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#1022: How Search Engines Work

Posted: August 18, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 129 views // View Comments

Knowing how search engines work may help you understand how to better approach your SEO campaign.

One of the first steps to understanding Search Engine Optimization is to understand the search engines themselves. If you’re familiar with what you’re up against, then you can have a better understanding of how to be successful.

Think of it in terms of a football, baseball, or any sports teams. If you go into a game without studying your opponent, then you won’t have a gameplan. If you don’t have a gameplan, you probably won’t win. However, if you study your opponent and have a gameplan, you’re far more likely to win.

Now I’m no programmer, so I won’t get…

#784: SEOMoz Launches New Mozbar

Posted: August 3, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 211 views // View Comments

The new Mozbar is an excellent SEO Tool!

A great SEO tool called Mozbar was re-released over the weekend! According to Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOMoz, this new-and-improved version of Mozbar is an SEO’s dream!

“It probably comes as no surprise that, just like nearly every other SEO in the field, I waste a lot of time doing the same tasks over and over again. With the new mozbar, I’m spending 1/10th of the time it took me previously to get that critical information.” – Rand Fishkin

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#317: SEO Toolbar from SEOBook

Posted: March 27, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 50 views // View Comments

The SEO toolbar from SEO Book is an outstanding tool from the great Aaron Wall.

I started utilizing a really great SEO tool today called the SEO Toolbar from SEOBook. This tool was released by Aaron Wall of SEOBook a while back.

The SEO Toolbar is a Firefox extension that pulls in many useful SEO data points. It makes it incredibly easy to get a holistic overview of the competitive landscape of a market directly from the search results. The tool itself is really easy to use, and I recommend it to anybody from SEO newbies to seasoned search veterans.

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#224: Examine SEO Metrics in SERPs with SEOQuake

Posted: February 25, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 111 views // View Comments

SEOQuake can help you examine critical SEO metrics right in the SERPs.

I got wind of a really great tool for examining SEO metrics in the SERPs today called SEOQuake. Thanks to Mani Karthik of DailySEOBlog.com, my daily SEO life is just a bit easier.

SEOQuake is a great SEO tool for Firefox and for IE, geared towards helping webmasters who are responsible for the search engine optimization of web sites. SEOQuake allows you to obtain and investigate many important SEO metrics for just about any site in the SERPs.

For any professional SEO out there, you know…