Ping services are a brilliant way to automatically notify blog directories and search engines about updates to your blog. I’ve been scouring the internet, and combined all the ones I found into this list. The more services you ping the higher chance you will get more traffic to your site.To update your ping list in Wordpress simply go to the admin section, the click on Options, then on Writing.I wouldn’t go and paste all these in just yet, there’s a catch, as you will see...

One of the newest, hottest tools in the SEO market today is SEO Fox. This program uses competitor intelligence to help you build a back link strategy for your business, and then they’ll help you implement it. But of course, the question of the day is – is it worth the cost?There’s plenty of software out there that will tell you what your competitors are doing. We decided to put SEO Fox to the test to see if it’s the best option for people out there looking to increase search engine presence across multiple search engines – Google in particular.First of all, SEO Fox services are...

Are you spending too much time trying to get on the first page of Google for the “big words”?There are more words out there than the ever-coveted “top tier” terms. If you aren’t researching keywords that are a little less competitive and possibly a lot easier to rank your website with, maybe you should consider it.There are a ton of great tools out there to help you figure out what those keywords are.Google Insights for SearchFor starters, Google has great tools that are built just so you can see what’s going on out there in web world –...

Getting back links for your website is one of the most important strategies of any search engine optimization. While there are numerous sites offering advice on how to achieve this, and costly programs that claim to help you do this, if you are not aware of whether your strategy is successful all that hard work could be going to waste. If you are just starting out in SEO and are not ready to invest in costly software, or are just looking for another way to check your backlinks, then do not over look the very useful and free Yahoo Explorer!Yahoo Explorer allows you to see all indexed pages on Yahoo...

When considering the design of your website or blog functionality, usability and aesthetics are always important considerations; but how your website’s design affects your SEO strategy may not always be considered or even apparent. So how can you tell if your website’s or blog’s design is having an effect on your search engine results, and what should you consider to make your design as SEO-friendly as possible?Size MattersSearch engine ranking is based on content, so the more you have the better chance your site has of getting top results. A good way to see if adding content would help...