Free SEO Tool That Does Not Harvest Your Data

How’s this for a big time treat:
Aaron Wall’s SEO For Firefox
SEO for Firefox Features:
Pulls useful market research data right into Google’s and Yahoo!’s search results, including the following data near each search result.

PR: (Google PageRank) an estimated measure of global link authority
Age: age pulled from Archive.org, shows the first time a page was [...]

Gotta Digg It - Spam Gold In Google

The Google crew is gonna walk into work and face one big headache on Monday morning…Crazy stuff, crazeeee!
The thread that started it all: New SPAM sites…billions of results!!!!
OK, how do these sites do this?? They were registered just a few weeks ago and got millions or billions of results…of fresh SPAM.
Yes you read that right [...]

Blackhat Blackmail & Blabbers

I can’t help it, I’m just totally laffin my butt off!
It all started earlier this week when seoblackhat.com blabbed about a post over at boogybonbon’s blog explaining how to build links nefariously with a moveabletype exploit.
Well the turkeys started gobbling out of frustration that their money trees were gonna be stripped. Quadszilla basically stated: Put [...]

The Debate Over .edu and .gov Links

I don’t pretend to be an SEO guru because I’m far far away from that trophy. But I have been following the debate over .edu and .gov links with some interest.
For those not in the know, here’s the scoop. Some links (inbounds) are far more valuable than others. A link from a texas holdem poker [...]

Free SEO Tools - Do They Leak Your Niche?

I use all kinds of free online webmaster tools. And I like the freebie seo tools too. But I’ve never felt *all-that-comfortable* about doing so.
With a free seo tool being released every time you turn around lately, and some of them darn interesting and useful too, I have to wonder what that gig is all [...]

Paid Links, Discussion Links & Google Law

There’s something that’s been bugging me lately. So much of the net community seems to embrace without question Google Law and allow Google to decide who, what, where and how we link to other websites.
So much of Google’s algo depends on links. Who is linking to a website, what the anchor text of those links [...]

New Backlinks Plugin For WordPress SEO

I noticed some new activity in the wordpress support forum for the thread: SEO Your Wordpress Blog (some good info linked to in there).
A new plugin was announced:
Count inbound links: backlinks wordpress plugin
Backlinks draws a nice graph that shows how your number of inbound links develop over time using the MSN Search API together with [...]

Check Out My Google Stats

Here are this month’s stats for one of my bitty affiliate sites:
Yahoo 1339
MSN 541
Overture 18
AltaVista 14
Unknown search engines 6
Ask Jeeves 6
Dogpile 6
AllTheWeb 5
Excite 3
Google 1
Mamma 1
MetaCrawler (Metamoteur) 1
WISENut 1
Search.com 1
Jubii 1
No, that’s not a typo. Google has sent me one visitor. And no the site is not banned or grey barred.
One thing I promised [...]

More On Boosting Juice To Sites That Link To You

Earlier I posted about the technique of boosting the strength of your incoming links by finding ways to link to those sites that link to you: Do You Boost The Juice To Sites That Link To You?.
Mouthful isn’t it :lol:.
It occurred to me after writing that post that companies and marketers who offer products and [...]

Do You Boost The Juice To Sites That Link To You?

There’s a site I’ve been taking my time building over the past year that has very little traffic atm. A site that some would call: Well Below The Radar :lol:.
I’ve been noticing something interesting though. Aside from the standard scraper sites linking to this little known and tucked away gem, there are a few links [...]