We have updated SEOLab Professional (Windows version). This fixes some minor issues with competitor data display.
We have updated SEOLab Professional (Windows version). This fixes some minor issues with competitor data display.
We have updated SEO Lab Mac OS X version. This fixes a recent issue with URL data display.
There is a 25% discount offer on SEO Lab Pro all through December. This special price will end on December 31, 2009.
SEO Lab is the premium competition research tool available for Windows and Mac OS X users. It is primarily aimed at SEO specialists. You can download a free fully functional trial.
We have updated SEO Lab Pro (Windows) and SEO Lab for Mac OS X. This is to fix the problem with top advertiser view (caused dur to a recent format change).
Here is the companion to our “Keyword primer for Beginners“.
The “Basics of Search Engine Optimization“ is a simple 5 page report that is simply a basic introduction to SEO. Please note that it doesn’t go into any specific details about how to implement SEO.
We will be publishing more reports in this series.
Right click and select Save Target As or Save Link As to download and save the
pdf file to your hard disk.
A beta version of SEO Lab Site Analyzer is now available for download. Please use the following link.
Site Analyzer will be added to the SEOLab Professional software suite in a few days (SEO Lab Pro customers will get it at no extra cost).
The purchase links for stand-alone version should be active before the month end.
Please note that a rebranded version of Site Analyzer is also available.
According to a new Nielsen report, quoted by CNet News, Bing is the fastest growing US search engine among the top ten.
CNet news reports…
“The total amount of searches on Bing rang in at 1.1 billion for the month of August, a leap of 22.1 percent over July, winning Microsoft a 10.7 percent share of the search engine market.”
Google remains at the top spot with over 64% market share.
Once the Yahoo – Microsoft deal is implemented Bing will have a much bigger market share and there will be a lot more SEO related attention on Microsoft’s search engine.
This was a question sent to our support email by an anonymous person with a fake return email address. Even though we couldn’t reply to him, here are the reasons for “some” of the Search Engine Optimization related information being contradictory!
We will of course use Google as an example.
Whenever Megan searches on Google, it is in Google’s best interest to make sure that she finds what she is looking for. If Google were to show irrelevant or useless results, Megan will decide to check this other search engine called, what was that, Bing?
The algorithms used by Google to decide which results are relevant to Megan is Google’s proprietary information. Google is not going to open up their source code and tell us the exact way their algorithms work.
According to Google, there are over 200 factors that decide the order in which the search results are finally sorted and displayed to the user.
So, how do we know what are the best SEO practices? SEO specialists try and piece together this information from…
Most controversies and contradictions arise because of 6 and 7.
The best way to separate the bad from the good is to verify things on your own and apply common sense.
Here are some screen shots of the upcoming “Web Page Strategy Analyzer” (name not yet confirmed). This will be available as a freeware (“lite” version), a stand alone professional version and as part of the upcoming SEO Lab Enterprise Edition.



One of the best things you can do to attract targeted traffic to your web sites is to perfect the best “web page strategy” for each and everyone of your important web pages.

You should always do this one web page at a time. This makes it very uncomplicated because you can simply concentrate on one thing at a time.
For each of your key web pages, you should…
Lookout for a new software that will help you formulate and manage your web page strategy. We will be releasing a “lite” free version and a more advanced professional version some time soon.