Twellow is a new Twitter Directory which has been launched by the folks at iEntry/WebProNews and looks like it will be quite a piece of work. Taking elements from Twitter, web directories, search engines and the Yellow Pages, Twellow.com lets Twitter users add their Twitter profile to the vertically categorized directory; along with basic personal info, their web site and amount of followers )all taken from a Twitter account, I'd like to see the option to login,

Google is the target of a one billion dollar lawsuit by LimitNone, a software company which claims Google has taken trade secrets from the company and violated consumer fraud law. Apparently, LimitNone developed a tool which allows users to move Microsoft Office calendar info and email to the Google GMail application. LimitNone, according to a report in Wired , says that they presented the software to Google in 2007 and worked with Google on developing the software.

Google has started to open up their demographic tracking system to advertisers with Google Ad Planner and Google Trends users, but here is a look at two other established ways to find demographic info on almost any website. There are two well-known publicly available free tools showing users' demographics for any website: Quantcast and MSN adCenter Labs . While neither of them can be considered 100% accurate, they provide some interesting data worth looking into.

Searchme , the visual search engine has recently launched two new features - Stacks and media search. Stacks enables users to intuitively save search results and make them shareable. The results can be mailed, added to blogs or added to FaceBook, Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon or MySpace. Creating stacks of results is easy. Just drag the search result page to the top left and the page is added to the stack. I tried it on FireFox 3.0 and it really worked great.

After giving us a useful tool for monitoring unique site traffic , Google is treating AdWords members and other ad media planners with an equally useful Ad Planner tool. The Google Ad Planner , is a research and media planning tool that bridges the gap between advertisers and publishers. If you're an Adwords member you can use the Ad Planner to find out which sites you're audience is more likely to visit.

Regular and frequent visits by the crawler is the first sign that your site appeals to Google. Thus the most efficient way to get frequent and deep crawls is to develop a website that search engines see as important and valuable. Note that you can't force Googlebot to visit you more often - what you can do is to invite it to come.

As an SEO recruiter with many years of experience, I simply have to ask: if you have not jumped on the LinkedIn bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for? With the recent announcement that LinkedIn now is valued at approximately $1 billion after raising an additional $53 million in a VC round led by Bain Capital, the site has officially hit the tipping point. The impact of this investment is going to result in more users on the site,

Incoming links are considered to be a major factor that forms Google's opinion about your site. Naturally, country specific links are also very important to make sure Google understands your geographic targeting efforts. That's not a big deal if you have only one site targeting one specific location. But what if you have numerous websites all meant to target different countries? In this case you may end up targeting a foreign country you have not much knowledge about.

Having worked tirelessly for the past two years, Best of the Web )BOTW( announced the launch of BOTW Local Beta on June 18th. While still considered a Beta release, BOTW Local shows us exactly what a quality local search experience is all about. Since 1994 BOTW has provided its users with a clean directory of web sites to browse and search through. While the original BOTW directory still features comprehensive regional listings ,

Today I have collected links of 70+ very useful posts from Mashable . These Mashable posts cover lists of various tools for Web Designing, Web Development, SEO, Users, Tools for Generating Income, Tools for Downloading, Tools for Gmail, Tools for Freelancers, Tools for Bloggers etc. I hope this list of Mashable post will be helpful to you.

A while ago I discussed how you could manually evaluate your competition by comparing the key phrase inachor: and intitle: results. Today I'll add a few online tools that can also be very helpful in measuring your SERPs competition.

Google has topped the Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient which asks US consumers to first identify the 60 most visible companies and then to rank these companies based on their reputation in six different categories: Emotional Appeal, Products & Services, Social Responsibility, Vision & Leadership, Workplace Environment, and Financial Performance .

In preparation for a presentation this week on the importance of link building and steps to an efficient and effective link building strategy, I am putting together blog posts this week which reflect my philosophy on link building, and what I have learned over the years. Is it all too often that a company embarks on a link building campaign before making sure their web site is ready for the influx of links which will assist with search engine rankings. Many companies expect,

Google has managed to build an awesome search engine to my mind: it has a simple user-friendly interface and returns the most relevant results. However naturally, Google just can't satisfy everyone's needs. The following FireFox Extensions will help you to adapt Google's interface and results to what you need, in the most efficient manner possible, making Google even better.

You think that somebody learns from past mistakes and does not repeat the same mistake over and over again. That does not seem to be true in the case of Google, specifically with their YouTube.com property. After my very negative experience in January this year did one thing change to the better as a direct or indirect consequence of it. There is now a help page at the YouTube web page and a designated email address for related issues. However,

Right after announcing about Google Trends for Website, Jonathan Simons of the Google Webmaster Teams announced that they are opening the Google Webmaster Tools for third-party integration with the release of its API. For the initial version of the Webmaster Tools API , the Google Webmaster Team has made the following features available to third-party developers and webmasters: Managing Sites - to retrieve a list of your sites in Webmaster Tools,

Google's search trends analytics - Google Trends has just added a new feature called Google Trends for Website. If Google trends measures and displays statistics for search keywords in Google whether by specific time frame or even search trends as hot as today )hot trends(, Google Trends for website displays traffic for a particular website over a specified time frame. Google Trends for Website gives traffic statistics similar to Compete, Alexa and comScore.

The newspaper business is slowly fading away and out of relevancy.  By the time a story gets printed, it's already broken in the online world.  Newspapers are facing dwindling subscriber bases, and slashed advertising spending, and drastic changes are being made.  My hometown paper, the Plain Dealer, recently announced that they'll begin cutting 35 pages per week out of their printed newspapers, cutting jobs,

Following months of fending off a Microsoft takeover, Yahoo announced last week that they had entered into a non-exclusive advertising agreement with Google. Much in the same way many were concerned about a Yahoo-Microsoft merger, there are already those skeptical of a Yahoo-Google arrangement, including some pretty prominent lawmakers. Rep. Joe Barton )R-TX(, the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, wrote a letter to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang on Thursday,

Top Microsoft officials has expressed that the company is not going on a buying spree of other internet properties after it's bid failed to reach a Yahoo-Microsoft deal.Amidst the rumors that Microsoft is planning to acquire some other targets such as Facebook, AOL among other smaller internet properties, Microsoft's Steve Balmer said that analysts don't really know what they are talking about.