February 24, 2010

Use the Internet Buzz to Brainstorm Keyword Ideas


Are you looking for ideas to write your next blog post? Perhaps you want an idea for a web site that will bring in good Google Adsense income? Are you curious to know what people are thinking about a particular product?

Ofcourse, one way to find all these answers is to use your web browser and start searching.

However, you can make it even more easy by downloading Keyword Strategy Studio, one of our new software products.

You can type in a base keyword, click the “return key” and quickly find…

  • Current news headlines on the topic
  • Recent social messages on the subject
  • Top selling products that relate to the keyword
  • The page titles of  web pages that rank high for the keyword
  • Semantically related keywords

You can also quickly highlight a set of results and use the “Edit and Export” option to quickly trim the unwanted text from the text and turn them into relevant keywords before exporting to your keyword library.

Brainstorm Keyword Ideas

Keyword Strategy Studio is available as a free trial download. You can download and fully test the software before deciding to purchase. Here is the download page.



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January 3, 2010

Basics of Strategic Keyword Research – Special Report


The web is full of articles, tips and ebooks on keyword research. Almost all of them explain how easy it is to find keywords by pressing a few buttons in some software or web application!

Keyword research is an extremely important part of marketing your online business and is not as mindlessly robotic as clicking a button!

Here is a special report on strategic keyword research. Right click and select Save Target As or Save Link As to download and save the pdf file to your hard disk.

Click here for the special report.



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October 22, 2009

Quick Tip: Domain Punch Pro – How To Sort Based on Domain TLD


Here is a quick tip! You can sort the domains in Domain Punch Pro in order of the domain extensions (TLD or ccTLD) by simply clicking on the # column (click twice to sort in reverse order).

This can be turned off from the Application Settings option in the Config tab. If this is turned off the # click will sort domains in the original insertion order.



Filed under: Application Notes, Domain and Site Management — admin @ 8:17 pm

October 20, 2009

PDF Reports using SEO Lab Mac OS X


The Windows version of SEO Lab Pro supports creating PDF reports.

So, how do you create similar PDF reports using the Mac OS X version?

The Mac OS X version doesn’t support direct PDF reports, but you can create PDF outputs using the native print menu option. All the data table displays within the software can be printed into PDF.

You can also right click (or ctrl-click) within any of the display lists and use the menu option to copy the table to the Mac paste-board. Then paste the data into your favorite spreadsheet or text editor to create your own formatted reports.



Filed under: Application Notes, Mac OS X Software — Tags: — admin @ 6:26 pm

October 3, 2009

Watch My Domains ISP – SQL Query To List or Lookup Domains Based On Categories


If you have a lot of domain names managed through Watch My Domain ISP, you probably make use of domain categories to group them. 

Any domain category you create in Watch My Domains ISP is stored on the database using the following Boolean field name.

GRP_<category name>

For example, if you have a category called “Business Domains”, the corresponding field will be

GRP_Business Names

Any domain that belongs to “Business Domains” will have the above field value set to TRUE.

With the above information, you can construct SQL queries. Here is an example query that lists all domains that do not belong to the “Business Domains” category.

SELECT * FROM [Domains] WHERE ([GRP_Business Domains] <> 1 OR [GRP_Business Domains] IS NULL)

 You have to do the NULL check because the value may not be set for many domains.

You can also do multiple checks. The following will list all domains that do not belong to the “Business Domains” and “Important Domains”

SELECT * FROM [Domains] WHERE ([GRP_Business Domains] <> 1 OR [GRP_Business Domains] IS NULL)  AND  ([GRP_Important Domains] <> 1 OR  [GRP_Important Domains] IS NULL)

Other SQL Query and Domain Database Related Posts

You may want to try all or some of our domain name portfolio management related products at domainpunch.com. Thirty day free trial downloads are available for all the products.



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October 1, 2009

The Good Keywords Guide – Our Premium Newsletter


Get a free single user license to Keyword Builder, an advanced version of Good Keywords v3, by simply subscribing to the Good Keywords Guide!

This offer is available exclusively to subscribers of “The Good Keywords Guide”

Keyword Builder includes support for creating semantically related keywords, in addition to all the features available in Good keywords v3.



Filed under: Application Notes, Internet Strategy, Keyword Strategy — Tags: — admin @ 8:44 pm

September 23, 2009

Diagnostic Port 43 Whois Tool in Domain Punch Pro and Watch My Domains


All our domain name portfolio management software tools (Domain Punch Pro, Watch My Domains ISP and Pro) include a diagnostic port 43 whois lookup tool.

This is available from the Config Tab > Popup Whois ribbon button (Tools > Popup Whois Tool menu in older versions).

To check a domain name type in the whois server and the domain name into the appropriate boxes and then click ‘Go’.

Port 43 Whois Tool: Domain Name Software

The port 43 whois tool is very handy if you have problems looking up domain names. 

If the tool is unable to connect to any whois server, one of the following is true.

  • Your internet connection is down
  • Your computer security software, company network or ISP is blocking port 43 connections.

If the tool is unable to connect to a particular whois server alone, it is possible that your IP address is bannedat the whois server or the whois server itself is down.

Using whois.iana.org to find Whois Servers

In some cases you can use the whois tool to determine the valid whois serverfor a country or top level domain by querying whois.iana.org. For example to find the whois server for query whois.iana.org for it. Now look through the whois output and you will find the whois server listed as

Whois Server (port 43): whois.nic.it



Filed under: Application Notes, Domain and Site Management, Software Features and Support — Tags: , , — admin @ 7:11 pm

August 16, 2009

How To Specify Alternate (“Alt”) Text Attribute For Images


There is a lot of confusion about the use of “Alt” attribute for images. A number of SEO guides suggest inserting keywords into ALT tags. The truth is that the “Alt” attribute started getting misused a long time ago.

Here are two different “official” recommendations for using the “Alt” attributes.

How to specify alternate text (W3C recommendation)

“Several non-textual elements (IMG, AREA, APPLET, and INPUT) let authors specify alternate text to serve as content when the element cannot be rendered normally. Specifying alternate text assists users without graphic display terminals, users whose browsers don’t support forms, visually impaired users, those who use speech synthesizers, those who have configured their graphical user agents not to display images, etc.”

W3C recommends caution while using the Alt attribute because using meaningless (keyword stuffed or irrelevant)  alternate text will slow down user agents that must convert text to speech or braille output.

W3C – on “Alt” Attribute.

Good practices for images (Google recommendation)

“Supply alt text when using images as links- If you do decide to use an image as a link, filling out its alt text helps Google understand more about the page you’re linking to. Imagine that you’re writing anchor text for a text link. “

The recommendation from Google to use Alt attribute for links is sort of counter to the W3C recommendations. The correct attribute to use for links should have been the “title” attribute.

Google SEO Starter Guide.

Supply alt text when using images as links- If you do decide to use an image as a link,
filling out its alt text helps Google understand more about the page you’re linking to. Imagine
that you’re writing anchor text for a text link.
Avoid:
writing excessively long alt text that would be considered spammy
using only image links for your site’s navigation


Filed under: Application Notes, Search Engine Optimization, Web/Tech — Tags: , , — admin @ 8:21 pm

August 14, 2009

Setting Market Regions in SEO Lab Mac OS X Version


You can select the market region for SEO Lab Mac OS X version from the preferences panel. Currently the following regions are supported.

USA, Germany, France, Australia, Canada

This is not as extensive as the market region support in the Windows version. We will be adding support for more regions in an upcoming update that will be released in a few days.

Please note that the preferences panel has other options that will allow you to control the lookup speeds, auto-save interval, etc.



Filed under: Application Notes, Keyword Strategy, Mac OS X Software — Tags: , — admin @ 9:25 am

August 9, 2009

How To Use Watch My Domains ISP on a Shared Network


Many of our customers use the site license version of  Watch My Domains ISP to manage their domain name portfolio. The shared domain database is accessed from different work stations. This allows multiple users to work on a centralized domain name portfolio database.

To do this, simply setup a shared network folder that will hold the database. Configure all Watch My Domains ISP work-stations to use this shared folder.

Make sure that you have purchased a site license to be able to run multiple instances. Site licenses are not expensive and you can easily upgrade single user licenses to site licenses by contacting us or by clicking on the red-toolbox button on top right corner of the Watch My Domains ISP software window.



Filed under: Application Notes, Domain Name Strategy, Software Features and Support — Tags: , , — admin @ 7:10 pm
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