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...
Google Launches “Google Moderator”, Posing the Question “What would YOU ask?”
I don’t know if I am slightly abnormal or just more politically interested than most, but I generally enjoy watching the presidential debates. I like...
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...
Should Yahoo Sell Yahoo Answers?
Yahoo is in the process of opening talks with Time Warner on merger and other partnership opportunities with AOL according to the Financial Times and...
It’s Yahoo’s Turn to Defend the Search Ad Deal with Google
If Google can manage to put up a website explaining their search ad deal with Yahoo, Yahoo for its part can only manage to make...
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...
Google Defends Yahoo Search Ad Deal Again, and Again
In what could be its biggest move to defend the search ad deal which is about to be implemented in a couple of days now,...
Google Partners Up with Bloomberg on TV Display Ads
Google is expanding the scope of its TV ads platform with another partnership, this time with Bloomberg TV. This deal comes hot on the heels...
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...
Yahoo! Launches APT, the Display Ad formerly known as AMP!
Yahoo has renewed once again its take on digital advertising with a new platform called APT from Yahoo. This digital advertising solution was previously announced...
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...
Google Launches Project 10 to the 100th
In celebration of its tenth year as a company, Google has just launched the Project 10 to the 100th. The project aims to get the...
New Yahoo Board Pushes Time Warner Talks Again
It looks like the first order of battle for the “new” Yahoo Board is to push for Yahoo’s merger with another company. But definitely it’s...
Hakia Hopes to Expand Coverage, Enlisting the Help of Librarians
The semantic search engine known as “Hakia” currently generates credibility-stamped results for health and medical searches, which aims to point users in the direction of...
Google Does to Books What it Did to Videos on YouTube
Out of the blue, Google announced a new feature or rather a new tool for its Book Search Index, which would allow book retailers, publishers...
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...
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...
Will Google Renew the Browser Wars of the 1990’s?
After the introduction of their Chrome browser, some have suggested that Google may have just kicked off the beginning of a new era of the...
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...
Oops! Google Did It Again, Gets Big Chunk of Search Market Share for August
As expected, the latest data from comScore shows that Google once again got the biggest chunk of the search market share for August and even...
Yahoo-Rhapsody Team Up Brings Music to Search
Yahoo has teamed up with Rhapsody to enable users to listen to the full copies of songs right on the Yahoo! Search results page. This...
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...
Yahoo Preps Up a “More Open” Homepage
Yahoo will soon be rolling out a new homepage design and will begin testing it today with selected “testers” from UK, US, France and India....
Link Building Etiquette : The Value of the Connection
Yesterday I was reviewing the statistics behind one of our link building campaigns which consists of contacting sites & publishers for links in their resource...
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...
Google Rebutts Study on Adverse Effect of Search Ad Deal
The Google Public Policy Blog wants to set things straight regarding a report by SearchIgnite saying that the Google-Yahoo search ad deal would catapult the...
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...
Blogging Tools & Plugins Panel from IzeaFest
Izea asked me to moderate a session on blogging tools and plugins this weekend at IzeaFest in Orlando, which turned out to be an awesome...