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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...
Yahoo Opens Up BrowserPlus Web Software
After being in stealth mode for a year now, Yahoo suddenly offered the public a chance to take a “sneak peak” at its new software,...
Google to Open App Engine, Announce New Pricing Plans and API
In the Google I/O developer conference today, Google is set to announce that the door to its App Engine will now be open to developers....
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...
Making Sure Your Content Looks Good to Google
Very often if you have some issues with Google ranking your site, you should search for problems with your own site (instead of rushing to...
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...
YouTube Rolls Out Some New Features
YouTube has started rolling out some new features to help us better manage our YouTube accounts. But I would like to think that it is...
Microsoft launches Live Search News, Google News killer?
Microsoft Live Search has unveiled its new web service, the Live Search News (LSN). The Live Search News is very similar to Google News, or...
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 Brings Robot.txt generator to the Webmaster Tools
Google Webmaster Tools has a new tool that would certainly be useful to site owners in making their site Googlebot friendly – the Robots.txt generator....
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...
Mail Trends is a useful Gmail Trending Tool, if only it was easier to use
Mail Trends is a Phyton-based tool that lets you generate a visual representation of various statistics of your Gmail accounts. The code was developed by...
How To Compare Results on Different Search Engines
While it remains unclear how many major search engines we will end up with, it is still wise to track and compare your (and your...
Google launches open source code browser
The Google Open Source blog is announcing about the new source code browser for Google code’s project hosting feature. The browser features easier navigation through...
Repackaged Google Custom Search Launches as a New Vertical SE
At first look Topicle may seem to be a new vertical search engine. But taking a closer look would reveal that it is just a...