Google AdWords

If you currently use AdWords advertising, you already know all about this keyword tool. Use the AdWords tool to generate a “hit list” of terms that you want to try to optimize against. Once you’ve generated an informed list of terms, you can start using those terms throughout your website with a higher frequency.

SEOBook.com’s SEO for Firefox Extension

After setting up a free account at SEOBook.com, and you will get this tool + 2 other SEO tools valued at over $300 for free. This tool pulls useful market research data right into Google’s and Yahoo!’s search results.

SEOBook.com’s Rank Checker

After setting up a free account at SEOBook.com, and you will get this tool + 2 other SEO tools valued at over $300 for free. This tool is designed to be quick and easy to use, but to also give you the opportunity to gain the level of insight needed to compete with other SEOs at the professional level.

URL-Info

An enhancement of Michael Fagan’s original URLinfo tool, this neat tool gives a ton of useful statistics about a specific page. Statistics includes header, link, and image information.It goes into detail and shows external links, internal links, link distribution and more.

WordtrackerLabs: Keyword Questions

One of my personal favorites. People often type questions into search engines. This tool helps in finding these questions. Once you find the popular questions relative to your keyword, you can start to answer them appropriately and drive more traffic to your website.

I hope that you find these Free SEO Tools (software) helpful. I know that there are a lot of other free tools available in the market, but with all due respect, these ones fall on our top list.

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For any entrepreneur, this book is definitely a must read and should be implemented right away. I like the way AJ incorporates assignments that easily integrate in your everyday life so you don’t have to go out of your way to learn. For a person who can barley find time to breathe sometimes, this is perfect.

The cost of the eBook is less than $20 bucks so it nothing that will dent your wallet. If you, like me, considering your communication skills to be your “ammo”, then this is something you should get right away. With the technology, information, and accessibility available to everyone on this planet, it’s difficult to become successful. It seems as if everyone can do what you do and many times at a lower rate. The one thing that can separate you from everyone else is your unique ability to communicate. Instead of placing all your focus on small things like making your websites look pretty, invest in your communication skills and network your way to a successful future.

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First off theres nothing wrong with running a community driven website or blog, in fact in many cases it can be an excellent and very successful path to choose. That said its not the only choice, not the right choice for everyone and maybe not the right choice for you, and its important you know your options. The direct opposite of a blog which fosters a sense of community is a thought leadership blog.Leaders dont seek your approval, then dont want to make you feel warm and comfortable, like youre laying on the floor in front of firepalce with a comfy blanky surrounded by puppies, and they dont lead by consensus. Leaders have vision, vision to do their own thing, speak their own mind, and arent afraid to go against the grain and be politically incorrect. Real leaders share their vision, hope that you agree, follow their lead, and join their tribe. Leaders with vision arent afraid to challenge and push you outside of your comfort zone.

For example lets look at this video originally shared by Seth Godin, be sure to stick it out to the one minute mark

Click here to view the embedded video.

Whats the lesson guy #1 isnt seeking approval from the crowd, hes doing his own thing, leading a movement (its a silly movement but a movement none the less). However notice guy #2 hes actively seeking approval, trying to convert his friends. He helps guy #1, but without guy #1 leading the path there is no guy #2 or guy #3.

Do you think people like Jason Calacanis or Mark Cuban run blogs with a sense of community spirit or do they blog with a sense of leadership?

Now Im not niave enough to believe that thought leadership blogs are better than community blogs. Nor am I foolish enough to believe they are the right choice for everyone, but they are an option. What a blog owner or blogging team needs to do is define the goals they have for their blog, is it be a part of the community, or is it be seen as a leader in the space. Both have value, but are in many ways mutually exclusive, and its nearly impossible to do both well at the same time.

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As to the search results itself, these are now indented but the most significant change was the removal of the page size indicator. This indicator gives you an idea of how long it will take for the page to load. Google also removed the word pages from the previous similar pages link.

Was there any improvement in the loading speed? We have no way of telling now. But ii could be faster or slower. Perhaps if youre a keen observer whenever you use Google search, maybe you can easily tell whether there was any change in the speed of loading the search results or none at all.

So, any idea on why Google did these changes? Is it for aesthetic purposes? Revenue generation or what? Do you like the new look of Google search results page? Personally, I prefer the old one or maybe perhaps I could learn to like this new look once I get used to it.

Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.

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Now, when you view Followers or Following, youre presented with a lot more information, almost eliminating the need to click over to the persons page to get the full scoop on them. Now youll see not only their avatar and username, but also their real name, latest tweet and location. On the righthand side where the Follow button used to be, theres now a new button. Click on it and youre presented with several action options: @ Mention xxxx, Direct Message xxxx, Follow xxxx, and Unfollow xxxx. So its nice in that theres a lot more information available in one place and theres less clicking involved.

Heres a quick peek at my Followers page so you can see the changes (click to view full size):

Whats this mean for search engine optimization? Well, we all know by now that SEO is far more than just link building. Its also a lot of marketing, and if youre on Twitter its an excellent way to market your website. I was a little late in the game getting my site involved with Twitter, but not too late, and it is definitely paying off in terms of gaining new traffic, new loyal readers, new readers, and even some advertisers. It also helps us to connect with our readers in a way thats just not possible through comment forms on our site alone. This UI update really helps to save time in checking out potential followers, or people you want to follow, especially if youre constantly bombarded with new followers or manually hunt for new ones to follow yourself.

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• On May 27th at the Google I/O developer program Google has what is the press calls an Oprah Moment and gives away FREE cell phones to all attendees.
• Within 1 hour of the giveaway the phone finds its way up on Ebay with a starting price of $200.
• This phone receives 29 bids and has a final selling price of $760
• Within the 24 hours after that phone is given away Android receives approximately 50,000 new links.
• It doesnt require a huge leap of faith to assume that at least 1 and quite possibly many more of those links can be directly attributed to Google giving away a cash in kind gift valued at between $200-$760.

For Matt Cutts feelings on this be sure to read You and A with Matt Cutts from Outspoken Media, Aim Clear, and SEO Gadget.

Why does this matter, I run a website ViralConversations.com the purpose of the website is to put free gifts in the hands of bloggers, the exact same way Google did with the android phone, yet I have had to modify my FAQ to tell all bloggers to use nofollow on all links or risk a google penalty, while Google gets to corrupt cell phone searches with impunity.

How does this show that Google is profiling SEOs and not the rest of the blogging world? How else can you explain high profile A-List bloggers like Robert Scoble and Sarah Lacy accepting free all expense paid trips to Isreal and not getting penalized? How can Guy Kawasaki get loaned one, two, three cars in three years and still be within Googles guidelines . How can lending Guy Kawasaki an Audi Q7 for three months in exchange for him blogging about it be OK but I cant connect bloggers with people who want to give away a pair of sunglasses? Matt Cutts says The closer you get to money for links, the higher risk we consider it. Go to any rental car agency ask how much it is to rent an Audi Q7 for three months, youll have your answer how close it is to the money.

The other cop-out we get is the link wasnt influenced by the money. When Matt asked TechCrunch Editors about this post featuring someone who was recently a paid sponsor on their blog they said it wasnt influenced by the advertising. First off Matt Cutts running around asking everyone on the internet what their intent is, just isnt going to scale. Secondly after getting in trouble a few minutes earlier for selling straight links on the CrunchCam do you think he was going to fess up to running an advertorial? Would You? Dont be fooled Techcrunch knows the value of the link:

Fair Use Vs. Free Speech in the Internet Age: The Lane Hartwell Problem
The currency of the Web, after all, is the link.

What we have is a pattern of behavior that closely mirrors racial profiling. Assuming someone is terrorist because they are of middle eastern decent, assuming someone is guilty because they are black, or assuming all SEOs are guilty of being link brokers just because they know the value of a link, its all profiling and its all wrong.

Dont believe that Google profiles known SEOs read this post on SEOMoz from Mathew Inman where he talks about Google pre-emptively banning sites hes involved with. As Jeremy Lubke said Google is determined to make any scalable link building process blackhat.

Weve been discussing and debating this for years and at this point is pretty obvious Google isnt going to change their policy. However what we can do is band together and continue to point out where google profiles SEOs and educate more people to Googles inconsitant behavior.

My advice to you dont involve anyone with SEO experience in any of your link building tactics, have it run entirely by a public relations person, and you should be fine, Google lets them get away with murder or at least giving away free cars, cell phones, and all expense paid trips in exchange for links.

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