored. The knowledge graph consists of eyespots...
How to Find More Related Sites in Your Niche
Very often you need to find more similar sites to the one you already have: either for backlink pitch or to compile a link baiting...
How to Design and Organize Global Navigation Menus
Last week I started discussing huge navigation menus by asking what is a better way to order the navigation categories: alphabetically or by popularity. Today...
Some Basic Help with .htaccess File
Throughout past week I came across several people having trouble with .htaccess files. Really, that tech stuff is sometimes frustrating. We have also discussed the...
Huge Navigation Menus: Ordering by Popularity Versus Alphabetical Ordering
A while ago I took a quick look at Amazon.com navigation menus evolution and a few really interesting questions popped up after I published the...
SEO Implications of FireBug FireFox Addon
Firebug is one of the best FireFox addons I am aware of. While it is primarily meant for tech-savvy web developers, SEOs can also benefit...
Get Better Understanding of Google and Yahoo SERPs with Search Cloudlet
Search Cloudlet is a FireFox addon that inserts a related tag cloud into Google and Yahoo interfaces. Developed by the Russian company INTSPEI, the addon...
3 Common Uses of Robots.txt File
Despite of the existence of pretty self-explanatory Robots.txt standards, all-in-one tutorials and advanced tips, Robots.txt topic is still often misunderstood and misused. Therefore I decided...
Free Backlink Checkers – Research Anything You Need
I’ve been reviewing backlink checkers multiple times and it’s now time to list them in one round up. I’ll be listing only free ones here...
Do You Care Who Your Domain IP Address Neighbors Are?
How Google views sites hosted on the same IP address is an interesting question. Have you ever been approached by a link farm owner offering...
Tools to Analyze Delicious Tags, Bookmarks and URLs
Delicious is a widely used social bookmarking tools – it stores a wealth of information on people’s web preferences and on how useful they find...
What Else Would You Like to See on Google Search Results Page?
Of course, Google can’t make everyone happy. I for one don’t like universal search and prefer seeing plain-text search results without being disturbed by images...
How to Track YouTube Videos
Youtube is the huge collection of both professional and amateur videos updated each minute. With online video growing popularity it is getting more important to...
Inside Affluence.org – a Social Network for the Rich : Interview with Russell Rockefeller
Today we are featuring an interview with Russell Rockefeller, an online marketer who is currently planning to start working as VP of Marketing for Affluence.org...
How to Search for People Across Many Social Networks
Today it is a common practice to join each and every social media network if not to participate then at least to prevent online identity...