Archive for the 'SEO' Category

Link Popularity Tool

Here’s an interesting tool to help find out just how popular your site is. The Link Popularity Tool lets you find out just how many backlinks you have on various search engines. Let’s say for example, you had a website specialising in Hilton Head rentals and wanted to find out how many websites were carrying […]

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Analyzing Backlinks

My mate Carlo just sent me a link to a website you can use to analyze your backlinks. Analyze Backlinks, as the site is so aptly called, let you specify a URL, and comes back with a list of pages that reference the URL.
Using it is simple, just pop the URL in the text box […]

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Got PR ?

How strange! I recently had found that my PageRank had dropped to 0 on two websites. Now, this phenomenon has been observed by countless SEO-sensitive individuals, especially ones in the paid blogging circles and has been attributed to the presence of paid links on one’s blog. I’ve seen websites on family, exercise equipment, but especially […]

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Search Engine Optimisation

If you’ve been running a website for any measurable amount of time, you’ll know just how important Search Engine Optimization can be. It can be the difference between your punters finding you online or not, between getting new business or not, between success an failure. The good news however, is that quite a few companies […]

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Blog Directory

If you have a blog, one of the best ways to get it promoted is to list in a blog directory. There are many around but Alive Directory is one of the premier spots, where you can be sure your blog will get the best exposure. They offers a comprehensive selection of blog categories and […]

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Watching your PR ?

It’s one metric that most webmasters keep an eye on, and some of us even lose sleep over. Page Rank (PR) is one of the (many) factors that governs how Google sees your website and how high up your website is ranked. Page Rank gets updated every so often, and this page shows a history of […]

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Counting backlinks

One of the factors that influences how high you site appears in search engine results is the number of backlinks it has. A backlink is basically an inbound link from another website. The more of these you have, and the higher the quality of these links, the more Google will like your site. Here are […]

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

SEM Videos

It’s easy to put a website together about how valuable your services are, but there’s no better way to convey a message than a video clip explaining all the ins and outs of what you offer. And that’s exactly what IOM have done to advertise the Search Engine Marketing Services. They have put together a […]

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

Search Engine Opimisation

The biggest issue that most web site owners ask about today is: How do I appear on the first page of <insert your favourite search engine here>? It’s an interesting challenge and a whole industry has arisen around search engine placement and optimisation.
submitawebsite.com is one company that focuses predominantly on this particular area and has […]

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Apogee Search Blog

I’ve been hanging around the Apogee Search Blog to learn more about how they run their search optimisation programmes and I was was pretty impressed with some of the results they have achieved. You can have a look at their Top Yahoo Rankings for example. Pretty impressive.
Anyway, there’s lots to learn, so I’ve signed up […]

Friday, April 13th, 2007