We had SEW author and in-house SEO Brent Rangen try it out to see what he thinks of the tool. CognitiveSEO is a tool two years in the making that aims to provide all of the data and analysis necessary for link building campaigns in a single platform.
SEW contributor Brent Rangen, from LinkOrbit, has tried out the new backlinks report in SEMRush and shared his thoughts. SEMRush is one of the tools I use, so once the data is more complete, I can see it being one of the places I check for links...
LinkOrbit co-founder and SEW author Brent Rangen took InboundWriter for a test-drive early on, while it was still in beta. I asked Rangen what he thought of the changes, as he’s been using the tool since he wrote his first review.
Brent Rangen from LinkOrbit.com said of the report, “Two good things have come about with the study, we have authors now able to write keyword-saturated articles using InboundWriter; before it was an additional step performed by admins after...
Users logging into Google Webmaster Tools may be surprised to see a new feature right away. The new multi-site feature, named, “Site Health” was announced by Google yesterday on the Webmaster Central Blog.
Google has introduced two new link elements to show Google the schematic relationships of documents that span multiple pages and better identify duplicate content. Google also emphasized they want to show single-page versions in search results.
This month many companies that you may already be using, or a have heard about previously, updated their services or released new product offerings. As Search Engine Watch (SEW) provided last month, here is a brief roundup of the pick of the bunch:
Facebook has launched Facebook for Business, a new resource hub dedicated to helping businesses get started and optimize their brand on Facebook. The new resource center presents preexisting features in a way that will make businesses understand...
Whether it's simply a case of celebrating the fifth anniversary since the launch of Twttr this month, or increased pressure to compete with statistics from Google's latest social project, Google+, Twitter has been releasing more info and stats to...
Shark Week, a smash-hit marketing initiative by the Discovery Channel, pulled in nearly 30.8 unique viewers last year, making 2010 a record breaker. Shark Week started way back in 1987 and last year, and many celebrities have hosted the event since...
A group of hackers at the Game Hackday event in NYC created a game of Risk using Foursquare's framework and Google Maps API. The two-day event is a non-profit blend of gaming and hacking aimed at creating mentorship for hackers.
The Facebook news feed is important to all of us – for businesses, personal profiles, and groups. In fact, one could argue the most prime piece of real estate on Facebook is the Top News feed. At the F8 Developer Conference, Facebook engineers...
For six years, SEOmoz has produced a biennial survey that outlines the current priority ranking factors within the industry. This year, the results are also paired up with correlation-based analysis (taken from top 30 sites in 10,980 queries in...
In 1994 the first blog was born. It was just about a decade late (January 2005) when a study showed 32 million people read blogs. As of February 2011, there was 156 million public blogs in existence! Despite this, chances are that you think you...
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced they would be implementing a new daily budget feature for their PPC program. The time for implementation has come. Tomorrow (June 1st), the new feature will be rolling out to all daily budget advertising...
London based startup TweetDeck has been acquired by Twitter, for $40 million in cash and stocks, according to the Financial Times. What was first cited as “advanced talk” between the two businesses has been happening for over a month.
Ontolo, created by Ben Wills and Garrett French (who has since left the company to found Citation Labs), is a backlink discovery tool that will continually search for new potential link partners. By automating certain parts of the discovery process...
Google has unveiled a Sort by Subject feature for Image Search that allows users to sort photos more easily by subject and improves the general topic searches. If you're looking for a picture of a certain bird, for example, and perhaps can't...
Matteo Mucci asked SEW via Twitter, "what are the best 5 SEO Addons for Firefox 4? I thought it was an interesting question, so had a stab at the answer. I'm quite fond of all of these tools for their own specific purpose, so much so the list runs...
Search-based online advertising network Chitika has put out an interesting study showing that the top spot in Google receives 20 percent of clicks among iPad users. Top Google Spot is Less Valuable on iPads [Study]
