I received an E-Mail from a reader, Jeff, asking to make a blog post on the tools that I would use when developing a website to check on their status, as well as research a website before buying it.

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The Tools/Websites of an SEO

I really don’t agree with the new post that Matt Cutts published which is basically looking for webmasters to snitch on each other, even though there are probably a ton of people looking to hurt their competitors.

Similar to what this post says, I think this would be a huge problem for people selling/buying links in DigitalPoint’s bustling marketplace.

It seems that Google is going to start testing out ‘expiremental’ penalties for websites selling paid links that have been reported here. I personally don’t think Google should start putting webmasters up against each other, but I guess the snitches looking to hurt their competition will love this new addition.

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I’ve been away with business, but I’m back and am not all amazed to find out that Google has acquired AdScape Media yesterday or so. For those that don’t know what AdScape does, it is a company that helps place advertisements inside video games. Gaming has evolved over the years and has become a vital part in everyone’s lives, similar to how the internet is a factor in everyone’s lives.

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Google Acquires AdScape

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Many people have started upgrading to the latest operating system from Microsoft - Windows Vista. For those that have a wide 15″ screen, you wouldn’t mind displaying their gadget sidebar on the side. Considering how many new computers have Windows Vista installed and the gadget sidebar enabled by default, you can expect a lot of people to want to personalize their sidebar.

Now if you have a gadget sidebar, it’s obvious you’d want to fill it up with the latest and coolest gadgets and widgets. Now if you look at this from a marketing perspective, you could generate a ton of traffic to your website if you supplied a gadget providing a tool or information from your website.

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Viral Marketing via Microsoft Vista Gadgets

Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Vista, gadget, widgets, marketing

Have you been longing for some free SEO advice from leading SEO Professionals in the industry? Well Loren Baker has started a new project - the SEO Clinic! Basically it mocks the ‘Pimp My Site’ Sessions at Search Engine Strategies, except it’s free!

To participate in this new service, you would need to submit your website to be approved by the SEO Clinic. The staff of people that run the free SEO Clinic are:

• Loren Baker: I’ve been involved in SEO for almost 10 years and my specializations are in basic on-site content oriented SEO, meta data, link building, local search, news & blog search optimization and social news marketing.
• Carsten Cumbrowski :Carsten tends to lean more to the technical side of SEO, building affiliate sites, working with content management systems & databases, supplemental results, and even dabs in the grey hat on occasion.
• Jessica Bowman: Jessica is also a long time SEO expert and her focus is on usability, driving conversions and reeling in users.
• Garrett French: Garrett’s strengths are in SEO copywriting and social media optimization. Mr. French is currently starting a new company, so his time is sparse, yet his insight is valuable.
• Ahmed Bilal: Ahmed is another SEO and Search Marketing specialist with expertise in professional blogging, link baiting and link building.
• Rhea Drysdale: Rhea, the newest Resident Pimp, focuses on merging SEO, Paid Search, Social Media Optimization, content development, split testing and Public Relations initiatives all into one fine and effective SEO campaign.
• Gemme van Hasselt: Gemme is an Internet Marketing Consultant who lives in Shanghai and specializes in SEO. With his base in China and International background, Gemme can lend some outside gathering of the box ideas to SEO campaigns.

Technorati Tags: SEO, Loren Baker, supplemental, copywriting, blogging, Search

It seems that the SEO industry is really grabbing the attention of everyone on the web. Now more and more people are learning about Search Engine Optimization and creating companies which offer Search Placement services (a few are even advertising on the blog). Well I stumbled upon a new thread on DigitalPoint where a member was offering his SEO services for free, as long as members leave him feedback that he can reference for future SEO clients.

I decided to give the guy a shot at one of my websites, Sixty6 Arcade, to rank for Free Online Flash Games, which is currently ranking in Google at 266. I created an account with DigitalPoint Keyword Tracking Tools and so far I haven’t broken the 200 mark. It’s been a week, and I’m supposed to receive results this following month. If he can get me in the top 25, I’ll be publishing his contact details for anyone else interested in paid SEO Services.

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I’ve been away for a while, but I just got my new Windows Vista laptop and I’m back to blogging on a regular basis! So when I got back, I quickly glanced through my feeds and I was bought to Quadzilla’s Second Linkbait Poker Tournament! I classified it as linkbait because SEO’s participating in this tournament are anticipating a ton of links to their blog, right?

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The Linkbait Poker Tournament

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Well we have finally launched a nifty little SEO Tool in Modern SEO Tools. It is the SEO Sales Badge. The purpose of this tool is:

• Show possible advertisers the SEO Statistics of your website
• Display your SEO Statistics to people who might be interested in buying your website
• Displays the URL of your website so you don’t have to put up a link which can be indexed by Search Engines.

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SEO Sales Badge

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Well every SEO is outraged with Wikipedia placing nofollow tags on all outbound links, in fear of the great amount of spam they would receive from the GlobalWarming Awareness2007 SEO Contest.

Most people are looking at the negative side of this. However, me being the optimist I am, am happy because I don’t have any Wikipedia pages sending me traffic.

Nevertheless, I know that my competitors use Wikipedia pages to give them some link love. Well if you want to be a cruel SEO, you can place nofollow tags on their URL’s simply by updating the page. This means that existing links do not have a nofollow tag unless they are updated!

Technorati Tags: SEO, Wikipedia, nofollow, GlobalWarming Awareness2007

Due to the recent GlobalWarming Awareness2007 SEO Contest, the founder of Wikipedia has made all outbound links tagged with a nofollow for fear that many SEO’s will be trying to spam their pages for links to their websites.

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Wikipedia Fires up Nofollow Tags

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I picked up an expired domain name with a Pagerank 4 last week - AGS2006.com, but I couldn’t think of a good way to market it correctly, since it had the year “2006″ in it and the current year is 2007.

I spent a while debating on what the 3 letters (A, G & S) should stand for and I came up with: A Glimpse Since 2006

The point of the website is to take in a maximum of 250 links each year and keep them displayed on the main page until the end of the year. Then the links are archived and the main page is cleared out for the new year.

I will be building up backlinks over the year, but if you want to help, please go over and buy a PR4 link for $8.00! There are options to make your link stand out as well by using bold, italics and choosing a color.

Technorati Tags: domain, Pagerank, links, backlinks, bold, italics

It seems that the excitement caused by SEO Contests has not yet fully died out. A new website has risen and they plan on holding an SEO Contest on a yearly basis - SEO World Championship. I have already mentioned their website before, but the keywords for the 2007 SEO Contest has been announced earlier this week.

The keywords are - “globalwarming awareness2007”. These keywords were chosen to help others understand & be educated about the global warming issues.

I won’t be participating in any more SEO Contests, but a friend of mine is, so take a look at his globalwarming awareness2007 site.

Technorati Tags: SEO Contests, SEO World Championship, globalwarming awareness2007, global warming