Ever since Google has allowed Chrome Extensions, a number of interesting SEO tools have been popping up. These are now beginning to rival some of the toolbars and add-ons available for Firefox, so I thought it would be a good time to share my three favourite Chrome SEO plugins.

1. Chrome SEO
Chrome SEO is an extremely powerful extension that puts a huge amount of SEO information right…

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Like many webmasters, I use Yahoo! Site Explorer on a regular basis to check the incoming links for our websites. Last week I noticed a sharp increase in the number of indexed links to our site and after checking the Yahoo! search blog, I can confirm Yahoo! have released an update to their search algorithm.

Click here to read the Yahoo! Weather Report blog post.

With the upcoming…

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Last week I explained how to Monitor, Listen & Respond to social media comments as part of my overview of the Media140 conference. This week, we will look at how social media sites can be used as an effective crisis management tool.

The rise of social media sites has given customers a new avenue to talk about your company and in turn a new way for you to…

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Many webmasters focus a majority of their time on building new links to their site with a variety of link building methods. While this is certainly an important part of SEO, it’s also beneficial to review your existing links to make sure you’re getting the most out of them.

Here’s a few simple ways to improve the SEO benefit of your existing link partners.

1. Optimize your anchor text
Anchor…

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Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Bebo, FriendFeed, Digg, YouTube, MySpace… with new social media sites popping up almost daily, it can seem quite daunting as to how your business can use them effectively.

This is where the highly anticipated Media140 conference comes into play. The Perth leg of the event was held last week and I was lucky enough to score myself a ticket.

For those readers who are unaware…

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I use Yahoo! Site Explorer almost every day to check basic link stats for both ineedhits.com and our clients. It is an extremely useful tool which can provide a lot of useful data about the inbound links to any site on the web.

There are a number of reasons the tool is one of my favorites:

• Site explorer seems to provide one of the most comprehensive sources of link…

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The growth in social media means it’s vital for all businesses to track their brands, services and industry via the myriad of user generated content sources.

Tracking social media is no easy feat. When you consider just how much content is created every hour, the task of following the various sources is extremely time consuming. To help you streamline the process, I’ve provided my top 10 social…

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URL structure is an important on-page SEO factor, so I thought I’d write a quick post covering some useful guidelines to keep in mind when designing your website.

Let’s take a look at a typical small business website. While this may not be the case for every business, many sites often have the following pages in common:

• Homepage
• Services/Products Page
• Testimonials Page
• About Us Page
• Contact Us Page

Using the pages above, here’s…

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One of the key strategies for an effective SEO campaign is competitor tracking. Knowing who is out ranking you and what they’re doing to achieve the results is the key to improving your performance.

Back in the old days, monitoring the 100’s of SEO variables of your competitors was just as time consuming as running your own SEO campaigns…

Now, thanks to technology and some very clever people,…

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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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