Your Facebook Fan page is more than your business brochure. It is even more than the tool to build the community around your business. Actually it can both and even more. With the variety of free applications you can turn it into the huge source of information around your brand: it can be as comprehensive as your own website giving your "fans" plenty of options to meet, get in touch with you and each other and find more information about your business. 1.

Today's fun mid-holiday search tip will let you highlight your search terms on the page you land on in order to: Easily find your keywords on the target page Analyze on-page keyword usage )prominence and density( Switch between the keywords to easier scan through the page, etc. 1. Use Google Cache If there's a cache link available in the SERPs, click through it to see the page with your search terms highlighted. To easily jump from highlighted keyword to keyword,

I have always admired people's ingenuity and creativity. A new tool barely has time to get its foot in the door before hundreds of mashups, info-graphics, and follow-on tools pop up. Remember when Twitter started catching on? Tons of amazing projects suddenly appeared including Twitter translators, Twitter calendars, Twitter viral projects )like, for example, HistoricalTweets( .

You probably know how much I love Excel for being an excellent data management tool. I have already done a guide on how to export Google search results to Excel . Today I am sharing another set of tools that will allow you to export Twitter search to Excel for brand management and keyword research. Note: If you are geeky enough you can do without tools and read Twitter RSS feeds through Excel diy-style , but the following tools will just make your life easier: 1.

Link Research Tools I once gave a great deal of attention in my very favorable review )because the tool deserves it( have one new exciting feature to be added soon: Link Alerts: Think "Google Alerts" for Links! The tool will scan 12 backlink sources including your Google Analytics referrers for new links, validate them and report them to you. You can set the alerts to come for your own domain or your competitors. You can then,

I know that our readers love cheat sheets: our last year's post listing SEO cheatsheets had a great response. This week I have collected another set of useful lists that will allow you to use Google services to their full potential. Enjoy! 7 useful Google cheatsheets: 1.

SEOgadget.co.uk has announced a new keyword tool beta to make the keyword research process more actionable and )hopefully( enjoyable experience. According to the announcement, "Getting clear visibility on keyword search volume and opportunity data is painstaking and time intensive, but it's such an important part of the initial and ongoing process of SEO".

Free SEO Report )gotta love the domain!( is a new easy-to-use tool )which launches today( that generates in-depth competition research reports based on your keyword. The tool works a follows: Give the service your keyword and domain you want to rank for. Confirm your registration from within an email message )for first-time users only(; Wait for the report to arrive at you email inbox. Note: the tool will also work if you fill only the keyword field.

With Google Chrome, FireFox smart keywords and multiple addons, searching from the browser address bar has become the common searching experience. But is there any way to give your browser address bar "instant" feel? Actually, there are two ways. Here are 2 tools to search from FireFox address bar and see instant results as you type: 1. Instant FireFox Inspired by Google Instant,

Shortly after starting my SEO career and creating my online moniker, I have registered annsmarty.com domain name. I have never been able to find a good use of the site though - speaking about myself has never been something I've been good at. So I just kept it to occasionally share some professional news about myself and linking to friends. Then, last week, I decided to turn it into an online business card.

Are you tired of Google as you see it with all its experiments and updates? Do you want to get things under control? Then you may want to try any )or all( of the following Google search modifications: 1. Google Informative Informative Google Search is a FireFox search plugin that takes advantage of Google's sidebar options to make the results, well,

We scan through Google Results daily, sometimes even hourly. Having Google results numbered helps a lot in understanding where your )or your competitor's( page scores. With Google changing its SERPs so often, it is essential to be aware of several tools that would number Google SERPs for you. Understanding the Limitations When you number Google results, you should know what to expect and what not.

Today SEO SpyGlass , the link and and competitor research software we gave a very favorable review earlier , is adding a new exciting feature and data source - the news is pretty huge, so we decided to announce it as a separate announcement post. As you know, since there's no telling how long Yahoo Site Explorer will last the eyes of the search community are set on Blekko as the new open source of backlink data . And it really is a great source.

Google is launching more and more free tools and services. I use some of them daily if not hourly )like Google Search, Google Docs, Gmail, Google Image Search, Google Analytics, more!(; I hardly use some of them weekly )Buzz, Blogger( and I never use some of them at all )Picasa, Google Wave, Knol, etc(. Due to such a variety of services and ways of using them, it should be a smart idea to organize them somehow to quickly access any of the tools.

Custom Google Search is a FireFox addon that provides the user with great tools to easily create and switch between Google custom search engines. First, have the addon installed and immediately after the restart you will be asked to name your very first search engine and look through the "How to start" guide. Let's try to create one simple, but SEO-relevant custom search engine using the tool.

I have always been amazed by and supportive of simple but genius ideas I keep coming across daily. This time it's " Dark Patterns " community initiative by Harry Brignull . " Dark Patterns " is the wiki of "dirty tricks" designers use to cheat people into doing things they are aimed to.

When Twitter lists were first introduced many people were very skeptic, others )like myself( didn't have the time to use them properly and to figure out how the feature can benefit them. Through the months after the feature launch I've been randomly experimenting with it and came to some great results.

With the rise of modern instant forms of mass communication, the languages we use in our daily lives are evolving at a pace never before experienced in the history of mankind. People living in the same country, separated by just a few generations, often have a completely different ways of communicating with each other. Words, phrases, even meme's are born and die while the world moves ever onwards. Thanks to the power of the internet,

Google has tons of options and URL parameters defining its geo-location settings. In fact, there are so many of them that it is easy to get lost. This post attempts to provide a clear-cut tutorial on how to see search results for other languages and locations: 1. Search Google for Pages in the Specified Language You can force Google to only search within pages in any language you want.

Ever since Google has introduced Instant search , there have been numerous attempts to replicate the behavior and style and apply it to other search sites. As the result, there have appeared multiple "Instant" search mash-ups we, as search marketers, should be keeping en eye on )as these mash-ups provide a lot of insight into different types of search experience(. 1. Instant Videos I felt obliged to start with Youtube Instant, one of the most successful instant mash-ups.