Sunday, 14 September 2008

Accurate Google PageRank Checker - Including Subdomains



dlls.info has a great new free Google PageRank (PR) checker that appears to be accurate and updated often. The great part about this PR checker is that it can also check subdomains accurately, which is something that is sometime hard to find as most checkers default to the top level domain.

Check it out here - dlls.info Google PageRank (PR) Checker




Thursday, 11 September 2008

Search Fuel Goes Live!



Search Fuel is an incredible new search marketing blog that covers a range of topics covering organic search, paid search, emerging trends and technology, social media and featured articles (which also includes my new post on "Does MSN Live Search Matter").

Click here to learn more - Search Fuel

Additional information from the 'About Us' Page:
SearchFuel is an alternative source for search marketing insights. Our goal is share insights and perspective developed from experiences within our unique environment as the search strategists for some of the world’s most powerful brands and media buyers.

Our team of Contributing Bloggers features talent across Outrider, an award-winning, leading global, integrated search marketing agency and direct-to-client division of GroupM Search, and the agency divisions of GroupM Search, including Beyond Interaction Search, MEC Interaction and MindShare Search. SearchFuel bloggers include experienced executives, strategists and experts across all things search marketing, with a variety expertise across strategies, verticals and cross-channel integration.

The work of the search divisions contributing to SearchFuel has received many distinctions for the path we’ve led in integrating search into the media mix, including awards from Yahoo!, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), MediaPost, and Search Engine Strategies (SES). It is this perspective that we feel is underserved in the marketplace and can be addressed on SearchFuel.

Many blogs exist that report the daily news impacting the search and media industries. SearchFuel is the alternative for deeper insight and discussion among clients, advertisers, traditional and digital media buyers, search marketers, media planners, media specialists and more. Our bloggers strive to provide search perspective that inspires innovative thinking and fuels conversation and debate centered around intent, content and relevancy as it relates to search marketing and its influence in the integrated media landscape.

SearchFuel features regular, relevant posts in categories across paid search, organic search, emerging trends and technologies (mobile search, local, reputation management, etc.), and social media marketing (SMM), as well as features including Global Perspective, Vertical-Specific Posts and Guest Bloggers.

Click here to learn more - Search Fuel



Saturday, 23 August 2008

Track Your Backlinks for FREE with Beautiful Charts and History


Have you ever wanted to see the backlinks to your site represented in colorful and animated charts? Well now is your chance with Track Indexing .com.

This great little site goes above and beyond your standard index tracking by keeping a record online of your backlinks by date recorded. This is a great add on so you can see the trends of how the engines are indexing your pages. In addition they offer a very reasonable (have not tried it yet, but it looks good) service for $12 per year to automatically track, report and record your backlinks for a full year.

Check it out now at - Track Indexing .com

Thursday, 14 August 2008

Free eBook - Directory Submission Handbook - A to Z of Directory Submissions



Directory Maximizer recently started offering a free web directory submission handbook entitled, "A to Z of Directory Submissions". It is an interesting book (ebook) that covers a lot of information including:

* Introduction to directories and directory submissions
* The importance and benefits of directory submissions
* Common myths about directory submissions
* How to make directory submissions yourself
* What happens after a site has been submitted?
* Recommended directory submissions
* Types of directories

All for FREE - Download it today at - FREE Directory Submission Handbook!

Monday, 11 August 2008

Local SEO - Getting Listed Locally for Free!



Getting your website listed locally can help drive additional traffic while also benefiting your SEO efforts. Below is a list of sites you should consider as together they feed almost all local listings across the Web.

Local Submission Listings:

Akama.com business directory

CitySearch

Google Local Business Center

infoUSA.com

insiderpages


Kudzu Business Center

Local.com

localeze (data supplied to 45 local directories)

Magic Yellow

Open List (some data provided by localeze)

SuperPages

Yahoo! Local

YellowBot

Yelp

Friday, 8 August 2008

Google - Knows Everything (at least they think so)....Announcing Google Insights (beta)

Google has just released a new beta tool called Google Insights. The idea as they put it, is to "see what the world is searching for" (assuming they control the world of search with their engine).

Enough Google world domination bashing (even though it is pretty scary) the tool is pretty cool (as many of their tools are) and does provide some good information. Basically it appears to be the replacement for the somewhat helpful Google Trends tool. While I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the tool, the results look to be pretty comprehensive.

You can check it out here for yourself here - Google Insights for Search

Thursday, 7 August 2008

How Often do the Search Engine Bots (Crawlers) Visit Your Site?


One measure of a good site is that it will get crawled by the search engine bots or crawlers on a regular basis. If you update your content often and acquire backlinks you should be in good shape, but many forget to do this and their sites just sit stagnant not offering any reason for the engines to check-in and update their database records. The fact is, sites that get crawled more often tend to rank better than those that do not.

That being said, I just found a nice tool from the folks at SEOAnalytic.com that provides quick insight into the last time the search engine bots or crawlers from Google, Yahoo! and MSN have visited your site.

That tool can be found here - SE Bots Last Visit