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.

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.

Social Media Analysis tools

Earlier this week, Social Target (http://www.socialtarget.com/), an independent social media research and consulting firm, announced the publication of the second edition of the Guide to Social Media Analysis.
According to Social Target’s press release, the report includes information on social media monitoring and analysis tools from the following companies:
Andiamo Systems, Attensity, Attentio, Beyond Analysis, Biz360, Brandintel, [...]

Back link information returns to Live Search webmaster tools

The Live Search Webmaster Center Blog reported yesterday that the backlinks feature has been made actionable again. The linkdomain attribute feature had been taken away in 2007 and then later a subset of back link information was included in the Live Search webmaster tools.
The new feature appears to return accurate results and gives the option [...]

Pay-per-click formatting options

There are 3 options as to how you can format your keyword phrases within the PPC control panel:
Exact match: Exact match words are placed between square brackets (e.g. [Web site hosting updates]). The advert only appears if someone does a search for the exact phrase, without any additional terms. So, in this case, if someone [...]

SEO for Wordpress

Joost de Valk wrote a super article on search engine optimization for Wordpress. It is packed with some really great advice. I particularly like his suggestions regarding permalinks and several great plugins such as:

Redirection plugin which allows you to change your permalink structure and ensures that search engines can still find pages that have [...]

Stumblin’ across some great Web sites

Ever since I started using multiple browsers in my daily work life, I have been a big user of FURL. FURL is a social bookmarking tool which enables me to bookmark Web pages and access my bookmarks in whicever browser I happen to be in. I know I could have found some way of synchronizing [...]