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There are quite a few good Yahoo-based (and a couple of independent) backlink checking tools (both web-based and desk-top) that are great for

A couple of days ago, Google’s online productivity suite Google Docs and Spreadsheets just turned two years old. And through those two years, we have witness how Google tried their best to improve its features to gain a significant stronghold in the market for online productivity. For a while I thought Google Docs was doing pretty well as I’ve known several people using the online application for collaboration and work-sharing.

Microsoft is rolling out some new features of its Windows Live Service that can simply be put as taking the social route. Actually it will be a whole suite of applications which Microsoft is infusing to Live.com portal. That’s right, a pseudo social network that would pull users’ online contents and various services from across the web.

Google does allow us to have a sneak peek on which links it is aware of. This data is private and can be accessed only by the site owner through Google Webmaster Tools “Pages with external links” section. Surprisingly, (while Google does know better than anyone which data would be great to show for each backlinking page), the information is rather poorly organized and lacks much important data. Here are 3 FireFox extensions that can help with backlink research in Google Webmaster Tools:

Microblogging has been a hot topic recently. It has become a major source of news, a great way to find help and one of the new tactics to promote your business.

My search activity is not only limited to Google, of course. I search multiple (vertical) resources daily (there are at least 20 of them I mentioned previously). While FireFox is the great search engine aggregating tool in itself, there are a few more applications that can be used to access multiple search engines from one place.

I just received notification that SpyFu Kombat was launched today.

Love it or hate it, Wikipedia is a widely used, vigorously discussed and actively updated reference resource. The “usefulness” of the tools listed below is based on the following features of Wikipedia:

• it is popular;
• it is user generated;
• it is attentively monitored and edited;
• it stores a huge amount of material on various topics;
• it ranks well in Google organic search.

Now let’s see the three Wiki tools, SEOs and bloggers can find very useful:

If Loren’s “not so good” experience with Gmail didn’t scare you away from using Gmail and continues to do so until now, you’ll be glad to know the Gmail Labs has just added to new features into its experiment. Gmail Labs was able to make the Calendar and Docs gadgets easily accesible since you can now have it reside on your Gmail account’s left nav bar.

Search & Social announced the launch of the X-Browser SEO Tool last night. Co-Founder of Search & Social Jordan Kasteler and myself are very excited about this tool.

Plagiarism is an essential Internet problem hurting both your feelings and your site rankings. While both Google and webmasters are figuring out how to combat it, let’s have a look at web-based plagiarism checkers to help you find the thieves:

AideRSS is a very handy blog evaluating tool that can help you understand and grade your blog posts.

The service grades all your blog posts based on PostRank:

…a scoring system that we have developed to rank each article on relevance and reaction…

The posts are listed along with the most important evaluating data:

Google Analytics is rolling some new features which are aimed for the delight of the business-oriented, enterprise users. The Google Analytics blog list down these features as; Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reports, a data export API (private beta), integrated reporting for AdSense publishers (private beta), multi-dimensional data visualizations called “Motion Charts,” and an updated user and administrative interface.

Twitter is this year’s main buzz and so far it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. Millions of people spend hours micro-blogging on Twitter and even big brands are embracing Twitter to grow their business.

There are a number of tools that aggregate plenty of useful SEO related information on one page. The idea is that you can quickly evaluate any page and get an instant access to each individual source for more information.

I can’t say I use them very often but at times that’s really very convenient when you need a quick SEO overview (the star-rating for each tool reflects my personal opinion, please try and express your opinion on that). (more…)