Gary Illyes from Google has another reminder that using tools or services that send automatic queries to Google – such as to check rankings or indexing – are against the Google TOS. Periodically, new tools that get released will run up against Google’s terms of service (and against the terms for Bing as well, and […]
Starting Out? 3 Sources of Traffic When Launching
Starting out is overwhelming. If you are a small business owner looking to expand your marketing efforts online, you will easily find yourself at a loss when trying to cerate your to-do list. Well, I’ve done that for you. Here are all the tools and resources to launch a successful website and see results pretty […]
3 Online Marketing Tools that Have Grown into Something Awesome This Year
I love tools and I love watching them evolve and grow. I think that building a cool tool is only half of the deal: It’s keeping innovating it based on ever changing trends that makes a tool successful. In this fast-paced digital world, you need to be building and re-building your platforms again and again […]
New Ways to Use the SEO Tools in Your Toolbox
We know: You like 2-3 SEO tools, you get used to how they work and nothing compares to them. But what about all the rest out there? There are other SEO tools, and they do great things for other SEO people. I want to share with you some of the personal SEO tools that we […]
Chilling Effects Rebrands to Lumen, Adds New Features & Partners
If you are an SEO, chances are good that you have needed to use Chilling Effects while doing SEO or competitive analysis. Chilling Effects has undergone some brand new changes, some will make it even easier for doing research on notices in their database. Chilling Effects has changed their name to Lumen, have changed their […]
Google Reaching Out to Larger Third Party Sites to Get Embedded CSS & JS Unblocked
Ever since Google sent out the alerts asking webmasters to unblock all Javascript and CSS on their webpages, it has been a struggle with all the third party resources – including some from Google itself – that show up as an error in Google Search Console. While Google has said that webmasters don’t need to […]
Google Disabling Scripted Download of CSV Files in Search Console
If you are still using a scripted download for CSV files in Google Search Console, be aware that Google will be turning off support for it on October 20, 2015. Google closed the old Google Webmaster Tools API back in April and launched the new Search Analytics API earlier this month, so the move to […]
How to Download & Archive Google’s Search Analytics Monthly from Search Console
Google has released their brand new Search Analytics API, and Google’s John Mueller highlighted one of the new tools someone has created with it – a tool that will automatically download directly from Google Search Console the data in Search Analytics. Google’s Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) is one of the only real ways for […]
Search Analytics API Launched by Google Search Console
Google has announced the official launch of Search Console’s new Search Analytics API. If you’ve used any of Google’s other APIs, or maybe one of the existing Search Console APIs, then getting started will be easy! The how-to page has examples in Python that you can use as recipes for your own programs. For example, […]
8 Useful FREE Instagram Management Tools
Instagram is a mysterious tool for many. While it has captured the dedication of newer generations, and whole careers have been launched on its back, the photo apps’ use as a branding tool can be hit or miss. For one thing, it is pretty much a mobile tool. You can view images on desktops, sure, […]