How to Insert Page Security Alerts Into Google Results

With so much important private information we store at our computers and send to our co-workers, secure browsing is very important. For us, search marketers, there is another benefit of seeing online security flags while we browse: this works as an additional help for SEO diagnostics because security flags can easily be the reason of low rankings. So this post lists four tools that insert security report right within Google SERPs for you to see if there are any issues even before clicking through: Website link Notes Download link LinkExtend Aggregated results Download SiteAdvisor Desktop Download MyWot Registration required Download Browser Defender – Download LinkExtend FireFox

Tags:browser, computers, credit-card, Environment, history, seo, supports-google, tools, wikipedia, yahoo

Rank Tracking across Hundreds of Search Engines: Rank Tracker

Just a couple of weeks ago I’ve done a detailed review of the advanced backlink research tool – SEO SpyGlass . The tool has had very positive feedback from our readers which prompted me to check other tools by the same developer. And to tell you the truth, I’ve been very much impressed by their Rank Tracker tool – this post shares why I actually liked it so much ( as always I’d love you to share your experience and thoughts! ). Features I liked a lot: (!) 560 supported search engines (including various local search engines) (!) Support of Google Caffeine (great for rankings comparison); (!) The ability to track rankings on the set dates; (!) Keyword suggestions (via various advanced tools); (!) Convenient data organization and visualization. 1. Check Rankings for Multiple Phrases in Hundreds of Search

Tags:api, auto, google-caffeine, history, rankings, search-engine, selected, tool, tools, tracking, trends, words

Google Latitude Rolls Out Location History and Alerts

Again, Google has launched a new service that will either please or scare you. It’s Google’s Latitude’s Location History and Location Alerts.  Location History tracks where you have been at any point in time, while Location Alerts notifies you whenever you are near a friends location – that way you can easily contact that friend and perhaps arrange a meet-up at a designated place. Google Latitude’s Location History lets you store, view and manage your past Latitude locations. You can even visualize this on Google Maps or Google Earth for a more pleasant view of where you have been at some point in time.  If you don’t like this service, you can always delete it from your Google Latitude account. Google Latitude’s Location Alerts on the other hand uses your past location history to establish a pattern or routine of the places you’ve been, excluding your home or office locations. Alerts will be sent to you and any nearby friends when Latitude recognizes that you are an unusual place or routine at an unsusual time. If you want to enable this feature, check out google.com/latitude/apps . Of course, you need to have a Google Latitude account to use this feature. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Latitude Rolls Out Location History and

Tags:google latitude, google-earth, history, home-or-office, latitude, location-alerts, location-history, past, search engine news, search-engine, tools

Google Dashboard Exposes How Google Controls Your Online Life

Sorry about the long title but I just couldn’t think of a better way of expressing my amazement at how much Google knows about my online life/activities. Well, at least for all the things that I do while I’m log in to my Google Account.  Google Dashboard – we were just asking about this yesterday and here comes Google  officially announcing it. My reaction upon checking http://www.google.com/dashboard? – I was surprised and scared at the same time. In their own words, here’s what the Google Dashboard is all about: Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings. Currently, it covers more than 20 Google products and services right now, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, Latitude, Profile, Web History and more. From those services, the only one that I don’t use too much is Latitude.  I used most if not all of them on a daily basis. Doesn’t it scare you a bit to know that Google knows how many emails you have in your inbox, how many feeds you are reading on Google Reader and more? Well, yeah of course we all know that Google keeps track of these online information and we really don’t mind it at all. But seeing it in on an online dashboard makes it a bit scary. The good news is – you can edit the information. Delete those that you don’t want Google to keep track off. In fact you can practically erase everything and start all over again. But I don’t see the point in doing that. For as long as you haven’t encountered any privacy issues yet, those information are pretty harmless, in my opinion. You know what the clincher is? – With all these personal data and information about us, Google can practically control our online lives. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Dashboard Exposes How Google Controls Your Online

Tags:calendar, dashboard, google-controls, google-dashboard, google-reader, history, online, opinion, orkut, personal, reader, search engine news, search-engine, seo, tools

The Partnership of Blogging and Biz

by Damon Nelson Running a small business has the similar demands as that of a huge one. One particular aspect that you have to focus on is marketing. Blogging on the web is a cheap and effective tool to spread the word about your company. You can tell of your products and services, as well as the history and contact details of your business. Also, it can even be useful for inspiring employee loyalty. In blogging about your products and services, you are also taking pride of the efforts and time that your workers have contributed to your business. Hence, it helps keep your workers at peak morale If you are looking for a way to take your business to the next level, consider what starting a blog might be able to do for you. Similar to other forms of blogging, utilizing blogs for business, also has its unique advantages and disadvantages. The foundation of a successful business blog is creating a clear blueprint, where each and every step in your plan are clearly stated. In blogging, its easy to lose your way, mostly if you are just getting started with this technology. Thus, you must be focused. Write up a plan for how often you will update your posts. Is it going to be a weekly, bi-weekly or a monthly post? Also, list down what will you be writing for the next few weeks. In this manner, you can do more research to retain the loyalty and attention of your readers. You must give some attention on the overall design of your blog. It should be “readable” and the design must not be straining to their eyes. Of course, the quality of your writing should also be impeccable. Make sure that you have your post checked before you have it published. Lastly, is promotion. This kind of task is easy if you have the money. If you are starting out with your business, it is a good move to get to know other bloggers in the industry. In this way, you can get help once you’ve published your blog. About the Author: Discover more about blogging to success from Blogger’s Paycheck . Visit Damon Nelson’s site to learn more about online business at Fast Video Reviews .

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The Partnership of Blogging and Biz

Tags:Business, history, industry, money, products, technology, video, workers, workers-at-peak

Daylight Savings Time 2009 Optimized

Last spring’s Daylight Savings Time post is increasing my current daily blog traffic by over 500%. Reason? Three of them, actually: 1.) Daylight savings time is near an end 2.) Everyone is googling the term to figure out which exact day that end is gonna fall on. 3.) The search engines aren’t differentiating between beginning and end when discussing Daylight Saving Time. There’s another reason, too. Kind of an accidental one. Rather than titling this post with the correct, yet under utilized, singular form of the word, “saving,” I deliberately and incorrectly pluralized it. Here is why: Search Engine Optimization – According to Google’s Adwords Keyword Tool, the global monthly search volume for “Daylight Savings” is 1,000,000. The grammatically correct “Daylight Saving” global monthly search volume, on the other hand, is a mere 368,000. From Blog Archive The Economy – Were this a boom economy, I might well have chosen to use the phrase consistent with the National Institute of Standards and Time in my title. Given the ubiquitously strained job market everyone is dealing with, however, it is in my best interest to revert to the inaccurate yet optimized Googleadwords.com degeneration of Daylight Saving because it will increase web traffic thereby optimizing my chances of my attracting a potential client or employer during this edge of the close of yet another end of Daylight Saving cycle. In other words: this is me compromising my grammatical integrity in order to appeal to the larger, inaccurate, populous because I need a job. From Blog Archive Spring Forward / Fall Back – “Spring Forward / Fall Back” is the best –not to mention, most accurate– colloquial way I know of to remember this stuff. Unfortunately it is limited to the direction in which you need to move your clock and provides nothing about how to remember the actual day of the year that this switch falls on. The Day That Daylight Saving Time 2009 Ends – Last spring’s title phrase, “Why Daylight Savings Time Makes Me Miss My Atomic Clock” post not only falls short grammatically; it fails to provide the day and time that daylight saving time 2009 is scheduled to end: November 1st at 2:00a.m. Because I used the accurate term, “Daylight Saving” (rather than “Daylight Savings”) chances are that this section, though most relevant to the majority of the readers of this post, will attract less attention from those long legged google spiders who will eventually crawl it. Google’s Long Legged Spiders – Doubtful as it is that the phrase, “November 1st at 2:00a.m.” will prompt those long legged spiders to unravel and reweave but at least now the peops who googled, “Daylight Savings” –the majority, in other words– will get the information they came here to find. From Blog Archive Not a computer geek? That’s okay. You can read my history geek Daylight Saving post, then. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Daylight Savings Time 2009

Tags:daylight, daylight-saving, daylight-savings, history, majority, phrase, savings, search-engine, search-engines, seo, tools, words