Yahoo Site Explorer Shuts Down – No Good Alternatives

Yahoo Site Explorer officially shut down today, removing the best (and arguably only viable) free backlink tool on the web. With Bing apparently unwilling to fill that role, we take a look at what kind of alternatives there are to Yahoo Site Explorer, both free and paid.

Using Google Alerts to Find Blog Ideas

Coming up with blog ideas is one of the most challenging aspects to maintaining a B2B blog. Regardless of the SEO benefits of blogging, it’s hard to keep it going when you don’t have anything to say. Happily, Google Alerts is a constant source of inspiration for blog ideas.

What Size Images do Google+ Pages Allow?

In case you missed it, we jumped on the Google+ Company and Brand Page bandwagon last week. One issue I ran into while setting it up the Ecreativeworks Google+ Page was the fact that there was hardly any information available telling me what the profile image size could be. I figured the fact that this …

Google+ Releases Pages for Businesses & Brands

After dragging their heels for months, Google has finally rolled out Google+ Pages for Businesses and Brands. Were they worth the wait? Quite possibly, although Internet Marketing Specialist, Amy points out that they still have a ways to go.

Optimizing for the Longtail Keywords

A detailed look at exactly how to optimize your SEO efforts for longtail keyword searches. With longtail, there are too many phrases to possibly focus on them all, so different SEO approaches need to be made to ensure that you’re attracting the largest possible collection of longtail phrases — the keywords that make up the majority of the traffic to your site.