Monday, 22 February 2010

Having Fun With Google Commercials

I think most of us in the search space noticed the Google Superbowl Ad (even though it had been running for 3 months prior). I have to say I liked it and found it clever, but the parodies that came after were probably some of the funniest YouTube videos I have ever seen. Check them all out below:

ORIGINAL COMMERCIAL:


SARAH PALIN PARODY


SURPRISE PARTY PARODY


Have fun....:-)

Thursday, 11 February 2010

FREE SEO/SEM Website Grader Services



Ever wanted a second opinion on your SEO website reviews and/or have no idea what you are doing (hopefully you do), well then we have two fun and FREE (yes I said FREE) online tool to help you...:-)

Website Grader and SEO Site Checkup are two great tools to really get under the hood with evaluating a website. They both offer some great detailed analysis and they both offer features and details the other does not. Used in conjunction you end up with quite a good set of data from which to work and build your foundation for analysis.

Check them both out today at:

Website Grader - Link
SEO Site Checkup - Link


Sunday, 7 February 2010

New FREE Webmaster Tools


NetworkTools is a website that offers FREE webmaster tools including:

- Whois Records
- Ping Hosts
- Query DNS Records
- Trace Hosts
- Display Host Information
- Domains on IP
- Reverse IP Checker
- Check Spam Blacklist
- RBL Checker

Check it all out for FREE here - NetworkTools


Thursday, 4 February 2010

FREE Web 2.0 Websites and Blogs!!!


Below is a list of great places to build free websites in order to drive more traffic to your main website, create additional backlinks and lock-up additional branded organic search results.







Weebly Link






HubPages Link











Wordpress Link









Blogger Link





Blogetery Link






Tumblr Link







Viviti Link






Wikispaces Link






Xanga Link








WetPaint Link








Blink Web Link







Squidoo Link

Saturday, 30 January 2010

Scour Goes Local


Scour, one of my favorite and most progressive meta search engines is adding local. I cannot tell for sure, but it looks like an enhanced combination of Google Maps and Citysearch data (I like it better than the Citysearch and MapQuest combined information on Citysearch's website).

They are looking for your feedback - Scour Local is Live and We Want Your Suggestions!

Check out Scour today at - Scour Social Search

Monday, 25 January 2010

List of the Biggest Search Engines in the World



Please note that if you were looking for the largest list of search engines in the world that you can submit to for FREE - that list is here - FREE SEARCH ENGINE ADD YOUR URL LIST

Below is a list created with data from Website Shadow. Please note that all data is based on global Internet users usage of the website and since some of these search engines are also portals, that some of the popularity may not be search only and may reflect how these website ranks.

Google - 42.27% (USA)
Yahoo - 27.19% (USA)
Baidu - 8.51% (China)
QQ - 5.59% (China)
Yahoo - 4.95% (Japan)
Bing - 3.79% (USA)
Google - 3.55% (Germany)
Google - 2.89% (France)
Yandex - 2.40% (Russia)
Google - 2.08% (Italy)
Google - 1.96% (Spain)
Ask - 1.95% (USA)
Google - 1.33% (Canda)
Google - 1.16% (Russia)
Google - 0.85% (Poland)
MyWebSearch - 0.83% (USA)
Sogou - 0.77% (China)

Google's domination was pretty obvious, but what stands out most to me is this.....MyWebSearch has almost 1% of the global Internet users using it? All I can say is wow...:-)