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

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!

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

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

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

Official Google Blog: We knew the web was big...

Google says that they have known a long time that the Web is big. So big in fact that it now indexes at least 1 trillion URLs! Below is a brief timeline of index milestones:

- Google index in 1998 reached 26 million URLs
- Google index in 2000 reached 1 billion URLs
- Google index in 2008 hits 1 trillion URLs

Recently the Google engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when there systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

Read more here:
Official Google Blog: We knew the web was big...

eBuddy Rules Browser-Based IM Clients

The other day I was working on a computer that was not mine, but I needed access to my IM to better communicate with a client. It was very frustrating to say the least, but after a bit of searching I found the perfect solution to my problem in eBuddy! eBuddy is a browser-based Web and mobile messenger - which also has a special version for my iPhone!

Here is the description from the site:

eBuddy is a free web based messenger that enables you to chat with your MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, MySpace and AIM buddies. No downloads or registration required!

When you're on the road, outdoors or traveling you can use the mobile version of eBuddy to chat with your buddies. Every mobile device that supports xHTML or WAP can be used; this includes Cell Phones, PDA's, Sony PSP and Nintendo DS! Check out the Mobile page for more info.

To check out eBuddy for yourself click here - eBuddy Web and Mobile Messenger