Rank Checker: Automate Your Search Rank Reports

April 3, 2008 4 comments

Aaron Wall of SEOBook has released a new SEO tool called Rank Checker. This tool allows you to easily track your rankings and rank changes on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live Search (MSN). This free tool is packaged as a Firefox extension, making it quite reliable. You can manually check rankings for a list of [...]

Redirecting Index Back to the Root

April 2, 2008 No comments yet

When someone links to your site, they generally copy and paste your URL out of their browser. To help aid your SEO efforts, try to provide them with consistent URLs at all times. Redirect your ‘index’ pages (index.html, index.php, etc…) back to the root. This way, users will link to: http://www.yoursite.com/ every time. PHP users: [...]

Happy April Fool’s from YouTube

April 1, 2008 2 comments

This morning I stumbled upon YouTube’s April Fool’s Joke. Every featured Video on the YouTube home page links directly to the music video for Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up. I did not realize it at first, and I found myself watching the video thinking, “Did I actually click on this?” It turns [...]