Posts Tagged ‘tools’

Google adds more rich snippets

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Have you ever wondered why it is important to keep your website up to date?
Wonder no more!
Google has just added a new feature to search engine listings – event dates.
Hosting a gig? Running a series of seminars? Then, make sure the event dates are listed on your site.
Not sure how to do it? Then check [...]

How does your site look in different browsers?

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Making sure your site appears as it should in different browsers is no mean feat for the people who code your website.
It is always wise though to check your site in as many browsers, including mobile browsers, before it goes live.
Here are some tools to do precisely that and show you exactly what your website [...]

587 twitter tools

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

For those using Twitter or looking to see what you can do with it, take a look at TwitterEye which is a directory of the ever-increasing number of apps available for Twitter users.
Very useful and shows just what happens when you make your source code / API available to developers to play around with.

Who’s copying your RSS feed?

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I was actually looking for a tool that would allow me to easily see who was pulling the RSS feeds from certain sites and came across Copygator instead. Whilst the original search was not for content theft per se, but rather to discover where content is being syndicated, this seemed a useful tool.
Copygator constantly monitors [...]

4 ways to compare Caffeine and Google

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

SEOs around the globe are trying to discover the implications of the ‘under the hood’ changes that come with Google caffeine (which is currently down for a few hours maintenance, it seems).
There are already various tools to compare the old (decaf) version of Google with the new one.
Facesaerch comparison tool
Comparegoogle.com
Google Caffeine Bookmarklet
compare Caffeine

Three Twitter Tools To Try Today

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Continuing with our look at Twitter for those who are new to it all…..
Qwitter – if you want to know who has unfollowed you, and what the post was that you wrote just before they decided to depart, Qwitter only requires that you enter the Twitter name plus an email address and it will email [...]

Get Twitter alerts with TweetBeep

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Now this is one neat tool for anyone wanting to monitor certain terms on Twitter. Tweetbeep markets itself as Google alerts for Twitter, and it sure seems to be!
You may want to keep an eye open for mentions of your Twitter nameĀ  (although Tweetdeck and similar software also provide this functionality) or look for potential [...]

Engage your audience with chat

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

There seems to be a commonly recurring theme in the blog posts recently about how important it is to talk to and listen to your customers. It really is not all about SEO if you want to win business, market share and higher search engine rankings – it is about adopting a holistic policy to [...]

Free ranking reports by email

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Why spend hours going through the Google rankings looking for your position, or that of your competitors, when you can automate the process and receive the results by email?
RankReport is a great free tool that will let you monitor your rankings weekly or daily if you are obsessed by the SERPs, and will then email [...]

What I am reading today

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Hyperactive on the Net as always. Here are the tabs I currently have open. I thought I would share them as a useful resource for anyone looking to which marketing techniques you should be considering in 2009, as well as who is out there talking about interesting marketing ploys, methods, tools and so on. Where [...]