Search Engines

10 SEO Friendly Directory Submission Services

In 6 Great Free Resources, I mentioned Jeff Johnson’s free Underground Training Lab.
I studied the videos that come with this outstanding information. In particular I was very curious about directory submission services. Jeff recommends using them, up to 100-200 directory submissions for your traffic generating sites up to a 1,000 for your money making websites.
I [...]

Testing Zemanta

I was testing Zemanta today on this blog (Wordpress).
That’s a Firefox add-on that “Have your browser understand what you are blogging about and suggest pictures, links, articles and tags to make your posts more vibrant” (from the Zemanta site).
All you have to do to install the add-on is click the download button at their site [...]

Gmail Labels In Color

Gmail just introduced a new feature: you can add different colors to labels.
In the label section, you just click the little square at the right to pick a color and all emails that carry that label will show the color you just selected.

It definitely makes your emails stand out more and makes it easier to [...]

Generate Website Traffic: 65 Tips!

Generating targeted website traffic is one of the most important actions you have to take to become successful online.
No traffic means no results, whether sales, leads, subscribers or whatever it is that you are trying to achieve.
That’s why I contacted Jason Green of http://www.sitesalary.com when I found his very interesting post at the Warrior forum [...]

Google PageRank And Selling Text Links

Many pageranks were updated last month. In fact, some pageranks were updated no less than three times.
It seems that these are only Toolbars update, but nevertheless it caused quite some disturbance.
Because many sites were ‘punished’ for selling text links. That means, that the updates must have been done manually.
I’m not the expert on this topic, [...]

Google Analytics: Requested Features Implemented

Today, at The Official Google Analytics Blog, Google announced that new features were added to Google Analytics.
Among the new improvements are
- hourly reporting
- clickable URL’s
- bounce rate increase/decrease and
- integration of Adwords
The last one enables you to link your Adwords account to your Analytics account.
Might be powerful.
What makes these additions so remarkable is, that they [...]

Feedburner: It’s True-gle!

Today, on their blog, Feedburner announced that the take-over by Google is official.
Google announced it on their Official Google Blog.
A great achievement by the Feedburner guys!
“FeedBurner has been acquired by Google. The local weather forecast calls for general euphoria with intermittent periods of off-the-rails delight.”
Here’s an interesting question from their FAQ:
Q. What are Google’s plans [...]

Can You Profit from Google’s Universal Search?

I was browsing the web for some reactions to Google’s Universal Search, their new service that will mix Web sites, images, news, video and other results on the search engine result pages (SERP).
To me, implementation of this universal search feature meant, that getting higher rankings for websites would become more difficult.
As a consequence, I thought [...]