Entries Tagged as 'Search Engine Tools and Downloads'

Ann Smarty

SEOpivot: Find Your Site Most Promising Keywords

July 1st, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 4 Comments

SEOquake addon developers continue to impress us with always new awesome tools. This time they are launching a new one called SEOpivot.
This tool finds your site most promising keywords by looking at your site current Google rankings and identifying most powerful words that your site already ranks high enough. In a way, the tool works [...]

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Ann Smarty

How to Track Your Reputation or a Keyword in Multiple Resources via One Unifed Feed

June 30th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 3 Comments

We have way too many resources to track today: thousands of blogs, social media networks, forums - somewhere someone may be talking about you and you may be unaware.
Here’s a cool solution to keep an eye on everything: create your own united, customized RSS feed and add it to your preferred feed reader.
Feed Killer [...]

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Kandi Humpf

Achieve High Rankings by Using Your Existing PageRank as Leverage

June 29th, 2009 by Kandi Humpf | 10 Comments

With all of the controversy regarding PageRank sculpting and nofollow links, we can sometimes forget that your internal linking strategy should be keyword-driven.
Use your content to your advantage. Pick out specific high-priority keywords and link to the appropriate pages. If your number one keyword phrase is “link [...]

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Ann Smarty

3 Cool Greasemonkey Scripts That Improve Microsoft Bing

June 29th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 2 Comments

I already listed a couple of great Greasemonkey scripts combining Bing with Twitter:

This time I am following up with more cool Greasemonkey scripts for early Bing adopters:
1. Bing Numbered Results: add numbers to Bing results:

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Ann Smarty

How to Turn Your PowerPoint Presentation into a Video for More Exposure

June 26th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 6 Comments

Are you a frequent speaker at search conferences? Getting prepared for the search conference must take plenty of time and effort. Well, here is a great tip how you can drive another benefit from your conference presentation: turn your PowerPoint presentation into the video file, record your speech and here you go: you have some [...]

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Arnold Zafra

Google Voice Sending Invites to Non-Grand Central Users

June 26th, 2009 by Arnold Zafra | 2 Comments

So finally, Google is opening up its Voice Account service, formerly known as Grand Central. The Official Google Blog announced that email invites will be sent out to those who have requested for an invitation when Google Voice was launched in March 2009. Likewise, previous Grand Central users who opted out of the service when [...]

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Ann Smarty

Chromatik: Enhanced Search Experience

June 26th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 1 Comment

Chromatik is an experimental search engine by Exalead that offers a fun way to search for images by color.

Search images by any imaginable combination of colors;
Add keywords;
Adjust image luminosity and saturation.

Now let me demonstrate the tool in action…
Pick any color from the palette:

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Loren Baker, Editor

Google City Tours Experiments with Travel Vertical

June 25th, 2009 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment

Google Labs is testing on an experimental service which could probably pave the way for Google’s entry into the tourism vertical. The feature, called City Tours, is a Google Maps application which provides suggestions on what to sites to see when you search for specific cities in the US, like Tampa, Florida.

City Tours also maps [...]

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Ann Smarty

How to Find More Sites by the Same Owner (For Free)

June 25th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | 7 Comments

First of all, let me start with a little disclaimer that I doubt about the ethics of the tool reviewed below. I for one recommend using it:

To research your (client’s) site neighbors (It is not confirmed officially but I have seen plenty of sites being treated the same by Google - and the only thing [...]

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Ann Smarty

Surf Canyon: Featured FireFox Extension for Search

June 24th, 2009 by Ann Smarty | No Comments

Surf Canyon is a useful FireFox extension that enhances your web search experience with recommendations based on your preferences:
The addon adds a tiny icon to each listing in SERPs; by clicking on it you will see “more sites like that one”:

What’s more the tool adds relevant tags above the search results to refine your [...]

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