Tools
Guides, reviews, and comparisons of must-have free and paid tools for search engine optimization, pay-per-click marketing, social media marketing, and content marketing.
These Fun Keyword Tools Will Answer All Your Questions
It’s exciting to discover more and more keyword tools and brainstorm how far you can go with your keyword research. Let’s look at my recent...
4 Tools Visualizing Domain Backlinks
There are quite a few good Yahoo-based (and a couple of independent) backlink checking tools (both web-based and desk-top) that are great for investigating, organizing...
FireFox Addons to Explore Backlinks in Google Webmaster Tools
Google does allow us to have a sneak peek on which links it is aware of. This data is private and can be accessed only...
3 Tools to Unite Multiple Search Engines
My search activity is not only limited to Google, of course. I search multiple (vertical) resources daily (there are at least 20 of them I...
3 Awesome Wikipedia Tools and How They Can Be Useful
Love it or hate it, Wikipedia is a widely used, vigorously discussed and actively updated reference resource. The “usefulness” of the tools listed below is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Yahoo Adds “Up and Coming” Buzz
Don’t look now, but Yahoo Buzz is getting better with new features up on its sleeves. Yahoo’s entry into the social news arena may not...
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...
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...
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...
Google Makes Old Newspapers Searchable, And Readable Too
Remember those old microfiche reader that we use to read “digitized” old newspapers in the library? Not so long ago, those were pretty cool machines...
SEJ Announces Disclaimer for Tool Overviews
You must have noticed by now that I am a huge fan of various SEO tools. I did attempt to explain why I love using...
Google Silently Rolls Out Picasa 3.0 and New Features of Picasa Web Album
While everybody is recovering from the massive assault of its Chrome browser, Google silently launched Picasa 3.0, a new interface of its two-year old Picasa Web...
3 Domain Typo Generators
Last week Rand posted a brilliant linkbuilding tip that involved taking SEO advantage of mistyped/ misspelled domains. Putting aside black / white hat discussion, I...
14 Places To Spot Popular Trends – What’s Hot Where and When?
A number of search engines and web portals track world’s hottest trends and get updated on a regular basis (instantly, daily or weekly): What’s HOT...
7 FireFox Extensions to Explore Page Source Code
SEOs look at the source code of almost every page – I do even when I am not analyzing the page and just browsing. That’s...
FireFox for SEOs: Working with Several FireFox Profiles
I do prefer FireFox over other browsers. This can be a matter of a habit but I don’t know any other browser that can be...
9 Search-Related Twitter Service to Help You Find Tweets
Here you go, 10 search-related service for all your Twittering needs. Search for Twitter profiles, Twitter discussion, Twitter followings and what-have-yous. If you know of...
Google’s Four Web Serving Techniques for Webmasters
The Google Webmaster Central Blog is discussing a pretty advanced topic on webserving techniques. For the novice webmasters, this topic may be a bit on...
Google Reader Gets More Social with New Sharing Features, and we love it
Google Reader has just rolled out some new features, which obviously is geared towards making Google’s RSS aggregator more social. So, here’s a run down...
More People Are Using Google to Navigate, Not Just Search [Data]
Google users know where they want to browse to, and use the search box to get the link to click.
Backlink Checkers that Actually Help
What do I usually want to see in a good tool? Contrary to what you might think, I never expect a tool to do part...
Six Interesting Printed Books (the Ones Made of Paper, Not PDF eBooks)
In this day and age where blogs provide fast and up to date information about developments in the industry are conventional publication mediums such as...
Yahoo Launches Shine, Site for and by Women
Yahoo has just launched a new site that goes by the moniker “Shine”. It a new site by and for women. Everything you’d always wanted...
Google Docs Becoming Web Version of Microsoft Word 2003
I don’t know if the Google Docs developers are intentionally doing it or is it really the way to develop Google Docs into a full-blown...