SEO Competitor Research with Excel

Posted on July 23, 2010 by semadmin

I just found this very useful tool from the Search Engine People blog. This excel file makes competitive research easier to do. You can see who are your strongest competitors as well as know how strong they are.

The best thing about the tool is that you can choose which web server you would want to use, which makes it very handy when you are doing international SEO and geo-targeting.

Thanks to Yoav Ezer for sharing this awesome tool.

How to Perform SEO Competitor Research with Excel | Search Engine People | Toronto.

Video Sitemaps – Google’s Official Reference Guide

Posted on July 19, 2010 by semadmin

Now it’s getting better. Since more and more videos are getting into search results, it’s only reasonable for Google to provide a guide for those who want their videos crawled and indexed by Google, and thus appear on SERPs.

So for webmasters who have videos in their sites, here’s a quick rundown on the subject matter:

Google Launches Official Reference Guide For Video Sitemaps.

Google’s Latest Patent About Links

Posted on July 14, 2010 by semadmin

Another great post from Search Engine Land regarding Google’s viewpoint on links. Throughout the whole SEO community, there are varied assumptions/assertions on the value of links, anchor texts, and relevance to target content from source.

Read on to see some viewpoints on Google’s patents on links:

5 Things Google’s Latest Patent Tells Me About Links.