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3 Domain Typo Generators
Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 22:17:33 GMT by Ann Smarty
Last week Rand posted a brilliant linkbuilding tip that involved taking SEO advantage of mistyped/ misspelled domains. Putting aside black / white hat discussion, I am giving the list of domain typo generators for your advantage: 1. DomainTools Domain Typo Generator offers a variety of options: " TLD view " shows the list of domain typos and a top level domain map with registration status )available, available )previously registered(, registered )active website(,
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

How Do You Measure Your SEO Campaign Success?
Monday, August 18, 2008, 17:49:57 GMT by Ann Smarty
In my overviews of multiple seo tools , I repeatedly looked into tools that check or track keyword rankings . Hamlet Batista recently wrote a brilliant post encouraging us not to rely on ranking metric too much. One of the points discussed in Hamlet's post is that keyword position should not be the ultimate goal of SEO campaign and hence it shouldn't be an SEO process success metric.
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

5 FireFox Extensions to Enhance Link Analysis in Yahoo
Monday, August 18, 2008, 16:41:47 GMT by Ann Smarty
I continue collecting information for my upcoming mega-post on FireFox SEO extensions. Today I am listing add-ons that help to perform link analysis in Yahoo and Yahoo SiteExplorer: FireFox Extension Most useful feature Yahoo search plugins Quickly access Yahoo! and Yahoo! SiteExplorer. yExplore Quickly access link data by right-click on any URL. SearchStatus Quickly access link data of the currently active page. SEOquake / SEO for Firefox See SEO information for each Yahoo!
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

Relieve Googlebot of Unnessary Work
Friday, August 15, 2008, 11:55:35 GMT by Ann Smarty
I have already looked into ways to increase crawl rate for those who suspect their site is worth more frequent bot visits. However from time to time I come across forum threads where webmasters complain that )Google( bot seems too active at their pages eating too much bandwitch .
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

How To Block Search Indexing If Your Site Is Under Construction
Thursday, August 14, 2008, 13:01:23 GMT by Ann Smarty
A site can't be created in a minute; even if you prepare content beforehand, you need time to carefully upload it, settle all technical issues, make sure everything is working fine, etc.
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

Online Identity Searching and Tracking Tools
Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 15:48:41 GMT by Ann Smarty
Reputation management is a too hot topic to be left out of discussion here, especially for your own names. If you love searching for your name )either out of vanity or for business purposes(, you will enjoy playing with the following online identity searching and tracking tools : 1. Twitter Search )previously known as Summize( searches for your name mentions at Twitter .
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

How to Get Rid of Multiple Subpages & Not Get Penalized
Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 18:36:04 GMT by Ann Smarty
SEOs come across this problem very often: what is the best way to get rid of lots of website pages without loosing rankings or getting into any sort of penalties ? The problem may be associated with: moving the site to a new domain; changing a CMS; optimization process )for the sake of better crawl rate and usability(; etc.
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

How Much Might Your Website Be Worth?
Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 12:04:56 GMT by Ann Smarty
Whether you want to sell your website or you are just willing to know how much you have potentially earned so far, you might be curious to know how much your website is currently worth. Like with selling a business, trying to determine your website price is really hard to do: so many factors might come into play: your own money, time and labor invested in it; your site statistics )income, traffic and traffic sources, inbound links, popularity, etc(; the site potential )e.g.
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

14 Places To Spot Popular Trends - What's Hot Where and When?
Monday, August 11, 2008, 10:32:11 GMT by Ann Smarty
A number of search engines and web portals track world's hottest trends and get updated on a regular basis )instantly, daily or weekly(: What's HOT in search? Google hottest trends )updates throughout the day(; Yahoo buzz allows to see the daily buzz score )=" the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read "( and the move )i.e.
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

How To Compare Your Blog Power
Friday, August 8, 2008, 11:54:31 GMT by Ann Smarty
Blogs are different from static sites: they are more complex living organisms - communities of people who share thoughts - in contrast to a static source of information. Therefore it actually isn't that easy to measure a blog's popularity and power. Plenty of factors may come into play: overall traffic; sites linking in; pages/ individual posts citing it; the level of readers' participation )i.e. comments(; regular readers )i.e.
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

When, Why and How to Use Noarchive
Thursday, August 7, 2008, 11:58:14 GMT by Ann Smarty
Another interesting thread at WebmasterWorld discusses the pros and cons of Google cache for website owners . Google cache might be helpful for surfers but for webmasters it sometimes turns out to be "real poison": It is being scraped, regurgitated, redirected, cloaked, you name it. So why would I as a website owner want to allow that to happen?
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

Tools to Explore and Validate Page Outbound Links
Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 13:32:03 GMT by Ann Smarty
Today I will be looking at some SEO tools that check the current page )internal and external( outbound links. This may be useful for: validating if all links of the page work correctly or point to a valid destination )Note: I do realize that Xenu is the best tool for this but, first, it checks links for the whole site and, second,
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

Local SEO : What if You Need to Target 50+ Locations
Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 16:45:08 GMT by Ann Smarty
I continue updating you on SEO case studies here to promote idea sharing with our readers. HighRankings forums recently discussed an SEO case when a person had to optimize for 50 states and reviewed potential pros and cons of the following possible steps to take: creating separate 50 domain s; creating separate 50 subdomains ; creating 50 pages each optimized for a separate state.
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

Find Customers and Backlinks by Adding Your Site to Coupon Directories
Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 12:28:25 GMT by Ann Smarty
If you run an eCommerce site, submitting it to coupon code directories is a wise promotional method you might want to consider. You will benefit from this in a few ways: you will find new customers who frequent the particular directory to look for bargains in your niche; you will contribute to your brand reputation management )i.e.
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

The Huge Collection of Google Analytics Tips
Monday, August 4, 2008, 12:04:31 GMT by Ann Smarty
Putting aside all recent arguments and gossip as per privacy issues )yep, nothing is probably totally free and Google Analytics should be using its )your?( data in some way(, I should confess, I love the tool and use it. I've been compiling the list of advanced Google Analytics tips that open up plenty of possibilities to track and evaluate. Today I am sharing the list and expect you to share yours too!
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

SheerSEO : Another Way To Track Your Google Rankings
Thursday, July 31, 2008, 14:21:49 GMT by Ann Smarty
A while ago I did a few posts on checking and monitoring your keyword position in Google with free web-based tools. Unfortunately, the handy tool )SERPArchive( described in one of these articles seems broken now and thus I've been looking for another solution to get updated of your keyword rankings. SheerSEO is one such tool which is free , has a user-friendly interface and, apart from tracking multiple keyword positions both in Google and Yahoo ,
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

SEO Terminology: Orphan and Dead-End Pages
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 15:24:01 GMT by Ann Smarty
An SEJ reader sent us the following SEO question, which which I decided to discuss with our readers: What is an orphan page and dead-end page? What's the difference? How are they harmful for your site? An orphan page is the one that is not linked to by another one of the site )i.e. that cannot be reached from anywhere on the site( and thus cannot be found by a search bot unless it is linked to externally.
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

Ways to Find Out if Your Site Has Been Hacked or Hijacked
Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 12:44:15 GMT by Ann Smarty
More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to )1( secure your site and )2( monitor that your site hasn't been hacked . )1( Previously I have already listed some basic tips on how to secure your site from being hacked : make sure your hosting company is safe and able to handle the situation properly; make sure your CMS )Wordpress( version is up-to-date; check Google's security checklist .
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

Checking Page HTTP Headers
Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 11:38:54 GMT by Ann Smarty
To ensure that search engines understand your website structure correctly you should control each page HTTP headers . Your server should handle all requests properly - by this you will both achieve better crawl rate and higher rankings. Understanding HTTP header status codes: I don't want to go into too much details here and describe only what is really important for SEOs.
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

3 Ways to Give Your Keywords Prominence
Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 11:21:12 GMT by Ann Smarty
While I've never been advocative of focusing on such an old and overused SEO technique as keyword density, keyword prominence is something you should always bear in mind. If you handle it right you will achieve: better rankings; higher crawl rate ; better-looking snippets in SERPs )and thus better clickthrough(, etc.
author: Ann Smarty
publisher: Search Engine Journal

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