seo resources

Shopping Search Resources [Updated]

If you sell a product on line, you’ll want to explore search engines that cater to the e-commerce crowd. Learn how here!

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Local Business Listings on Google, Yahoo!, and Bing [Updated]

Local search is becoming more and more popular for finding locations and phone numbers for local businesses. If you run a business that serves a local audience, be sure you are listed here!

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Trustworthy SEO Search

We’ve used Google’s Custom Search Engine tool to build a search engine that only includes SEO sites that we’ve deemed trustworthy! Give it a try and let us know what you think.

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Our Favorite SEO Blogs and Tools

The web is filled with great SEO tools – and plenty of duds too. Here are the best of the best.

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Handy Search Shortcuts

Use these search shortcuts to turn your favorite search engine into a high-powered SEO research tool!

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Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Services Comparison

Which is better: Yahoo! Search Marketing or Google Adwords? Here are our thoughts and links to other articles on the subject.

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How to Use the Robots Meta Tag

The Robots meta tag has been around for ages, but some new features introduced in 2006 and 2007 have made it a lot more useful than it used to be. Here’s the 4-1-1.

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With hundreds of solutions available at prices ranging from free to hundreds of thousands of dollars, it’s easy to get lost. This guide will help you get your footing and research a tool to match your needs.

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Google, Yahoo, and MSN Ping URLs for Sitemaps

If you’ve got an XML sitemap for your website, you can alert the search engines to updates by typing a specially formatted URL into your browser. Here are the URLs for the Sitemap ping services for each of the three major search engines.

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After starting out in industrial and corporate video production, Jennifer Grappone became a web project manager before working exclusively in SEO starting in 2000. Jennifer advocates a holistic approach to SEO, one that combines elements of good writing, usability, search-friendly site design, and link building.

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