If you’re serious about doing SEO yourself - then you need to turn your website browser into one of your most valuable SEO tools.

Any experienced Search Engine Optimization specialist will swear by his top SEO plugins and add-ons. Having vital SEO info and stats at your fingertips is not only a great timesaving, but ensure’s SEO is never far from your mind when your out and…

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What’s your resolution for 2010? If Google’s predicted correctly, there’s quite a few of you out there wanting to learn the truths and dispel the myths of SEO.

Accordingly, the search giant has unveiled the New Google SEO Resources for Beginners post. It’s aimed at helping those starting out in the world of SEO “disregard the rumors and know what’s important”.

The post potentially over simplifies SEO just…

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Google said last week that they are considering pulling out of China after a sophisticated attack on the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

Google have explained their new position on China in a lengthy blog post on the official Google blog. Here are some of the core messages from the post:

In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from…

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Google have released an update to their local business ‘Place Pages’ which gives business owners the ability to post short updates to their pages. Google says these can be used to promote a new product, event or coupon.

Here’s an example of what the new feature looks like on a business listing:

I can see this feature being especially useful for restaurants that will get a lot of traffic…

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The end of 2009 saw the search engine world abuzz with talk of real time search. Microblogging platforms such as twitter the main driver behind the movement.

So as 2010 settles in, most of the major search players have started their real time search integration in one form or another, but it’s the Twitter integration that’s the prime focus at the moment.

Twitter’s meteoric rise in popularity has…

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2009 was a disappointing and potentially business changing year for Yahoo! in terms of Search. If not for the deal brokered with Microsoft, 2010 might have been the end of the once mighty search engine.

So with a new year upon them, and a glimmer of hope on the horizon, Yahoo! have come out with a range of enhancements to help reinstate their position in the market.

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Google is the first to tell us that links from relevant and important sites are always a great way to get more traffic and increase your ranking in the search engines. But what about links from new platforms such as Twitter and Facebook?

Popular Googler (and recently clean shaven) Matt Cutts shared his thoughts in a recent video below.

Google treats links the same irrespective of where they…

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The results are in and it’s no surprise that Google still has a commanding hold on the US search market. But has the Bing bubble burst?

Hitwise reports that while Google’s market share rose in December 2009 to 72%, Bing’s actually decreased by 4% from November 2009. The same can also be said for Yahoo! & Ask (but that’s really no surprise, is it?). Here are the…

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I recently read Dennis Yu’s blog article Evolve or Die: 2010 Local Ad Agency Fiscal Models. Having met Dennis (2009 Search Marketing Expo in Sydney Australia), I have great respect for him as an individual and also for what his company does.

Many of the points that Dennis has made, are right on the money. Others, I feel, miss the mark.

At the centre of Dennis’s article, is…

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Whether you’re just starting out, or re-evaluating your website strategy, it’s important for you to get your plan and budget right.

The rule “Build it and they will come” rarely works in the online space. For you to be successful with your website marketing strategy – you need to have a solid plan and be realistic about the real costs of doing it properly.

Too many business owners spend…

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