Why iPhone Apps Can Drive Traffic to Your Site
Applications for the Apple iPhone – often referred to as Apps – can help drive significantly more traffic to your web site in a number of ways. Here’s why:
7 Great Things About Google Suggest
Even if you haven’t heard about Google Suggest, you may have seen it in action while typing a search query on Google. As you type, it displays suggested search phrases in a drop-down menu below the search box. Here are seven great things about using Google Suggest:
Google Webmaster Tools Importance to Webmasters
Google.com offers its Webmaster Tools service to all webmasters free of charge. The tools provide a range of useful statistics, the ability to communicate certain search listing preferences directly to Google, and diagnostic features that list search optimization errors to correct.
How to Create Labels and Filters in GMail
Gmail has a lot of features beyond just sending and receiving email. Some of these are included to but not limited to creating filters and labels. Having filters and lables allows you to organize your email quickly and efficiently. We all receive lots of email each day – we might as well keep our Gmail accounts organized.
Geo-Location SERP Results for Other Countries
Here is a fast way to see how your rankings are working in other countries. You simply have to add the string &gl=XX to the end of the URL in your browser. XX is the 2-letter ISO country code you need, i.e. RU for Russia, AU for Australia
http://www.google.com/search?q=internet+marketing&pws=0&hl=en&num=10&gl=au
This is a quick way to check [...]
Top 7 Firefox Plugins and Add-Ons for SEO
Many people may not think of Firefox as an SEO tool, but in actuality, it’s a great one. It works well for SEO for many reasons. Among them are that it’s free, secure, works on Mac, Windows, and Linux with the same features and functionality and has a large developer network creating extension that are [...]
Website Info Tools – Quarkbase & Website Grader
There are lots of different tools online that provide quick data regarding websites, two sites that we use are Quarkbase and Website Grader. Here is a quick overview of Mortgage101.com using both tools along with some interpretation of the information found by the tools.
Using Advanced Google Searches for SEO Purposes
Google supports query words that have special meaning to Google. These are known as advanced operators and modify a search in some way or tell Google to do a different type of search. Quite a few of these operators use punctuation instead of words and quite a few of them are accessible from [...]
RankChecker – Keyword Ranking Tool
We use this keyword ranking tool (Download Rank Checker) at least a couple of times a day to check keyword rankings quickly. In addition, we use the .CSV export to show the rankings to clients and potential clients. The rankings are tracked for the Top 200 rankings in Google, Yahoo!, and MSN.
Additional features include the [...]
WordTracker Review – Keyword Research Tool
This product review of Wordtracker is by Aaron Wall of SEOBook.com
and covers some useful keyword research techniques.
Basically, keyword research should begin with looking at your current web logs or analytics reports since basically these keywords should have some type of ranking. The logic is that you can probably rank for similar keywords.
The key [...]