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3 Ways to Search Using Command-Line Interface

cgseo — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:50:30 +0000

I am sure if you are reading this blog, you should love searching. So today I offering a new (somewhat geeky) way for you to search: using a command line. Basically it works like this: (1) Provide a search term; (2) Provide a shortcut that will tell the tool which search engine to use to search for the provided term. The search tool Accessible via: Serchilo Web tool, FireFox search plugin Katapulco Web tool Ubiquity FireFox addon Serchilo Serchilo is a highly customizable search tool that can be used to quickly use any search engine or site. [g seo] You can see which commands are available while you type the query: More things to take note of: Install the search plugin into your browser. Browse existing commands by category ; Add great commands, edit not so great ones; Register at the site for more handy features (define a default keyword which Serchilo will use if you forgot it, define personalized commands, etc). Katapulco Katapulco is an awesome search tool that gives access to over 90 search engines from a single search command line. It works similarly to Serchilo but it requires to input the search engine shortcut in a separate field. For example, this command will redirect to Google search for [SEO]: More things to take note of: Customize the tool by adding any search engine or site ; Suggest your own search engine or site for inclusion. Ubiquity The only reason why I am mentioning Ubiquity as the last one is that I already reviewed the tool on SEJ , so most of our readers must be already aware of the tool. Still, I couldn’t help mentioning it again because of its great features. Ubiquity is a FireFox addon that enables you to quicker access and complete multiple tasks you do daily (including search of course). Besides being highly customizable and really feature rich, it also has quite a few great plugins that allow to search and preview multiple results on multiple useful search engines including Google Trends, Digg, Urban Dictionary, Compete traffic stats, etc: Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . 3 Ways to Search Using Command-Line

Tools and Resources to Learn Google Advanced Operators

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:16:45 +0000

I find it sad that many people are absolutely unaware of Google advanced operators, or even if they do know about the advanced search, they never use it. I for one use Google advanced operators all the time: when doing on-page diagnostics; searching for backlink opportunities, doing competitive research, etc, etc So in this post I decided to share the best tools and tutorials that will help you remember and learn to use the advanced search (if you are not using it already): Advanced search

5 Ways to End 2009 with a Bang

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:33:42 +0000

Life is a funny thing! As humans we all want to be successful and happy. Each year goes by (faster than we would like) full of goals, failures and accomplishments. Ultimately it is up to us as individuals to reach for the stars and fulfill our desires. Below you will find a list of five things that you can do to end this year in a way that will make you happy, successful and ready for the New Year! But remember, it is up to you and no one else to make it happen. If you are reading this, more than likely you are a Business, SEO, or Social Media minded person; and for that very reason I have focused the items below on you. 1. Life – The number one item that you need to do today to end this year with a bang is to evaluate your life. The reason why this is number one on my list is because if you can’t take care of yourself, then how are you going to take care of your family, job, or business? Focus some time today on going back through notes, files, and papers, really anything that you can find that has your 2009 resolutions or goals that you set earlier this year. If you can’t find anything or you didn’t put anything together then that is just fine, stay with me though. Next thing you need to do is review your resolutions or goals.

The Local Search Engine Optimization Cheat List

cgseo — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:03:13 +0000

Like James Morris once said, “ There is no secret sauce in SEO “. Really, if you can allow the time for some studying, you are most likely to be able to do it yourself. What you really need is (1) to understand the good old KISS principle (just keep it as simple as possible), (2) take any rumors and myths (even if they come from trustful sources) with a grain of salt and (3) bookmark some easy-to-implement, step-by-step tutorials. This post is an effort to give you a clearly defined and easy to comprehend guide on the steps to optimize your business for local search : enjoy! I have taken the following steps to promote my business in local search: I have displayed my full business contact information clearly on my site. I am taking advantage of these placements to make my contact information stand out and easy to find: Title of the page (especially for the contact page); Meta description of the contact page and “About us” page (to be displayed in SERPs) Bottom of each page throughout the site ( bottom of the page is the traditional placement for contact information, so most visitors will first look for it there – I don’t make my visitors search for my contact info; it is right there where they are used to seeing it). My site Contact and About-us pages contain sufficient information on where my business is located as well as phone numbers including local area (search engines are often believed to associate local area code as the local search rankings factor ); thus, I don’t need to add “nofollow” attribute to those pages; I have made sure my business domain WHOIS information lists my business mail address and contact phone number; I have the list of my local competitors and have researched their local promotion tactics (I know where their local backlinks come from). My business is listed in the regional sections of popular directories like BOTW and Business.com . I claimed my business and edited my listing in local search engines like Yahoo! Local , YellowPages and CitySearch . For international businesses: I have compiled the list of most powerful local search engines and claimed my business listings there. Examples of these include: 411 Canada ; Australia’s local search engine ; UK’s local search engine . I have created my business profiles at major business social networks and included its address there (examples: CrunchBase for technology companies; Facebook pages, etc) I have found and built relations with powerful local bloggers and journalists and get featured by them; I have made my site more accessible for mobile phones . I understand how important it is to optimize my site for mobile searches. I have read and thought over these awesome guide on local search optimization: Local Search Ranking Factors (2009 edition!) Local search guide ; Facebook Pages & Local Search Engine Optimization ; Local Search : User Recommendations Make Your Business Money Enhance Your Google Local Listings 3 Keys To Success For Local Search SEO Did I miss anything? Please add in the comments! Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . The Local Search Engine Optimization Cheat

10 SEO Blogs Accepting Guest Posts : Promote Yourself

cgseo — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:46:31 +0000

Guest blogging is one of the most powerful ways to build your brand and site popularity. By guest posting you expose your business to a wider audience and have an opportunity to link from really powerful sites. It is also a great way to reach the niche influencers and build solid contacts. This post lists most powerful SEO blogs that currently accept guest contributions to help you build your SEO brand and promote your business: 1. Search Engine

Local Shopping Search Engine Milo.com Goes Mainstream

cgseo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:43:45 +0000

Although local shopping search engine Milo.com has been around for two years already, it is only now that the site is going full blast as it leaves beta stage. Before you start thinking that Milo.com is just another local shopping search engine that will only tell you specific online deals, well actually it does more than that. Milo also gives you available inventories of products available on stores near your location. Sounds good, right? Wait, there’s more. As it leave beta and since real-time search is all the rage right now, Milo.com is also rolling out a search interface that shows real-time product inventory results. If you’re familiar with another product search engine Kayak, well it’s almost similar in features. And like other consumer online shopping sites, Milo.com gives you full details of the products you want to purchase including reviews from other buyers. While this is useful when shopping for products, it would have been more useful if the reviews featured are actually that of the store where a user purchased the product. It’s more appropriate that way since Milo.com is supposed to be a tool for finding the nearest local stores that offer consumer products. Still, it’s a good site and the real-time feature is a welcome treat. However, we could not discount the fact that Milo.com is up against major search engines who offer similar search verticals. Although real-time results and local store finder are not yet in the major search engines’ agenda. Well except for Google which is reportedly preparing to offer offer product inventories of local stores in product searches. In the meantime, check out Milo.com and enjoy it for what it offers especially if you’re still rushing on your Christmas shopping chores. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Local Shopping Search Engine Milo.com Goes

Weekly Search & Social Coverage: 12/08/09

cgseo — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:22:17 +0000

Welcome ot another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ – I hope you are well and getting well into another week in the trenches. It was a somewhat quiet week out there as far as kick ass blog posts, (although ‘Dave baiting’ is in season) but we did make up for it with a bunch of tools and even some patents of interest. Of course the big news was from the fine folks at the Googleplex with the announcement that personalized search is now default for everyone; logged in or not. Anyway, let’s get on with it shall we? Lead

Resource for Checking Your SEO Content Readability

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:04:07 +0000

There was an interesting idea in the post I stumbled across last week that the readability level may affect your rankings because… from a logical standpoint, having reading level as a ranking factor among the search engines just makes sense. It’s a good way to match the right content with the right audience. I never did any testing to confirm that, nor was readability check ever part of my SEO process but it does make sense. So in case you ever need to find out how readable your content is, let me offer you a one-stop overview of readability level checkers and comparison tools. Readability Level

Google Makes its Clean Search Portal Cleaner

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:32:47 +0000

While the Microsoft folks are peppering the Bing portal with all the bling-blings to make search enticing and attractive to users, Google is doing the opposite way. Google just launched a new cleaner and simpler interface to its already simple and clean search portal. So if you check out Google.com right now, what will greet you is the all familiar clean page but now with only four elements initially – the Google logo, search box, “Google Search” and “I’m Feeling Lucky” buttons. You can immediately type in your search term and click on the appropriate button and Google gives you the search results or if you miss the the other elements of the previous Google search portal, you simply move the mouse and everything will go back to how it was before. Pretty sleek, although I’m not really sure whether the change is necessary at all. I could understand the need to be different from the rest of the major search engines but the changes are rather useless in terms of search capability. But then, what else could Google do to improve its search engine anyway? Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Makes its Clean Search Portal

Weekly Search & Social Coverage: 11/24/09

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:12:39 +0000

Welcome ot another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ – I hope you are well and getting well into another week in the trenches. Last week was a particularily busy one in the blogosphere which made it even harder to try and keep the list managable. Even in the world of patents it was a busy one. I sure hope you have your reading caps on because this edition is a HUGE one. As such we’re also not going to have a ‘lead story’ as there is so much to cover and nothing really stood out as the ‘big story’ for me… Anyway, let’s get on with it shall we? Talk of the