I went cold-turkey on Windows at the beginning of this year, installing Ubuntu on my work station. It’s been frustrating at times, when you have to learn to do tasks again but you soon adapt. One thing I have missed though are some Windows tools and applications. Most have been replaced, even PhotoShop has a [...]

There are few people as well known in SEO/SEM circles as Jill Whalen. She founded High Rankings LLC in 1995 and has grown this since to be a leading brand in the industry. Their Search Marketing Newsletter and SEO forums are well known to many. Her conference record speaks for itself.
I first met Jill during [...]

What is SocialMedian.com?
From Mashable.com:

You can follow different topical news groups – which are a collection of activities from people interested in the same topic (called News Networks) - or subscribe to updates from other users (called Newsmakers). On your homepage, you can then filter between the activities in your News Networks and the activities [...]

Earlier this month, Google gave their users access to a free library of document templates. I found time last night to dig around and discovered some useful ones for search marketers. To save you some time, here are direct links to the ones I downloaded.
1. Non Disclosure Contract (NDA)

An NDA is an essential tool for [...]

Sorry if it’s seemed a bit quiet round here recently. The latest WordPress versions 2.5.0/2.5.1 have a bug which kills off some RSS addresses. If you look at the feed URL in a browser it will have no posts there or errors. It may have done the same to your blog too, so have a [...]

SERPGuard is a free alert service that checks the Google Safe Browsing Blacklists for your domain(s). You may create an account, log in and add all your sites into one simple interface. If our system detects any of your URLs on the Google phishing or malware blacklists, we will send you an RSS message and [...]

Here’s a quick link opportunity I’ll share with you. Quite a few people have pondered about getting links from the uber-popular Twitter. I had much the same thoughts as NickyCakes when I first saw that the only followed links in the service pointed to the posting applications.
Strangely enough there is a much easier link opportunity [...]

Hopefully you’ve already heard of SPF records, one of the new ways to fight spam across the internet. When a mail server receives an email it can check the DNS zone of the sending domain for a SPF record. That will tell them if the email did indeed come from that domain name, using an [...]

Britannica have announced in their blog that they will open up their online encyclopedia to online contributions, placing them into direct competition with Wikipedia.
This new initiative will mean a complete redesign of the site. Under their current subscription model, only a small part of their content is published on the web. They intend to add [...]

Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team, has finally waded in on the issue of fake linkbait. Jonathan Crossfield (aka Kimota) provides some background information on the controversy.
In summary, Lyndon Antcliff posted a satirical story on a client’s site, which ended up being quoted on several mainstream news channels. Critics have claimed that Lyndon manipulated [...]