Build Links Backwards
What would you do for a link you really wanted? Would you beg? Plead? Pay? Stand on your head? Kill a man? Ok, if you’d...
How to Reinvigorate Your Lifeless Blog
I love to offer advice that contradicts some point or position I’ve long held. Well, not in matters of love, morality or personal values mind...
Filter Google Alerts with Alerts Grader
I’ve been using Google Alerts for tracking my brand name(s) and important keyword mentions for ages. It has never been perfect and I am using...
Get More Content Inspiration with WordStream SEO for Firefox
We have shared quite a few updates and tools by our good friends over at Wordstream. And this week I am pleased to share another...
Automate Your Repetitious Work with iMacros (FireFox)
Do you come across any repetitious tasks or do the same things online? Would you like to get much more productive by automating what you...
Google Officially Acquires AdMob
Following the clearance given by the FCC, Google has finally sealed its acquisition deal of mobile advertising company – AdMob. The Official Google Blog just...
The 7 Deadly Sins of Google Local Listings
It really doesn’t matter if you consider yourself a sinner or a saint for you to benefit from some lessons I have had to learn...
Change Your Default Twitter Following Email Notifications
By default (but optionally) Twitter sends you an email “notice” of each user who starts following you. Unlike Facebook, for example (where you have a...
Brand Security Issues With Geo-Listings
Local business listing hijacking is a real situation that can and will have an impact upon a business brand name. If the business is reliant...
Take A Few Blogging Hints From Keynote Speakers
What if your writing could have the captivating influence of a keynote speaker? Writing is little more than presenting with words, after all. It could...
Creative Uses For RSS Referrer Tracking By Bloggers?
On Search Engine Land, Dixon Jones’ blog and other sites, there’s a bit of fancy code that instantly refreshes the URL you’re seeing to add...
No Robots Allowed
There will come a time when robots will be in your target market, but that day is (at least) a few years away. In the...
3 WordPress Plugins to Tweak Your WordPress Blog Pagination
Last week I came across a great post outlining the impact of pagination on SEO, so today I am sharing some WordPress plugins to help...
Eliminating the Profit Motive in Unethical SEO
Over the past couple months a lot of buzz has been generated regarding unethical business practices in the search marketing industry. We all know the...
Manage Your SEO Team Effectively with Raven Tools Messaging System
Raven Tools have a powerful internal messaging system that allows you to keep in touch with your co-workers, distribute task add notes, etc. Let’s see...
Google Finally Discloses How Much it Earns from AdSense
If you are running Google AdSense in all its flavors (for content, for search, for feeds) since ages ago, have you ever wondered how much...
Yahoo! Buys Location-Based Mobile Community Site – Kropol
If Yahoo can’t afford to buy Foursquare, might as well buy something that offers something similar to the location-based mobile community site. And that’s what...
The WebM Project: Open Video Format
The WebM open media project was announced recently and will hopefully change how we load and handle videos online for a long time to come....
Link Building with Great Web Design
Does your website (or your client’s) have a beautiful design? You can take advantage of a unique, creatively designed websites in your link building efforts...
10 Ways to Show Value from Your SEO Efforts
It can be hard to show clients value from your SEO campaigns because like in any service-based industry, it is not a tangible product. So...
2 Cross-SERPs Analysis Tools to Check Out
We come across plenty of SERP- (search engine result page) -based tools daily. Most of them work the following way: they grab search results for...
Google Testing the Waters for a Safer Encrypted Web Search
Possibly due to the growing security and privacy concerns being faced by Facebook lately, Google was quick to implement measures to avoid similar issues. Google...
Sort and Save Any HTML Table Easily with TableTools For FireFox
As an SEO, web marketer and blogger, I need to process tons of information daily. Very often this information is compiled in a table (I...
Google Combines its Most Important Products into Google TV
So after all this year’s of building up a very efficient search technology, a fast and lighweight web browser and a mobile computing platform, Google...
PopScreen & Jinni : Taking Video Search to the Next Level of Innovation
Search engines catering to targeted niches are gaining in popularity. Most of them add a social interaction element, like sharing, embedding, and voting to keep...
Optimising TV for SEO: Thinkbox Research Highlighting TV’s Impact on Search
After attending a Thinkbox conference in Manchester a few months ago, it spurred on some thoughts around the expansive applications of SEO to other media...
Create Your Social Media Life Stream at WordPress Blog
I registered the domain for my name – annsmarty.com – two years ago (to protect my online reputation) and since then I’ve had no idea...
Geo-Listing Hijackings A Real Concern
One of the more prominent Geo-Listing (a.k.a. local business listing) hijackings occurred in New Zealand. A florist was found guilty for hijacking competitor local business...
The 5 Fools You Meet In Social Media
I’ve been very busy, up to my knees in Social Media lately. In addition to regular client work and developing my Social Media teaching materials,...
How MicroFormatting Will Improve Mobile Search
Last month I went over the basics of how to future plan & setup a mobile version of your site correctly both for the user...