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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...
5 Tools to Visualize Page Outlinking Tactics
I love playing with visualizing tools because they allow to see what you might have missed exploring a table or a graph. This time I...
Get Alerted Once Any Page Is Changed
Being automatically updates once a page is changed opens up a wealth of (probably missed) opportunities: Make sure your own page is save from hackers’...
Yahoo Link: Operator Issues and Possible Remedies
Yahoo link: operator (and URL analysis in Yahoo! SiteExplorer) is the best method currently at our disposal to conduct backlink analysis and to evaluate either...
Yahoo Site Explorer Gets a New Interface
Among the webmaster tools available for us to tweak our sites settings for SEO purposes, Yahoo’s Site Explorer is the most underated. It is not...
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...
Google Webmaster Central Makes 404 More Useful
Google Webmaster Central has added a new feature that aims to make website visitors’ encounter with the perennial problem and most dreaded 404 “Not found”...
5 FireFox Extensions to Enhance Link Analysis in Yahoo
I continue collecting information for my upcoming mega-post on FireFox SEO extensions. Today I am listing add-ons that help to perform link analysis in Yahoo...
Live Search Webmaster Center Revs Up Its Backlinks Checker
It looks like Microsoft is revving up its Live Search Webmaster Center to put it back in shape after releasing the tool out of beta....
How Much Might Your Website Be Worth?
Whether you want to sell your website or you are just willing to know how much you have potentially earned so far, you might be...
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...
Google-Yahoo Release Some Details of Their Search Ad Deal
Those who have been watching closely while Google and Yahoo iron out some kinks in their search ad deal would be glad to know that...
How To Compare Your Blog Power
Blogs are different from static sites: they are more complex living organisms – communities of people who share thoughts – in contrast to a static...
SheerSEO : Another Way To Track Your Google Rankings
A while ago I did a few posts on checking and monitoring your keyword position in Google with free web-based tools. Unfortunately, the handy tool...
Ways to Find Out if Your Site Has Been Hacked or Hijacked
More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to (1) secure your site and (2) monitor...
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...
Tracking your Backlinks with Free Internal Analytics Tools
After my recent huge post on SEO tools was published, I promised to add the section for free online internal analytics services; but before that...
Google Launches Lively; Second Life in a Google Environment
Google has just launched its own 3D Virtual World called Lively. Of course the first thing that would come into our mind upon reading “3D...
Top Tools for Domain Name Brainstorming
It’s getting even harder to make of a good short relevant domain name. Hence the web-based tools allowing you to find one are numerous. This...
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...
Yahoo Mail Suffered from XSS Vulnerability, but no one was affected
If not for Cenzic’s CIA [Cenzic Intelligent Analysis] Research Lab which notified Yahoo on May 23 that Yahoo Mail is facing serious risk from online...
Google Adds Site Traffic Analytics to Google Trends
Google’s search trends analytics – Google Trends has just added a new feature called Google Trends for Website. If Google trends measures and displays statistics...
Tools for Spying on Competitors Search Marketing Tactics
Today I’ll be reviewing paid tools for a change (just because they have no free alternatives), so before I start let me give a short...
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...
How to Explore Backlinks Anchor Text
Anchor text is a major ranking factor – it is hard to manipulate (at least it is getting harder now after Google started its anti-paid-links...