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Info about toolbars, software and other applications that help with searching. For more background, see tips & tools news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: November 25, 2008 - 6:42 am
Posted By: firebreatherseo 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ever needed to compare lists of keywords in different data tables and match corresponding values together? For example, matching keyword volume data to search engine rankings? Today Richard takes a look at a really simple but powerful query in Micro read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 8:49 am
Posted By: Maing 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Twitter is a great marketing tool that can help you understand your audience and keep track of hot trends in your industry. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 17, 2008 - 10:27 am
Posted By: barnaseo 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty: "There are quite a few good (..) backlink checking tools (..) However we have very few tools so far allowing for some fun: i.e. visualizing the backlink statistics in any types of graphs or charts. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2008 - 9:00 pm
Posted By: graywolf 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.viralconversations.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
These new networking possibilities are what is fueling the interest in what is called word-of-mouth marketing, or viral marketing, or buzz marketing, or exponential marketing. If you are a marketer, then this has huge potential. For simplicity in th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2008 - 8:47 am
Posted By: Maing 26 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
If you are an active FireFox user, chances are you have very little space left in the upper part of your browser window. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 29, 2008 - 7:59 am
Posted By: barnaseo 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo.site-reference.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Dave just launched a vertical search engine for the SEO community named "Search SEO Pros". A great time-saver and starting point! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2008 - 2:45 am
Posted By: Ruud 53 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.googletutor.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
"simply do a search at Google, Yahoo, or Live Search, then click Google Insights Bookmarklet. The bookmarklet will automatically open a new tab/window with Google Insights showing the stats for the keyword you were just looking up at a search engin read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 11, 2008 - 10:46 pm
Posted By: Maing 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Like I previously pointed out SEO and web accessibility should come hand in hand. So here is the collection of web accessibility tools that can be also effectively used for SEO purposes. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 9, 2008 - 6:33 am
Posted By: barnaseo 84 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty covers Majestic SEO: "A new backlink analysis service allowing for the exhaustive backlink report that can (potentially) be a fully legitimate competitor of and a great alternative for Yahoo! SiteExplorer." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 4, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Posted By: Maing 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
FireFox is the most customizable browser I am aware of and hence it is my favorite one. A while ago posting a huge overview of SEO tools I promised to compile a similar list of available FireFox SEO extensions; and so here I am. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 28, 2008 - 11:00 am
Posted By: SiteMost 96 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty loves playing with visualizing tools because they allow her to see what you might have missed exploring a table or a graph. This time she has compiled the list of tools that show various outlinking tactics and characteristics. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 9:49 am
Posted By: annie7 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
A list of 13 services that will help you monitor your website read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 7:15 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty writes, "Being automatically updated once a page is changed opens up a wealth of (probably missed) opportunities. There are two handy ways I personally use to keep track of changes introduced to any webpage" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2008 - 6:08 am
Posted By: rishilakhani 112 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoconsultants.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Pascal Casing : The first letter in the identifier and the first letter of each subsequent concatenated word are capitalized. May also be referred to as Studley Caps. e.g. PascalCasing

Edward (Pageoneresults) Runs us through Pascal Casing - we a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 7, 2008 - 11:00 am
Posted By: graywolf 117 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://webworkerdaily.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
It’s okay to be firm with difficult clients. Some clients give you so much stress that you just want to let them go. They eat up your time needlessly, leaving you less time for actual clients or the work you have to do. Before, I would just be there read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 7:23 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 124 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Traffic Marks helps you locate authority sites — sites that would make good places to acquire links. You supply a keyword and it grabs the Top 10 sites in Google for your keyword, and it crawls those sites’ first 100 +/- backlinks (I assume from Yah read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 6:56 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 124 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Ann Smarty writes, "More and more sites have fallen victim to hackers recently and some important steps should be taken to (1) secure your site and (2) monitor that your site hasn’t been hacked." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 30, 2008 - 4:11 pm
Posted By: dsnyder 124 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
One of the main uses I see for FriendFeed is as a reputation monitoring and management tool.

Here are five ways to utilize the service for rep management and monitoring: read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 22, 2008 - 11:56 am
Posted By: billslawski 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.uic.edu)
Category: Tips & Tools
The search results that you see from Google in the US for a specific query may be different than the search results you see in France, or China, or Germany.

Indiana University researchers have developed an interesting tool that points out diffe read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 23, 2008 - 1:23 pm
Posted By: Maing 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
The following FireFox Extensions will help you to adapt Google’s interface and results to what you need, in the most efficient manner possible, making Google even better. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 18, 2008 - 2:32 am
Posted By: gunjanpandya 167 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Here Ann listed 4 tools to find your competitors keywords ranking read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 19, 2008 - 7:16 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 257 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
How important is using images in your posts? Michaels example is one of many to show the benefits of putting your little 3 minutes worth of effort into adding an image, including locating, cropping and tagging. As Michael puts it, "How nice is it to read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 7, 2008 - 2:40 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 269 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.linkdiagnosis.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
A fantastic addition the linkdiagnosis plugin which now allows you to right-click a page and see when Google first found it. Essential stuff! read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 2, 2008 - 6:29 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 276 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Dev gives a list of 10 awesome keyword research tools. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 17, 2008 - 12:28 pm
Posted By: mpilatow 290 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Tips & Tools
Nice list of less popular Firefox Extensions that are helpful to SEO projects. read more »
2 Comments     


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