Small Business SEM

I’m a bit behind the game on these, but want to make sure to get a couple links out there and add some content to my SEO Tools category. I wouldn’t classify either of these tools as earth-shattering, but they both provide helpful information — and, to me at least, they give me quicker and [...]

If you’re an experienced search marketer, feel free to move along; there’s probably nothing here for you. This post is mostly for current (and future) clients, so that I have a place to refer them when we talk about what they’ll need to do some SEO-type work on their own.
Web Browser
It all begins with [...]

The title of the post says it all, so here they are:
Domain Popularity Tool from LinkVendor. This is essentially a backlink checker, and when they say “domain popularity”, that’s what they mean — it doesn’t check links to a deep directory or URL, just to the domain. Here’s what it looks like:

Ignoring the domain-only limitation, [...]

I’ve added a new tool to my list of places to locate potential sources of inbound links:
Similicio.us
There’s a reason the name looks familiar: When you enter a URL into Similicio.us, it will spit out a list of similar sites based on an analysis of the bookmarking habits of delicio.us users. Nice concept, and based on [...]

Via Aaron comes news that WordTracker now offers a free keyword research tool: http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
And via Li comes news that Trellian, makers of Keyword Discovery (my preferred weapon of choice these days), have also created a free version: http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html
Good stuff!
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The things you find via StumbleUpon….
I don’t “stumble” very often, but I do get a lot of traffic from StumbleUpon, which was the #1 referrer into this blog in 2006. Just tonight, though, while playing around a bit, I stumbled upon
CrossEngine.com
CrossEngine is one of those all-in-one search sites, where you can run the [...]

Good evening. It’s 11:00 pm, and here’s tonight’s news.
MarketingVox recaps a BusinessWeek article that talks about Big Brands pushing small business out of the paid search market: “…brand giants like Best Buy and Zale are diverting more and more of their marketing to search ads, driving up prices and stealing customers from smaller businesses that [...]

With so much travel lately, it’s been a while since I’ve done a Friday night roundup post. So how about I get caught up a bit tonight? Yep, I thought so.
You already know AskCity.com has launched, and now here’s a lot more detail as John Battelle interviews Ask CEO Jim Lanzone about the new project. [...]