The best press release services

I recently made a couple of press releases – one for my book and the other for a couple of new services on FormatClick.com, a sister site to this one. The first was release through PRWeb using their SEO service and the second through PRLog.com, which offers a free service.
Along the way I also tried [...]

Facebook demographics

According to iStrategyLabs, Facebook’s 35-54 year old demographic segment not only continued to grow the fastest, but it accelerated to a 276.4% growth rate over the past 6 months.

Specifying canonical links on duplicate content pages

Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google recently announced a new <link> tag to allow Webmasters to specify, for similar content pages, which one is canonical or authoritative page. The tag works as follows:
<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://mysite.com”/> is added into the <head> section of all pages for which http://mysite.com is the canonical page. This ensures that the duplicate pages, [...]

Running Firefox2 and Firefox3

Installation tutorial for running Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 at the same time.

New Google ad management

Google has announced new ad management capabilities. In a nutshell, ad publishers create an ad unit and give it a name. In the past you were stuck with the shape and size of ad unit that you initially selected. With the new technology you can change the shape and size from within your Adsense account, [...]

Adsense for domains

If you are anything like me you will have acquired a number of domains over the years that you are not really using to their maximum potential. In my case I usually come up with a bright idea, register the domain and then never really achieve what I had imagined.
One of the options with domains [...]

Alexa search engine to close

According to the Motley Fool, Amazon’s Alexa is to close its search engine. With rumors of merger talks between Microsoft and Yahoo! to is more bad news for search engine competition.
The fact is that Microsoft and Yahoo! are doing a very decent job with their search engines. Although Google has the lion’s share of the [...]

Miss SEO Pageant

I was amazed when one of my Google Alerts came up with a Miss SEO pageant that was being held.
For such a young industry the world of SEO has matured remarkably fast, but of course, the Miss SEO pageant has nothing to do with Search Engine Optimization and all to do with Miss Southeast Ohio!

Introduction to SEO

Google recently posted a basic guide to SEO. I just had chance to read it and can highly recommend it.
It is crisply written, doesn’t include a lot of unnecessary ‘filler’ and as a result is a fast read. It includes the basic information that every site owner should know about.

Java applets running under Google Chrome

I just checked a flight at flightview.com and when I clicked on ‘live view’ I was invited to download the Java plugin. It appears to work fine.