Having worked tirelessly for the past two years, Best of the Web (BOTW) announced the launch of BOTW Local Beta on June 18th. While still considered a Beta release, BOTW Local shows us exactly what a quality local search experience is all about. Since 1994 BOTW has provided its users with a clean directory

Today I have collected links of 70+ very useful posts from Mashable. These Mashable posts cover lists of various tools for Web Designing, Web Development, SEO, Users, Tools for Generating Income, Tools for Downloading, Tools for Gmail, Tools for Freelancers, Tools for Bloggers etc. I hope this list

A while ago I discussed how you could manually evaluate your competition by comparing the key phrase inachor: and intitle: results. Today I’ll add a few online tools that can also be very helpful in measuring your SERPs competition. (more…)

Google has topped the Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient which asks US consumers to first identify the 60 most visible companies and then to rank these companies based on their reputation in six different categories: Emotional Appeal, Products & Services, Social Responsibility, Vision &

In preparation for a presentation this week on the importance of link building and steps to an efficient and effective link building strategy, I am putting together blog posts this week which reflect my philosophy on link building, and what I have learned over the years. Is it all too often that a company

Google has managed to build an awesome search engine to my mind: it has a simple user-friendly interface and returns the most relevant results. However naturally, Google just can’t satisfy everyone’s needs. The following FireFox Extensions will help you to adapt Google’s interface

You think that somebody learns from past mistakes and does not repeat the same mistake over and over again. That does not seem to be true in the case of Google, specifically with their YouTube.com property. After my very negative experience in January this year did one thing change to the better as

Right after announcing about Google Trends for Website, Jonathan Simons of the Google Webmaster Teams announced that they are opening the Google Webmaster Tools for third-party integration with the release of its API. For the initial version of the Webmaster Tools API, the Google Webmaster Team has

Google’s search trends analytics - Google Trends has just added a new feature called Google Trends for Website. If Google trends measures and displays statistics for search keywords in Google whether by specific time frame or even search trends as hot as today (hot trends), Google Trends for website

The newspaper business is slowly fading away and out of relevancy.  By the time a story gets printed, it’s already broken in the online world.  Newspapers are facing dwindling subscriber bases, and slashed advertising spending, and drastic changes are being made.  My hometown paper, the Plain

Following months of fending off a Microsoft takeover, Yahoo announced last week that they had entered into a non-exclusive advertising agreement with Google. Much in the same way many were concerned about a Yahoo-Microsoft merger, there are already those skeptical of a Yahoo-Google arrangement, including

Top Microsoft officials has expressed that the company is not going on a buying spree of other internet properties after it’s bid failed to reach a Yahoo-Microsoft deal.Amidst the rumors that Microsoft is planning to acquire some other targets such as Facebook, AOL among other smaller internet

The Google News Blog is reporting that something new is about to come up with Google News. The Google News Team is testing something and will be running a few magic tricks and the post even hinted about something related to “look and feel” of the Google News site. If you’re one of

Jeremy Zawodny left Yahoo last week but the hacking & coding aviator is not going to be flying solo for very long, as it looks like Zawodny has found an open nest to land in at Craigslist. I realized that craigslist is a pretty unique combination of things: a small company with a solid financial

Another critical piece of the Yahoo machine has left the garage, as Joshua Schachter, who Yahoo brought in when they acquired Del.icio.us back in 2005, is resigning from his post. Schachter joins the founders of Flickr, Jeremy Zawodny who was the semi-reluctant voice of Yahoo in the blogosphere, and

The SEO power of in-content (or “Wikipedia-style”) links may be up for debate but from theory, practice, and experience webmasters know that a link in a context is much more powerful than an isolated (sitewide) link in a sidebar. It is logical to think that internal linking should also be

Microsoft isn’t keen to be left behind in the yet to be fully explored area of targeted TV advertising.  Google has been looking into this, as have the cable companies, and now Microsoft is jumping into the mix with their recent acquisition of Navic Networks. Navic Networks is a seven-year-old

In an effort to boost its webmail usage or delay the exodus of free mail users from Yahoo to Google GMail, Yahoo has introduced the ymail.com email domain and reintroduced RocketMail.com. Yahoo.com email addresses are currently used (or claimed) by over 260 million global users, and chances are, if

Putting a very thin silver lining on the dark cloud of petroleum dependency, Google’s Vint Cerf (who is commonly referred to as the father of the Internet), made a statement at the 2008 OECD Ministerial Meeting in Korea about how high oil prices could be seen as beneficial to the Internet. “Although

hakia, the semantic search engine, has launched its Syndication Web Services for publsihers and businesses looking to offer semantic search to their visitors. hakia’s Syndication Web Services deliver the semantic technology that powers hakia, providing an XML feed, and options to customize the