Posted in DIY, Tools on Nov 13th, 2007 3 Comments »
News flash: The web is not just Google. There are many other crucial information sources (a.k.a search engines) available out there that serve a purpose different than What Google’s engine is meant for. For example, if you want to find a job, don’t search Google. Use instead the search engine that specializes […]
Posted in Analytics, Experiments, Reviews, SEM, SEO, Tools on Nov 5th, 2007 No Comments »
A friend has recently brought to my attention this free tool: checktraffic.cgi by seotoolset.com.
This script measures the search volume for a specified keyword per day for each of the 3 major engines: Google, Yahoo, Live. The measurement is in “exact” numbers. Here’s what it gives for the keyword: “testing”:
How does it do that ?
There are […]
Posted in Code, DIY, SEO, Tools on Nov 4th, 2007 No Comments »
SEO is a key element to marketing success, right ?
When you start doing SEO work on your pages, you wanna know as soon as possible when the Googlebot came to visit. It’s even more relevant when working on pages that have not been modified for a long time, and by now all the bots know […]
Posted in DIY, Tools on Oct 18th, 2007 No Comments »
After installing Wordpress, with or without fantastico, go through this checklist.
This is relevant to wordpress-2.3 and maybe to future versions.
Reset password for admin.
Choose theme - note that each time you change the theme, you’ll need to redo the mods for Feedburner stats.
Upload theme heading picture.
Put your personal favicon.ico in the blog root dir. This may […]
Posted in Analytics, SEM, Tools on Oct 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Hitwise has a blog where they reveal search analytics as is acquired by their probes sitting in US ISPs.
For a long time now they claim that “myspace” is the number one general (”All Category”?) search term, by far. Infact Hitwise claim that myspace related searches take over 1.5% of all the searches in the […]
Posted in Analytics, Reviews, SEM, SEO, Tools on Oct 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
I always thought there was only this one Overture Keyword Selector Tool. Apparantly there’s a hole bunch of them, each giving different results, supposedly each from its local market. Also and even more important is that they show different months of 2007, not just from january 2007 like the main US tool does (fr shows […]