Search engine optimization is important for getting a higher ranking on search engines. Nevertheless, it is a tough job and can be costly if you hand it to search engine optimization companies to take care of your website for you. Some large companies pay hundreds of thousands of dollars just to get their websites to rank higher in the large search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Of course, y...

Being a forum activist has it’s ups & downs. No doubt, it’s the same with my experience at DigitalPoint Forums. Even thought I have to put up with many repeatedly asked questions, that can be answer by a simple search – it’s very satisfying to see a member succeed, improvise or even just provide for the benefit of the community. Yes, that’s right – there are still people out ther...

Free SEO Tips for Google Search Suggest Google announced that over the next week they are going to implement their Google Suggest search suggestion feature on Google.com. This change will help searchers find popular keywords that other searchers recently searched for. Short Term Influence on Search When this search suggest change is coupled with the recent launch of automatic matching and the n...

MajesticSEO offers great set of SEO tools. I think they are the only one that do not require you to install a script to track the statistics of your blog. So how they get the data about your blog? They simply gather it from the internet (referring domains, backlinks, anchor texts etc). http://ghosts-it.com While the service is paid, they allow you to get complete stats for your own blog (i.e ...

Do you use post slug feature in WordPress? If yes, then great! If not, then you should really start using it. Post Slug feature is located among one of those boxes at the right side: Categories, Post Status, Discussion… etc. SEO Advtantage of Using Post Slug When you use it, you greatly improve your blog’s SEO. In WordPress, if you enable permalinks and if you use Post Title in the URL st...

While “SEO Professionals” are asking hundreds of dollars for their services to get your website listed by the major search engines and improve your search engine results’ rankings, it’s important to note that one of the most important tools provided by the same search engines themselves (to get listed on them) are free. These tools are the essentials of SEO, just like your Page and HTML...

How to measure website success when rankings, Google PageRank and sheer traffic have gone the way of “hits”: All these older metrics become more and more meaningless in the current web environment. Why measure rankings when they differ from location to location and from computer to computer due to localization and personalization efforts by Google and other search engines? Why look at a site...

Web Design for ROI is a book that had huge impact not only on myself. It has changed the way the SEO industry approaches web design and finally made people embrace usability to it’s full effect. Sadly the web developer community wasn’t impacted to the same extent yet. Many web designers and developers, especially of the “failed artist” kind seem to assume that web design is more about fla...

New web tools appear daily. Often I don’t even manage to bookmark them all, let alone try them. Nonetheless I try as many Internet tools as I can, I’m just a serial early adopter. I can’t stop it. These are mostly 30+ free tools which are either web tools or tools for the web I discovered just recently in 2008. I tested most of these tools and I use some of them regularly as a web professio...

Build A Niche Store is a tool I use to help maximize the potential of the eBay affiliate program. So yes this is a review that contains my affiliate link, but at least it’s one where the writer (me) actually uses the product. I don’t want to go off on a rabbit trail here, but the way many of the Clickbank guru’s make money online is by doing reviews for Clickbank products they don’t own...

Chitika Premium has been #1 revenue sharing network that helps me earn the most from blogging for the last two months. It has become much better than Adsense this time and you can boost your Chitika earning if you can drive search targeted traffic to your blog. I am not saying that I will not make money from Adsense anymore as it has been my #1 revenue sharing network and it will be #1 in the fut...