November 30, 2006
SEO is a very insular field. My impression from my readings of SEO blogs is that many SEOs themselves are so involved in search engine optimization that sometimes they forget that there’s a whole wide world of individuals who still don’t know about it and why it is necessary.
A few months ago, I didn’t know what SEO was either. The term was used in front of me, and I’ll admit (with a little blush
) that I didn’t know what in the world SEO meant and shrugged it off whenever it was mentioned rather than asking. I never wanted to find out what it was because I didn’t want to risk looking stupid among people to whom SEO is a daily routine.
I come from a mixed technology background: I started off dabbling in programming and web development, though I realized I fared better with more of hardware, networking, and system administration work. I began my career in SEO by actually doing system administration at a web design, SEO, and hosting firm. And I still didn’t know what SEO was when I joined up with the team.
This is a preview of Slow Down, SEO is Still Very New: Not Everyone is Ready to Embrace It.
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November 16, 2006
Some of the best things in life are free. I am thankful to those who have shared wonderful tools with me and I would like to share them with others too.
A few of these are new tools. Some are old and well-known. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
SEO Tools
- SEO for Firefox: An excellent Firefox addon that provides users market data from Google and Yahoo search results, including PR, age of domain, links from external pages (and types), type of domain, Technorati data, Alexa ranking, DMOZ listing, number of cached pages, Bloglines subscriptions, Yahoo directory listing, and whois information.
- Page Strength SEO Tool: This SEOmoz offering calculates the value and visibility of your page and incorporates links pointing to the URL/domain, Google search results position, age of domain, links from .edu and .gov sites, Alexa rank, number of results in Google that include the domain, internal link percentage, Technorati links, del.icio.us links, DMOZ listing, Wikipedia reference, and Google PR.
This is a preview of Some of my Favorite Free SEO and Social Networking (Blog Rank) Tools.
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