Category: Tools

In short: I can’t believe this tool is free. I mean, there are paid versions – but I can’t believe the free version is free. And even though 90% of my time spent doing SEO is not on link building, I am what you’d call a “heavy user” of email.  I know a promising tool when I see [...]

Purely In Jest… the (w) thing. How Would I Fix The New Whole Foods Website? We’ll get to that. As well as (spoiler alert!) a demo of a new tool I haven’t seen anyone talk about. Keep reading… It was 11:30pm and I was looking up organic food retailers in the New Hampshire and Maine [...]

Let’s face it. CEOs care about SEO when the importance of it is obvious to them. And this might not just be about the bottom line. It can be about how their company is seen in the public eye (ie: negative Google suggest phrases). It could be about relationships with important people like journalists and [...]

What The Heck Is An “SEO Browser”? I assumed, from this description, I was about to find myself downloading and installing an actual browser – one especially made to browse the web like an SEO. Nope! Rather, think of Browseo more like a virtual browser. Or a “browser within a browser”. Its a web app [...]

Rank checking it seems is still one of those sore spots among SEOs – where there are some tools that work great certain things but not others. I’m doing some heavy keyword research (1000′s of keywords) for an ecommerce site and need something that can process rankings quickly. So earlier today I went on over [...]

Yesterday Rand Tweeted This Well…. OK! I’ll take a stab at it. This is literally my 60 minute assessment of Ifttt. I know I could go into more detail, and ideas will likely develop as I begin using it, but hey, I just set up an account last night Let’s go! What is Ifttt? Ifttt [...]

SEO is so overlooked, under-appreciated and misunderstood by local business owners. That’s been quite evident to me lately, as I’ve been sitting in on some local BNI meetings. If you don’t know, BNI is basically a non-competing referral network. Local business owners gather once a week to pitch their services, get/give referrals and help each other [...]

UPDATE: 12/14/11 8:00am EST I have fixed a bug in the Google Doc that was returning the API data one row off, please re-copy it now if you have used it prior to now, thanks!! – – – – – So I’ve been playing around with the related: search operator. Not many folks talk about [...]

Keyword Research With Ubersuggest and ImportXML Thanks to Richard Baxter - oh, whoops, Wrong Richard Baxter… (ahem)… Thanks to Richard Baxter… uhhhh… wrong again… here we go…. Thanks to Richard Baxter, I was recently turned on to Ubersuggest. Ubersuggest is a powerful keyword research tool that allows you to extract all the the “Google Suggest” searches that show up automatically, as [...]

Few weeks ago I cam across Matthew Egan and his SEO company Image Freedom on Twitter. Image Freedom is a 6 person SEO team from San Antonio, Texas. Matt and Image Freedom definitely raise the bar as it goes for the perception of the SEO industry. With an emphasis on ROI, results-driven SEO I knew [...]