Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category


Yahoo Site Explorer Alternatives

Yahoo Site Explorer (YSE) was finally closed in November 2011.  YSE was without a doubt, the most popular tool and source of information for seeing what backlinks a site has.   Many tools and plugins used YSE to get their backlink data, so they all have been affected as well and have had to move to [...]

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What Are The Biggest Keyword Research Mistakes?

Keyword Research can be a bit like trying to put a puzzle together.   However if you are missing a piece of the puzzle or have some wrong pieces, then you can never successfully complete it. Time and time again when I’m reading posts on Internet Marketing forums like the Warrior Forum, I see the same [...]

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Comparison of On-Page SEO Plugins for WordPress

Given the huge popularity of the SEOPressor plugin, I thought I’d do a comparison with some recent competitors. The basic premise of an on-page SEO plugin is that it gives you suggestions for improving on-page SEO and an overall score. In theory, if the score that is reported by the on-page SEO plugin is high, [...]

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Will Google +1 Ever Be As Big As Facebook Like Button?

So the big question is whether Google +1 will gain enough momentum to be as popular as Facebook Like and Twitter and what impact will that have on Google search results.   What is Google +1? In a nutshell,  Google +1 is a way for people to indicate whether they like a particular piece of [...]

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Inconsistent Google Allintitle Search Results

A very important aspect of keyword research is gauging the number of competing sites. Typically, almost everyone will do a keyword phrase search in quotes to get an idea of the number of sites that contain that particular keyword phrase. On the back of that, doing an allintitle search, can be very useful as it [...]

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