This post was sponsored by Logobee A unique and catchy logo is a must if you are planning to build brand awareness. It is also for building solid social media presence. LogoBee is a nice tool aiming at making it easier for anyone to build brand identity by offering you to buy a customized or exclusive logo templates for your business. What's more, the tool is really cheap )as compared to hiring a full-service branding and design consultant(.

Back in June ICANN began a new program for domain naming that amounts to a "game changer" for many Internet engaged companies. Previously there were only 22 gTLDs, or top level domain determiners, but ICANN's new initiative has changed this. Very soon, gTLDs will be able to end with just about anything - and world or language you can imagine. How does this change the game? Read on.

Good news for all the readers out there looking for an SEO edge on their competition. Our friends at AppSumo have a special 24-hour deal on SpyFu , the service that shows you what ads your competitors are buying. Until midnight CST you can get a year subscription, valued at $1013, for $549. The SpyFu keyword research tool peeks in on your top organic competitors and gathers a list of their best keywords.

We continue our )hopefully inspiring and motivational( series featuring successful self-made entrepreneurs . The first interview was with Kyle James, founder of Rather-Be-Shopping . And today we are interviewing Andrew Kardon, co-founder and co-owner of JoeShopping.com, an innovative free shopping tool. 1. Please tell us a few words about yourself: what are you doing for life? Well, on the personal side, I'm happily married to my college sweetheart.

The Promodo company, which offers search engine marketing services )SEO, SEM, PPC( for 7 years at Russian and world market, is providing a free webinar entitled "Small business SEO". The webinar will be held at 10 a.m. CDP on Thursday, July. 28, 2011. This webinar is designed for small businesses sites' owners.

I couple of weeks ago I felt so inspired by a few successful entrepreneuship stories that I shared them as a guest post 5 Hugely Successful Self-Made Web Entrepreneurs to Get Inspired . I am now lucky enough to feature one of those entrepreneurs here: Kyle James. Enjoy! 1. Kyle, please tell us a few words about yourself. What has brought you into affiliate marketing? I live in northern California, have 3 young children, and work out of my home office.

If you're like me, you have a difficult time deciding which to focus your efforts on - a Facebook page or a Facebook group. I have found groups )especially new ones( work much better for interaction, whereas Facebook pages are easier to market. Hence my solution: I use pages to build a fan base and groups for open discussions on related matters. However, trying to maintain both can be tough,

It's true that a lot has been said and written about SEO by now. Experts choose different styles and different ways to put it: some choose to share strategic advice while others )like me( are better at outlining simply DIY SEO tactics and tips. It is not hard to find well-structured information on the right way to do things: how to do keyword research, craft your web copy, structure your website architecture and interlink parts of it.

LOCql is a location-based question and answer social network that lets you quickly find answers to any questions revolving around a city . The site is still relatively new, so things may seem a bit quiet at first, but it looks like a promising tool for local bloggers and marketers to locate content and keyword inspiration . The community can be joined through your Facebook account, so getting started takes seconds.

Today we're featuring all-around-amazing person, Fraser Cain, editor of Universe Today , a hugely popular astronomy blog, and co-founder of one of the best keyword management tools: Keyword Strategy . I hope you'll find the interview as useful as I did: 1. What brought you to search marketing? And could you please tell our readers a few words about yourself? I had always been interested in astronomy and journalism,

We work hard during the year, so come summer we naturally deserve some much needed rest and relaxation. However, how can we enjoy our vacation knowing that nothing is being published on our blogs and readers are slowly abandoning our sites? Fear no more! Here are 3 ideas for creating quick and useful posts to update your blog while still enjoying your decompression time: 1. Invite Guest Bloggers Guest blogging is the easiest way to score instant, high-quality and,

Zanran is an interesting search start-up that both indexes and maps the numerical content-finding 'semi-structured' )as they put it( data on the web. Such data could be a graph in a PDF report, a table in an Excel spreadsheet, or a bar chart shown as an image on an HTML page. Currently, the search engine extracts tables and images from HTML, PDF and Excel files. In the near future it will also process PowerPoint and Word documents.

I guess one may have a different definition of " SEO web hosting " than mine )most people refer to it when talking about different C-class IPs(. The way I see it is that an SEO-friendly hosting is one that provides a reliable platform for your website. That's it. Again, this may sounds somewhat "cliche", but your website hosting is actually the foundation of its success.

As of today, there has been an interesting update coming from Tweet publishing Tool Buffer. The App was reviewed here on SEJ a few months ago. It allows you to add tweets to your Buffer which are then posted well spaced out during the day. This allows you to add a lot of tweets at one point without overwhelming your followers with a flood of tweets.

Another Google search option has been made a little more internationally friendly. Back in March, Google Chrome added support for the HTML speech input API . This API enables developers to give web apps the ability to transcribe your voice straight to text. When a web page uses this feature, you simply click on an icon and then speak into your computer's microphone. The recorded audio is sent to speech servers for transcription,

Putting together a decent, well informed look at what's currently trending can be a cumbersome and irritating task. For many online marketers or webmasters who want to jump on the "what's popular" bandwagon, it means a lot of time consumed investigating. You have to do a lot of surfing to discover what sites are visited most, which ones have a higher Alexa ranking, and how many comments and re-shares have been earned. In some ways,

We at SEJ always encourage SEO knowledge exchange, therefore I was happy to come across the site which I am sharing today: SEOnky is a promising SEO- and social-media-focused Q&A site which is a must to give a try to: It is an SEO and social media knowledge exchange community which is always appreciated; It is very easy to join: it supports OpenID login which means creating an account takes seconds. Navigation Like a good Q&A platform,

Since the time I wrote a post on searching for highlighted text in FireFox, a lot of new, similar tools have made an appearance. However, none of them seemed to really offer anything essentially new' until I discovered today's fun little addon. KwiClick is a handy tool that lets you choose among four of your favorite search engines, which pop up next to your selected text.

Google News has become a coveted resource for news websites, from major networks to tiny blogs, and it isn't hard to see why. Information passes at the speed of light, and Google has managed to dominate from all sides of the field. Not only do they provide news and entertainment in one place, but they also have endless RSS feeds. Google let's you select and personalize your RSS feeds to the point that you're only getting the updates you want at all times.

Finding exactly what you're looking for through Google can be a rather hectic experience. We tend to pick broad, random search terms hoping we'll find something close to our objective. We then start clicking through the results, then click through the search suggestions, then the related searches, and on and on'until we forget where we started and are at a loss at how to proceed.