Directory submissions is the foundation method for helping a website to achieve better ranking on the search engines. If you have been using the Web for sometime you know how important Google is, and why many people are trying to figure out the way to get to the top. Newbie tend to focus on shortcuts...

If you suspect your site / URL is being filtered out / penalized (e.g. you have lost some Google rankings), try doing the following: Dig your internal traffic analytics for traffic drops or bad trends; Perform [site:yoursite.com] search in Google to see if Google reports same number of indexed URLs; Check...

The ‘Ask the Link Builders’ session was a Q+A style panel at SMX West this year and consisted of Rae Hoffman, Debra Mastaler and Roger Monti. Q: How do you keep link building white hat? The general consensus was to stay away from things that go against Google’s terms of service. Debra Mastaler...

Here is a checklist of the factors that affect your rankings with Google, MSN, Yahoo! and the other search engines. The list contains positive, negative and neutral factors because all of them exist. Most of the factors in the checklist apply mainly to Google and partially to MSN, Yahoo! and all the...

Cheat sheet is a reference tool that provides simple, brief instructions for accomplishing a specific task. We have collated a set of best cheat sheets for web developers. It includes some of the popular programming language, e.g. jQuery, Mootools, Prototype, PHP, MySQL and etc… Please feel free to...

WordPress is simple, minimalistic and yet extremely powerful. However, being easy-to-use, the engine has also some huge disadvantages – e.g. “naked” WordPress is very inefficient when it comes to SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Reason: there is simply too much to tweak, too many plugins to...

Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness! That’s where SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark...

Website Grader is a free SEO tool that provides an SEO score for your website with custom search engine optimization and marketing advice for your website. Use the form on the homepage to enter your website, your keyword phrases and your competitors to receive a report about the marketing effectiveness...

Marketing a website isn’t particularly difficult. It’s usually just a matter of knowing what to do, how to do it and having the skills and time to get it done. With that said, marketing a website isn’t particularly easy either. There are so many factors and variables in play that at...

There are more than 1 billion keywords searched every month by users around the world. Finding the correct ones for your website is not an easy task. Hundreds of hours must be spent in searching for the right keywords for one ad campaign. Your competitors know best, why not let them do all the hard...