This thursday and friday was the time for SAScon in Manchester, where I gave 3 formal presentations, I’ve embedded them here (using an updated SlideShare plugin, more on that in the next post): Feeds & Microformats This panel, together with Richard Baxter of SEOgadget and James Lowery of Latitude, contained some great discussion on how…
SEO tools
Rankings that make sense
We’ve written about rankings here before, for instance: how to track them with Google Analytics, part I and part II and even why they are worthless (the latter post by Eduard, who has, starting december 1st, joined us at OrangeValley!!), on top of that, I was using this rank tracker all the time! But today,…
SEO Blogging Tools
WordTracker released a very cool FireFox plugin called SEO Blogger, which allows you to search for keywords while you write, so you can optimize your posts to the fullest and get some nice search engine traffic flowing in. It’s pretty simple to use and I really suggest you go check it out!
SEOBook SEO Toolbar
A while ago Aaron released his SEO Toolbar for Firefox, and while I’ve been using it I’ve never actually shown it here on my blog, even though it’s become one of my default SEO tools. As this toolbar comes with a slew of features that are probably best described by just showing them, I’ve made…
Disabling SearchWiki
Google introduced Search Wiki, and opted me in without a method of disabling it. Thanks a lot Google. Not. So I started searching for a way to disable. First I found this post , via Saad Kamal, on Google Operating System, but that didn’t work to well for me. This greasemonkey based solution is a…
Cool SEO tools roundup
Some of the cool SEO tools I’ve come across the last few days I just had to share with you: Google Tutor has released a very cool Google Insights bookmarklet: Once installed you should see a bookmark cleverly titled ‘Google Insights Bookmarklet’ on your bookmarks menu. To use the bookmarklet simply do a search at…
SEO Link Analysis 1.0.3!
I’ve been receiving “complaints” from quite a few people the last few weeks that my SEO Link Analysis plugin for Firefox stopped working on Yahoo! Site Explorer. It took some time, (actually it took 20 minutes, but it took some time to find that time) but I’ve fixed it now, so go download the new…
PageRank Sculpting with nofollow, the final words
Matt just did a huge post with updates to Google’s SEO documentation, and mentioned a new page about nofollow. This page features one block of content that is the final word on whether using nofollow for PageRank sculpting is “allowed” or not: Crawl prioritization: Search engine robots can’t sign in or register as a member…
Traffic estimation with Google’s traffic estimator
I was reading Aaron’s excellent post on the value of a #1 ranking in Google, and decided to do a quick check on one of my most important keywords in the Google traffic estimator, vs. Google Analytics, and I was once again astonished by how incredibly bad the estimator data is when noone is bidding…
Cool new Rank Checker by SEObook
Aaron just pinged me that he has this great new Rank Checker available on SEOBook. I haven’t tested it yet, but since it’s Aaron’s, it should be good anyway! Check out the video:
